Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made a bold pitch to supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday. “We’re asking Bernie Sanders voters to join our movement so together we can fix the system for all Americans,” Trump said during a speech in New York City. Sanders has not officially dropped out of the […]
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump attempted to relaunch his troubled campaign Wednesday with a scripted speech fusing his anti-trade economic message with a series of attacks on Hillary Clinton that ran the gamut from harsh to unprovable to false. It was in many ways two speeches, with one designed to show a more disciplined politician who
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USAAs millions of people were losing their homes in the depth of the recession, instructors at Trump University were urging students to seek out anxious or desperate sellers to reap a financial windfall, according to recently released documents in the federal class-action lawsuit against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. The now-defunct for-profit real estate
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USADemocrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday to protest the Republican-controlled Congress’ inaction on gun control legislation in the wake of multiple mass shootings, such as the one in Orlando, Florida, this month. However, Americans may have had a hard time following the action on Capitol Hill in
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representatives Peter J. Roskam and Charles W. Boustany Jr., MD, Chairmen of the Ways & Means Subcommittees on Oversight and Tax Policy respectively, introduced legislation to strengthen our tax code and protect our national security. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the “No Dollars for Ayatollahs Act,”
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Middle East, USAThe Hill: (This post will be updated as news unfolds.) Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor to push for action on gun control legislation. More than two dozen Democrats were participating in the sit-in shortly before noon, with some lawmakers seated cross-legged on the floor. Democrats have been pressing for action on
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USABGU prof Michael Feige took part in Bildner programs at Rutgers Dr. Michael Feige and Bildner Center executive director Dr. Yael Zerubavel appeared together at a 2012 panel discussion at Rutgers. Photo by Debra Rubin The executive director of Rutgers University’s Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life remembered Dr. Michael Feige, killed in
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAccusations of anti-Semitism have arisen in the congressional race for New York’s 13th district. Last week Assemblyman Keith Wright shared an article accusing an opponent of not helping his district because the opponent is Jewish. Councilman Mark Levine accused Wright of using anti-Jewish hatred in an effort to appeal to Dominican voters. Levine’s office translated
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USARussian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of underestimating “terrorism” just as it once underestimated Nazism in order to vilify Moscow instead. Putin spoke at the final plenary session of the current lower house of parliament before a summer recess and new elections in September. Putin’s own United Russia party are doing poorly in
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International, USAIn an announcement many saw coming, Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday said he will seek re-election to a second term, just three months after he dropped out of the Republican presidential race and implied he would leave politics when his role ends in January. His team released a statement Wednesday morning, two days before
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USAThe Israeli Air Force welcomed Israel”s first stealth aircraft in history Wednesday evening, with the acquisition of an F-35 Lighting II fighter jet. The aircraft, produced by Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, is the first fifth-generation fighter acquired by Israel. A ceremony on Wednesday held at the Lockheed Martin factory celebrated the completion of
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) –The number of violent anti-Semitic assaults taking place in the United States rose dramatically last year, contributing to a three (3) percent rise in the total number of anti-Jewish incidents reported in 2015, according to new data from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today, recorded
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USAMassachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey has introduced a bill to enhance to create a federal “climate change education program” to make sure American high schoolers are “climate literate” about man-made global warming. Markey wants the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a nationwide education program for school kids “about climate change and its
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The World We Share, USAMore than a dozen former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staff members have decided to hook up with a green group funded and founded by mega-wealthy liberal Tom Steyer. Zack Malitz, who headed-up Sanders’ digital organizing team and is now shifting focus to environmental group NextGen Climate, said he and other former Sanders staffers are bringing
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