CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has withered to 3 percentage points, signaling their battle for the White House has become too close to call heading into the two major-party national conventions, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, now leads Trump by 42 to 39 percent in […]
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USASen. Bernard Sanders said he doubts he’s going to be selected as Hillary Clinton’s running mate but said he’d like to see the “most progressive person possible” in the role. Asked on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday if he’s open to being Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, Mr. Sanders said: “That issue has not been raised
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USAU.S. lawmakers this week will consider three Republican-backed measures targeting the Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran, Reuters reported. One bill would impose new sanctions on Iran over any sponsorship of terrorism or human rights violations. Another would bar the purchase from Iran of “heavy water,” a non-radioactive byproduct from making nuclear weapons and nuclear
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Middle East, USAEgyptian security forces are abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and wipe out peaceful dissent, Amnesty International said in a new report released on Wednesday. The report, entitled “Egypt: ‘Officially, you do not exist’: Disappeared and tortured in the name of counter-terrorism”, shines a light on alleged human rights
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Middle EastThe Islamic State group has signaled to its fighters that they are on the losing side in an international war against terror that has seen months of bloody territorial battles in Iraq and Syria and brought together global leaders in a coalition against radical Islam. Two years after the militants also known as ISIS declared
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International, Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — Javier Soch and Seth Ortega went to downtown Fullerton, Calif., on Tuesday hoping to hunt monsters on the new Pokemon Go smartphone game. Instead, the Marine Corps veterans helped police in the Orange County city catch a man who was bothering children at a playground. Investigators later learned the man was wanted
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USAFacebook shutters account of Hamas leader for seventh time (JNS.org) The American social media giant Facebook has closed the account of Hamas politburo member Ezzat al-Rishq for the seventh time. “I condemn Facebook’s administration for closing my personal account for the seventh time in a row, and I consider the [decision] bias in favor the
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Middle EastYvonne Mitchell plays Millie in “Sapphire” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Mitchell
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — In the moments after the second inning ended, after two baseballs had soared 762 feet into the cool sea air and the American League had seized control of this All-Star Game, Eric Hosmer bounced around inside the first-base dugout. He clapped his hands three times and nodded his head. The Royals’ first
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Sports & Competitions, USAA groups of young girls donated $10,000 Monday to the Dallas Police Department after they raised the money in just two days selling lemonade in the wake of last week’s deadly attack on police. Lauren Roach, 12, Landry Nelon, 11, Emmy Roberts, 9, and Emmy’s 8-year-old sister Lily, set up the stand in North Dallas
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USAThe Islamic State militant group (ISIS) disseminated a new hit list of American targets earlier this month, including churchgoers and Jewish worshippers, forcing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to brief religious leaders. The list, discovered by jihadi monitoring service SITE Intelligence, was published on July 3 among ISIS sympathizers in online forums. The targets,
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Middle East, USAIsraeli NBA player Omri Casspi joins the list of Israeli celebrities publicly displaying their ties to Judaism and Jewish practice. Omri Casspi praying Screenshot/Instagram Casspi posted a picture to his Instagram account in which he is seen wearing Tefilin and a Tallit (prayer shawl), and praying in the morning sunlight. In the caption to the
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Jewish Religion, Sports & CompetitionsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The pictures are fuzzy. Overt, explicit, and legally enforced racism is no more in the United States. Individual Blacks, Asians, Jews, and other minorities–and women–can reach as high as the White House, senior governmental and corporate positions, and marry who they choose. Integration, human relations, political correctness, busing, and affirmative
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Middle East, USAIn endorsing Hillary, Bernie Sanders Eviscerates Donald Trump There were many times over the past six months where Democrats legitimately feared that the rift between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was growing too wide to bridge and that party unity may be a pipe dream as the eventual winner geared towards the nominating convention and
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