By Mark D. Zimmerman Is one answer correct? More than one? None? Make your guess and click on the link at the bottom to find the real answer. MELVILLE, New York — What did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York do recently that has stirred up controversy within the Jewish community? A. Senator Schumer announced […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABALTIMORE — As he moves quickly to build his administration, President Donald Trump has offered little indication about who he will nominate as the next commissioner of the Social Security Administration — an agency that has gone four years without a permanent leader. The agency faces massive challenges administering its programs to 61 million beneficiaries,
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USAA federal judge in Boston on Friday turned down a request from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts to extend a temporary restraining order (TRO) that prohibits US Customs and border agents from enforcing aspects of President Donald Trump’s immigration and refugee ban. A short time later, though, a different judge — across the
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International, Middle East, USASAN FRANCISCO — Stepping up their fight against the president’s immigration ban, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies — Apple, Google, Facebook and others — have filed a legal brief claiming the executive order “inflicts significant harm on American businesses.” “The Order represents a significant departure from the principles of fairness and predictability that
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International, Middle East, USAIn his first address to U.S. troops, President Trump vowed Monday to defeat the “radical Islamic terrorists” abroad and to prevent terrorism from “taking root” in America. “Today we deliver a message in one, very unified voice to these forces of death and destruction: America and its allies will defeat you,” Mr. Trump said at
LOS ANGELES — California’s House Republicans have asked the Trump administration to block a pending federal grant for the state’s high-speed rail project until an audit of the project’s finances is completed. The letter, signed by all 14 members of the state’s GOP delegation, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, was sent to Transportation Secretary
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal funds from “out of control” California if the state declares itself a sanctuary state. “If we have to, we’ll defund,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly before the Super Bowl. “We give tremendous amounts of money to California, California in
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International, USAHOUSTON — Nearly nine years ago to the day, New York Giants receiver David Tyree ripped the New England Patriots’ hearts out with what became known as “The Helmet Catch.” On Sunday, in Super Bowl LI, the Patriots’ Julian Edelman delivered a sweet, soul-clearing, memory-sweeping salve to millions of Patriots’ fans with an absurd catch
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Sports & Competitions, USAPresident Donald Trump’s professed admiration for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is again causing headaches for fellow Republicans and drawing fire from Democrats �� but this time, with a twist. When Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly observed while interviewing Trump that Putin is “a killer,” the president retorted: “You think our country is so innocent?” Vice
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International, USAAfter a federal appeals court on Sunday rejected President Donald Trump’s emergency bid to reinstate his contentious travel ban, the White House signaled fresh determination to push forward in a legal dispute that is fast becoming a test of executive power. Meanwhile, visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by Trump’s temporary ban hurried to board
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International, Middle East, USAA senior Iranian government official said Saturday Tehran was prepared to attack Tel Aviv and destroy a U.S. military base in Bahrain if the Trump White House ordered a military strike against Iran. Mojtaba Zonour, a member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and a former Islamic Revolution Guards Corps official, said Iran
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International, Middle East, USAWhen President Donald Trump isn’t on Twitter or signing executive orders, he apparently likes to watch the Super Bowl along with the rest of us. The difference is while you were either at a bar or sitting down on your living room couch drinking beer as the New England Patriots faced down the Atlanta Falcons,
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump WASHINGTON – The next U.S. ambassador to the European Union is warning that his boss, President Donald Trump, won’t take any “bull–” from Brussels. How’s that for start to diplomacy? Ted Malloch, Trump’s pick for the post, shocked BBC presenters Sunday morning with his bluntness, predicting the impending collapse of the EU as
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International, USAMORRISTOWN — Seth Meyers once riffed, with Donald Trump in the audience, about Trump someday running for president — not as a Republican, but as a joke. “Some people have actually blamed me for the fact that Donald Trump decided to run,” Meyers said of his 2011 roasting of Trump at the White House Correspondents’
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