Now that President Donald Trump has had his fun with the Boy Scouts, it’s up to their parents to clean up his mess. Many critics of the president’s campaign-rally-disguised-as-a-jamboree address called on the Boy Scouts to denounce the rhetoric. (Trump encouraged booing of former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lamented […]
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USAPresident Donald Trump brought his bombastic politics to a Boy Scouts event Monday in West Virginia, drawing cheers from the children gathered at the event and prompting comparisons between his rousing rhetoric and Nazi youth rallies from some liberal activists and journalists. The president, the first sitting U.S. commander-in-chief to address the group since George
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USAThe Muslim committee administering a sensitive Jerusalem holy site announced Tuesday that a boycott of the shrine would continue despite Israel’s removal of controversial new security measures. “No entry into Al-Aqsa mosque until after an assessment by a Waqf technical committee and the return of the situation to how it was before the 14th of
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – Jordan reached a deal with Israel to question an Israeli security guard who had shot and killed an alleged attacker in Amman before he was allowed to leave the country, Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi said on Tuesday. The security guard at the Israeli embassy in Amman, who enjoyed diplomatic
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Middle EastA large Byzantine-era wine press uncovered in the Negev region is only the second of its kind to be found By Amanda Borschel-Dan Digging in the ancient 1,600-year-old wine press in Ramat Negev, summer 2017. (Tali Gini, Israel Antiquities Authority) While Israel is famous for greening the desert, a recent find of a 1,600-year-old wine
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Jewish History, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions confronted increasing questions about his future as he faced fresh public slaps from his boss, President Donald Trump, and new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump, was a strong influence during the campaign. A longtime advocate
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USAThe beloved cat who came to represent the spirit of an Alaskan town has died at the venerable age of 20 years. The sad announcement came from Stubbs the cat’s adopted home of Nagley’s General Store in Talkeetna, owned by the Spone family, who asked for privacy in their time of mourning. “Stubbs lived for
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The World We Share, USAORLANDO, Fla. — Kyara, a 3-month-old killer whale born at SeaWorld San Antonio, died at the Texas theme park on Monday. The calf, born to 26-year-old Takara in April, was the final orca to be born in captivity at a SeaWorld park. Orlando-based SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment decided to stop breeding orcas amid animal rights
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The World We Share, USALGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria
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Middle East, USAMINNEAPOLIS — Joe Morino brought an incredulous friend to see the orange street sign he just spotted in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. The official-looking metal sign read: “WARNING: TWIN CITIES POLICE EASILY STARTLED.” It featured a graphic silhouette of a police officer, a gun in each raised hand, shooting in both directions. “There’s a
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced increasing questions about his future on Monday, a day that began with a fresh public slap from his boss, President Donald Trump, and continued with new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump and a strong
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USAAn Israeli guard shot and killed two Jordanians late Sunday at an Israeli embassy compound in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after one of them lunged at him with a screwdriver, Israeli officials said Monday. The victims included a Jordanian carpenter and the owner of the building used by Israeli embassy staff who was hit by
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Middle EastThousands of protesters gathered at the Philippines House of Representatives as President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his second annual state of the nation address. In a two-hour speech Duterte promised an unrelenting war on drugs, defending a crackdown that has killed thousands of Filipinos. Duterte said critics were wrongly blaming police for most of the deaths
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InternationalWASHINGTON — “I did not collude” and “had no improper contacts” with Russia or any other foreign government, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, declared in a statement ahead of meetings with congressional investigators. Kushner’s representatives released the 11-page statement early Monday morning. He is scheduled to meet Monday with staff and members
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