Stories of elected officials selling influence to special interests have become a fact of life in American politics. But there are still some public officials whom voters typically expect to be immune from the influence of donors. Most Americans would be outraged, for example, if a judge took payment in exchange for private meetings with […]
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USAHillary Clinton is catching flak for her “basket of deplorables” comment about Donald Trump and his supporters. She should drop the “half” piece but continue to press the important truth that Trump has destroyed previous norms of political discourse. On December 7, Donald Trump strode out in front of the assembled television cameras and did
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USAThe US may impose unilateral sanctions on North Korea, according to the US special representative for Pyongyang. “In addition to action in the Security Council, both the US and Japan, together with the Republic of Korea, will be looking at unilateral measures, as well as bilateral measures, as well as possible trilateral cooperation,” Sung Kim
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International, USATwo Israeli men suspected of pocketing over $600,000by running a major international hacking operation were arrested by police in Israel last week following a tip-off by the FBI. Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both 18, were released on bail to their homes in central Israel on Thursday, the financial daily The Marker reported over the
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Middle East, USACall it Yanqui chic, Cuban style. On the crumbling streets of Havana, the Stars and Stripes adorn the T-shirts of passersby and flutter from car dashboards and the auto-rickshaws known as bicitaxis. But for new arrivals driving into the city, there is a reminder of a very different side of U.S.-Cuban relations. At a junction
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International, Travel and FoodFor the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States, a French polling firm conducted a survey to gauge the impact of conspiracy theories among the French. The main finding? According to polling firm Odoxa, the majority of French people believe that the full story of that day has yet to be
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International, USACroatia has gone to the polls to choose a government for the second time in less than a year. Experts are predicting a close result and the possibility of another coalition that lacks a clear mandate to push through the painful cuts and restructuring being urged by European authorities. Croatia holds a snap election on
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InternationalWhen bombs began falling on Donetsk two years ago, local businessman Nikolay Liskov barely had time to pack up his car and drive away with his wife, who was seven months pregnant. He left behind his home and his business, and even his winter clothes. Earlier that day, he was almost executed at a military
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International, Middle EastSeptemember 11, 2001, was a new date of infamy for America. After the hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers and the Pentagon, the country came together in both patriotism and fear. A special edition of Newsweek, produced in the hours after the attack, tells the story of the deadliest attack on
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USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The latest video that the office of Prime Minister Netanyahu has produced with him as the star is now all over the social media and has compelled the U.S. Administration to react strongly against it. The Americans assume that Netanyahu`s accusation that those who want to remove the Jewish
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An examination of Panim el Panim – Face to Face, with Love By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM – There is an expression in Hebrew used colloquially, “Wars of the Jews,” and it’s not referring to the seven volumes written by the historian Josephus in the first century of the modern era. Rather, it’s
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldThe Gaza Strip, a 365 squared km sliver of Palestinian territory nestled, or more normally squeezed between Israel and Egypt has been out of the news this summer. And that should prompt a sigh of relief. It can also be considered something of a surprise. The regularity of flare-ups between Israel and Hamas, leading to
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International, Middle EastThe latest The Syrian government has reportedly given its assent to the US-Russia agreement signed in Geneva. The agreement was brokered by Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State, John Kerry. #BREAKING Syria government ‘approves’ US-Russia truce deal: state media— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 10, 2016 Meanwhile, fighting is reportedly raging
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — I am hardly part of a 9/11 family but I did lose someone who was trying to help that day. Though an imposing figure of bulk and professionalism, rarely not dressed in his suit and tie, or in his naval reserve attire that he wore with quiet pride, he
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