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U.S. 'Will Remember This Day,' Haley Warns U.N. Ahead Of Vote On Jerusalem

The U.N. General Assembly gathered to vote Thursday on whether to censure the U.S. for calling the disputed city Israel's capital. But Ambassador Nikki Haley decried the vote even before it began.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley addresses the General Assembly prior to the body's censure vote on Jerusalem on Thursday.

The United Nations General Assembly gathered Thursday in New York for a hotly contested vote: Would the international body decide to denounce the U.S. for recognizing the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital?

But before the assembly could vote on the declaration, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley reserved some severe words for the

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