In mid-summer 2015, the Pentagon deployed a vast fleet to the Western Pacific with an invasion force of 33,000 troops. The little reported exercise was supported by warplanes and attack helicopters, along with 21 ships, including the aircraft carrier George Washington and three nuclear missile-bearing submarines. It was only a game, the Navy said. But […]
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International, USAAccording to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a longtime grudge with Russian President Vladimir Putin may have led to her 2016 presidential downfall. In the weeks since the election, intelligence officials have confirmed that the Russian government took part in a coordinated hack against the Clinton campaign, and other Republican and Democratic politicians
WASHINGTON — A Chinese ship on Thursday seized a small U.S. Navy underwater drone that had been operating in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic complaint from the U.S. government. Two drones were collecting oceanographic information more than 50 miles off the coast of U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines when
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International, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump sent out a tweet ripping into Vanity Fair Thursday morning. The President-elect of the United States wrote that the magazine has “really poor numbers” and is in “big trouble.” “Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine,” Trump wrote. “Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will
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USASydney (dpa) – The Anglican archbishop of the Western Australian city of Perth stepped down late Thursday, four months after admitting he had failed to inform police about alleged child abuse by a senior cleric. The Anglican Church Diocese of Perth said in a statement that Herft had decided to retire in July of next
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InternationalPresident Park Geun-hye is set to make her case to the Consitutional Court on Friday in a written statement addressing a series of charges cited in the parliamentary impeachment motion via her legal representatives, an informed source said. After the National Assembly voted last Friday to impeach the president over a corruption scandal involving her
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InternationalThe Navy’s plan calls for a 38 percent increase in the number of attack submarine, like the Virginia-class sub USS Minnesota seen here under construction in Newport News. WASHINGTON: Mr. Trump, we’ll see your campaign pledge of a 350-ship fleet and raise you five vessels, the US Navy effectively said this morning. The long-anticipated Force
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International, USABarack Obama says the US will take action against Russia over claims of its involvement in the country’s recent presidential election. The US president made the statement in a national radio interview. Obama tells NPRinskeep that U.S. “will take action” in response to Russia hacking during election. pic.twitter.com/a8IxbfD17o— NPR (NPR) December 16, 2016 What Obama
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International, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — As we East Coast residents shudder in anticipation of snow and sleet, we also tremble a little at the thought of the inevitable flurry of year-end letters to come. It you’ve ever received any, you know that the no-detail-too-small missives (of interest mainly to grandparents) almost always come
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Several years ago I read The Pianist of Willesden Lane written by Mona Golabek about the experiences of her mother, Lisa Jura, first in Vienna and then in London. She had been sent there at the age of fourteen in the framework of the Kindertransport, the undertaking that
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — The reunion between the twin brothers, Yaakov and Esav, after a twenty-year separation, appears to be a simple story: Yaakov sends a gift, they meet and hug. Esav says he doesn’t need the gift because ‘I have a lot’ (Genesis 33:9). Yaakov says, ‘I have all that I
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — I’ve always felt that Esau gets a bad rap. Perhaps it’s because I was always chosen to play Esau in Hebrew School plays (I had dark skin and hair when I was a child). More likely, it’s because I felt badly for Esau who was more the victim
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Jewish ReligionWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he plans to nominate as ambassador to Israel his lawyer, a hard-liner on the Middle East who has voiced opposition to decades of U.S. policy in the region. David Friedman, who served as one of Trump’s main advisers on Israel during the campaign, vowed to perform as
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — Bernard Fox, known to a generation of TV viewers as Dr. Bombay on “Bewitched” and the fumbling, forever naive Col. Crittendon on “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 89. Fox died Wednesday of heart failure while hospitalized in Van Nuys, family spokesman Harlan Boll said. Though his role as the womanizing, wisecracking
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