The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs revealed its latest data regarding suicide rates among veterans Thursday morning, calling it the “nation’s largest analysis of veteran suicide.” According to the report, 20 veterans a day took their own life in 2014. While this rate is marginally lower than the 22 suicides per day recorded in 2010, […]
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USAWASHINGTON — Ted Cruz still won’t endorse Donald Trump, but the rivals mended fences Thursday sufficiently for Trump to offer the Texas senator a coveted speaking slot at the Republican convention. Cruz met privately with the New York mogul on Capitol Hill. In separate meetings, Trump courted Republican senators and House members, with mixed success.
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USACellphone video shows police officers shooting an unarmed 19-year-old Fresno man lying on the ground at a gas station last month. The video, obtained by the Fresno Bee, shows Dylan Noble lying on the ground on June 25 as two officers with their guns drawn stand feet away from him. As officers yell “Keep your
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USAWASHINGTON — What started as Donald Trump’s unity visit with Republicans on Capitol Hill hit trouble Thursday as he criticized three GOP senators who have refused to support him. In a closed session with Senate Republicans, Trump said it’s “hurtful” that Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, who was not present, doesn’t back him. He warned Arizona
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USAMinnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday forcefully condemned the police officers involved in the shooting of a 32-year-old black man, singling out the shooting as an example of “racism” and an incident that would have played out differently if it didn’t involve black Americans. “Would this have happened if the passengers were white? I don’t
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USARepublican House Speaker Paul Ryan said he’s dissatisfied with the FBI’s decision not to recommend federal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state in the Obama administration. He wants the government to deny Clinton access to briefings on classified materials should she as
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USAKIGALI, Rwanda — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international criticism of his recent decision to build additional housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The US State Department, the UN and the European Union have harshly criticized those plans, which were announced after two Israelis — a 13-year-old girl and a father-of-10 —
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International, Middle East, USAStrains of the Israeli national anthem “Hatikvah” overpowered the sounds of morning rush hour as some 200 protesters demonstrated outside the Supreme Rabbinical Court at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. The protest was organized by former students of New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the former principal of the Ramaz High School and spiritual
As the United States ambassador to Austria in 1986, Ronald Lauder underwent what can only be called a life-changing experience. With the fraying of the Iron Curtain, the billionaire businessman-turned-diplomat was witness to a mass emigration of Russian Jewry to the West. For many Russian emigres, Vienna was meant to be a steppingstone to brighter
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International, USAThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a hot and lazy afternoon in Palm Beach, Fla., the only sign of movement is the water gently lapping at the grounds of Mar-a-Lago, the private club that is the prize of Donald Trump’s real
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USAWASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee is seeking copies of thousands of work-related emails that Hillary Clinton stored on her private computer server but failed to turn over to the State Department despite its repeated requests, according to a public records request obtained by McClatchy. The RNC sent the request to the State Department this
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USAU.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Wednesday defended a controversial image he posted on Twitter mocking his political rival Hillary Clinton. The image featured Clinton against a backdrop of hundred dollar bills and a red six-pointed star, most commonly known as the Jewish Star of David symbol. The text on the star read: “Most corrupt
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USABefore, During, and After the Holocaust—from Africa to Berlin to North Carolina (c) By Edwin Black In recent years, some in the African-American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare. After all, African-Americans are still struggling to achieve general recognition of the barbarity of the
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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Press Release) — Corey Samuels’ journey to tell the story of her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Henry Oertelt recently culminated in an emotional donation of Oertelt’s personal belongings to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Oertelt had been liberated by General Patton’s Third Army during the Flossenburg death march in April 1945. He arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, in
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