In the wake of her mother’s shocking loss in the 2016 presidential election, Chelsea Clinton’s public profile has risen, which has led to suggestions she could mount a political career of her own. Politico reported on Clinton’s increasingly pointed Twitter account Monday while the New York Post ran an editorial over the weekend titled, “God
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USAAt CPAC last week, Sebastian Gorka stood near his allies at the Judicial Watch booth while texting and reading on his phone while a reporter tried to get him to put the allegations of white supremacy in the White House to rest once and for all. It’s really quite chilling. The reporter asks him to
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USAMore than 200 Israelis attended the funeral of a complete stranger — a Holocaust survivor from the Canary Islands who was buried in a Tel Aviv cemetery. Hilde Nathan’s final wish was to be laid to rest in Israel alongside her mother, the United With Israel organization said on its website. Nathan, who did not
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International, Middle EastWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that US President Donald Trump is “deeply disappointed and concerned” by recent anti-Semitic incidents in the US Monday. Spicer made the remarks at the beginning of the daily White House press briefing as part of his prepared statement. “The President remains deeply disappointed and concerned by the
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USAIsrael’s state attorney has ordered the opening of a criminal investigation into an arms deal with a German company involving members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage, the justice ministry said on Monday. In December, Israeli lawyers had planned to petition the Supreme Court to intervene over the awarding of a defence contract to Germany’s
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InternationalA faculty member at California State University, Fullerton has been suspended after striking a College Republicans member during a campus protest earlier this month. The altercation occurred Feb. 8 as pro-Palestine students and counter-protesters marched peacefully through campus. Anthropology part-time lecturer Eric Canin reportedly approached the group of counter-protesters – many of them being CSUF
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA Salvadoran woman at the center of a civil rights lawsuit alleging that sheriff’s deputies in Frederick County, Md., unlawfully profiled, detained and arrested her on a federal immigration warrant in 2008 was granted a reprieve Monday to remain in the country at least through this summer, her attorneys said. Roxana Orellana Santos had a
ATLANTA — Just a month after Dylann Roof shot and killed nine African-American worshippers in a Charleston, S.C., church, Jose Ismael Torres and Kayla Rae Norton gathered with 13 friends to make a statement about the Confederate battle flag. Roof had championed it and said he wanted to start a race war. Over two days
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USABeirut (dpa) – Members of the Syria Civil Defence group, a neutral team of some 3,000 volunteers providing aid to Syria’s rebel-held areas, expressed joy on Monday that a film documenting their work won an Oscar for best short documentary. The 40-minute Netflix film “The White Helmets” tells the stories of the group’s volunteers as
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League’s San Francisco Regional Office was evacuated late this afternoon after a bomb threat was received by a staff person answering calls at the location. The threat was the latest in a series of nearly two-dozen threats fielded by local Jewish institutions across the country earlier on Monday, and the second
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We all have our opinions, our positions, our views, our understanding—whether they are about political, economic, religious, or ethical issues or how to rear children. They spring from the way we were raised, what our parents believed, or the exact opposite of parental admonitions. It is what
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Natasha Josefowitz, USABy Ken Stone Times of San Diego Rep. Darrell Issa on Monday clarified his stance on a review of Russian ties to President Trump, apparently backing off his recent call for a special prosecutor. The American people need a clear-eyed view of the nefarious actions of the Russian government,” Issa said in the wake of
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International, Ken Stone, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – To emphasize the contributions of immigrants and America’s history of welcoming refugees, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) has invited Quinn Dang, the daughter of refugees from Vietnam, to be her guest for President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Fleeing an oppressive regime in Vietnam, Quinn and her
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is often loath to accept responsibility when things go wrong, but in the case of Sunday’s Oscars broadcast, he made an exception. As he explained it Monday, it was Hollywood’s obsession with attacking him that contributed to the botched best picture announcement, calling the embarrassing episode “sad,” of course. Accounting
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