U.S. and Saudi troops engage in a joint training exercise in Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon announced last Friday that, for the first time, U.S. boots are officially on the ground on Yemen. (U.S. Army Photo)
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. talks to reporters as he arrives for a closed-door meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis. Earlier, President Donald Trump signed a bill to impose new sanctions on Russia which passed Congress with overwhelming support. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a briefing on leaks of classified material one week after President Donald Trump complained that Sessions was weak on preventing such disclosures, Aug. 4, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Ever since “fake news” found its place among the various explanations used by the Clinton campaign and supporters to account for their candidate’s loss, there has been a quiet but concerted effort on the part of establishment media, technology, and telecommunications companies to thwart the surging popularity of independent media.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt holds up a hardhat he was given during a visit to coal mine in Sycamore, Pa., April 13, 2017. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
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A senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official resigned from the agency in protest against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s plans for massive industry deregulation that will threaten human health.
Venezuela’s opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez (left) and Antonio Ledezma (AP/Fernando Llano/Eraldo Peres)
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In the past two weeks, MintPress News has published two differing op-eds on the topic of left-right alliances. Both articles questioned if such alliances are an effective way to challenge the establishment. It sparked heated discussion and caused quite the firestorm online.
White smoke hovers over a DuPont chemical plant in Belle, W.Va. DuPont – a chemical company with a long history of endangering public health – is being sued by 13 people in Louisiana over emissions from one of its plants. (AP/Jeff Gentner)
Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
Members of al-Nusra Front gesture as they drive in a convoy touring villages in the southern countryside of Syria’s Idlib province, December, 2014. (Photo: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)
