North Korea’s foreign minister on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war against his country and said Pyongyang was ready to defend itself by shooting down US bombers. The latest threats stoked a week-long war of words that began when the American leader threatened in his address to the United Nations General Assembly […]
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International, USAValerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA agent and author, announced that she was resigning as board member of a prominent American foundation, after she came under fire for tweeting a link last week to an article that argued that American Jews were a driving force behind US wars. Wilson had initially defended the piece, urging
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Middle East, USAThe FBI has been called in to investigate threats against minority students at California State University, Long Beach, including Latino and Jewish students. Campus President Jane Close Conoley on Wednesday in an email sent to students and university employees confirmed the threats and the investigation. The threats were made over the internet and by flyers
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “Son of a motherless goat!” You would not hear this in the U.S., but you might hear these as swear words in the Middle East. The word “cretin” is a slur in France, but not common in the U.S. However, calling someone an “idiot” has the
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — He seemed to be getting better. But now we’re seeing the same old Donald, dueling with a man who may even be crazier. The good signs were that he might be able to deal with Democrats in Congress. And his speech to the UN was professional in the sense that
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAA former White House ethics chief says that Donald Trump would likely be impeached if it is proven he sought to obstruct justice by firing ex-FBI Director James Comey in hopes of ending his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Richard Painter, who worked for President George W. Bush, told MSNBC on Wednesday
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USASenior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has traveled to Washington and is waiting for a lung transplant after his health deteriorated in recent months. In an interview broadcast Thursday on Palestinian national television, Erekat, who is secretary general of the PLO Executive Committee, gave what was seen as a farewell message to the Palestinian public. Get
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANew England Patriots fans berated their team by booing them as players kneeled in protest during the national anthem. Before the Patriots took on the Houston Texans in Foxborough, Mass. Sunday, more than a half-dozen players took a knee during the national anthem performance, — the first time a Patriots player had done so. A
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has reportedly been using a private email account to conduct official White House business. The president’s adviser, who is married to his daughter Ivanka Trump, uses both his official and private email accounts in his White House role, something Politico reported was part of the systemic use of private email
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USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a new ban Sunday on most travel to the U.S. by nationals of seven countries, including North Korea and six in the Mideast and North Africa. The new order replaces the much-disputed travel ban that President Donald Trump issued in March, parts of which were blocked in court. That
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International, USAThe CEO of an Israeli binary options company accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was doubtless surprised to find herself surrounded by FBI agents shortly after arriving in the United States last week. Binary options is a vast, largely fraudulent Israel-based industry that Israeli law enforcement has failed to tackle for the
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Middle East, USAOn a day when the Pittsburgh Steelers announced that they, as a team, would stay in the locker room for the national anthem, the Pittsburgh Penguins have announced that, unlike other championship teams, they will indeed accept the president’s invite to the White House. RELATED: NFL coach on Trump: “there’s no longer a place to
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Sports & Competitions, USADeputy Education Minister Meir Porush (UTJ) was involved in an unpleasant situation in Monsey when members of the Satmar hassidic sect burst into the Synagogue during prayers and hurled insults. Porush had spent the Rosh Hashanah holiday in New York’s Vitznitz-Monsey community. On Shabbat, he was in the middle of Shabbat prayers when a band
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Middle East, USARick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents Reform congregations in North America, penned an open letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday, demanding he recognize the Reform Movement”s “rights” to a non-traditional prayer space at the Western Wall and official recognition by the State of Israel. The Reform Movement, represented in
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