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Remarks

Michael R. Pompeo
Secretary of State

Press Briefing Room

Washington, DC

January 25, 2019

Today I am incredibly excited to announce that a seasoned, principled, and tough-minded foreign policy veteran is joining our State Department team.

Elliott Abrams is coming aboard to lead our efforts on Venezuela.

His critical work will get started right away. Tomorrow, he will travel with me to the UN Security Council... Читать дальше...

Megan Mullally is hosting the Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony

Trump’s address is off until he and Pelosi can come up with a “mutually agreeable date.”

This was a cold, hard competition, but a winner has finally emerged. Our readers chose Folgers as their favorite cold brew coffee. Makes sense — why buy two separate coffees for cold and hot brews if you don’t have to? Stone Street (my personal favorite—and not just because we share a name) was a close second; just 6…

An expert tasked with helping the Food and Drug Administration weigh potential new opioid drug approvals is openly calling out the agency for what he alleges are its continued missteps in handling the opioid crisis. In an interview with the Guardian Thursday, Raeford Brown claimed that the FDA has failed to learn from…

A player-by-player look at the two teams

ARSENAL’S FA Cup clash with Manchester United descended into a scrap tonight - and both teams were lucky not to have a man sent off.

Nominate your favorite forgotten Falcon and lets re-live some Atlanta history The Falcoholic The offseason is long, so we often like to spend it talking about the Falcons' past. This winter and s

A 49-year-old French man died Friday after he was hit by an avalanche while skiing on a mountain in Niigata Prefecture, some 200 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, police…

From SABR member Frank Jackson at The Hardball Times on January 25, 2019:

The San Diego Padres say they are switching to a brown and gold color scheme for 2020 and beyond. That scheme was used from the team's inception in 1969 into the 1980s.

Caprice has launched a charity appeal following the death of her friend just days before Christmas.

The Berlin outfit have won just one of their last five Bundesliga matches and Schalke have lost only one of their last five.

MCCANDLESS, Pa. (AP) - A 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl with a green thumb is being rewarded with the other kind of green for growing an extraordinarily large cabbage.

Atlantas Super Bowl is still 11 days away, but the drama has arrived Curbed Atlanta Atlanta is less than two weeks away from hosting the biggest showdown in professional American sports, and locals a

London-based Fuller’s brewery has agreed to sell its entire beer, cider and soft drinks brewing and production, wine wholesaling, and distribution thereof, to Asahi Europe Ltd. (AEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Asahi Group Holdings, for an enterprise value of £250 million (c.$330 million).

A court decided Friday to start the trial on March 6 of the former head of a school operator involved in a controversial state land sale that sparked…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Two women have pleaded guilty to federal charges related to spray-painting graffiti at two San Antonio missions designated as World Heritage sites.

I would like to get a better wheelset for my endurance road bike. I am a larger guy at 215lbs and am looking for something that would take 32 spokes front and rear. Obviously I would like a fairly light wheelset but realize at my weight I am not going to have to compromise. So I guess a more...

US shutdown: Flight delays blamed on staff shortages  BBC News

Staff shortages linked to the federal government shutdown caused significant flight delays at north-eastern US airports on Friday. The shutdown has meant some ...

L.A.'s moves this winter have been about building consistency. The Dodgers dealt Yasiel Puig, let Yasmani Grandal go, signed A.J. Pollock and are now in play for J.T. Realmuto.

The Springbok Sevens have gotten their Hamilton Sevens campaign off to a winning start as they beat Kenya in their opening Pool C clash.

The man who spent 20 years as the U.N.'s mediator in a name dispute between Greece and Macedonia says the Greek parliament's ratification of a reconciliation agreement "ushers in a new era for the consolidation of peace and security in the Balkans"

Mike Mussina, who played for the Orioles and Yankees during his 18-year career, will enter Cooperstown without the logo of either team on his plaque, he said.

From Justin Klugh at The Hardball Times on January 23, 2019:

Sam Barkley was a passable infielder from baseball’s early years in the 1880s. Like many of his peers, he suffered from a career-ending knee injury, chronic unemployment, and being stricken with quinsy. Unlike many of his peers, his wife was seduced by an Irish crime lord. None of the pain of his tonsil infection or fluctuating weight is visible in his baseball card, a yellowed, sepia-tone piece of stock paper portraying... Читать дальше...