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Bruce Springsteen Cover Band Cancels Inauguration Eve Event Performance
Though the event is billed as non-partisan , and the band was actually hired for the gig before the election, they have come under fire for agreeing to participate. "I'm not going to speculate for you, but anyone that breaks a contract, there is always going to be consequences to it", he says. We would've never got involved in this if I knew how this would turn out.
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Maimane's 'oppressor' Israel visit 'offensive', says embassy
Regarding Trump's promise to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault warned at the conference would result in "extremely serious consequences", Rotem said the Foreign Ministry's stance was to wait and see, just as with many other of Trump's declarations and intended policies.
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Trump may force Germany to do more for Europe
Since 1997, Daimler has produced Mercedes-Benz automobiles at a plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where in 2015 the company announced it would invest $1.3 billion in order to increase output. BMW exports about 65 percent of the production from Spartanburg. In 2016 it sold 288,000 in the U.S. In November, GM said it planned to lay off 2,000 employees at two US auto plants in early 2017.
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FBI arrests wife of Pulse nightclub shooter, report says
Salman, who was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Almeda County, is expected to appear before a judge Tuesday morning in Oakland. She also said that the final text she received from Mateen - just before he was killed in a shootout with Orlando police inside the nightclub - was a question: Had she seen the news? But investigators say she gave conflicting details of what she knew about the attack before it took place.
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Israel says Nazi camp excavations unearth link to Anne Frank
The pendant bears the word Frankfurt and the date 3 July 1929, as well as the words Mazal Tov, the Hebrew letter for the name of God, and three Stars of David. Polish archaeologist Wojciech Mazurek, Haimi, and their Dutch associate, archaeologist Ivar Schute, led the excavations at the site of the Nazi-operated death camp, where as many as 300,000 people, mostly Jews, were murdered during the Holocaust.
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Oil up on Saudi commitment to cut, U.S. output seen rising
World oil prices have started to drop on Jan.16 after the rise on the same day on hopes for cuts in production. Kuwait's OPEC governor Nawal Al-Fezaia said earlier this week in an interview with Bloomberg that producers, including Saudi Arabia , Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Oman are complying with the cuts.