The Philadelphia Phillies canceled a ceremony to induct Pete Rose into the team’s Wall of Fame after allegations surfaced this week that the all-time hits leader maintained a sexual relationship in the 1970s with a girl before she turned 16. “Due to recent events, the Phillies and Pete Rose have decided that Pete will not […]
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Sports & Competitions, USAFormer Vice President Al Gore’s 10,070-square-foot estate near Nashville, Tennessee, expended more than 21 times more energy than the average U.S. household over the past year, according to a new report. A report by the National Center for Public Policy Research – self-described as a nonpartisan, independent conservative think tank – said that according to
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state. But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups for vulnerable people around the United States. The travel advisory, circulated in June by the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s not yet clear that the commotions surrounding the Temple Mount and the incident in Amman are behind us. An optimist’s view is that two weeks of demonstrations, nastiness from the pinnacle of the Jordanian government as well as the Palestine National Authority, a few deaths and perhaps a couple
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USADaniel Markind Yesterday Jewish National Fund of America CEO Russell Robinson and CFO Mitchel Rosenzweig agreed to repay personal loans they received from the JNF. These loans turned out to be illegal under New York State Law. This news is intriguing to some, but personal to me. I was one of eight National Executive Board
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Middle East, USAForget the seven deadly sins. In the universe of President Donald Trump, there is but a single deed more grievous than all the others. It’s leaking. Talking out of school — so to speak — is strictly verboten within the Trump inner circle. But it keeps happening. This time, it was a talk by Jared
DALLAS — A federal lawsuit accuses a Dallas-area financial adviser of orchestrating a “fake news” story with Fox News and the Trump White House to distract the public from the Russia investigation. The defamation suit filed Tuesday targets Ed Butowsky, a managing partner at Chapwood Investments LLC in Addison and an outspoken supporter of President
Trump administration key departures U.S. President Donald Trump ousted recently hired White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci on Monday in the latest staff upheaval for the six-month-old administration. Here’s a list of officials who been fired or resigned since Trump was sworn in: Sally Yates Acting Attorney General Sacked January 31, 2017 U.S. President Donald
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USAWASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged Tuesday that President Donald Trump “weighed in as any father would” in helping draft a misleading statement for Donald Trump Jr. last month about his meeting with Russians during the presidential campaign. By the acknowledgment, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed to confirm the gist of a
A transatlantic tussle is underway between two centenarians – to determine who is the world’s oldest skydiver! Officially, the record is held by British D-Day veteran Bryson Hayes, known as Verdun. He made it into the Guinness Book of Records) by taking the plunge in May, at the grand old age of 101 years and
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAATLANTA — Days after police widely criticized President Donald Trump for telling officers to be “rough” with people taken into custody, leaders of a prominent black policing group met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday to air their concerns that the remarks could deepen divisions between police and racial minorities. “We are not thugs.
WASHINGTON — Even as President Donald Trump renews his threat to undermine the Affordable Care Act, senior Republican and Democratic senators announced plans Tuesday to begin work on a new bipartisan effort to stabilize the 2010 health care law, often called Obamacare. The move — by Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen.
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USAPresident Donald Trump can’t be left alone to make decisions regarding matters of national security—at least, that is reportedly the view of his new chief of staff, John Kelly, and of his defense secretary, James Mattis. The two military men, who Trump affectionately refers to as “my generals,” hatched a plan during the initial months
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USAVice President Mike Pence on a visit to Estonia pledged Monday unwavering support of NATO allies and steadfast resistance to Russia aggression, especially in Baltic states that have been feeling intense pressure from Moscow. Mr. Pence said he was in Eastern Europe to deliver a message from President Trump that the “the United States of
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