Some pilots just aren’t getting the message: They can’t come and go as they please across South Florida’s sky this weekend or any other time the president is in town. Since last month, at least 27 aircraft have violated a temporary restriction on the airspace near Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, federal officials say.
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USADonald Trump could become the first U.S. president in decades who doesn’t have a pet dog – or any pets for that matter – in the White House. Other presidents in the past have had a least one dog, while many had several. The last U.S. president who did not own a dog in office
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The World We Share, USATwelve people, including women and children, are being treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul, where the Islamic State group is fighting off an offensive by US-backed Iraqi forces, an United Nations agency said on Saturday. The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) said all 12 patients had been received since March 1
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Middle EastMESA, Ariz. — John Lackey “didn’t come here for a haircut.” He came here for jewelry, he said. The Cubs right-hander, who spoke those words last season when asked why he joined the team, will receive his ring in early April for the last year’s World Series victory. But he’s still on haircut hiatus. Lackey
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USAIn an apparent bid to deflect attention from the mounting controversy over whether his administration has ties to Russia, the commander-in-chief deployed his favorite weapon in the early hours of Saturday morning: dropping a Twitter bomb on the world that accuses President Obama of a conspiracy on the scale of Watergate. The president, whose administration
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USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson ABU GHOSH, Israel — On a sunny Saturday morning, Israel’s official day of rest (the country has not yet officially adopted the two-day weekend) I got into my car and drove to the nearby Arab village of Abu Ghosh. For the village, which is situated some fifteen kilometers outside Jerusalem, well within
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastA teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in France with a machete a year ago was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday by a French juvenile court, Reuters reported, citing judicial sources. The 17-year-old was convicted at a closed-doors trial for slightly wounding the teacher, who was wearing a kippah while walking to
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International, Middle EastSaddam Hussein Saddam saved from abortion – by Jews! March 4, 2003: They couldn’t have known it in 1937 when they generously took the pregnant woman into their home and talked her out of having an abortion, but an Iraqi Jewish family that now lives in Israel saved the life of the man who would
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Middle EastThe man behind the bomb threats to various Jewish community centers made repeated statements about hating President Donald Trump. The FBI arrested Juan Thompson for making about eight bomb threats to various Jewish community centers, schools and organizations in the country. Thompson, a former journalist at The Intercept and potential communist, has a Twitter page
Two University of Missouri students were arrested for alleged anti-Semitic intimidation of a Jewish student. Campus police arrested Erich Eastman 18, and Noah Rogers, 19, both of Columbia, Missouri, earlier this week. They were released after each posting $1,500 bail. According to the alleged victim, Eastman and Rogers have been harassing him for six months,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALeaders of the American Jewish community on Friday morning met with FBI Director James Comey and the senior leadership team of the FBI to discuss the range of threats that have been directed against Jewish institutions in the past two months. The leaders said in a statement that the conversation “encompassed the current situation and
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USAThe history of music is rich with sounds spurred by suffering. During the Holocaust, songs of defiance and belief helped captive Jews confront and temporarily alleviate their misery. Now, a long-lost recording from 1946 is providing a poignant new soundtrack for understanding life in the Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos. Just after World War
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAIt’s a party at this large banquet hall in Columbus, Ohio, with at least a thousand people packed in. Women wear dresses and headscarves in light blue and white, the colors of the Somali flag, and everyone is dancing to a hit song honoring Somalia’s new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. For many Somali Americans in
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International, USACarter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump’s campaign, says he doesn’t deny speaking with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year, after saying last month he had “no meetings” with any Russian officials. “I’m not going to deny that I talked with him,” Mr. Page said on MSNBC Thursday evening. “I will say