ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Vowing that the Trump administration would “rebuild the military,” Vice President Mike Pence told the Naval Academy’s graduating class on Friday that they should be confident their commander-in-chief would have their support as they begin a career of service. “President Donald Trump is the best friend the armed forces of the United […]
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USAU.S. President Donald Trump is in Sicily for his first G7 meeting with world leaders. Fresh from a NATO summit where he accused member states of not contributing enough to the bloc, he might face a cold reception from German President Angela Merkel, whose country is both a G7 and NATO member. According to Der
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International, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Almost every day, we hear and read news about verbal and even physical attacks of Jewish students on college campuses. In many instances, it makes their lives on campuses very difficult and even dangerous. Some Jewish leaders and organizations have reacted in the following ways: appealing to authorities; appealing
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Arkady Mamaysky, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWashington (dpa) – The US Department of Justice said Thursday it will appeal a ruling upholding a suspension of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to the US Supreme Court. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the decision in a statement after a US appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling blocking Trump’s executive order which bans
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International, USAAfter last summer’s historic four-country tour through East Africa, PM now heading to June 4 economic summit in Liberia By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, board their airplane to Africa for an official state visit in the continent on July 4, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO) Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu
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Middle East, USABERKELEY, Calif. — University of California, Berkeley has fired an assistant professor for sexually harassing four students. Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, was found to have violated the school’s faculty code of conduct and its sexual harassment policy, the school said. The firing, effective immediately, apparently ends
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATAORMINA, Italy — While terrorism may top President Donald Trump’s agenda, European leaders keep pressing him on climate change and the environment. French President Emmanuel Macron worked on Trump during lunch Thursday, urging the U.S. president not to ditch the 196-nation Paris Agreement on climate change before getting on a plane to Sicily, Italy. “My
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International, USABrussels (dpa) – US President Donald Trump’s interactions with his NATO and EU counterparts were under scrutiny as he met many of them for the first time in Brussels on Thursday – and some of those first impressions will be hard to forget. During a tour of the recently completed NATO headquarters building, Trump seems
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International, USANormally the words “Montana Special Election” don’t set the political class refreshing their browsers into the middle of the night. But Thursday’s Republican victory for an open House of Representatives seat turned out to be a hyper-interpreted microcosm of America’s crazy national moment, complete with a “body slam” that sent a reporter to the hospital.
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USAWASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump balking on his vow to shred the Obama-negotiated Paris agreement on climate change, the last place the pact’s staunch opponents wanted to see the president is where he will be this weekend — meeting other world leaders unanimous in their warnings that withdrawal from the accord would seriously damage
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International, The World We Share, USACHICAGO — Harold Katz didn’t require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette, Ill. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty. Katz, 89, who lives in a North Side retirement home, was to have celebrated the occasion in Czechoslovakia back in 1941. But that
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Jewish History, USABRUSSELS — President Donald Trump likely crushed anxious NATO allies’ hopes for an uplifting message and full-throated endorsement of NATO’s core missions Thursday. Instead, Trump lectured the group for failing to live up to its financial obligations and leaving it to U.S. taxpayers to shoulder the organization’s defense burden. During a ceremony opening the new
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International, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Sadly, President Trump’s visit to the Middle East only confirmed my skepticism about what might come out of it. Trump went to the region with nothing to offer to mitigate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and received no commitment from either Israeli or Palestinian leaders to resume the peace negotiations in
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USADemocratic Representative Al Green has said he is pushing ahead with the process of impeaching President Donald Trump and is currently drawing up articles of impeachment. Related: Are White House lawyers preparing for the worst as they research impeachment proceedings against Trump? The Texas congressman last week appeared on the floor of the House of
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