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    President Donald Trump blasted department store chain Nordstrom Inc on Wednesday for dropping his daughter Ivanka's clothing line, prompting critics to accuse him of misusing public office to benefit his family's sprawling business empire. After Trump's highly unusual move to use a White House platform to intervene in a commercial matter involving his daughter, Nordstrom reiterated that its action last week was based on declining sales of the Ivanka Trump products. But White House spokesman Sean Spicer characterized the move as a direct attack on the president's policies. My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly. She is a great person - always pushing me to do the right thing Terrible Trump wrote on Wednesday on both his personal and official presidential Twitter ac...

    The wife of a Kremlin critic in hospital with major organ failure has told Sky News that those in charge of the Russian system are responsible for his suffering. Vladimir Kara-Murza - a 35-year-old Cambridge University graduate - fell ill last Thursday and spent the next six days in a medically-induced coma. Doctors believe he was poisoned by an unidentified toxin - although medics in the Russian capital say they have no idea what it is. His wife believes that he has paid a heavy price for participating in opposition politics in Russia. Yvegenia Kara-Murza said: I just think that it's the whole situation that the Russian government - the current Russian regime creates in the country. A committed democrat, a vociferous critic of the President Putin and the father of three c...

    In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, fire and smoke billows from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin. MIAMI  The man who says he was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack seeks to justify the plot as a natural reaction to U.S. foreign policy in a blistering letter sent to then President Barack Obama from the Guantanamo prison. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, one of five Guantanamo prisoners facing trial by military commission for their alleged roles in the hijacking plot, also writes in the letter released Wednesday that it does not matter to him if he receives a life sentence or the death penalty from the tribunal. If your court sentences me to life ...

    President Trump accused television pundits and other critics of playing the racist card when they characterize him or his policies as anti-Muslim or anti-black. Fox News Channel personality Bill O'Reilly asked Trump in an interview that aired Tuesday night whether his feelings are hurt when critics are making you into a hater. No, because they always do it, Trump replied. The first thing they do with the Republicans or conservatives is the racist card. They pull out the racist card. They always do that. It's not just me. I mean, they do it with everybody. And I see that and once you know that you feel a lot better about it. Trump's comments came in an interview that was taped at the White House last Friday as part of Fox's Super Bowl coverage. Fox News has been airing new ...