The actor playing Aaron Burr in the Broadway hit “Hamilton” issued a challenge Friday night to Vice-President-elect Mike Pence. It wasn’t for a duel, but the man playing the role of the nation’s third vice-president did direct some verbal shots toward Pence after the curtain call. Actor Brandon Victor Dixon let Pence know that Hamilton’s […]
The Second Hundred Days By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−We know Donald Trump’s priorities for his first one hundred days in office, but I was curious what policies he will push in the second one hundred days. After I proved through ancestry.com that my great grandfather came from the same shtetl as Jared Kushner’s, I interviewed
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next U.S. attorney general. He previous served in that role for Alabama, and was also a federal prosecutor before his election to the Senate. Sessions was the first senator and among the only members of Congress to endorse Trump during the
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Travel and FoodPresident-elect Donald Trump has reportedly decided to pay out $25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit concerning Trump University. According to sources first cited by the New York Daily News, Trump was planning to pay out approximately $20 million to settle outstanding claims related to the program. The amount was later bumped up to $25
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –As a bi-partisan organization, the ZOA treasures opportunities to work with lawmakers and opinion makers on “both side of the aisle.” Alarmingly, Congressional bipartisanship on pro-Israel issues, as well as on issues related to U.S. security, is likely to be immeasurably harmed if radical Muslim-American Congressman Keith Ellison a/k/a
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Middle East, USAThis story was co-published with The Guardian. I would like to express my gratitude to Jared Kushner for reviving interest in my 2006 book, “ The Price of Admission.” I have never met or spoken with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor. Of course, I doubt he became
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USADonald Trump is slowly starting to fill out his important cabinet positions ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. And like the President-elect himself, many have a past littered with controversial comments. In particular, those in the frame are unlikely to assuage the fears of the Muslim community, already on edge by Trump’s rhetoric during
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USADemocratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts continued with her attacks against the transition to the Donald Trump White House on Friday by advising Mitt Romney to bring his “binders full of women” to his weekend meeting with the president-elect. Her tweet refers to a comment Romney made during the 2012 election season, when he was
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USAAlthough Charles and David Koch are longtime Republican donors, the billionaire brothers declined to back the party’s 2016 presidential nominee. But it looks as though the oil and gas tycoons, who run a network of conservative think-tanks and advocacy groups, will still have an ally in the Donald Trump administration: The president-elect has reportedly tapped
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USAA conservative Kansas congressman who has been accused of being anti-Muslim and having participated in a racist political campaign has been tapped to become the next leader of the Central Intelligence Agency, CNBC reported. Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo accepted the job after he was offered it by President-elect Donald Trump on Friday morning. The third
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USAOne of the most notable absences from the 2016 election cycle was former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who for 15 years skewered the insanity of our political process nightly before stepping down in 2015. On Thursday morning, Stewart made a rare TV appearance on CBS This Morning, where he talked with Charlie Rose about
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President-elect Donald J. Trump has tweeted that he intends to have a shul built in the White House “to make Judaism great again.” He said that Judaism “was once a great religion, but had waned during the Obama years. And, if Hillary had been elected President, it would
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — One of the things I love about Judaism is our ability to question and argue. Although Judaism does demand that we accept much on faith, we are never forbidden to question why things are the way they are, and to challenge God, and even express our unhappiness about
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