President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump played a major role in his decision to launch an airstrike on a Syrian air base last week, in response to a chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Eric Trump said in an interview published Monday. After the Syrian president’s regime allegedly launched a chemical attack on […]
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Middle East, USAHillary Clinton will be honored next month in New York City with a “Champion of the Century Award” by Planned Parenthood as it celebrates 100 years of operation. The U.S. presidential election may have went to Donald Trump, but his Democratic Party challenger is still a “Champion of the Century” to Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers and the state’s chief elections officer announced a new effort Tuesday to move the state’s 2020 primary up by three months, even giving the governor power to accelerate the timeline in hopes of closely following elections in Iowa and New Hampshire. “A state as populous and diverse as California should
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USADENVER — Wil Myers hit for the second cycle in San Diego history and the first of his career Monday night as the Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3. Myers singled in the first, doubled home a run in the third, homered in a three-run sixth and tripled in the eighth. The other Padres cycle
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Sports & Competitions, USARussian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned of future chemical weapons “provocations” in Syria to frame President Bashar al-Assad, just as Washington’s top diplomat arrived for talks in Moscow. “We have information from various sources that such provocations — I cannot call them otherwise — are being prepared in other regions of Syria, including in
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration continues to defend itself against accusations that it was hypocritical to conduct an airstrike on behalf of Syrian children while standing behind its proposed temporary travel ban against six Muslim-Majority countries, including Syria. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian
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Middle East, USASurveillance video captured a hazing ritual at a Penn State University fraternity house where a New Jersey teen died after suffering a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen and nonrecoverable brain injury following a fall, according to a report on philly.com. Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old from Readington Township in Hunterdon County, died on Feb. 4 following a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe fallout from the incident on the United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, has been a public relations disaster for the airline in the United States. There are now signs that the backlash against the airline is spreading further. In China, which has five cities served by United, anger over the United’s rough
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International, Travel and Food, USAA federal court in Texas has again ruled the state’s 2011 voter identification law intentionally discriminated against minorities. It’s the latest loss in the case for Texas — which has spent years unsuccessfully defending the law. But it also has implications for the Trump administration. In February, the new administration abruptly abandoned the crux of
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USACHICAGO — United Continental Holdings’ shares dropped nearly 4 percent Tuesday morning as backlash continued over videos of security officers dragging a passenger from his seat Sunday to make way for airline employees. Passengers were already onboard the United Express flight from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Louisville, Ky., on Sunday evening when the airline
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Travel and Food, USAWashington (dpa) – White House spokesman Sean Spicer was forced to make multiple apologies Tuesday after he apparently overlooked the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler’s use of gas chambers to commit genocide against Jews. The gaffe occurred as Spicer compared Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his own people to Hitler’s actions in
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Jewish History, USAPenn State President Eric Barron warned Tuesday that “the end of Greek life at Penn State” was a possibility if students continue to flout rules laid out by the university in the wake of a student’s death at a fraternity house in February. Nine of the university’s 82 fraternities and sororities violated at least one
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USADavid Dao, a Kentucky physician who touched off a national debate over airline overbooking policies this week when he was dragged off a United Airlines flight, was still recovering in the hospital Tuesday after suffering injuries from the incident, according to a Kentucky television station that spoke to him. Dao told WLKY-TV that he was
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Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against North Korea on Tuesday, writing on Twitter that the country “is looking for trouble” and encouraging North Korea’s neighbor China to “solve the problem.” Trump signed the message: “U.S.A.” In a second message, Trump said he told China’s President Xi Jinping during his visit to Florida
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