USA

Pokemon Go: Craze sweeps nation, poised to surpass Twitter

Days after its release, Pokemon Go has become a fast-moving phenomenon, drawing flash mob-type crowds searching neighborhoods, parks and urban streets for imaginary characters on their smartphones. The game, which trades on the nostalgia of the popular 1990s franchise and the thrill of exploring an augmented reality, is poised to surpass Twitter in daily active […]

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International, USA

Christian scholars undertake 13- month Judaism study

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Shalom Hartman Institute are pleased to welcome the 23 prominent North American Christian leaders that will comprise Cohort V of the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI), an intensive 13-month educational program on Judaism, a partnership of AJC and the Hartman Institute in Israel. The program begins

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

San Diego mayor shows GOP an inclusive way

By Chris Jennewein SAN DIEGO –The party that ended slavery and won the Civil War a century and a half ago is having a difficult year nationally. As presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump attacks Mexican immigrants, re-tweets white supremist memes and slams the business community, the traditional Republican coalition is reeling. In San Diego, Kevin

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Chris Jennewein, International, San Diego County, USA

What is rationale for U.S. troops now abroad?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration has announced that it will not cut the U.S. troop deployment in Afghanistan to 5,000 as planned, but will leave 8,400 soldiers to support the Afghan government in its fight against the Taliban.  President Obama said, “Compared to the 100,000 troops we once had there, today, fewer

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

She wasn’t a cop, she wasn’t white, but she took bullet in Dallas while shielding her son

DALLAS — When the shooting started at the Black Lives Matter protest here last week, Shetamia Taylor shouted at her four sons to run. “They started running up the block and I was running behind them and I felt the bullet,” she said Sunday. Taylor, 38, had been shot from behind, in her right calf.

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USA

Dallas protesters, counterprotesters come together with police

DALLAS — “Lives matter.” That was the message Sunday afternoon after two groups of protesters with two agendas came together at a northeast Dallas intersection. A rally began about noon outside NorthPark Center with a group dressed in black holding signs that read “#BlackLivesMatter” as Dallas police and SWAT looked on. Britny Morrison, 27, who

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USA

Donald Trump likely to choose Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as vice presidential pick

CLEVELAND | Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, little known nationally but highly admired in conservative circles, has a “95 percent probability” of being Donald Trump’s choice for vice president, The Washington Times has learned. The sources for that assessment are Republicans close to the campaign and to the governor. A tipoff came a few days ago

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USA

Neither Trump nor Clinton deserving of the White House

By Ira Sharkansksy JERUSALEM — Pity our American friends. And–given the importance of the US–pity the rest of us. Friends and family have to choose between Hillary and Donald, both of whom should be in retirement homes, neither close to anything important. If someone less well connected had fiddled with the email in the manner

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Sanders faces growing pressure to get behind Clinton’s candidacy

ORLANDO, Fla. — When Bernie Sanders appeared last week before an audience of 100 or so Democratic House members, the closed-door reception in a basement hearing room on Capitol Hill was distinctly cool. Lawmakers shouted, “Timeline! Timeline!” — pressing him to hurry up and endorse the party’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton — and

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USA

US reporter killed in Syria deliberately targeted by regime

(AFP) The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad targeted and killed US reporter Marie Colvin in February 2012 to stop her from covering government atrocities, according to a lawsuit filed in US court on Saturday. The Syrian military intercepted Colvin’s communications and unleashed a barrage of rocket fire on her in the besieged city of Homs,

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Middle East, USA