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Feliks Garcia

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Feliks Garcia was a US Reporter for The Independent, working from Brooklyn, New York. Feliks passed away on 24 February, 2017 at the age of 33.

Nigel Farage also said he had spent time as a ‘virtual prisoner’ in his home, ‘frightened’ of the media
Americas

Nigel Farage says UK's 'real friends' speak English

Education Secretary DeVos addresses attendees at CPAC
Americas

Betsy DeVos calls Obama transgender protections 'overreach' at CPAC

Bannon makes remarks during a discussion at CPAC
Americas

Bannon says President is 'maniacally focused' on campaign promises

Senator Ted Cruz, who ran against Donald Trump was among the high profile speakers at the conference
US politics

Thousands of conservatives toast Trump's brand of nationalism

Supreme Court justices had previously called what occurred at the sentencing phase 'indefensible'
Americas

Supreme court overturns black man's 'racially tainted' death sentence

The electrification of the Caltrain system would have helped California's high-speed rail project
Americas

Trump kills funding for California electric rail project

Guatemalan immigrants arrive in their home country on a deportation flight from the US this month
Americas

Trump's new immigration rules allow for deportation of more people

Dozens of headstones overturned at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery
Americas

More than 100 headstones vandalised at Jewish cemetery

Yiannopoulos speaks during HBO's 'Real Time with Bill Maher"
News

Yiannopolous book cancelled by publishers after 'paedophilia' remarks

Donald Trump shakes hands with US Army Lt Gen HR McMaster at Mar-a-Lago
Americas

Trump announces new Gen HR McMaster as National Security Adviser

Pruitt arrives at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works yesterday
Americas

Senate confirms climate change sceptic Scott Pruitt to run EPA

The memo has been disputed by the White House but campaigners are still worried
Americas

Anger over Trump administration plan for troops to round up immigrants

A group of undocumented immigrants being transported by ICE to airport for deportation
Americas

Trump may send 100,000 troops to round up undocumented immigrants

Americas

Trump may send 100,000 troops to round up undocumented immigrants

A group of undocumented immigrants being transported by ICE to airport for deportation
President Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House
US politics

Trump denies links to Russia, rages against media in press conference

Secretary of State Tillerson at G20
Americas

Trump team sending mixed signals on US approach to Russia

Mr Puzder was described as a foe of the minimum wage and paid leave
Americas

Donald Trump's pick for Labour Secretary withdraws from nomination

Trump speaks to reporters during a press conference with Israeli PM Netanyahu
Americas

Trump brags about victory while answering question on anti-Semitism

Trump speaks to reporters during a press conference with Israeli PM Netanyahu
Americas

Trump brags about victory while answering question on anti-Semitism

Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump hold a joint press conference at the White House
Middle East

Trump 'open' to a one-state solution in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Conway attends swearing in ceremony of Tom Price for HHS secretary job
Americas

Ethics Office calls for action against Conway for Ivanka brand flap

McMahon is sworn in prior to testimony before Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Americas

Senate confirms WWE's Linda McMahon for spot in Trump's cabinet

Michael Flynn arrives at swearing in ceremony for senior White House staff
Americas

Trump tried to distract from Flynn scandal with 'real story' of leaks

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn sits in the East Room of the White House before a press conference
Americas

Michael Flynn resigns over controversial contact with Russia

Over 200,000 people have been evacuated after a hole emerged in an emergency spillway of the Oroville Dam, threatening to flood the surrounding area
Americas

Officials rush to repair Oroville dam as heavy rains approach

Donald Trump and first lady Melania talk with reporters on board Air Force One white travelling to Palm Beach, Florida
Americas

Donald Trump 'won't challenge Muslim travel ban' in Supreme Court

Trump holds a press conference in the East Room of the White House
Americas

US intelligence 'confirms truth' of some details of Trump dossier

Over 200,000 people have been evacuated after a hole emerged in an emergency spillway of the Oroville Dam, threatening to flood the surrounding area
Americas

Officials rush to repair Oroville dam as heavy rains approach

Donald Trump and first lady Melania talk with reporters on board Air Force One white travelling to Palm Beach, Florida
Americas

