WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump starkly warned North Korea over its nuclear threats Tuesday in the kind of bellicose rhetoric usually associated with the rulers in Pyongyang, twice declaring, “They will be met with the fire and fury like the world has never seen.” The president’s dramatic threat of annihilation raised fresh fears of a […]
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International, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Award-winning Israeli filmmakers Nir Bergman and David Ofek will serve as visiting lecturers at San Diego State University School this fall. Bergman and Ofek will be team-teaching at San Diego State from August 25 to December 18 through the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program, which is bringing 13 prominent Israeli artists
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO –Twelve teens and their adult leaders who wound up a 10-day adventure Tuesday at the San Diego Zoo were awarded congressional certificates of recognition by U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) for promoting international goodwill. The students were participants in a joint program
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Middle East, The World We Share, USAManila (dpa) – North Korea said Monday that “under no circumstances” would it negotiate its nuclear weapons programme as it accused the United States of pushing the situation to “the extreme.” “We will under no circumstances put the nukes and ballistic rockets on (the) negotiating table,” North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told Asia’s
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International, USAThree men and a woman suspected of studying itinerary of groups staying at Kibbutz Almog and then burglarizing their rooms when they were out By Stuart Winer A group of American birthright tourists visits the dead sea on July 10, 2015. (Matt Hechter/Flash90) Police on Monday said they had arrested a four people suspected of
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Middle East, USASen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) took many by surprise after he used a term that is much more suggestive than he might have realized. On Monday, POLITICO shared a quote from Hatch regarding Republicans’ approach to tax reform in Congress: “We’re not going back to health care. We’re in tax now. As far as I’m concerned,
Reversing lower court decision, judges rule that PM’s discussions with billionaire owner of Israel Hayom daily a matter of public interest By Raoul Wootliff Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson is seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony at Ariel University in the West Bank on June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90) The Supreme Court ruled
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Middle East, USAAl Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” drew a lukewarm response from moviegoers, ranking 15th at the box office in its first weekend of wide release and earning tepid reviews from audiences. The sequel to Mr. Gore’s influential 2006 climate-change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” has earned about $1 million since its limited release July 28, prompting one
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAClothing company tries to reclaim Nazi emblem as a symbol of love, but consumers aren’t buying it By Stuart Winer Screen capture from a promotional video for tee-shirts featuring the swastika as a symbol for peace. (Facebook/KA Design) An attempt to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of goodwill by putting it on a T-shirt
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Travel and Food, USAAlthough Kellyanne Conway rarely says anything that could depict President Donald Trump in a negative light, the White House adviser during a recent appearance on ABC’s This Week did acknowledge that the president’s approval ratings were slipping among Republicans voters. A Quinnipac University poll released last week showed the president’s approval rating at just 33
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USAMIAMI — For the first time since it began extending the detentions of local inmates sought for deportation, Miami-Dade County received word from Washington that it won’t be treated as a community giving “sanctuary” to immigration violators. An Aug. 4 letter to Mayor Carlos Gimenez from the Justice Department said “there was no evidence” Miami-Dade
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International, USAThis wouldn’t be the first time President Trump used the Vietnam War to criticize a political opponent. On Monday morning, Trump tweeted about Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-N.Y.) after Blumenthal appeared on CNN’s “New Day” to speak about various political topics. Trump called Blumenthal a “phony Vietnam con artist” and a liar after the senator spoke
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International, USALOS ANGELES (Press Release) — Former US President Barack Obama was recently interviewed for an upcoming documentary on the life of the late Israeli statesman, Shimon Peres, by Moriah Films, the two-time Academy Award™-winning film division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Barbra Streisand, a close personal friend of Peres, will also be interviewed for
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Donald Trump is beginning a 17-day working vacation at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey. When Barack Obama was president, Donald Trump tweeted at least 27 times in criticism of Obama for playing golf too much when he should be dealing with the country’s problems (for example:
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