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Kellyanne Conway on surveillance: We have ‘microwaves that turn into cameras’

WASHINGTON — Last week, the White House tried to avoid giving further life to President Donald Trump’s stunning and unsupported allegation that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of him last year. And when WikiLeaks posted new documents claiming to expose surveillance tactics available to the intelligence community, the White House steadfastly refused to confirm […]

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Fresh wave of bomb threats target Jewish centers during Purim

Five Jewish community centers across the United States and Canada were evacuated following bomb threats during the Purim holiday on Sunday, the latest incidents in a wave of harassment targeting Jewish institutions across North America. The targets of Sunday”s bomb threats included the Jewish Community Center of Rochester, the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center, the Evelyn

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International, USA

Trump’s Golf Course In California Vandalized

A group of environmental activists snuck into a public golf course owned by President Donald Trump in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and vandalized it to protest the Trump administration’s “blatant disregard” for the environment, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The group, which calls itself an “anonymous environmental activist collective,” carved the words, “No More Tigers,

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Report: Poland confirms Minneapolis man was Nazi commander

MINNEAPOLIS — A prosecutor in Poland is contending there is ample evidence to seek the arrest of a Minneapolis man on allegations that he commanded a Nazi unit implicated in the deaths of 44 Poles, The Associated Press reported Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said that various evidence gathered in the yearslong investigation into 98-year-old Michael

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International, USA

Texas men would face fine for masturbating, need rectal exam for Viagra under proposed law

DALLAS — If state Rep. Jessica Farrar has her way, men in Texas will pay a $100 fine for “unregulated masturbatory emissions” and undergo a digital rectal exam to get a vasectomy, a colonoscopy or a Viagra prescription. Farrar’s proposed legislation, filed last week, calls on the Department of State Health Services to explain the

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I’ll be back: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s possible ’18 Senate run

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2017 – Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R- November 17, 2003 – January 3, 2011) is considering a 2018 Senate run as a third-party, or independent, candidate. Schwarzenegger’s entrance would give him the stage to continue to lock horns with President Trump over political issues. Trump has publically excoriated the former body

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s late UN ambassador, died from heart attack: Report

Russia’s longtime envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died from a heart attack suffered inside his Manhattan office last month, a city official said Friday. The ambassador’s cause of death was confirmed by a senior city official on condition of anonymity Friday after the medical examiner’s office declined to release details about his passing

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International, Obituaries & memorials, USA

Ever unpredictable, Trump throws Mahmoud Abbas a lifeline

Friday’s first presidential phone call, in which the PA chief was invited to the White House, has the Palestinians extremely upbeat By Avi Issacharoff Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas greets his supporters following a trip to Washington DC, on March 20, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90) US President Donald Trump’s

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Middle East, USA

Cotton: Conservatives Could Back ACA Bill with ‘A Lot of Carpentry’

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said a House GOP leadership’s proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will require “a lot of carpentry on that framework” before conservative Republicans in Congress can support it during an interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week.” When House leadership unveiled the American Health Care Act last week,

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

John Kasich, Ohio governor: ‘The political parties are disintegrating before our very eyes’

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Sunday that both political parties are falling apart at the seams as Republicans and Democrats focus more on scoring political points than on helping Americans in need. The former GOP presidential candidate said the debate over health care reform has become so politicized that both sides have forgotten that their

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

President Trump will travel country to sell health care bill, White House says

Trump administration officials guaranteed Sunday that the president will hit the road soon to rally support for the health care bill put forth by House Republicans, saying the White House is “fully committed” to the legislation. “The president, the vice president, all of us at the White House are fully committed to this bill, and

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA