The House Democrats’ sit-in to demand a vote on gun control stretched into its 21st hour Thursday morning, with several lawmakers still physically sitting on the floor despite protests from their Republican rivals, NPR reported. Spearheaded by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the “no bill, no break” demonstration was aimed at forcing the House to discuss […]
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USAThe Supreme Court announced Thursday that it was deadlocked in a 4-4 tie in a decision Monday on the immigration policies of U.S. President Barack Obama. The decision effectively blocks Obama’s action, allowing an appeals court decision to stand. The case was heard in April and many expected the 4-4 tie on Obama’s 2014 Deferred
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USANEW YORK (JNS.org) — Albert Klass, a co-founder of the widely read New York City-based newspaper The Jewish Press, died last Friday at his home Brooklyn, the Orthodox-Jewish news website Voz Is Neias reported. Klass was 105. Klass co-founded The Jewish Press in 1960 with his brother Rabbi Sholom Klass, who died in 2000. Albert
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Obituaries & memorialsBy Ken Stone, Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Score one for Twitter over Facebook — and for Rep. Scott Peters over a blackout of House history. The San Diego Democrat, who turned 58 on Friday, turned to a pair of twentysomething press aides to be the first and primary broadcaster Wednesday of an unprecedented Democratic
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Chris Jennewein, Ken Stone, USAU.S. intelligence officials reportedly back strict parole conditions for Pollard (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) United States intelligence officials support the continuation of strict parole conditions for Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy who was freed last November after serving three decades in U.S. federal prison, The Daily Beast reported this week. In declarations filed with
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — A sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives by Democratic members stretched into Wednesday night and appeared likely to continue throughout the day Thursday as the protesters turned to Periscope and Facebook Live to broadcast their demands for a vote on legislation to restrict gun purchases by suspected terrorists. C-SPAN, the
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USASAN DIEGO — During the sit-in at the House of Representatives to demand action on gun violence on Wednesday, June 22, U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) recounted the tragic story of Willie James Jones, a promising San Diego youth whose life was snuffed out by a random drive by shooting. Her emotional speech may
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San Diego County, USA(Statistics through June 20) Dean Kremer became the first Israeli citizen to sign with a Major League team. Dean Kremer, a right-handed pitcher, became the first Israeli to sign a contract with a Major League Baseball team when the Los Angeles Dodgers signed the 20-year-old Israeli American on June 14 after drafting him earlier this
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Sports & Competitions, USAAt times, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign resembles an optical illusion: The longer you stare at it, the more you start to wonder exactly what you’re looking at. His campaign’s latest financial disclosure filing drove this point home when it became public on Monday. As journalists pored over the data contained in that Federal Election Commission
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USAPresumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made a bold pitch to supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday. “We’re asking Bernie Sanders voters to join our movement so together we can fix the system for all Americans,” Trump said during a speech in New York City. Sanders has not officially dropped out of the
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump attempted to relaunch his troubled campaign Wednesday with a scripted speech fusing his anti-trade economic message with a series of attacks on Hillary Clinton that ran the gamut from harsh to unprovable to false. It was in many ways two speeches, with one designed to show a more disciplined politician who
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USAAs millions of people were losing their homes in the depth of the recession, instructors at Trump University were urging students to seek out anxious or desperate sellers to reap a financial windfall, according to recently released documents in the federal class-action lawsuit against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. The now-defunct for-profit real estate
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USADemocrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday to protest the Republican-controlled Congress’ inaction on gun control legislation in the wake of multiple mass shootings, such as the one in Orlando, Florida, this month. However, Americans may have had a hard time following the action on Capitol Hill in
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representatives Peter J. Roskam and Charles W. Boustany Jr., MD, Chairmen of the Ways & Means Subcommittees on Oversight and Tax Policy respectively, introduced legislation to strengthen our tax code and protect our national security. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the “No Dollars for Ayatollahs Act,”
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