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Nikki Haley, personable, serious, and the undisputed star of AIPAC’s conference

‘That’s the next president’ said a man next to me, reflecting the adulation as Trump’s UN ambassador left the stage to the event’s biggest ovation by far By David Horovitz WASHINGTON — Fourteen minutes. That’s how long Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, spent in conversation with interviewer Dan Senor at AIPAC’s […]

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International, Middle East, USA

Passport Wallenberg used to save Jews in WWII to be auctioned

Bidding at LA auction house to start at $8,000 for fake permit issued by Swedish Embassy in Budapest in September 1944 By Sue Surkes Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons) A rare passport signed by Raoul Wallenberg — the man who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary from deportation to the gas chambers —

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International, Jewish History, USA

Menendez decries ‘white nationalist dog whistles’ are being blown from Trump White House

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez took aim at President Donald Trump’s top White House aide as he criticized anti-Semitism before the annual Washington gathering of the leading pro-Israel lobby. Menendez pledged to use his position as a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee to call out the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement directed

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Middle East, USA

2 Miami-Dade police detectives shot Monday night were ambushed in unmarked car

MIAMI —Two Miami-Dade police undercover detectives working a gang detail in Miami’s Brownsville neighborhood were shot as they sat in their unmarked vehicle Monday night by suspects who walked past them, opened fire and fled. The officers, who were rushed to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in the back of a pickup by

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USA

Bedouin soldier: You don’t know anything about Israel

As anti-Israel – and increasingly, anti-Semitic – elements on college campuses have become more vocal, more active, and more provocative on college campuses around the US, pro-Israel activists are working to combat the hatred and misinformation found at so many institutions across the country. One recently demobilized IDF soldier decided to join the fight on

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Middle East, USA

White House proposes new, sweeping budget cuts at NIH

WASHINGTON – The White House is proposing a $1.2 billion cut this year to the National Institutes of Health’s budget, targeting research grants. The proposed NIH cut is part of $18 billion in spending reductions that President Trump’s team is proposing to Congress for the current fiscal year, which ends in October, according to a

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Muslim Brotherhood listing as terror group delayed by Donald Trump

President Trump has – for the time being – put on the back burner an executive order designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, according to U.S. officials close to a heated debate inside the administration over the status of the global Islamist movement. While the White House has declined to comment publicly, officials speaking

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International, Middle East, USA

Trump attacks Clinton uranium deal on twitter as pressure mounts for Russia probe

As pressure mounted Monday night on the House intelligence committee over its Republican chairman and the Russia probe, President Trump took to Twitter to change the subject to Hillary Clinton. Mr. Trump called the entire Russia-ties story fake news and demanded an investigation of the Clintons’ involvements with the Kremlin. “Why isn’t the House Intelligence

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International, USA

House intelligence chairman asked to withdraw from Trump-Russia investigation

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House committee investigating Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election admitted Monday that secret documents that he said forced him last week to rush to brief President Donald Trump came from inside the White House. The admission prompted three Democrats on the committee to call for Rep. Devin Nunes,

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International, USA

Rand Paul takes the senate floor to blast politicians who want “to send your kids to war with no debate”

On Monday, the Senate voted to move forward on admitting the Balkan nation of Montenegro into NATO, which would make the U.S. responsible for that nation’s defense if attacked. The vote was 97-2. The only two senators to vote “no” were Republicans Mike Lee and Rand Paul. Sen. Paul took to the senate floor to

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International, USA