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US-South Korea war games start Monday as Pyongyang warns of ‘catastrophe’

WASHINGTON — Are tensions cooling in the Korean Peninsula? The United States and South Korea will find out Monday, when the two allies are scheduled to start joint military exercises that are known to anger North Korea, sometimes triggering a show of force. This year’s war games come at a particularly delicate moment. There have […]

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International, USA

Johnny Cash’s children denounce Charlottesville neo-Nazi wearing T-shirt with Cash’s name

The children of country music titan Johnny Cash issued a strong and unequivocal statement about their father’s legacy Wednesday after a video captured a protester wearing a T-shirt with Cash’s name on it at the violent racial clash in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. The rally resulted in the death of one counter-protester and injured

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USA

White Supremacist Cries Over Possible Arrest Warrant

A neo-Nazi who said he was “ready for violence” at the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has released footage of himself weeping after learning there is allegedly a warrant out for his arrest. Christopher Cantwell, who was followed during the gathering of neo-Nazis, KKK, white supremacists and alt-right for a 22-minute documentary for VICE, showed

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USA

For Jewish Americans, anger over Trump’s response to Charlottesville

LOS ANGELES—Dina Chernick had just arrived for breakfast Thursday at a Jewish deli in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, but she already had a bad case of indigestion. She could thank President Donald Trump for that. “Here’s this guy and he’s talking about uniting the country and then he makes these terribly divisive statements,” said Chernick, an

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Middle East, USA

DeVos decries ‘racial bigots’ in white nationalist movement

WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday denounced white nationalists involved in violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., calling them “racial bigots” and saying their views are “totally abhorrent to the American ideal.” DeVos, a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and longtime school-choice advocate from west Michigan, made the statement in an email

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USA

Bennett defends lesbian aide amid national religious criticism

Jewish Home leader says he won’t discriminate based on sexual orientation after rabbi quits party over spokeswoman’s employment By Alexander Fulbright Education Minister Naftali Bennett seen at the Knesset on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett came to the defense of his spokeswoman Thursday after a leading rabbi left the

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Middle East

Democrats aim to force Pentagon to strip Confederate leaders from Army base names

WASHINGTON — A New York Democrat is drafting legislation to require the Pentagon rename any military installations named for Confederate generals, part of an urgent effort by black lawmakers to force public institutions to stop celebrating historical figures who defended slavery. “Naming military property after armed insurrectionists with American blood on their hands is an

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USA

Federal grand jury indicts former Wasserman Schultz aide

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Imran Awan, the former information technology aide multiple Democratic members of Congress, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, was indicted Thursday on four charges including bank fraud and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions. Also indicted was Awan’s wife, Hina Alvi, who also worked as an IT aide in Democratic congressional offices.

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USA

Pelosi calls on Ryan to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol

WASHINGTON—The fight over Confederate statues is coming to the U.S. Capitol. The marbled halls have long been home to memorials for leaders of the Confederacy, and opposition to them has flared from time to time. But now, in the aftermath of deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and President Donald Trump’s defense of what many see

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USA

Death toll climbs in Barcelona mass casualty incident — police have confirmed it’s terrorism

A speeding van killed and injured dozens of pedestrians walking along Las Ramblas, a pedestrian boulevard in Barcelona, Spain today. Reuters, citing Spanish media and local police, reports that 25 are injured at this time and at least 13 are dead; no official counts are available at this time as the crime scene is still

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International

Another Democrat Starting Trump Impeachment Process

Following Donald Trump’s equivocating of white supremacists and those who oppose them in the wake of violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, another Democrat has signaled his intention to file articles of impeachment against him in the House of Representatives. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, a ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

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