President Barack Obama’s message to black voters is simple: Stay at home on Election Day and it equates to a vote for Donald Trump. In an interview on the “Steve Harvey Morning Show” that aired Wednesday, Obama warned against complacency. “If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump,” said Obama, who has become Hillary […]
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USAShimon Peres, one of Israel’s most eminent politicians and the last of the state’s founding generation to wield power, died early Wednesday in Tel Aviv two weeks after suffering a stroke. He was 93. When he ended his presidency in 2014, Peres was the world’s oldest head of state, and the only person to have
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Middle EastCamilla Hansson, who competed as Miss Sweden in the 2014 Miss Universe pageant, defended Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Wednesday over allegations he called former Miss Universe Alicia Machado a “fat pig” when she gained weight. Ms. Hansson said staying healthy was “part of the contract” when you are Miss Universe. However, she did not
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday at the age of 93, was once featured in a film entitled So Now What? What was this video about? A. The video was made in 1995 following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In the film, Peres calls for unity
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Middle EastIn some ways, it was a typical Hillary Clinton campaign event. She was in a swing state, North Carolina; she was at a venue that underscores her message about investing in education, Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh; and there were the familiar campaign slogans like “Stronger Together” and her standard closing line, “Love Trumps
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USALOS ANGELES — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his plans for colonizing Mars, which could eventually involve a fleet of up to 1,000 spaceships to transport as many as 1 million people to the Red Planet. Musk envisions continuous launches from Earth, with massive rockets returning for reuse and spacecraft refueling in
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAMIAMI — If Donald Trump got the sort of reception from all Hispanics as he did Tuesday in Miami, he might have the election in the bag. Trump’s brief visit to Little Havana, billed as a town hall-style meeting with Latinos, turned into a love fest in which no one asked a single question. Instead,
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USAFormer Israeli President Shimon Peres, an omnipresent figure of the Israeli state, chief architect of its nuclear weapons program and a driving force behind its interim peace accords with the Palestinians, died Wednesday. He was 93. The Nobel peace laureate had been hospitalized in the city of Ramat Gan over the past two weeks after
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Middle EastCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kae Roberts and Jay Eardly were leaning toward Hillary Clinton before Monday night’s debate. By the end, they had both pulled away. John Kokos and Hank Federal were undecided going in, potential Clinton backers. By the end, they’d ruled her out. Indeed, while polls found that Clinton had won the first general
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USABy Jamal Kanj Let me start off with a confession: I didn’t get it right when I speculated the Republican Party would not nominate Donald Trump for US president. I argued in an earlier column that if they did, the narcissistic Trump would most likely run as an independent candidate. I had posited, or hoped
By Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York The following are just a few examples of how some countries became friends of Israel and the Jewish people. Let’s Start with the Catholic Church and Vatican City State After initiating inquisitions, crusades, blood libels, and brain-washing of the masses against the Jews, at the present time we
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Jewish HistoryPop quiz: Without Googling, what is Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan? Odds are you haven’t a clue. And that is why heading into Monday’s presidential debate Clinton found herself in a dead heat with the worst candidate in the history of the republic, Donald Trump. By consensus, the current U.S. election cycle marks the triumph of
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USAOne of the longest-running debates between Donald Trump and fact-checkers in the race is this: Did he support the war in Iraq? In Monday’s debate, he held firm. “I did not support the war in Iraq,” he said after Hillary Clinton raised the issue. Moderator Lester Holt weighed in, saying the record showed otherwise. In
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Middle East, USAFrom the Miami Herald Editorial Board: ——— Hillary Clinton confirmed that she’s a bit imperious. Donald Trump confirmed that the emperor has no clothes. Clinton made clear that she knows her stuff. Trump made clear that even when he’s touching on the truth, he’s unfit to occupy the White House. The task was simple, really.
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