The men Donald Trump has been warning us about are sitting in a classroom in Baltimore. “When you look at that migration, you see so many young, strong men,” the Republican presidential nominee said a campaign rally in April, lamenting the waves of refugees pouring into Europe. “You don’t see that many women and children.” […]
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International, USAFile photo of Nicolas Sarkozy (L), former president and current head of the Les Republicains political party, and French President Francois Hollande after their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, January 22, 2016. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will run for next year’s presidential election, he announced on his Facebook account August 22,
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InternationalThursday is the 100th anniversary of the law that created the US National Park Service. The vast system includes parks featuring spectacular scenery and sites that are historically and culturally famous all over the world. Seattle (dpa) – The US system of US national parks is one of extremes. There is a park where the
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The World We Share, USARIO DE JANEIRO – Andre De Grasse and Penny Oleksiak became the faces of Canada’s Summer Olympic team, despite their youth and inexperience. De Grasse, who at 21 won three sprinting medals in Rio, is heading back to the University of Southern California to finish his sociology degree. Oleksiak, the 16-year-old who stormed to the
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International, Sports & CompetitionsLos Angeles (dpa) – Two Renaissance paintings seized by the Nazis during World War II will remain the property of a California museum after a US court Monday ruled against a claim by the family of the Jewish art dealer from whom they were taken. Judge John F Walter of the US District Court in
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAIn an appearance on late-night television, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tried to laugh off recent questions over her health, saying such attacks are part of Republicans’ “wacky” strategy against her. “This has become one of their themes,” Mrs. Clinton said, asking host Jimmy Kimmel to take her pulse and make sure she’s alive during
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USAWASHINGTON — The head of the Organization of American States has declared the continued imprisonment of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez the end of democracy in Venezuela. In an OAS eight-page open letter to Lopez, a former mayor of Caracas, Secretary-General Luis Almagro said Lopez was the victim of a lying and horrific political system.
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InternationalEmails just released by the State Department appear to show Clinton Foundation officials brokering a meeting between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a top military leader of Bahrain — a Middle Eastern country that is a major foundation donor. Soon after the correspondence about a meeting, Clinton’s State Department significantly increased arms export authorizations
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In a lovely, verdant garden behind a wrought iron gate, the young King of Navarre and three young lord attendants determine to make their kingdom a wonder of the world for academia. To this end, they sign a vow to forego the pleasures of the flesh and devote
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In advance of the first presidential election in 50 years without a fully operable Voting Rights Act (VRA), an American civil rights group is urging the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to expand its election monitoring mission in the United States and to target resources to states
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International, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Barrie
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — The Doggie Street Festival is the love child of Jude Pauline Artenstein, a San Diego based independent filmmaker and wife of producer/director Isaac Artenstein. She founded the annual festival eight years ago as a civic tribute to her beloved golden retriever, Scout. During that time [2008-2009], she was recuperating
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Mimi Pollack, The World We ShareThe wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had a Jewish father, according to a new document discovered in the Berlin archives. The document was published in the German newspaper Bild, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported last week. It shows that the father of Magda Goebbels was a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander, who married
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