Chatting over fajitas at a reunion of former staffers, former U.S. President George W. Bush confessed at a secret meeting of top Republicans that he would be the last GOP president in history, according to a Politico Magazine report Tuesday. The comments were reportedly made to an inner circle of advisors and aides at the […]
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USACulture Minister Miri Regev attacked on Tuesday an announcement by Army Radio that the publicly funded station would be dedicating a program to the nationalist Arab poet, Mahmoud Darwish. “It cannot be that the public is funding a broadcasting station that harms the [public”s own] sensitivities and gives a podium to a Palestinian narrative which
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Middle EastThis article originally appeared in Democratic Audit U.K. Read the original article. Dear Jeremy, I am a long-standing constituent of yours and know your work and talents from close quarters. I was on the Islington Fairness Commission (2010), was a founding member of the Holloway Tenant Cooperative (1972), and helped set up the Martin Luther
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InternationalThe National Rifle Association endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election to his congressional seat Tuesday, saying the “lifelong outdoorsman and avid hunter” can be trusted to stave off gun-control measures favored by President Obama and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, earned an A-plus from the association for his voting record
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USACLEVELAND — You see him here. You see him there. You just don’t see Ohio Gov. John Kasich inside the GOP convention hall. The Republican governor and former primary opponent of Donald Trump has famously taken a pass on appearing at his home state’s convention, drawing criticism from Trump’s campaign chairman. But that doesn’t mean
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USAA terrorist from the Islamic Jihad group was killed and another two were injured on Monday night, when a tunnel collapsed in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The collapse marks the second such incident in a week. Another tunnel collapse last Sunday also killed a member of the terror group Islamic Jihad’s
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Middle EastApproximately 30,000 Palestinian children and teenagers have signed up to attend Hamas’ 25 summer camps in the Gaza Strip. The camps run by Izzadin al-Kassam, Hamas’ military wing, include military training with live fire, combat tactics, and religious indoctrination. In an announcement marking the opening of summer camp the al-Kassam brigades declared: “The responsibility to
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Middle EastCLEVELAND – Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the prominent Republicans who stayed home from the party’s convention, said he’s still watching at home in Arizona and said Tuesday that strident speeches and barbs against Hillary Clinton are hurting the GOP. Mr. Flake, in an interview with KFYI radio, said delegates at the convention who chanted
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USACLEVELAND — Retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said Tuesday that being transgender “doesn’t make any sense” and equated gender identity with ethnicity. “For someone to wake up and think that they belong to a different sex because they feel different that day is the same as if you woke
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USAAll 84 people killed in the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice have now been identified. Around 30 of them were Muslim including Franco-Tunisian Olfa Khalfallah and her four-year old son Kylan. Before their burial in Tunisia, they and a third victim were mourned at a mosque in Nice. Among those present at Tuesday’s memorial
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InternationalThe Republican National Convention has released the prepared texts of Monday’s speakers on the first day of the convention. The speech of Melania Trump was not included in the release.
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USANevermind that “We are the Champions” is an anthem from a late 20th century band whose lead singer, Freddie Mercury, died of AIDS and who was as flamboyant as the songs he produced. Even at a Republican National Convention that found it necessary to add a platform plank on the use of birth-gender restrooms, the
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USACLEVELAND – Ivanka Trump is vouching for her father and his character as she gets set to address the Republican National Convention later this week, saying in an interview for ABC’s “Good Morning America” that people should appreciate Donald Trump’s empathy and warmth. “I don’t know that people appreciate his tremendous empathy and his warmth,
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USATwo Jewish minors have been indicted for lighting Arab cars on fire in the village of Kfar Yafiya in retaliation for an attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona market last month that left 4 Jews dead and 16 wounded. Another minor has been indicted for failure to prevent the fires. The security threat which the three
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