The White House condemned the latest wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US Tuesday. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer began the daily White House press briefing by speaking of the anti-Semitic threats. “There has been an additional wave of threats to Jewish community centers and Anti-Defamation League offices. According to some
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USAWASHINGTON — The Justice Department official who would oversee the federal investigation into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election sidestepped calls to appoint a special prosecutor, testifying Tuesday that he didn’t know enough about the probe to make such a pledge. Rod Rosenstein, a top federal prosecutor nominated by President Donald Trump to be deputy
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USAWASHINGTON — Rod Rosenstein, the nominee to be the second-in-command at the Justice Department, testified Tuesday that he was “not aware” of any reason he would be prohibited from overseeing investigations into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign. The 51-year-old federal prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he may have met with Russian
Ambassador under Obama says he, his wife and daughters look forward to experiencing life in the country as a normal family By Andrew Tobin RAANANA – Dan Shapiro can’t seem to leave Israel. Before stepping down as the US ambassador to the country in January, he said he would stay long enough for his daughters
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Middle East, USAHollywood A-lister Richard Gere, who portrayed King David in the eponymously titled 1985 film and is perhaps best remembered for his lead roles in An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and Runaway Bride, is set to land in Israel later on Tuesday. But while the actor”s past visits to the Jewish state received warm
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWinona at an informational meeting about the Enbridge pipelines Sandpiper and Line 3. (Photo: Keri Pickett)[dc]O[/dc]jibwe Nation tribal member Winona LaDuke – Ralph Nader’s vice presidential candidate on the Green Party ticket in 2000 – appeared Feb. 23 at the 4th Native Women in Film Festival, where an anti-pipeline documentary about…
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida fraternity has been temporarily suspended after a member was accused of holding a gun barrel to the head of a blindfolded pledge, school documents released this week show. As pledges lay on the floor blindfolded, an Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity brother leading them “took out a rifle
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAActor Don Cheadle says President Donald Trump used the N-word in talking to a friend’s father during a round of golf. In a series of tweets Saturday, Cheadle, responding to a fan who said he hated Trump, revealed the incident occurred at a Doral pro-am a number of years ago, long before Trump was elected
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After years of limited autonomy under Spain, many Catalans are now asking for their right to self-determination. But Spain is trying to block that move every step of the way, by declaring that the region’s separatist government cannot call a referendum on independence. And just last Friday, a top legal advisory body in Barcelona ruled
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InternationalDonald Trump’s White House has rejected reports that F.B.I Director James Comey disagrees with Trump’s wiretapping claims against Barack Obama. The New York Times reported at the weekend that Comey had instructed the Department of Justice (DoJ) to publicly disavow the president’s unevidenced accusation that his predecessor had ordered intelligence services to spy on him
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USAAn 11-year-old named Asmaa Jaffal sits with her hands stuffed into the pockets of her Rolling Stones sweatshirt. Asmaa is from northeastern Syria. She says she was in the second grade when her world turned upside down. “When the war started,” she explains in Arabic, “ISIS came and they closed all the schools — except
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWill the gray jay ever take its rightful place? Richard Harness The Canadian government has never named a national bird, to the dismay of many citizens. Bird lovers have rallied behind an unexpected choice: the tough, friendly gray jay. Naturalist Jack Miner was a man who appreciated waterfowl. In 1904, he founded a bird sanctuary
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International, The World We ShareWikiLeaks published thousands of purported CIA documents Tuesday that claim to show intimate details of the agency’s cyberespionage effort, including malware that turns iPhones, Android cell phones and Samsung smart TVs into bugs and spy cams. The release comprises 8,761 documents and files from an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber
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International, USADays after announcing intention to run for PM, ex-defense minister says he fears Israel becoming a GOP issue in Trump age By Eric Cortellessa Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon speaks at Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90) WASHINGTON — Days after Moshe Ya’alon announced his intention to form a new political party and
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