Author David Dalin’s new book explores the inner lives of trailblazing Members of the Tribe who helped mold the nation’s highest court By Rich Tenorio Eight out of 113 justices to have wielded the gavel in the United States’ highest court can also lay claim to membership in another club — the Tribe — and […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA“It was devastating.” That was the reaction from one US Army Captain to President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from military service. Just months ago, Jennifer Sims e-mailed over 200 fellow troops who knew her as Captain Jonathan Sims, to tell them her transgender secret. Now though she is left facing an uncertain
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USAIt’s a rare thing for a militant group often described as shadowy and secretive to bring dozens of foreign journalists to their mountain bases. But Hezbollah did just that on Saturday, eager to show off recent victories against jihadists on Lebanon’s frontier with Syria. The Lebanese Shiite movement, militant group and political party led a
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Middle East, USARussian President Vladimir Putin is defending his massive cut in the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia, saying it had waited long enough for relations with Washington to improve. Putin said he had hoped “the situation would perhaps change for the better. But it seems that even if the situation is changing, it
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International, USASouth Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will hold telephone discussions over ways to deal with North Korea’s provocations, an official from Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Monday. “(President Moon) and President Trump are soon expected to hold telephone talks. The sides are now working to arrange the conversation,”
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International, USAThe Trump administration on Monday froze assets, banned travel and prohibited Americans from dealing with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, calling him a dictator and accusing him of undermining democracy after he carried out an election Sunday for an all-powerful new legislative assembly in defiance of warnings from the international community. As part of what are
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International, USAPete Rose, whom the Phillies will induct into their Wall of Fame in less than two weeks, initiated and maintained a sexual relationship in the 1970s with a girl who at the time was not yet 16 years old, the woman said in a sworn statement filed in federal court Monday. The testimony was included
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Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON — A powerful Senate committee has given the Justice Department until Thursday to disclose whether it’s investigating reported Ukrainian efforts in the 2016 election on behalf of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. If Justice says it’s not investigating the allegations, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman wants to know why they’re not. “Are you investigating the
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International, USAPresident Trump removed newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci Monday, just over a week after the president had hired him to help force out chief of staff Reince Priebus. The stunning move came just hours after Mr. Trump swore in his new chief of staff, retired Gen. John F. Kelly, former Homeland Security
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USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Profanity-spewing Anthony Salamucci, affectionately (?) known to himself and others as “The Mooch,” invoked Bible brothers Cain and Abel in discussing his relationship with then soon-to-be-fired White House Chief of Statff Reince Priebus, Mooch, the newly appointed White House Communications Director, who is already reported to be on
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When a Jewish day camp in America flies the Palestinian flag as Palestinians are killing Israelis you know that PC in the US has gone off the cliff. This is what happened at Camp Solomon Schechter. They claim to be “unabashed pro-Israel.” They should call themselves “embarrassing terror supporters.”
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Elliott Abrams’ Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Police after the Arab Spring (A Council on Foreign Relations Book, Cambridge University Press, 2017) is both a useful assessment of Arab Spring and what came next, and an insightful commentary on the nature of a world power and those who serve it.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAA 9-year-old boy from Stockton, California, who is essentially President Donald Trump’s biggest littlest fan, wrote a letter to the president, asked to be his friend and has gotten a huge yes in response. Dylan “Pickle” Harbin got a special shout-out from White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wednesday when she read the
Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday he would “absolutely” introduce a single-payer healthcare bill following failed Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare. “Absolutely, of course we are,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday. “We’re just tweaking the final points of the bill and we’re figuring out how we can mount a national campaign to bring
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