After his own crude comments nearly KO’ed his campaign, Donald Trump’s aggressive counter-attack reassured supporters he’ll press the fight until Election Day in hopes that will keep more top Republicans from abandoning his candidacy. But House Speaker Paul Ryan told fellow Republicans on Monday that he’ll concentrate on House elections rather than defending Trump. And […]
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USARussian President Vladimir Putin has cancelled a planned trip to Paris next week, after his French counterpart said he would see him only for talks on Syria. Francois Hollande had himself expressed reservations about a meeting amid growing French anger at the Russian-backed Syrian government onslaught against rebel-held areas of the city of Aleppo. Hollande
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Enraged by Republican politicians who have abandoned him, Donald Trump lashed out against his own party Tuesday, airing grievances against conservatives who won’t support him in an embrace of intraparty warfare by a presidential nominee. It was a remarkable turn, just four weeks from the election. Trump signaled throughout the day that pursuing
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USALast month, French police thwarted an attempted terrorist attack at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral. Luckily, the cell of radicalized French women who were taking orders from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) commanders in Syria did not get away with it, but it seems that more often than not, they do. How is
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InternationalIf you stuck through Sunday night’s presidential debate until the bitter end, you may recall an exchange between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump about steel. “We have to bring back our workers,” said Trump. “You take a look at what’s happening to steel and the cost of steel, and China dumping vast amounts of steel
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USABy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — It’s been almost two weeks since the fatal shooting of a mentally unstable black man in El Cajon. This shooting in particular bothered me because I always felt that we were different in San Diego County. I worked for the San Diego City Council when the SDPD instituted the
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San Diego County, USAAs a child, I was brought up in a family-oriented Jewish neighborhood in New York. As such, I was always a friend of the Jews, and a fan of their cultural practices. Despite the fact that I went to public schools, the great majority of my teachers were Jewish in both Elementary and Junior High.
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USAWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he wants private companies to help send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Obama first said in 2010 he wanted to send astronauts “to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth” by the mid-2030s with “a landing on Mars” to follow. In that speech at the
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USAConservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday blamed Republicans such as Paul Ryan and Kelly Ayotte for “blowing up the Republican Party” by criticizing nominee Donald Trump to the press. “What they’ve been saying is Donald Trump is blowing up the Republican Party. And I say that is a false narrative,” Ms. Ingraham
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USATRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is still supporting Donald Trump for president even though he was “disturbed,” “disappointed” and “embarrassed” by a video released last week revealing the Republican nominee, then a reality television star, bragging about groping women. “Let’s be really clear. It is completely indefensible and I won’t defend it
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USATel Aviv (dpa) – Crossings from Israel into Palestinian territories in the Gaza Strip and West Bank will be closed starting Monday night due to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, according to an Israeli army statement. The crossings will reopen Wednesday night, with Palestinians allowed to use the crossings only under special circumstances or
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Middle EastATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The storied but hobbled Trump Taj Mahal shut its doors early Monday after 26 years of operation in this resort city, as striking casino workers chanted and massed one last time on the 102nd day of their strike and vowed, “We’ll be back.” The strikers held a moment of silence at
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USAArnold Schwarzenegger announced that he wouldn’t cast a vote for Donald Trump in the presidential election, making it the first time ever that he hasn’t backed the Republican nominee. “For the first time since I became a citizen in 1983, I will not vote for the Republican candidate for President,” the former California governor said
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USASTOCKHOLM — American-Jewish economist Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work on contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. Born to a prominent British-Jewish family in 1948, Hart is an economics professor at Harvard University in the United States,
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