| As crisis in Va. government deepens, could Northam hang on? Posted: 06 Feb 2019 04:03 PM PST ![As crisis in Va. government deepens, could Northam hang on?]( "As crisis in Va. government deepens, could Northam hang on?") The state's government has been in crisis ever since that now-infamous picture surfaced from Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's 1984 medical school yearbook page – showing one man in blackface and another in KKK garb. At first, Governor Northam apologized for the photo. Northam is now refusing to step down.
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| In Iran, a hardline hunt for ‘infiltrators’ has political target, too Posted: 06 Feb 2019 02:03 PM PST ![In Iran, a hardline hunt for 'infiltrators' has political target, too]( "In Iran, a hardline hunt for 'infiltrators' has political target, too") Dr. Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, a research fellow at the Australian National University and citizen of both Iran and Australia, was released from prison in late January. Environmentalists, women's rights activists, and lawyers have increasingly been targeted.
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| In Mueller investigation, one big question: ‘Why are so many people lying?’ Posted: 06 Feb 2019 01:49 PM PST ![In Mueller investigation, one big question: 'Why are so many people lying?']( "In Mueller investigation, one big question: 'Why are so many people lying?'") If there is one unifying feature of the Trump-Russia investigation so far, it is the significant number of President Trump's associates who have been charged with lying to federal agents or to Congress. Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn lied about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the United States. Former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos lied about the date on which a professor in London told him that Russia possessed "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
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| To take Spain left, prime minister digs up civil war’s legacy Posted: 06 Feb 2019 01:17 PM PST ![To take Spain left, prime minister digs up civil war's legacy]( "To take Spain left, prime minister digs up civil war's legacy") As symbolic gestures go, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went all out. Shortly after his surprise elevation to high office in early June, Mr. Sánchez ordered the exhumation of Gen. Francisco Franco's remains, with the intent to separate the former dictator from the more than 33,000 others buried at the national monument holding Spain's civil war dead. As the vulnerabilities of the smallest governing majority in Spain's modern history emerge, analysts question the scope of Spain's transformation under Sánchez and how much the young prime minister will accomplish.
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