Ivanka Trump has been given an office in the White House’s West Wing that was adjacent to one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted senior advisers, according to a new report. The first daughter was also going to be granted official national security clearance and a government issued cellphone, her lawyer confirmed to Politco on
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USAWASHINGTON — Trump administration tensions with the United Nations over Israel won’t help the world body as it tries to maintain some part of its funding from Washington. Those tensions flared again Monday when both the State Department and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. sharply attacked an agenda item in a U.N. meeting in
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International, Middle East, USAGlen Campbell is widely regarded as one of the best guitarists of the past 50 years, but his advancing Alzheimer’s disease has robbed him of the ability to play. Glen’s wife of 34 years, Kim Campbell, opens up about Glen’s condition in a new interview with “The Tennessean.” He can still play a little air
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASecretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed the possibility of nuclear weapons on the island of Japan in an interview published Saturday, saying “circumstances could evolve” on the Korean peninsula that would require the U.S. to arm its ally with nukes. “We say all options are on the table, but we cannot predict the future,” Tillerson
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International, USADanon fires back at Syrian ambassador who called Friday’s raid on Hezbollah arms transfer a ‘terror operation,’ warned Syrian retaliatory missile launches were ‘game-changer’ By Times of Israel staff Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon at an anti-BDS conference held at the UN headquarters in New York on November 17, 2016. (Harel Rintzler) Israeli ambassador to
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International, Middle EastSAN FRANCISCO — In another sign of the turmoil sweeping Uber, the company’s president of ride-sharing has quit after less than a year on the job, following a string of scandals at the startup and CEO Travis Kalanick’s promise to hire a new second-in-command. Kalanick on Sunday confirmed the departure of Jeff Jones in an
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USAWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Monday rejected Sen. Bob Menendez’s request to review his federal corruption case, dealing a blow to the New Jersey Democrat’s hopes of having key evidence and charges dismissed. The decision was announced Monday morning. It clears the way for Menendez’s trial to move forward this fall. It is scheduled to
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USAA Canadian who works in a remote school among the Inuit community in the Arctic has been named as the world’s best teacher. Maggie MacDonnell won the annual $1-million Global Teacher Prize for excellence at an award ceremony in Dubai, beating about 20,000 applicants from around the world. “My dream is that I can work
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident Trump on Monday declared the notion that he colluded with Russia during last year’s election “fake news,” as the House Intelligence Committee prepares to hold its first open hearing tied to its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. “James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia.
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International, USAUnconfirmed reports indicate jets hit Hezbollah weapons convoy, military targets, hours after drone strike in Syrian Golan; Syria UN envoy says retaliatory missile launches during Friday raid a ‘game-changer’ By Times of Israel staff An Israeli F-15I fighter jet (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash 90) Israel is said to have struck Syria overnight Sunday-Monday, the second
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — Director James B. Comey confirmed for the first time Monday that the FBI is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities during the 2016 election campaign. Comey said the investigation was examining whether “there was any coordination” between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Comey suggested
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The so-called “two-state solution,” to subdivide the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea between independent Israel and independent Palestine, fails the tests of logic and history. And it ignores the Kingdom of Jordan – whose participation is required for any stable, long-term arrangement. There are presently three
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenHayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew by Avner Holtzman; Yale University Press (Jewish Lives series); March 2017; 264 pages; ISBN: 9780300200669. By Rabbi Jack Riemer/JNS.org I have questions about some of the subjects that have been chosen for the Jewish Lives book series from Yale University Press. I wonder what Sarah Bernhardt or Benjamin
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastIran’s supreme leader calls objectifying women a ‘Zionist plot’ (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to Twitter Sunday to share his views on gender issues and asserted that the objectification of women in Western society is the product of “a Zionist plot.” In a series of tweets for Iranian
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