Groucho Marx famously said he wouldn’t join any club that would have him as a member. Bernie Sanders last week turned that on its head, saying he wouldn’t remain a member of any party that wouldn’t have him as its leader. Mr. Sanders decided to become a Democrat only last year and only so he […]
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USAFormer President George W. Bush not-so-subtly critiqued policies espoused by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, although not explicitly mentioning the candidate, WSJ reports. At the rally, Bush criticized policies of “isolationism, nativism, and protectionism,” aspects which have come to be associated with the Trump presidential campaign,
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USAOn January 16, when Iran released four U.S. citizens who had been arrested and imprisoned in the country, the administration of President Barack Obama agreed to release seven Iranians either jailed in the U.S. or facing charges. But according to a report Tuesday, there could be more to the seemingly simple prisoner swap deal than
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Middle East, USAFormer New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, says his campaign has raked in more than $1 million in the last two weeks, and he’s trying to push things further with a “money bomb” tied to the presidential debates to try to raise $1.5 million on August 15. In a fundraising pitch,
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USADonald Trump’s campaign said Wednesday it collectively raised $80 million in July for the campaign and the Republican Party, picking up the pace from a June haul of about $51 million. The campaign said its digital and direct mail operations brought in about $64 million in donations last month, in conjunction with the Republican National
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USAASHBURN, Va. – Donald Trump’s feud with a Muslim Gold Star family may be driving GOP leaders to fits, but the Republican presidential nominee’s supporters aren’t fazed at all, saying they remain firmly behind the billionaire businessman and his tough talk on Twitter. Mr. Trump drew a huge crowd to a rally Tuesday in the
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USAThe radical “Black Lives Matter” movement released a formal platform on Monday, singling out Israel for what it calls the “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs and “Israeli Apartheid”. BLM, which emerged in the summer of 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot and killed an African American teenager in self-defense, aims
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Middle East, USAAn entertainment company in Lebanon accidentally featured a photo appearing to praise an Israeli soldier, as part of an advertisement campaign coinciding with Lebanese Army Day, and quickly apologized profusely. The Virgin Megastore’s Lebanese service Ticketing Box Office removed the ad, showing an IDF soldier looking into binoculars accompanied by the text “Keep your eyes
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Middle EastDonald Trump has responded to scathing criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama, branding the latter the “worst president” in the country’s history. The Republican presidential nominee said that Obama, who was elected in 2008 and returned to power in 2012, had been a “disaster” and cited Russia’s takeover of Crimea as an example of Obama’s
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USAHewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, a high-profile Republican donor who served as a finance co-chair for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign, says she’s now supporting Hillary Clinton. “To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division,” Ms.
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USAShimon Peres is optimistic, which isn’t remarkable except that he also lives in Israel, home to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. The 93-year-old former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate has witnessed the many clashes with Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries from its inception. Though once a proponent of settlements who was
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Middle EastNorth Korea has test fired another ballistic missile, this time landing in Japan’s Exclusive Economic zone”:http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm, the first to reach the area since 1998. The zone extends 200 nautical miles from Japan’s coast and, whilst it’s within international waters, is under Japanese control. All coastal states are legally entitled to control such a zone under
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InternationalHillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both rotten candidates for the U.S. presidency, but they do provide great fodder for comedians. For example, the following joke arrived in my Inbox this morning: Trump and Hillary meet at a bar. Donald leans in and smiles, “The media are really tearing you apart for That Scandal.” Hillary
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USADiaries belonging to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust, have been recovered in a Russian archive after being thought lost for more than 70 years. The diaries, which are being published in daily excerpts by the German newspaper Bild, cover 1938 and the crucial war years of