When she is canonized on Sunday, Mother Teresa will be among the rarest of saints: one who still exits in living memory. Her path to sainthood – the highest honour in the Catholic Church – has been swift because of her popularity in life. But her detractors are still around to make their case. Mother […]
I saw Chief David Brown on Saturday night at a fundraiser for the families of the five Dallas officers slain July 7. A fortune was raised, around $500,000, because this is a generous and compassionate city. There was big money in the room, none bigger than Mark Cuban. A few people snapped selfies with the
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USAWashington (dpa) – Melania Trump is suing British newspaper the Daily Mail and a US-based blog for reporting that she worked as an escort in the 1990s, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The wife of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper and blogger Webster Griffin Tarpley,
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Job growth slowed back to a moderate pace in August, and the nation’s unemployment rate held at 4.9 percent for the third straight month, the government said Friday. The latest jobs report from the Labor Department was largely ho-hum and unlikely to change the prospects for an interest rate hike by the Federal
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USACARY, N.C. — Donald Trump can win. Sure, the polls show him lagging behind Hillary Clinton nationally. They find him trailing in many battleground states. And he’s neck and neck in states such as North Carolina that went Republican last time and that he needs desperately. But if the presidential race in its fall rush
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USAWhen most Americans were asleep on Wednesday night, President Barack Obama was speaking to a small group of domestic and foreign scientists and dignitaries in Hawaii. “Welcome to Hawaii. Aloha!” Obama said beginning his brief speech. “It’s not often I get to welcome folks to my home state.” The president spoke on the eve of
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The World We Share, USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump questioned Friday how Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton became enormously wealthy running a charity, which has become the focus of the campaign’s allegation of pay-to-play corruption while she was secretary of state. “The question I always ask is, what product were they selling?
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USABy Ezra Friedlander Everyone seems to be focusing on the candidates for President but not enough on the Vice Presidential contenders. Having the ear of the President is no small matter. In recent memory, vice presidents-think Cheney and Biden-have exercised significant influence, and it would be prudent to assume that the next Vice President will follow
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In Parashat Re’eh, Moses charges the Children of Israel to obey God. “See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the
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Jewish ReligionBy Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego “How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.” That twisted take on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s love sonnet accurately captures some of America’s stewing rage. The reason? Let me count and/or name them. Ryan Lochte, the Olympic swimmer aka “jerk”/liar, who re-popularized the phrase “Ugly American” and
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LONDON, England –Proms? What Proms? Anyone looking for an uplifting musical experience should steer clear of the famous Prom concerts in London’s Albert Hall. The hall itself is enormous and impressive, seating several thousands at a time. In addition, especially cheap tickets are sold as standing room only in the center of the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Palestinians are darlings of the world, receiving disproportionate amounts of financial aid and supportive resolutions in the UN General Assembly and other international forums. Yet progress is dismal toward the avowed goal of a Palestinian State. Israeli intransigence is the favorite explanation, but Palestinian disinterest does a better job. Notions of a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ While Donald Trump was purportedly softening, Anthony Weiner was hardening. Trump insinuated that Weiner’s compulsive sexting cast suspicion on Hillary’s judgment because Weiner might have been reading classified information allegedly sent by Hillary to his wife Huma Abedin. Alternative explanations are that Weiner is just a schmuck or that
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