Chicago Police are investigating an attack on the Chicago Loop Synagogue. The synagogue’s surveillance cameras show a dark-clothed man wearing a mask exit a dark vehicle, plaster swastika stickers on the synagogue’s front door, smash the synagogue’s front windows with a metal object, then run back to his car. Construction workers working nearby noticed the […]
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Jewish Religion, USAThe sharp-tongued, sputtering rage actress Melissa McCarthy deploys to hilarious effect in a slew of Hollywood hits turns out to be perfect to lampoon the already toxic relationship White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has with the media. RELATED: Ansari hits ‘lower-case KKK’ backing Trump on ‘SNL’ McCarthy was a surprise performer on this weekend’s
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAll that Meir Kay wants from his audience is a smile. But the millions of YouTube hits don’t hurt, too By Lisa Klug NEW YORK — While Americans are still digesting the presidential inauguration, the new administration, and the Women’s Marches across the country, one of their brethren is putting his focus elsewhere. With a
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Jewish Religion, USAWashington (dpa) – US President Donald Trump has brushed off a description of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as a “killer,” saying, “What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?” In an interview with Fox News to be broadcast on Sunday, interviewer Bill O’Reilly asked Trump if he respected Putin, whom he has praised in
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International, USAThe Trump administration put Iran “on notice” last week, but Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that the White House right now is evaluating whether to keep in place the nuclear deal with Tehran that President Trump said he’d shred if elected. In an interview with ABC News that aired Sunday, the vice president said
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Middle East, USAA US federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by the Department of Justice to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump’s travel ban barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees. “Appellants’ request for an immediate administrative stay pending full consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is denied,”
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International, Middle East, USABuzzFeed was sued for defamation by a Russian tech magnate Friday over its publication of a salacious dossier last month devoted largely to President Trump. The alleged product of a former British spy, the explosive but unverified dossier claimed in part that Russian tech executive Aleksej Gubarev had been “recruited under duress” by Moscow to
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International, USAWashington (dpa) – The US Justice Department Saturday filed a notice to appeal a federal judge’s decision that temporarily halted the implementation of President Donald Trump’s one-week-old immigration order. The department filed its appeal seeking the reinstatement of the controversial executive order temporarily suspending the US refugee programme, temporarily banning travellers from seven majority-Muslim countries
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International, Middle East, USAProtesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline camp near Lake Oahe in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, were given evacuation orders by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who cited public health and safety concerns, according to a statement released Friday. The Corps said that it would close the Oceti Sakowin Camp — located at the confluence
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USAWashington (dpa) – Donald Trump has the worst approval rating of any US president at this point of their tenure, according to several surveys published Friday. The American public seemingly punished the president for a string of controversial executive orders issued in his first 15 days in office. One survey by broadcaster CBS gave Trump
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USABEIRUT — It was past midnight on a moonless night in central Yemen, and Ahmad Jawfi was preparing to go to sleep when he heard the dull buzz of drones overhead. Drones were nothing new, so he and others paid little attention. But soon, a military operation unfolded that left 14 al-Qaida fighters dead and
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−After denouncing a prior agreement to accept a group of refugees currently interned in Australia, President Trump signed an executive order for the deportation of all kangaroos in American zoos whom he suspects are harboring weapons in their pouches. * The House of Representatives voted to repeal a ban on the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USALOS ANGELES — Lawyers aren’t usually this popular, but these weren’t your usual lawyers. Outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., last weekend, a crowd of hundreds chanted like soccer fans as they awaited the end of a court hearing inside: “A-C-L-U, we are here, we stand with you!” When the attorneys for the American
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USASEATTLE — The federal judge who stopped President Donald Trump’s travel ban is a Republican appointee known for his sharp legal mind and past volunteer work for refugees. U.S. District Judge James Robart decided in Seattle Friday to temporarily block enforcement of Trump’s executive order, which denied entry to the U.S. to refugees and to
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