Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting state agencies from contracting with companies that boycott Israel, The Forward reports. “You can always count on Texas,” Abbott said at the signing ceremony at the Austin Jewish Community Center, adding, “Any anti-Israel policy is an anti-Texas policy.” The law, known as HB 89, charges […]
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, hosting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, pledged Wednesday to attempt “the toughest deal” — peace between Israelis and Palestinians. “I’ve always heard that perhaps the toughest deal to make is the deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” Trump said, Abbas at his side. “Let’s see
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Middle East, USADonald Trump has vowed to work on brokering peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Speaking as he hosted his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, the US president offered no clues about how he could break the political deadlock and revive stalled peace negotiations. What did Trump say? In their first face-to-face meeting,
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Middle East, USAThe Philadelphia-based co-owner of Zahav and other restaurants takes home prestigious James Beard award By Jessica Steinberg Co-owner of Philadelphia’s acclaimed Zahav restaurant, chef Michael Solomonov was just named best chef of the year at the 2017 James Beard Awards, the Oscars of the cooking world (Courtesy Michael Persico) It’s a big moment for the
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USALOS ANGELES — An unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile was launched Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base to test the weapon’s reliability and ensure an “effective nuclear deterrent,” according to the U.S. Air Force. The Minuteman III missile test launch occurred at 12:02 a.m. PDT from the base northwest of Santa Barbara, according to Air Force
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International, USACNN has refused to run a Donald Trump campaign ad because it contained a graphic in which mainstream media organizations were branded “fake news,” the network said Tuesday. The head of Trump’s campaign committee criticized the network for not running the ad, which focuses on the president’s first 100 days in office. “It is absolutely
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USACHICAGO — Former first couple Barack and Michelle Obama on Wednesday offered the first look at the design of the planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park — a campus of three buildings highlighted by an eye-catching museum, whose height and splaying walls would make a bold architectural statement. The museum, which will house
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USAA new book, “Rising Star,” shedding light on Barack Obama’s past, suggests he was more politically ambitious at a younger age than previously believed – and that he had asked another woman to marry him before he ever met his eventual partner, Michelle. You think Michelle looked mad when Obama shamelessly flirted with Denmark’s Helle
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAWASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey strongly defended his decision to inform Congress in late October that he had reopened an FBI investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the decision to go public 11 days
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USAHARRISBURG. Pa. — Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Wagner calls it a dirty campaign trick. His campaign tracker calls it assault. What is for sure is that a routine luncheon speech at a country club near York, Pa., on Tuesday landed Wagner, a state senator, the role of unwitting star in a pair of YouTube videos,
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USAA woman recently walked into my Massachusetts office to talk about her daughter, who had been diagnosed with serious mental illness in 2007, when she was just 4 years old. A decade later, the stories this mother shared with me are heartbreaking. The countless hospital visits. The fights with insurers and doctors and courts. The
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert has never really tried to hide his political leanings. As host of “The Colbert Report” he played a mockingly over-the-top Conservative who blasted every politician willing to run for public office. Since taking the “Late Show” reins from David Letterman, he’s come out pretty far to the left. Colbert has
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAIsraeli Arab doctor who treats Syrian refugees honored by AJC NEW YORK (Press Release) – Dr. Masad Barhoum, Director General of the Galilee Medical Center, was honored by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) with the global Jewish advocacy organization’s International Human Dignity Award for providing urgent treatment to Syrians severely injured in their country’s civil war.
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USAIn the latest sign of what some see as growing rigidity of thought among American liberals, new New York Times columnist Bret Stephens has been skewered online by readers of the paper for his first column. The subject of that column was a growing rigidity of thought among American liberals. Stephens arrives at The Times
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