It looks as though Hillary Clinton will escape the State Department email scandal without being indicted, but she did not escape comedian Trevor Noah Tuesday without taking a few shots. In a press conference led by FBI Director James Comey Tuesday, the FBI recommended that no charges be filed against the former secretary of state […]
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USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Macy Macy plays Jery in this scene from “Fargo”
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Travel and FoodAnti-Semitic comments penned by a regional lawmaker of Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has deepened a leadership split within the party. The feud highlights the AfD’s balancing act ahead of 2017 elections – to appeal to anti-migrant sentiments without being labelled an openly neo-Nazi or fascist party. The row pits the party’s most
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InternationalMarine Le Pen, the leader of France’s resurgent nationalist party National Front, has endorsed U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and defended Britain’s decision to leave the EU, French newspaper Le Parisien reports. Le Pen, who has been accused of making anti-Muslim and anti-refugee remarks, is currently among the most popular party leaders in France and
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International, USAPalestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas called on the UN Security Council on Wednesday to reject a key report by the diplomatic Quartet that condemned both Israeli building in Judea and Samaria, and Palestinian incitement to violence. The report published last Friday by the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States was criticised
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International, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— NASA’s Juno spacecraft went into orbit around Jupiter on July 4 after a five-year trip covering nearly 2 billion miles in outer space — and Prof. Ravit Helled of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geosciences played a major role in getting it there. “It’s really fun and exciting! It’s great to
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Middle East, USAPresumptive U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton’s use of private email while secretary of state for putting the “entire country in danger.” The threat of criminal charges hanging over Clinton was finally lifted by the FBI Tuesday morning—hours before the presumptive Democratic nominee for president began campaigning with Barack Obama for
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USADemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump to 13 percentage points, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday found. The poll was taken over the weekend, before the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended on Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton over her use of private
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USAHillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday rebuked comments by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal, son of longtime aide Sidney Blumenthal, regarding the recent death of Holocaust survivor and political activist Elie Wiesel. “Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential
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Obituaries & memorials, USADonald Trump has come under fire from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign for praising Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq who was captured by U.S. forces in 2003 and executed by the Iraqi government in 2006. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, during a Tuesday rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, praised the late Iraqi
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Middle East, USASir John Chilcot’s report into the Iraq war was a long time coming. But his dispassionate analysis of events leading up to the war and its aftermath have been well worth waiting for. Chilcot’s criticisms are penetrating and, in some cases, devastating. Most of the facts were known one way or another, but in drawing
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International, Middle EastThe most audacious speech Tony Blair ever made as Britain’s prime minister was in Chicago in April 1999, before he knew that George W. Bush would become U.S. president and long before 9/11 changed the course of his premiership. The doctrine of liberal intervention that he laid out became the siren song that led him
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International, Middle East, USAAfter more than a decade of war in Iraq, the country’s religious and ethnic minority groups are on the verge of disappearing, according to a new report. The report documents how several thousand people belonging to minority communities in Iraq have been abducted, maimed or murdered since June 2014, when the Islamic State (ISIS) militant
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are considering whether to reprimand House Democrats over the 25-hour anti-gun violence sit-in that shut down the chamber last week. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., have been highly critical of the Democratic protest and will be meeting with the sergeant at arms
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