President Trump’s pledge that new pipeline projects will use “American steel” will not apply to the Keystone XL project, according to media reports, directly contradicting the president’s own words last week. Politico reported late Thursday night that a White House spokeswoman explained that the project, which has been in the works for the past decade, […]
MIAMI — Miami-Dade County — faced with threats by President Donald Trump to cut off federal funding — violated the U.S. Constitution when it agreed to jail people slated for deportation, a judge ruled on Friday. The judge’s ruling was a rebuke of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s much-criticized decision to allow county jails to hold
LOS ANGELES — The first post-Donald Trump iteration of “The Celebrity Apprentice” needs a new star. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday that he will not be returning to the show. The unscripted series, which still counts President Donald Trump as an executive producer, had flagged in the ratings in its first season without its former star.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego), ranking member of the Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, led committee Democrats urging Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to protect transgender students. The letter to DeVos is in response to President Trump’s order rescinding the guidance around protections put in place by President Obama. “Civil
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USAST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man was arrested for making bomb threats against Jewish facilities across the country as part of an effort to harass an ex-girlfriend, authorities said Friday. Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis and accused of making multiple threats against centers. The complaint was filed in the southern district
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday, March 2, condemned the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, NY. At least 16 headstones were toppled in the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, which has been in use by the local Jewish community since the
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself Thursday from an investigation into contacts between the campaign of President Donald Trump and Russian officials. Sessions held a press conference Thursday addressing revelations that he held discussions with Russia’s ambassador during the 2016 election campaign. Attorney General Sessions recuses himself from any existing or future probes related to
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International, USALt. Gen. H.R. McMaster H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s newly appointed National Security Advisor, must ensure the new administration reverses a decades-old pattern of neglecting Iran’s nuclear-capable cruise missile capabilities and their importance to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The White House had no trouble marshaling evidence for its decision to put Iran “on notice” last month
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International, Middle East, USA“Donald Trump made a mistake when he objected to my appointment as Deputy Secretary of State. He should have looked at who could help the Trump administration and not looked back at his campaign,” said Elliot Abrams in a Walla News interview. Abrams, who was Secretary of State Tillerson’s choice for his deputy, was rejected
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Middle East, USAApart from the vandalism and swastika graffiti discovered in the United States during the past few days, quite a few Jewish centers have received bomb threats. Some 100 schools and community centers over recent weeks have received such warnings in 33 states, plus two more in Canada. During a speech on Wednesday morning President Trump
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USAWASHINGTON — The U.S. military conducted airstrikes in the predawn hours against suspected al-Qaida positions Thursday across three provinces in Yemen, marking the first American attacks since an ill-fated Navy SEAL raid in January. Officials said the bombing runs against alleged al-Qaida targets in Abyan, Bayda and Shabwa provinces were planned months before the rare
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Senate easily confirmed Rick Perry as President Donald Trump’s energy secretary Thursday, six years after the former Texas governor famously promised to eliminate the agency he will now lead. The Senate voted 62-37 in favor of Perry’s nomination. The comfortable margin highlighted the general lack of rancor surrounding Perry’s nomination — even
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USAThere was no press honeymoon for President Trump during his first month in office. A meticulous new study by the Media Research Center finds that 88 percent of the broadcast news coverage of Mr. Trump and his team was “hostile” during the first 30 days of office. The coverage was intense and plentiful. The study,
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USATRENTON — A door painted with the Puerto Rican flag over the weekend was defaced by the building’s owner just days later with a swastika, inspiring the group of artists and others to host an anti-hate rally there on Saturday. Samuel Kanig said he received permission from the owner of the long-vacant building at Genesee
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