Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has already promised to block several potential appointments in president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet. Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Paul explained to host John Dickerson why he would still make good on his promise to block John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani should one of them be nominated for Secretary of State. […]
President-elect Donald Trump Monday named Mauricio Claver-Carone, executive director of the most active pro-Cuba embargo group in Washington, to his transition team. Claver-Carone has been one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama’s efforts since December of 2014 to improve relations with Cuba, and his appointment to the Trump team could signal a reversal
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International, USANATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged member states to enlarge the military alliance by ratifying the accession of Montenegro during a summit in Istanbul. Stoltenberg also demanded countries meet their financial commitments after recent warnings from US President-elect Donald Trump, that some allies must pay more. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General said: “Parliaments actually decide
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the early 1950s our record of the month club—started by my late husband, Sam Josefowitz—was expanding into other countries. Concert Hall Society, Handel Society, Opera Society, and Jazztone Society were the first clubs to provide members with a record every month. They were made of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Natasha JosefowitzThe dayslong process of taking down a Confederate monument in Louisville, Kentucky began over the weekend, Reuters reported. The move to disassemble the monument came at a time when cities in the south have increasingly begun to remove symbols related to the Civil War. Most notably, South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its statehouse
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USAHappy anniversary!! Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, are celebrating 69 years of marriage on Nov. 20. The royal couple was married on this day in 1947. AP Photo/file On their wedding day, Queen Elizabeth was only 21 years old and still learning what she needed to
Eight years ago, when Moshe was barely two, his parents Rivka and Gabi Holtzberg were horrifically murdered along with six other people, by a group of terrorists in their Chabad House and home in Mumbai, India. Moshe himself was saved by his Indian nanny, Sandra, who managed to escape the scene holding him in her
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International, Middle EastPresident Reuven Rivlin this evening (Monday) laid a wreath at a memorial ceremony at the Taj Palace Hotel for the victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The President was joined at the ceremony by Chennamanei Vidyasager Rao, Governor of Maharashtra state of India, as well as other senior state officials, leaders and members of
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International, Middle EastCHICAGO — Hundreds of workers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport will strike Tuesday, Nov. 29, after the Thanksgiving holiday rush, as part of a nationwide day of protests the Fight for $15 movement is calling its largest and most disruptive yet. The Fight for $15 asserted Monday that after the election of Donald Trump to
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International, Travel and Food, USAConstantine Stephanopoulous has died in hospital in Athens at the age of 90. The former Greek president was taken into hospital with pneumonia on Thursday. Doctors say his condition deteriorated rapidly. In a statement released on Saturday, Mr Stephanopoulos’ doctors said he was suffering from multiple organ failure and was not responding to treatment. A
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InternationalStudents at Loyola University Maryland were recently pressured to abort plans for an “America”-themed party over concerns they might “oppress” others. An annual “Senior 200s” celebration organized by Loyola’s student government became a cause for concern after Republican Donald Trump’s Election Day victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. “I encourage you to reconsider this plan in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the state attorney general’s office in the hopes of a statewide vote as soon as 2018. Marcus Ruiz Evans, the vice president and co-founder of Yes California, said
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USATrump’s chief strategist skips annual event after prior announcements he would speak; hundreds of demonstrators urge president-elect to fire ex-Breitbart editor By Times of Israel staff Hundreds of mainly Jewish protesters gathered outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on Sunday evening where the Zionist Organization of America was holding its annual gala
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Middle East, USAMembers of France’s opposition conservative Les Républicans party are caught up in a bitter debate over the soul of the party as they pick their presidential nominee for the 2017 poll, but party leader Nicolas Sarkozy is now out of the conversation. Sarkozy, who was France’s president from 2007 to 2012, hoped to storm back
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