Vice President Mike Pence on a visit to Estonia pledged Monday unwavering support of NATO allies and steadfast resistance to Russia aggression, especially in Baltic states that have been feeling intense pressure from Moscow. Mr. Pence said he was in Eastern Europe to deliver a message from President Trump that the “the United States of […]
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International, USAMEXICO CITY — A journalist celebrating his 29th birthday was shot dead early Monday at a bar in the Mexican resort city of Rosarito. Luciano Rivera Salgado, who covered crime for a Baja California television channel and published a news website called El Dictamen, is at least the eighth journalist to be killed this year
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InternationalCommittee rebukes lawmakers who alleged support for an Israel boycott at Ben-Gurion U, but rejects claim they were paid to hold the meeting By Marissa Newman Ben-Gurion University president Rivka Carmi. (Dani Machlis/Ben-Gurion University) The Knesset’s Ethics Committee last week reprimanded two lawmakers for convening a hearing in which they accused Ben-Gurion University of the
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationAuthor David Dalin’s new book explores the inner lives of trailblazing Members of the Tribe who helped mold the nation’s highest court By Rich Tenorio Eight out of 113 justices to have wielded the gavel in the United States’ highest court can also lay claim to membership in another club — the Tribe — and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA“It was devastating.” That was the reaction from one US Army Captain to President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from military service. Just months ago, Jennifer Sims e-mailed over 200 fellow troops who knew her as Captain Jonathan Sims, to tell them her transgender secret. Now though she is left facing an uncertain
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USAIt’s a rare thing for a militant group often described as shadowy and secretive to bring dozens of foreign journalists to their mountain bases. But Hezbollah did just that on Saturday, eager to show off recent victories against jihadists on Lebanon’s frontier with Syria. The Lebanese Shiite movement, militant group and political party led a
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Middle East, USARussian President Vladimir Putin is defending his massive cut in the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia, saying it had waited long enough for relations with Washington to improve. Putin said he had hoped “the situation would perhaps change for the better. But it seems that even if the situation is changing, it
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International, USACourt says Meir Zehnwirth inappropriately touched at least 2 girls he taught at the talmud Torah school in Tiberias By Times of Israel staff Meir Zehnwirth was charged with indecent assault on minors while he taught at the Talmud Torah elementary school in Tiberias on July 31, 2017. (Israel Police) An elementary school teacher at
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationJeanne Moreau, the quintessential French actress whose mother was an English cabaret club dancer, has died at 89. Moreau, a petite chain-smoker who worked with most of the world’s top directors of the first few decades after World War II, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders among them. In one profile story, Britain’s Guardian
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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will hold telephone discussions over ways to deal with North Korea’s provocations, an official from Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Monday. “(President Moon) and President Trump are soon expected to hold telephone talks. The sides are now working to arrange the conversation,”
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International, USAThe Trump administration on Monday froze assets, banned travel and prohibited Americans from dealing with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, calling him a dictator and accusing him of undermining democracy after he carried out an election Sunday for an all-powerful new legislative assembly in defiance of warnings from the international community. As part of what are
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International, USAPete Rose, whom the Phillies will induct into their Wall of Fame in less than two weeks, initiated and maintained a sexual relationship in the 1970s with a girl who at the time was not yet 16 years old, the woman said in a sworn statement filed in federal court Monday. The testimony was included
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON — A powerful Senate committee has given the Justice Department until Thursday to disclose whether it’s investigating reported Ukrainian efforts in the 2016 election on behalf of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. If Justice says it’s not investigating the allegations, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman wants to know why they’re not. “Are you investigating the
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International, USAIn first, human rights organization publicly criticizes terror group, and campaigns for release of Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed By Times of Israel staff The parents of Avraham Abera Mengistu protest outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem, September 11, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel) In an unusual move, Amnesty International called on activists Monday
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