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Trump Transition: Questions Swirl Around Mitt Romney

Welcome to Newsweek’s daily rundown of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition process. There are about 4,000 positions to fill, and we’ll be keeping track of appointees through the January 20 inauguration. After a short hiatus for Thanksgiving, Trump’s transition team provided an update on the president-elect’s plans for next week, as inauguration day inches ever closer. […]

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Israel’s secular schools under religious pressure

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The headline in the paper one morning made me shudder. It reported that Israel’s Minister of Education, Naftali Bennet, had proclaimed that it was more important to focus on Jewish studies in schools than on math and science subjects. Admittedly, the party that Bennet represents, Jewish Home, stands for

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Alma Deutscher celebrated composer, musician and writer at the age of 11

Alma Deutscher is a composer, virtuoso pianist and concert violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera, ‘Cinderella’ has its world premiere in Vienna next month. Alma Deutscher, un prodigio de 11 años. Compone desde los 6 y estrena ópera propia en Viena esta Navidad #Flipadhttps://t.co/l6w2XQs2f7 pic.twitter.com/NV9ESZqMbp— Javi y

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Aretha Franklin stole the show with her national anthem performance on Thanksgiving Day

Aretha Franklin really stole the show at the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game. Franklin totally went off book and performed a rather lengthy performance of the National Anthem that made for some pretty hilarious responses from Twitter. RELATED: Soon-to-be first daughter Ivanka Trump gave us a glimpse inside her family’s Thanksgiving Day Yes, Franklin has

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sports & Competitions, USA

Florence Henderson, ‘The Brady Bunch’ mom, dies at 82

LOS ANGELES — Florence Henderson, whose portrayal of Carol Brady on the iconic television show “The Brady Bunch” created an idealized mother figure for an entire generation, died Thursday. She was 82. Henderson died from heart failure about 7:30 p.m. while surrounded by her four children, said her longtime manager and publicist Kayla Pressman. As

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Soon-to-be first daughter Ivanka Trump gave us a glimpse inside her family’s Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving, Ivanka Trump! The business woman and busy mom shared a few special snaps from her adorable family’s Thanksgiving week together. Trump shared a sweet photo of her eldest son, Joseph Kushner during a busy day of volunteering and feeding the homeless. “Thank you Project Ore / UJA for allowing Joseph, Arabella and me

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Trump tells Mayor Garcetti he supports LA’s Olympics bid

LOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump expressed his support for Los Angeles’ 2024 Olympic bid during a phone call with Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday, Garcetti’s office said in a statement. Garcetti spokeswoman Connie Llanos said Trump spoke on the phone with the mayor in their first exchange since the Nov. 8 election. Besides talking

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Angela Merkel to the Rescue

It was vintage Merkel. Neatly organizing her papers before speaking in her soft Berliner accent, the German Chancellor made the announcement everybody had been waiting for, “To stand as a candidate for a fourth time after 11 years in power is anything but a trivial decision, not for the country, for the party, nor for

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Nigeria ‘Killed 150 Pro-Biafra Protesters:’ Amnnesty

Nigerian security forces have killed at least 150 pro-Biafra supporters, some by extrajudicial executions, since August 2015, according to Amnesty International. In a report published on Thursday, the human-rights group said that Nigerian government forces killed at least 60 people on May 29 and 30, when pro-Biafra activists had come together for a memorial gathering

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