WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top uniformed officer said Tuesday that he believes gender identity is not a credible reason to discharge transgender service members from the military, an opinion that puts him odds with President Donald Trump. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services […]
Homeland Security said it began construction Tuesday on the prototypes for President Trump’s new border wall. In a short notice, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the building began in San Diego on eight prototypes, which had been awarded over the summer. Four of the prototypes are concrete walls, and four are non-concrete designs. “We
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International, USAIt was a Tuesday morning in September, and a small crowd had gathered around the grand piano on Jaffa Road, listening to a medley of jazz improvisations performed by a guy who had plunked his battered fedora hat on top of the piano. His audience included an Arab street cleaner standing under a nearby tree,
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsAmid a national controversy about athletes who “take a knee” in silent protest at sporting events, a Democratic lawmaker from Texas says he’s making good on his promise to put into motion articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a Republican. “I rise today as a proud American, a person who believes in his country,
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USASaudi Arabia will allow women to drive from next June, state media said Tuesday, in a historic decision that makes the Gulf kingdom the last country in the world to permit women behind the wheel. The shock announcement comes after a years-long resistance from women’s rights activists, some of whom were jailed for defying the
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release) — In just the first few weeks of the new academic year, a pattern has emerged indicating a new malicious strategy by anti-Israel activists to paint Zionism, the liberation movement of the historically oppressed Jewish people, as being the equivalent of “White Supremacism” and “Fascism.” Specifically, this campaign has been seen
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy David Anderson NEW YORK — “Thank You NY” the United Nations building administration spelled out in lit-up windows of their beautiful 39 story headquarters years ago after their annual meeting of global big shots here. It is happening now again with the annual General Assembly in town. Every year it’s a strange time. The
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International, USASen. Susan M. Collins said Monday that she will vote against the latest Obamacare repeal effort, dealing what appears to be a fatal blow to Republican leaders’ last-ditch attempt to rewrite the bill and sway holdouts. Ms. Collins, who also helped sink repeal efforts in July, joined Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and John
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USADisgraced congressman Anthony Weiner bawled in court Monday as he received a 21-month prison sentence for sexting a 15-year-old girl — an online relationship that contributed to the demise of his marriage and his hopes for a political comeback. Weiner, a former New York representative who was forced to resign in an earlier sexting scandal,
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USAWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has postponed a decision on the legality of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, announcing Monday it will not hear arguments on the issue Oct. 10 as planned. The justices were set to hear an appeal from Trump’s lawyers who had urged the high court to reject a series of rulings
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USAMIAMI — Voicemails left on Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s cellphone by employees of the Hollywood, Fla., nursing home where 11 died in the post-Hurricane Irma heat have been deleted, according to the governor’s office. Scott gave out his number to nursing homes and assisted living facilities ahead of the hurricane so administrators could report concerns,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANorth Korea’s foreign minister on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war against his country and said Pyongyang was ready to defend itself by shooting down US bombers. The latest threats stoked a week-long war of words that began when the American leader threatened in his address to the United Nations General Assembly
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International, USASeveral hundred protesters gathered in Tel Aviv on Monday to call for government recognition of the alleged mass kidnappings in the so-called missing Yemenite children affair nearly 70 years ago, in a demonstration attended by several Knesset members. Demonstrators blocked traffic on Kaplan Street in the city, brandishing signs with photos and names of missing
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Middle EastPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly instructed ministers in his government to avoid speaking out about the Kurdish independence referendum that took place Monday in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. The Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry would not confirm or comment on the purported gag order, but top officials, speaking anonymously, acknowledged
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