Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager on Tuesday said “everybody understands and believes” the president is a “role model” for the country’s children, a day after GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte said she “misspoke” when she said Republican nominee Donald Trump qualified as a role model. “I think he’s broken a lot of the bounds and norms of, […]
HAVERFORD, Pa. — With a week before Pennsylvania’s voter-registration deadline for the November election, Hillary Clinton stopped in Delaware County on Tuesday for an intimate town hall before a friendly audience and promoted her pro-family platform. Speaking at the Haverford Community Recreation and Environmental Center and accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and actress Elizabeth
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USAWASHINGTON — The bombshell leak of portions of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax returns show that he declared a minuscule wage income that year for a man of his wealth and corporate responsibilities. The New York Times published a report late Saturday based on three leaked pages of Trump’s 1995 state tax returns that showed a
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USABob Woodward, the famed investigative reporter who worked alongside Carl Bernstein in breaking the 1970s Watergate scandal, criticized Hillary Clinton’s “self-satisfaction” after her performance at the first presidential debate against Donald Trump, saying the Democratic nominee should dial it back and learn some humility. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” the 73-year-old Washington Post editor was
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USALOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police released a security video of the chase that lead up to the fatal police shooting of a black 18-year-old in South L.A. over the weekend, one of two shootings by officers that sparked protests across the city. The video shows a young man in a blue sweatshirt, who police
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USARALEIGH, N.C. — The International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro denied Donald Trump’s request to hold an event at the museum two weeks ago — and has faced retaliation from his supporters because of it, according to the museum’s CEO. John Swaine said the Trump campaign was trying to plan the Republican nominee’s
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USAThere’s a scene in last year’s Beach Boys biopic “Love and Mercy” that depicts the group’s creative genius, Brian Wilson, working feverishly on the music for the band’s masterpiece, “Pet Sounds.” During the recording sessions, one of the hired musicians hits a wrong note and apologizes profusely to Wilson, who was a renowned perfectionist. But
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USAA bomb blast killed at least 20 people at a Kurdish wedding in the northeast Syrian city of Hasaka, mostly controlled by Kurdish forces who liberated areas of the city from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) earlier this year. A monitoring group, a Kurdish militia and Syrian state media offered differing accounts of the
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Middle EastVice President Joe Biden hit the airwaves Tuesday in his Democratic Party role of middle-class champion, boiling down Republican Donald Trump’s income tax issue the way he hopes voters will see it. Biden blasted Trump for working the system to avoid paying federal income taxes — and especially for bragging about it. “Since when does
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USASirius XM host Howard Stern on Monday blasted CNN for reporting that he “confirmed” Donald Trump had backed the Iraq War in 2002. CNN.com ran a story last week that declared, “Howard Stern Says Trump Backed Iraq War In 2002,” and reported that the radio shock jock “confirmed” that Mr. Trump was “kinda for the
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –I recently received this question from Jim, a loyal reader: Have you any idea how many “Palestinians” live in refugee camps? I read a particularly disturbing article from a generally accurate source that states, “Palestinians in exile have mostly lived for generations in refugee camps.” That statement sounds like
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Writers have different ways of developing their ideas into a novel, and after my fourth novel was published, the editor of San Diego Jewish World asked if I would tell how I go about the process. He suggested that I use my most recent novel, Chasing Dreams and Flies, a Tragicomedy of Life
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-VansonMore than 50 people died in Ethiopia’s Oromia region Sunday after a stampede at a religious festival, which the government has blamed on “violent forces” but protesters have said was due to police action. An estimated 2 million people had gathered in the town of Bishoftu, southeast of the capital Addis Ababa, to celebrate the
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