Donald Trump has suggested it will happen, but even Joe Arpaio himself has said he doesn’t know whether he will receive a pardon from the president when he holds a rally in the former sheriff’s home state of Arizona Tuesday. “Do you think he’ll do it tomorrow night? Who knows,” Arpaio told NBC News Monday. […]
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USAAmid reports that the destroyer USS John S. McCain lost steering just before collision with an oil tanker, experts have speculated the possibility of hacking as the cause of the incident. The US Navy ordered an investigation into its entire 7th Fleet, based in Japan, after the incident in the Strait of Malacca early Monday
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International, USAProminent Harvard law professor and liberal author Alan Dershowitz rebuked the hard-left militant movement Antifa on Tuesday, saying liberals need to avoid turning violent leftist factions into heroes. Appearing on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Mr. Dershowitz said the movement sweeping the country to take down Confederate-era statues that some find offensive is setting a
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USAThose glamorous do-gooders are at it again. In the wake of the race-fueled violence in Charlottesville, Va., George and Amal Clooney’s Clooney Foundation for Justice has given a $1 million grant to help topple domestic hate groups. The actor/producer and his wife, an international human rights attorney, have partnered with the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law
President Donald Trump has announced a new strategy in the war in Afghanistan, one that focuses on ending the U.S.’s costly nearly 16-year struggle to quell an Islamist insurgency there by eradicating militants and engaging regional powers, but does not commit to long-term nation-building goals. In a highly anticipated televised address, Trump told troops Monday
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International, USASAN DIEGO, August 21, 2017 – When a couple is weighing the difficult decision to get divorced, the issue usually causing the most concern is how the breakup of their marriage might affect their children. A new study by scientists at two universities in Spain looked at the effects of divorce on the physical and
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON — The Secret Service is close to its annual caps for salary and overtime pay for more than 1,000 agents, partly because of President Donald Trump’s large family, multiple properties and frequent travel, according to a report Monday in USA Today. The Secret Service director, Randolph “Tex” Alles, told the newspaper that he is
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USAThere goes the sun, doo doo doo doo. A partial solar eclipse from New York City View of a partial solar eclipse from a rooftop in New York City. Glenn Orzepowski Americans from coast to coast were psyched for August 21, 2017—and for good reason. This afternoon, the moon passed in front of the sun,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe onetime attorney of late pop icon Michael Jackson will now defend disgraced television icon Bill Cosby in his upcoming re-trial for sexual assault, the actor’s spokesman said Monday. After Brian McMonagle quit earlier this month, his California-based co-counsel Angela Agrusa also filed a motion asking to be taking off the trial. The pair helped
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPresident Donald Trump enjoyed the eclipse Monday like millions of Americans. But unlike millions of Americans, he went against the much-repeated and often-emphasized advice of NASA, ophthalmologists and moms everywhere and looked at the sun without glasses. Ben Jacobs, a reporter for The Guardian, wrote in a White House pool report that at about 2:39
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USAAUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas President Gregory L. Fenves abruptly announced late Sunday that four statues of people with Confederate ties would be removed immediately from the school’s South Mall. The bronze likenesses of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster John H. Reagan will be relocated to the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA monument to Christopher Columbus that was over 200 years old was smashed with a sledgehammer Monday morning to combat a “culture of white supremacy.” A YouTube channel titled “Popular Resistance” posted footage of men in hoodies destroying a monument to Columbus and his famous voyage in 1492. The individuals carried signs that read “Racism:
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—An outdoor party at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel on Monday night celebrated San Diegan Sol Lizerbram’s approaching inauguration in November as national president of Jewish National Fund. The organization, noted Russell Robinson, its executive director, is 115 years old and going strong. In fact, it is in the middle of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –Spending part of the summer in central France has constituted our annual vacation for several years now. We enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, the beautiful scenery, and the cooler weather. If there are any musical events we are happy to attend them, but they are not the main reason for our
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