President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu touted their cordial relationship during and after the president”s May trip to the Jewish state – a welcome change from the often frigid relations between Jerusalem and Washington during the eight years of the Obama administration. According to a report by Haaretz this week, however, behind […]
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Middle East, USASEATTLE, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — John Ripin Miller, a political leader from Seattle for over 20 years and a highly acclaimed human rights diplomat, died today in Corte Madera, CA, according to Discovery Institute. He had struggled with cancer for several years. In August, Amazon published The Man Who Could Be King, a well-received
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Obituaries & memorials, USAIran”s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday equated Kurdish independence with the establishment of a “new Israel” in the region. Speaking after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran and quoted by Reuters, Khamenei said the two countries should prevent Iraq”s Kurdistan region from declaring independence. “Turkey and Iran must take
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Middle East, USAThis story will likely be familiar to anyone who has followed the bizarre saga of Andrew Anglin, an obsessively anti-Semitic blogger whose clownish, millennial-targeted Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer has bounced across roughly nine different Internet hosts, in the wake of a post he wrote mocking the death of activist Heather Heyer, the woman who
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USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The concern that Iran will pursue the development of nuclear weapons once the current Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal expires in ten years is legitimate. But addressing these concerns cannot be achieved by nullifying the current agreement, which would only strengthen Iran’s resolve to acquire nuclear weapons. Instead,
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USAThe White House has put together a response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, playing down renewed calls for gun control legislation. CNN on Wednesday morning released the White House’s talking points, which offer administration officials a guide for public comments about the mass shooting that left 59 dead and over 500
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USACoupled with an 0-4 start, the Chargers move to Los Angeles hasn’t gone over well. Despite playing in the smallest venue in the NFL, the Chargers are only filling 25,000 of the possible 27,000 seats. On Tuesday, an NFL spokesman finally spoke to the rumors that the league could force a move back to San
WASHINGTON — In an unusual statement, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson forcefully denied persistent reports Wednesday that he planned to resign over foreign policy differences with President Donald Trump, and instead pledged strong support for the president. “I have never considered leaving this post,” Tillerson told a hastily called news conference at the State Department.
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International, USADALLAS — A Southern Methodist University fraternity accused of forcing new members to wear clothing covered in vomit has been suspended by the school for hazing. The Beta Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Order also paddled its members, the university said in a letter to parents Wednesday that announced the group’s suspension. The Office of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — Trump administration insiders are seeing signs that Russia may be planning to rescue Venezuela by helping Caracas cover $3.5 billion in debt payments over the next two months. Russia is already laying the groundwork, with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro traveling to Moscow this week to meet with Vladimir Putin, whose government is taking
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday proposed legislation that would ban gun bump stocks, which police said were used by a Las Vegas shooter this week to make semi-automatic weapons work more like automatic weapons. “The only reason to modify a gun is to kill as many people as possible in as short a
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USAFormer Marine Taylor Winston, who stole an empty truck with the keys left inside during the Las Vegas shooting and used it to drive victims to the hospital, just got the perfect message from the vehicle’s owner. “Hey Taylor, [I was] told you might have the keys to my truck??” he texted Winston, 29, after
When word began to spread of the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, the city”s Chabad rabbis mobilized to help, support, counsel, and comfort those affected. As of Tuesday, the death toll numbered 59, with more than 500 people wounded in the attack. When Rabbi Levi Harlig of Chabad Las Vegas Blvd. with his
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USAThe UJA-Federation of New York delivered a planeload of humanitarian supplies to the JCC in Puerto Rico and returned a stranded retired New York firefighter in time for his son’s wedding. Firefighters in the city of Yonkers collected the supplies that arrived in Puerto Rico on Sunday morning in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The
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