Zehut party chairman and former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Thursday, blaming him for President Trump”s decision earlier Thursday to leave the US Embassy in Israel at its present location in Tel Aviv. While President Trump had pledged in 2016 to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the Israeli […]
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Middle East, USAThe first “Shimon Peres Day” will be held as part of the annual Parade for the State of Israel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this coming Sunday, June 4. This year’s parade will be dedicated to the memory of the late Israeli President and Prime Minister. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo had announced that
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement puts him at odds with the Pentagon, which has been warning for years that climate change poses a critical national security threat. At his confirmation hearing, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis called climate change a “driver of instability” that “requires
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International, USACalifornia became the heart of the anti-Trump resistance as soon as there was a Trump presidency to resist; almost as soon as the polls closed on November 8, some called for the state to secede from the rest of the country. Six months later, California remains part of the United States, but it now has
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International, The World We Share, USAJack McCloskey, who assembled two NBA championship teams as general manager of the Detroit Pistons, died Thursday in Savannah, Ga., the team announced. McCloskey, 91, had Alzheimer’s disease, and his wife, Leslie, told the Detroit Free Press last month that he was in a Savannah facility that cares for patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia. McCloskey
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Obituaries & memorials, Sports & Competitions, USAA frustrated former President Obama chided President Trump Thursday for canceling U.S. involvement in the Paris climate agreement, and insisted the rest of the world is still headed toward lower greenhouse gas emissions even without American leadership. Even as Mr. Trump was still speaking in the White House Rose Garden, announcing his decision, Mr. Obama
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International, The World We Share, USAThis week’s successful ICBM intercept test by the United States sends a clear message to North Korea that the U.S. is capable of shooting down any oncoming missile from the communist nation, a senator said Wednesday. “This test clearly demonstrates to our adversaries that our homeland missile defense system remains on track to defend our
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Days after Donald Trump’s stunning election victory, Michael Flynn phoned former CIA Director James Woolsey about taking another stint as head of the spy agency in the new administration, but then added a condition, Woolsey said. Flynn said the CIA director “would be expected to report to him,” not the president, Woolsey told
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International, USAMultiple polls have shown Sen. Bernie Sanders to be by some distance the most popular political figure in the United States and certainly more liked than President Donald Trump, who continues to be beset by plummeting approval ratings. But it also appears clear that Sanders is far more popular than the president in Europe. Related:
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International, USAPresident Trump announced Thursday that he was starting the process for a U.S. exit from the Paris climate change agreement, but said he would try to renegotiate a better deal for the American people. He said he was getting out of the deal, and immediately ending all compliance activity. He said it was a bad
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International, The World We Share, USAPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at the daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in an expletive-laden speech for a second straight day Thursday after she criticized a comment he made about rapes committed by soldiers. Duterte, speaking Wednesday at a navy event, questioned whether Chelsea Clinton also criticized her father when he had
By Denise A. Spellberg, Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. The Thomas Jefferson memorial in Washington, DC. Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA Beginning Saturday, May 27, an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide are celebrating the month of Ramadan. It was during this month that Prophet Mohammad first received revelations from
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump has a new country in his crosshairs: Germany. The president says the US is running a “MASSIVE” trade deficit with Germany, but “this will change.” On his recent visit to Europe, President Trump told European officials that Germany is “very bad” on trade. Administration officials say Germany has exploited a weak euro
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International, USAThe Trump administration is looking to hand back two Russian diplomatic properties in the U.S. that were shuttered late last year after an intelligence probe found they were used to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. The properties in Maryland and New York were closed on December 30 when former President Barack Obama expelled 35
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