WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Monday said he would be “honored” to meet leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea, only days after he raised the possibility of a “major, major conflict” with the reclusive state over its nuclear weapons program. Though White House aides separately downplayed the likelihood of a face-to-face meeting between a […]
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International, USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Saying that Girl Scouts is “no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel,” the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is severing ties with the organization and switching its support to a Christian-based scouting program. “I have asked the pastors
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USAWASHINGTON – Congress has rebuffed President Trump’s proposal to cut $1.2 billion from the National Institutes of Health budget in the current fiscal year. Lawmakers instead are boosting NIH funding by $2 billion, under a spending agreement reached late Sunday night. The deal does not address funding for 2018, when Trump has called for a
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By Jeffrey Lazarow ON THE OPEN ROAD — We thought we were free until we began living on the road…then we became relatively free. Are you comfortable with the turmoil in the world? Of course not. Would you like to change it? Probably. Can you? No. Are you completely satisfied with your life…fulfilled? Can you improve
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Travel and Food, USAAJC praises Senate Judiciary Committee for emphasis on hate crimes NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee praised Senate Judiciary Committee members for asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions “to undertake effective action to address the increasing number of religious hate crimes in the U.S.” The bipartisan letter, spearheaded by Senator Charles Grassley, chair of the Senate
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USACAJAMARCA, Colombia — Anything that President Donald Trump says about NAFTA draws extra scrutiny in Latin America, whose countries account for half of the United States’ free trade agreements. So when Trump threatened to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, it wasn’t only those countries that worried. “We’re watching what
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International, USAControversial White House adviser Sebastian Gorka is stepping down from his role in the Trump administration to take an unspecified position in “the war of ideas,” said TheHill.com on Sunday. The announcement comes after Gorka’s Ph.D. was revealed to be fraudulently awarded and his connections to a Hungarian neo-Nazi group were exposed the Jewish Daily
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International, USAIt was all planned so carefully. Barack Obama’s reemergence on the public stage had been long anticipated, so cable news and the Twittersphere all listened in when he took the stage at the University of Chicago in April to promote political and civic engagement with young people. Chatting amiably with a multi-hued group of accomplished
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USAThe USS Michigan nuclear-powered submarine arrives at port of Busan, South Korea, April 25, 2017.[Photo/Xinhua] The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea test fired what was reportedly a medium range ballistic missile on Saturday. The missile exploded soon after take-off; whether by design or not, the country’s second failed missile launch in as many weeks. The
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International, USAThe first 100 days of the presidency have been a strain on President Trump’s family, especially for first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, Mr. Trump told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview. “There is no question, it is a big burden on the family,” the president said in an Oval Office session.
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USAThis year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner certainly struck a more somber note than in years past, but comedian Hasan Minhaj lightened the mood when he took the stage. No one was spared from The Daily Show correspondent’s barbs: both present journalists and the conspicuously absent president were hit by some of Minhaj’s jokes. Below are
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAIn a final tribute before chainsaws would cut this giant down due to poor health, gardeners adorned a 130-year-old Monterey cypress tree with Tibetan prayer flags. The tree has stood on the the great lawn of the famous Lotusland gardens in Montecito, California for more than thirteen decades. With the announcement that the tree, which
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The World We Share, USAMIAMI �� U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Cuban American elected to Congress and the deal of Florida’s congressional delegation, said Sunday that she would retire at the end of her term next year after 38 years in elective office. “We just said, ‘It’s time to take a new step,’ ” the Miami Republican said.
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USAFleeing anti-Semitism in Hungary, Shobha Nehru, nee Magdolna Friedmann, wound up marrying into the family of India’s first PM By Times of Israel staff Shobha Nehru. (Screen capture: YouTube) A Jewish-Hungarian woman who escaped European anti-Semitism and married into India’s most prominent political dynasty died last week at age 108. Shobha Nehru, born Magdolna Friedmann
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