HANGZHOU, China — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in this eastern city of China on Saturday night, kicking off a tightly scheduled trip headlined by the 11th summit of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies. During his stay in Hangzhou, he will also meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as a number […]
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InternationalSANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Santa Clara police union says its officers may stop working San Francisco 49ers’ home games amid quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest police brutality and racial injustice by refusing to stand during the national anthem, according to media reports. A letter from the Santa Clara Police Officers’ Association to the
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump stuck largely to script Saturday in addressing a traditionally black church in Detroit, where he made his pitch in an attempt to woo a portion of the electorate that overwhelmingly favors Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee for president gave his first address before a predominantly black audience at Great Faith Ministries and avoided
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USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –The United Nations, European Union, and the United States continue to be fixated on the Two State Solution (TSS) as the be-all and end-all of the never-ending conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. In fact, many still incorrectly believe that, were “peace” to break out between the two
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Middle East, Steve KramerPHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told a handful of blacks in North Philadelphia on Friday that the perception that he is a racist is because the media have interpreted his comments that way. “He does not see himself as a racist and neither did the people around the table,” said Renee Amoore, the
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USASeveral years ago, before the onset of the Arab Spring, the eminent historian Bernard Lewis suggested that Israel’s future in the Middle East was more secure than many assumed. In measurable ways, the nearer Arab and Muslim states were sinking into ever deeper political, social and economic dysfunction and despair, while Israel, for all its
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Middle EastPHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in North Philadelphia on Friday as protesters gathered outside a church venue where he was to meet privately with African-American voters — stirring visible unwelcome for the GOP presidential nominee in the City of Brotherly Love. Trump arrived in an SUV with a police motorcade down Broad
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USAGary Johnson and Jill Stein are on the ballot in yet another state for the November presidential election, but a spot on the main stage in the presidential debates remains a long shot for the third-party candidates. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, and Stein, nominated by the Green Party, qualified for the Oregon ballot before
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USAWHEN Brigitte Bardot revealed (almost) all in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman, she barely raised an eyebrow in France. After all, the country was home to innumerable nude statues that adorn parks everywhere. So much so that when I was at school in Paris, and asked to escort a visiting aunt around the
Dilma Rousseff will soon abandon Brazil’s beautiful presidential palace along with its luxury sports facilities and helicopter pad-but perhaps post-impeachment life won’t be so bad after all. Stripped of office by the Senate on Wednesday, Brazil’s first female president joined the ranks of nearly 12 million unemployed in Latin America’s biggest country. She’ll walk out
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InternationalDonald Trump’s latest campaign hire is David Bossie, the longtime president of Citizens United, the infamous conservative organization named in the 2010 Supreme Court ruling scaling back regulations on corporate financing of political messaging. Trump called Bossie “a friend of mine for many years,” according to the Washington Post. “Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how
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USARussian President Vladimir Putin denied culpability for the hacks of prominent Democrat organizations and called WikiLeaks dump of documents a public service, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. “There’s no need to distract the public’s attention from the essence of the problem by raising some minor issues connected with the search for who did it,” Putin said
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International, USAThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. We’ve heard a lot in recent weeks about the potential for Russian meddling in the presidential election. A lot of circumstantial evidence—and the fact that Russia has the means, motive and opportunity to conduct these attacks—suggests an important Russian role in the leaks
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International, USAPhilippine authorities on Saturday blamed a notorious group of Islamic militants for the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home town that killed at least 14 people. An improvised explosive device tore through the bustling market in the heart of Davao city and close to one of its top hotels just before
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