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Watergate Lawyer: Kushner Lying About Russian Contacts

Jared Kushner’s explanations for his contacts with Russians during last year’s election sound like lies, according to a former assistant special prosecutor who worked on Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and investigation. Jill Wine-Banks, who has been highly critical of President Donald Trump and his administration while claiming impeachment is around the corner, claimed Monday during […]

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Despite a forecast for protests, a Grossman play premieres in NY uneventfully

Decried by 70 artists who called for boycott, play by peace activist produced with Israeli government funding graces the Lincoln Center Festival with nary a demonstrator in sight By Jordan Hoffman NEW YORK — What if they threw a protest and nobody came? The annual Lincoln Center Festival got a bit of additional publicity earlier

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USA

Op-Ed: What do you say to your Boy Scout after that speech?

Now that President Donald Trump has had his fun with the Boy Scouts, it’s up to their parents to clean up his mess. Many critics of the president’s campaign-rally-disguised-as-a-jamboree address called on the Boy Scouts to denounce the rhetoric. (Trump encouraged booing of former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lamented

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USA

Left: Trump Boy Scout Speech Is Nazi Hitler Youth Rally

President Donald Trump brought his bombastic politics to a Boy Scouts event Monday in West Virginia, drawing cheers from the children gathered at the event and prompting comparisons between his rousing rhetoric and Nazi youth rallies from some liberal activists and journalists. The president, the first sitting U.S. commander-in-chief to address the group since George

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USA

Jerusalem holy site boycott remains despite scrapped metal detectors

The Muslim committee administering a sensitive Jerusalem holy site announced Tuesday that a boycott of the shrine would continue despite Israel’s removal of controversial new security measures. “No entry into Al-Aqsa mosque until after an assessment by a Waqf technical committee and the return of the situation to how it was before the 14th of

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Middle East, USA

Troubles deepen for Jeff Sessions as Trump calls him ‘very weak’ on Clinton emails

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions confronted increasing questions about his future as he faced fresh public slaps from his boss, President Donald Trump, and new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump, was a strong influence during the campaign. A longtime advocate

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SeaWorld’s last killer whale calf dies at San Antonio park

ORLANDO, Fla. — Kyara, a 3-month-old killer whale born at SeaWorld San Antonio, died at the Texas theme park on Monday. The calf, born to 26-year-old Takara in April, was the final orca to be born in captivity at a SeaWorld park. Orlando-based SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment decided to stop breeding orcas amid animal rights

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The World We Share, USA

First LGBT Unit Created to Fight ISIS in Syria

LGBT supporters are fighting back against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) on the Syrian battlefield after three years of persecution in which their community suffered stonings, executions from rooftops and a deadly shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. A group of international volunteers fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in northern Syria

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Middle East, USA

Fake street signs warn of ‘easily startled’ police in Twin Cities

MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Morino brought an incredulous friend to see the orange street sign he just spotted in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. The official-looking metal sign read: “WARNING: TWIN CITIES POLICE EASILY STARTLED.” It featured a graphic silhouette of a police officer, a gun in each raised hand, shooting in both directions. “There’s a

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International, USA

Doubts on Sessions’ tenure deepen amid Trump tweets, White House comments

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced increasing questions about his future on Monday, a day that began with a fresh public slap from his boss, President Donald Trump, and continued with new calls to testify about his conversations with the Russian ambassador last year. Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump and a strong

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USA

‘I did not collude’ with foreign officials, Jared Kushner says in advance of testimony

WASHINGTON — “I did not collude” and “had no improper contacts” with Russia or any other foreign government, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, declared in a statement ahead of meetings with congressional investigators. Kushner’s representatives released the 11-page statement early Monday morning. He is scheduled to meet Monday with staff and members

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International, USA

Ex-Panamanian president denied bond in Miami files emergency bid with Supreme Court

MIAMI — Attorneys for former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, who is being detained in Miami on an extradition request to his homeland, filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that asserts his constitutional rights have been violated because his bid for bond was denied. Martinelli’s legal team argued that federal courts

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International, USA

This woman says she was trafficked by a diplomat. And it happens all the time.

A half-hour outside of Washington, DC, there’s a six-bedroom townhouse with a white portico. It was the house of Jane Kambalame, a diplomat in the United States from Malawi. Her job was to advocate for Malawian citizens. But there was one Malawian who didn’t get Kambalame’s help: Kambalame’s maid, Fainess Lipenga. For three years, Lipenga

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International, USA