Donald H. Harrison

Sisi Welcomes Israeli Ambassador Among 7 Others

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received eight new ambassadors on Wednesday, including Israeli ambassador David Govrin, the presidency said in a statement. The other ambassadors Sisi received represented the Emirates, Mexico, Myanmar, Holland, Belgium, Greece, and Somalia. Govrin said in a statement posted on the page “Israel in Egypt” that he seeks more fruitful cooperation […]

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International, Middle East

Uncovered Clinton security breach – ended up in prison

The man who revealed the Hillary Clinton email scandal was sentenced on Thursday to 52 months in prison for unauthorized access of a protected computer, and aggravated identity theft. Marcel Lazar, a former Romanian taxi driver, would hack the internet in his spare time, under the handle of “Guccifer.” Lazar, who does not have any

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International, USA

Trump Invested in Safe States, Lagged in Battlegrounds

In modern presidential elections, superior grassroots voter outreach can mean the difference between winning and losing so-called battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, and, by extension, the White House. When the primaries wrapped up in early June, Republican Donald Trump was far behind his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton on that front, lacking anything close

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USA

Biden: Trump ‘has no idea what the hell he’s talking about,’ endangers global security

Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Thursday offered a blunt assessment of Republican Donald Trump, telling a crowd of union workers in the key battleground state of Oho that the billionaire doesn’t have the intelligence or experience to lead the United States. “I don’t believe he’s a bad guy. I just think he is thoroughly,

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International, USA

Marine Le Pen, National Front leader: ‘Anything but Hillary Clinton’

Marine Le Pen, the leader of French conservative party National Front, said Wednesday that a Hillary Clinton presidency in the United States would lead to war and devastation worldwide. “For France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton,” Ms. Le Pen said in an interview with CNN’s Hala Gorani. “Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think

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International, USA

Rousseff removal sparks anger in bitterly divided Brazil

Anger over the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has spilled onto the streets. In Sao Paul on Wednesday night, shop fronts and bank windows were attacked in a protest that had started peacefully. Violence flared after new leader Michel Temer addressed the nation on television. Protesters also came out onto the streets elsewhere in

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International

Black Lives Matter rips Democrats for leaked memo on how to pacify activists

Black Lives Matter accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of trying to placate activists after a hacker leaked on Wednesday an internal party memo advising candidates on how to handle the movement. The Nov. 9 memo to by former DCCC staffer Troy Perry urged candidates to listen but “don’t offer support for concrete policy positions”;

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USA

‘Porn is for losers’: Pamela Anderson pens op-ed condemning porn as ‘the dark side of adult sexuality’

After the New York Post leaked photos on Monday from yet another sexting scandal involving Anthony Weiner, his long-suffering wife Huma Abedin promptly announced their separation, leading some of the world to fly up in arms about the damaging effects of porn. Weiner’s sexting habit and porn might not appear to have an obvious correlation,

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Randall Wilson: After 100 years, do our national parks still matter?

On the occasion of the National Park Service’s centennial this summer comes an irreverent question: Are the parks still relevant? Famously christened as America’s “best idea” by writer Wallace Stegner and reaffirmed in Ken Burns’ 2009 PBS documentary, it seems brazen, if not blasphemous, to pose the question. Over the last century, the national park

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The World We Share, USA

Obama’s final major trip to Asia is unlikely to be the victory lap he hoped for

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s 10th and final trip to Asia while in office is unlikely to be the triumph of his major foreign policy initiative that he once envisioned. Instead, Obama is dogged once again by violence in the Middle East, and rather than celebrate the repositioning of resources toward the Pacific Rim, Obama

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International, USA