Harry S. Truman was perhaps one of the most influential presidents of the 20th century. He oversaw the end of World War I and rose to the challenge of the Cold War. He was crucial to the creation of international organizations like the United Nations and NATO. But for many people, Truman is remembered for […]
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International, USAWASHINGTON — In tweets Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump said he had shared “facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety” with Russian diplomats in an Oval Office meeting last week, confirming a key part of a news report his aides had denied the night before. Trump said he had shared the information in the
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International, USAA class action lawsuit alleging the Democratic National Committee worked in junction with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to keep Bernie Sanders out of the White House has been raging on in the courtrooms for months on end–and yet, most people have no idea of its existence, in large part thanks to the mainstream media’s total
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sit down face to face with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday — and it’s likely to be awkward. The White House meeting comes a week after Trump signed off on a plan vehemently opposed by Turkey, which authorizes directly arming Syrian Kurds in the fight to
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration hunkered down Monday evening following a report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about the Islamic State during an already controversial Oval Office visit by Russia’s foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States. Top Cabinet-level officials tried to contain the damage caused by the report, but
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Syria’s government on Monday of hanging hundreds of political opponents and other prisoners and burning their bodies at a military prison near Damascus, part of what the State Department called an egregious pattern of atrocities by Syrian President Bashar Assad. The State Department said the Syrian authorities may be
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — Brad Grey, who ran Paramount Pictures for more than a decade after a long and successful career as a TV producer, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Holmby Hills, his family said through a spokeswoman. He was 59. A former talent manager, Grey led the Paramount Pictures movie and television
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAmerican Jewish casino mogul and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly furious over the Trump administration”s delays in fulfilling the president”s campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Adelson, a prominent GOP donor who backed President Trump”s 2016 campaign to the tune of $25 million, was angered by Secretary of State
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Middle East, USAInspectors open probe into fire at landmark shul in Lower East Side, once home of oldest Russian Jewish Orthodox congregation in US By Times of Israel staff A fire broke out at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, May 14, 2017. (Screenshot) New York City firefighters put out a massive blaze
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Jewish Religion, USACallista Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is be the preferred nominee for President Donald Trump to be the next United States ambassador to the Vatican, White House administration officials confirmed to CNN on Sunday. Soon after the presidential inauguration, Newt told CNN that Trump was considering his wife to be the ambassador
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International, USAAs candidates, many US politicians stop by the Jerusalem holy site, but once in the White House, they’ve all stayed away By Raphael Ahren Donald Trump is slated to become the first incumbent US president to visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and
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Middle East, USASANTA BARBARA, California (Press Release) — The Associated Students at UC Santa Barbara (ASUCSB) overwhelmingly rejected a hateful resolution to divest from certain companies doing business with Israel on May 11, 2017. After a contentious debate lasting almost 10 hours, divestment was crushingly defeated with a vote of 0 in favor, 16 against, and 7
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — בלגנים Balaganim The word means situations of confusion, mess, or chaos, and it applied to several features of the US and Israel as we departed one and headed towards the other. According to professional sources, “balagan” came to Israeli Hebrew from our Persian cousins as well as some other regional
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weighed in Sunday evening on the issue of the US embassy in Israel, after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said President Trump was still considering whether to move the embassy to Jerusalem, and was “listening to input from all interested parties in the region.” The Prime Minister”s Office released a statement
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