Donald Trump 'won't challenge Muslim travel ban' in Supreme Court

Trump holds a press conference in the East Room of the White House
Americas

US intelligence 'confirms truth' of some details of Trump dossier

Trump speaking during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Americas

Trump to replace 'Muslim travel ban' with 'something new' next week

Americas

Trump to replace 'Muslim travel ban' with 'something new' next week

Trump speaking during a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Trump stands in the White House Oval Office
Americas

Trump will stick to 'One China' policy after call with Chinese preside

The Capitol exterior closed prior to the inaugural ceremony
Americas

US Capitol wing closed after suspicious package found outside

Conway sits in on a daily press briefing in the White House press room
Americas

Conway 'rebuked' by White House over Ivanka Trump endorsement

Trump speaks during a meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room
Americas

Donald Trump threatens to take 'Muslim ban' to Supreme Court

Trump speaks during a meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room
Americas

Donald Trump threatens to take 'Muslim ban' to Supreme Court

Trump speaks at US Central Command in Florida
Americas

Donald Trump wrongly accuse the media of covering up terrorist attacks

Trump and West stand in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan
Music

Kanye West pulls support for President Donald Trump

DeVos speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labour, and Pensions Committee
Americas

Democrats to pull all-nighter to stop Trump's Education Secretary pick

President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office
Americas

Donald Trump launches attack on judge who stopped 'Muslim travel ban'

Trump shows executive order aimed at 'cutting a lot out of' Dodd Frank
Americas

Trump's effort to roll back Dodd-Frank is futile, says Barney Frank

Students protest at UC Berkeley
Americas

Milo Yiannopoulos warns US universities that Trump 'is watching'

Russia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to launch Gazprom's new Bovarenkovo-Ukhta-2 gas pipeline and Transneft's Zapolyarye-Purpe and Kuyumba-Taishet oil pipelines, via a video link. The oil pipelines are to transfer oil from Russia's Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district and Krasnoyarsk Territory
Americas

Donald Trump loosens sanctions against Russian intelligence agency

ExxonMobil covered-up climate change information in the 1980s
Americas

Senate confirms Rex Tillerson to be 69th US Secretary of State

Trump now says Medicare is a 'price-fixer'
Americas

Trump breaks Medicare promise after meeting Big Pharma lobbyists

A half-empty hearing room as Senate Democrats boycotted the meeting two days in a row
Americas

Republicans change rules so Trump Cabinet pick cannot be blocked

Ms Yates speaks at a June 2016 press conference
Americas

Trump fires acting Attorney General after she defies refugee ban order

Americas

Trump fires acting Attorney General after she defies refugee ban order

Ms Yates speaks at a June 2016 press conference
Americas

Muslim civil rights organisation files lawsuit against Trump

Ms Yates speaks at a press conference in July 2016
Americas

Acting attorney general orders DoJ not to defend Trump's refugee ban

Sean Spicer holds daily press briefing at White House
Americas

Trump administration threatens dissenting government officials

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with UK prime minister Theresa May
Americas

Trump hopes he and Putin will have a 'fantastic relationship'

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with UK prime minister Theresa May
Americas

Trump hopes he and Putin will have a 'fantastic relationship'

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 17, 2017
Americas

Trump and Putin expected to discuss lifting Ukraine sanctions

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, and others, speaks during a visit to the Homeland Security Department in Washington
Americas

Donald Trump signs executive order to build wall between Mexico and US

Steve Bannon's appointment as Trump's chief strategist has sparked controversy across the US
Americas

Trump adviser Steve Bannon registered to vote in two states

President Trump during a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia
Americas

Trump opens door to reviving CIA 'black site' prisons

John Kerry issued the apology during his time as top diplomat
Americas

Trump team deletes apology to LGBT people for past discrimination

EPA nominee Scott Pruitt still awaits Senate confirmation
Americas

Trump bans EPA staff from talking to press after suspending grants

Trump signs executive orders in the White House Oval Office
Americas

Trump signed executive order to build Dakota, Keystone pipelines

Comey shakes hands with Vice President Pence during a law enforcement Inaugural reception
Americas

President Donald Trump will 'keep James Comey on as FBI director'

Women hold a demonstration on Backwater Bridge during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation
Americas

