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Humoring the headlines: October 10, 2016

The Second Presidential Berate By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Looming over the debate was the Access Hollywood audiotape of Donald Trump bragging about his sexual harassment of beautiful women.  Although the press dubbed this revelation the October surprise, it really was the October reprise.   Many quotes of Donald sexually objectifying women before and during the […]

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Assigning blame in Syria

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The verbal brickbats being hurled by Russians, Americans, and various other interested parties at one another over the morass in Syria testify to the cynicism, hypocrisy, and impotence of major actors in international politics. It’s hard to praise any of the parties, none of whom are doing much to stop

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Testy and tense, Clinton and Trump square off on sex charges, taxes; trade insults

ST. LOUIS — It began with two presidential candidates tensely refusing to shake hands at the opening of a nationally televised debate, breaking decades of civil tradition. By the time it was over, one of them had vowed that, if elected, his opponent would be in jail. In what was undoubtedly the angriest presidential debate

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Hours before debate, Donald Trump appears with Bill Clinton’s accusers

With less than two hours until the second presidential debate, Donald Trump appeared before reporters with women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct in decades past. One by one, the women defended Trump, denounced Clinton and criticized Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent. “Mr. Trump may have said some bad words,” said

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Billy Bush, embroiled in Trump tape scandal, is suspended from ‘Today’ show

“Today” co-anchor Billy Bush has been suspended by NBC News in light of his role in the leaked recording of his lewd conversation with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I know we’ve all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours,” said “Today” executive producer Noah Oppenheim in a memo to staffers.

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Yaffo residents protest “Jewish settlement”

Residents of the Coptic neighborhood in central Yaffo continue their protest on Sunday against the construction of a religious Jewish school in Yaffo saying that they object to “The settlers’ conquest,” according to the Arabic newspaper, Falastin. A member of neighborhood council, Yosef Asfur, told the newspaper that the residents of the neighborhood are protesting

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Voters want GOP to stand by Donald Trump despite hot-mic vulgarity: poll

ST. LOUIS | Support for Donald Trump dipped slightly after a videotape surfaced in which he used vulgar language to boast about his womanizing, but most Republican voters said GOP leaders should stand by the party’s presidential nominee, according to a new poll released Sunday. Mr. Trump’s campaign has been reeling and about 40 GOP

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