WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, will not attend the annual Kennedy Center honors — a traditional showcase of the nation’s arts — over concerns of a political distraction, the White House said Saturday. The announcement came the day after the entire 17-member White House arts council quit Friday in protest over […]
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USAFinnish police arrested five people in a Turku apartment overnight in their investigation into a stabbing rampage that left two people dead, they said Saturday. Police shot and wounded a knife-wielding suspect on Friday, arresting him minutes after an afternoon stabbing spree at a Turku market square. Police on Saturday raised the number of injured
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InternationalHe was credited with bringing Benjamin Netanyahu to power for the first time in 1996 and a series of successful campaigns in the US and Israel By Times of Israel staff Arthur Finkelstein and Benjamin Netanyahu in March 10, 1999. (Flash 90) Arthur Finklestein, a conservative campaign strategist widely credited with bringing Prime Minister Benjamin
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USAJason Kessler, the alt-right activist and organizer of last weekend’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, tweeted that the woman who died protesting his event “was a fat, disgusting Communist” and called her death “payback time” – then walked back the remark and blamed it on drugs and alcohol. “Heather Heyer was a
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USAAfter all the criticism Donald Trump received last week when he failed to quickly condemn violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, he was quick to tweet Saturday about Boston. The Massachusetts capital had been bracing for a Charlottesville-like clash between supporters of a so-called Free Speech Rally and counter-protesters, but the rally ended early as activists
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USACARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress on Saturday rejected a government bid to usurp many of its powers, vowing to continue its legislative agenda and denouncing the move against it as a power grab by President Nicolas Maduro. “This is a parliament in resistance against an armed military dictatorship,” declared congressional Vice President Freddy Guevara.
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InternationalThe Lebanese army says its destroyed 11 Islamic State positions along the border with Syria. On Saturday, the U.S.-backed army launched its biggest military operation yet against ISIS, since the group gained a foothold along the country’s border with Syria in 2014. During a news conference, Nazih Jreij, a spokesman for the Lebanese army, said
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Middle EastHans Wolfermann is remembered for his tenacity in the face of dictatorial regimes from Nazi Europe to South America By Steve North Hans Wolfermann was nearly 96 when he passed away last month, lucid until the end, with his loving wife of 70 years at his side. It was, perhaps, a typical death in a
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International, Jewish History, USAThis school teacher used to be a high-powered lawyer with a six figure salary – but he gave it all up so he could help young people in his home neighborhood, one of the poorest areas in England. Before Mouhssin Ismail started teaching at the Newham Collegiate Sixth Form school in East London, he worked
Everett Miller has been arrested and charged with murdering Officer Matthew Baxter and Sgt. Sam Howard in Florida. The 45-year-old, who left the Marines for mental health reasons, came in contact with police around 9:30 p.m and shot at officers, killing Baxter and Howard. Watch the video Kissimmee Police Chief Jeff O’Dell said that there
A controversial Free Speech Rally in Boston fell apart Saturday afternoon when thousands of counter-protesters showed up and drowned it out. Journalists at the Boston Common, a downtown park, tweeted about an hour into the planned rally that many, if not all, of the attendees left the bandstand where they were due to hear speeches
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USAIn the waning days of Richard Nixon’s administration, when he had sunken into depression and heavy drinking, his secretary of defense told Pentagon officials to check with him before executing any nuclear launch order from the distraught president. Four decades later, the story suggesting a check on nuclear strikes may seem like comfort for those
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International, USAFormer vice president and climate change warrior Al Gore has a single word for President Donald Trump in the wake of his bungled attempt to unite Americans after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned violent last weekend. When asked by Britain’s Lad Bible to give Trump one piece of advice Thursday, Gore said: “resign.”
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USALeaders of the far-right movement raged against Steve Bannon’s ouster from the White House, warning that the West Wing is now dominated by fake conservatives led by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. “It’s a full on coup now, guys,” well-known far-right activist Mike Cernovich said Friday in a live video
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