Donald Trump will likely move forward with Dakota Access Pipeline

Trump holds up executive order withdrawing US from TPP
Americas

Donald Trump signs executive order to withdraw from TPP trade deal

Trump delivers opening remarks during meeting with business leaders
Americas

Trump says he will roll back business regulations by 75%, 'maybe more'

Americas

Trump says he will roll back business regulations by 75%, 'maybe more'

Trump delivers opening remarks during meeting with business leaders
Spicer berated the press in his first White House briefing
Americas

Trump's press secretary attacks media over inauguration crowd reports

Madonna speaks at Women's March on Washington
Americas

Madonna said she thought about 'blowing up White House'

Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office for the first time, flanked by his Vice President Mike Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
Americas

The people Trump picked to run the United States

Protesters make their way through the streets of London during the Women's March on January 21, 2017 i
LiveAmericas

Thousands join London Women's March - as it happened

Protesters make their way through the streets of London during the Women's March on January 21, 2017 i
LiveAmericas

Thousands join London Women's March - as it happened

A man in Seoul watches file footage of a North Korea missile launch
Americas

Trump working on missile defence system to protect from North Korea

Anti-Trump protesters demonstrate near the National Mall
Americas

Almost 100 protesters arrested in first hours of Trump presidency

Barack Obama climbs aboard Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews
Americas

Obama's first speech as back as an ordinary US citizen

Donald Trump delivers his inauguration speech on 20 January 2017
Americas

Trump vows to 'eradicate Islamic terrorism' in inauguration speech

Americas

Trump takes oath to become most powerful man in the world

Protesters gather outside Trump Tower in New York after the election
Voices

5 ways you can protest Donald Trump's presidency

Biden and Pence meet for lunch days after the election
Americas

Pence thanks Obama and Biden for 'cooperation' during Trump transition

Obama waves to supporters at his farewell speech in Chicago
Americas

Barack Obama's farewell letter: Read it in full

Obama gave his farewell speech in Chicago, the birthplace of his fateful political career
Americas

'I'll be right there with you', Obama says in thank you letter

Spicer alluded to the three people of colour named to the Cabinet as evidence of its diversity
Americas

Trump's press secretary defends lack of diversity of administration

Obama gives the final press conference of his presidency
Americas

Russia must stop 'meddling' in world affairs to lose sanctions: Obama

Americas

Obama defends choice to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence

George HW Bush at an event at the White House in 2013
Americas

George HW Bush tells Trump why he can't attend inauguration in letter

Americas

Why was Chelsea Manning serving such a hard sentence?

Trump claims there will be record-breaking attendance. That is not true
Americas

Trump running Facebook ads asking people to attend his inauguration

President Barack Obama delivers his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago
Voices

Electing Barack Obama did not absolve the US of racist history

Americas

Why was Chelsea Manning serving such a hard sentence?

Trump claims there will be record-breaking attendance. That is not true
Americas

Trump running Facebook ads asking people to attend his inauguration

President Barack Obama delivers his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago
Voices

Electing Barack Obama did not absolve the US of racist history

Monica Crowley following a meeting at Trump Tower in December
Americas

Crowley to step down from Trump administration after plagiarism report

The Pulse nightclub in Orlando, site of the worst mass shooting in US history
Americas

Wife of Pulse nightclub shooter arrested in San Francisco

Donald Trump is seen exiting a Trump Tower lift after meeting with US television host Steve Harvey on 13 January 2017
Americas

Intelligence committee to probe Trump team over alleged Russia ties

Paul Ryan addresses reporters after weekly GOP conference meeting
Americas

US Congress one step closer to repealing Obamacare

Rep John Lewis has not missed a presidential inauguration since he took office in 1987
Americas

John Lewis does not see Donald Trump as a legitimate president

Downtown Whitefish, the hometown of prominent white supremacist, Richard Spencer
Americas

Neo-Nazi march postponed due to incomplete permit application

Mr Biden was honoured for devoted almost half a century to public service
Americas

Barack Obama surprises Joe Biden with highest civilian honour

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. told the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 5 that Russia meddled in the US election through hacking, propaganda and fake news
Americas

Intelligence director called to Trump about classified Russia memos

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