Republican presidential nominee and noted poll lover Donald Trump has decided to subvert the system and conduct a survey of his own. In a fundraising email sent Monday and shared by several reporters on Twitter, Trump said he wanted to hold the media responsible for attempting to fix the outcome of the upcoming election. “All […]
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USAHillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 30 points in a head-to-head match-up in New York, according to a Siena College poll released Monday. Mrs. Clinton had a 57 percent to 27 percent lead over Mr. Trump in a head-to-head match-up in the poll. In a four-way contest, she held a 25-point, 50 percent to 25
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USAAt age 82, and in declining health, the emperor of Japan, Akihito, indicated in a televised address on August 9 that he is contemplating abdication from the world’s oldest hereditary monarchy. In itself, that would seem unremarkable news, particularly outside Japan. In the postwar era, the Chrysanthemum Throne has been drained of almost all of
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InternationalIraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday captured a dozen villages from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) east of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in a series of “shaping operations” aimed at tightening the noose on the radical Islamist group’s grand prize. Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, acts as ISIS’s de-facto capital in Iraq. It seized
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign is fighting back against a New York Times story published Sunday night that told of handwritten ledgers indicating that Trump’s campaign chairman received $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. The report — showing even closer ties between Trump’s inner circle and Russia than
Facebook reportedly closed the account of Hamas leader Ismail Radwan on Facebook, in addition Sami Abu Zuhri, Fawzi Barhoum and Salah Bardawil, in the midst of municipal Gazan election season. Hamas leaders frequently use their social media accounts to garner support for terrorism and incitement to terror. Last week, Facebook closed the account of Islamic
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Middle EastThe day started as a regular, nondescript morning. I was preparing to see my patients. I picked up my phone and saw news that three coordinated suicide bombings had just occurred in Brussels, Belgium. I went through the all-too-familiar ritual that a lot of Muslims go through, of hoping that the perpetrators would not be
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Only Usain Bolt could have done this, bringing down a historic lightning strike to steal the thunder that should have belonged to 400-meter runner Wayde van Niekerk’s shiny new world record. Even when not at his best because of what he called a “really stupid” too-quick turnaround between the 100-meter dash
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International, Sports & CompetitionsBy now you’ve probably heard about He Zi. Not, however, her astounding athleticism that earned her a silver medal in diving Sunday at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. You know her name because her long-time boyfriend chose that very moment, while she was still clutching the colourful medal case, to pop the question. And the
India celebrated its 70th Independence Day on Monday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the nation from the iconic Red Fort in the capital New Delhi. On Aug. 15, 1947, India secured a hard-earned separation from Britain, and also partitioned into India and Pakistan, which later split further into Pakistan and Bangladesh. Thousands of armed
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InternationalIn 1948, the US territory of Puerto Rico competed as an indepedent nation in its first Olympics. Thank the International Olympic Committee for that. The IOC has the power to determine which states get to compete as independent nations. Call it “sports sovereignty” or “Independent … enough.” And while Puerto Rico has competed for the
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International, Sports & Competitions, USATight security was in place in the French town of Lourdes on Monday as thousands of worshippers flocked for the annual Catholic pilgrimage. Bag checks were in operation as armed police and troops patrolled the holy site. A spate of recent terror attacks in France and across Europe has heightened security fears of further strikes,
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InternationalIsraeli troops demolished overnight Sunday the home of a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli girl in June. A large military force, including members of the Combat Engineering Corps, arrived in the West Bank village of Bani Na’im, outside Hebron, in the early hours of Monday morning to raze the family home
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Middle EastAn electrical fire recently broke out at the historic Al-Jazzar mosque, located in the northern Israeli city of Acre. The damage to the centuries-old structure was extensive, but the community’s show of unity in dealing with the blaze’s aftermath is heartening. Such unity in the wake of this tragedy casts a glimmer of hope illuminating
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