President Donald Trump Thursday accused Time magazine of implying he’s a racist because of an erroneous pool report that said the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. (The press pool is made up of a few members of the press who represent the rest of the reporters assigned […]
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USAWASHINGTON — The Mexican president’s abrupt cancellation of a White House meeting following President Donald Trump’s intensified pressure on Mexico to pay for a border wall not only raises the risks of a diplomatic crisis but the specter of an unraveling of the North American Free Trade Agreement. While the tit for tat between Trump
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International, USALet’s stop acting like wounded innocents. The U.S. has been big-footing around the globe for more than a century. We have influenced elections in other countries and when that didn’t work, we have deposed leaders who did not support our interests. Prominent examples include intervening several times in Central America and supporting coups that replaced
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USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Airport shooting suspect Esteban Santiago was formally charged Thursday with carrying out the fatal mass shooting Jan. 6 at Fort Lauderdale’s international airport. Santiago, 26, was indicted on 22 federal charges after prosecutors presented their evidence to a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale. Santiago was indicted on five counts of causing
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USAPHILADELPHIA — Mitch McConnell’s got what he has long sought: Republicans controlling Congress and the White House. But he’s heading down a bumpy, unpredictable road. That became clear Thursday as Republicans conducted a second day of strategy meetings here, including sessions with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Instead of a celebration and
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International, USAMexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday that he’s canceled his planned visit to see President Trump next week, retaliating for the strict new executive orders issued a day earlier. In a Twitter post, Mr. Pena Nieto said he remains a friend to the U.S. and is willing to work on agreements – as long
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he rejects and condemns U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately begin construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a televised address Wednesday night, Pena Nieto said Mexico “does not believe in walls.” His voice rising, Pena Nieto repeated his promise that Mexico “will
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s temporary hiring freeze on federal jobs is disproportionately affecting a group of his most loyal supporters: veterans, who receive preference in federal hiring. Some already have had job interviews canceled or postponed, advocacy groups say. The hiring freeze also applies to the Department of Veterans Affairs, something that deeply troubles
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USAHaving ambassador’s residence in Jerusalem is tantamount to moving the U.S. embassy By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — If a fraction of the women from Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio who left their homes o participate in the massive Women’s March against President Donald Trump on Saturday, January 21st had voted in the November election,
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Middle East, USASAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–At a time when hate and intolerance is rising at an alarming rate, AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on Thursday, Jan. 26, delivered a letter from 47 education, Jewish and civil rights groups to the University of California Board of Regents calling on UC to implement the Regents’ Principles Against Intolerance as a “relevant,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOne day after the Senate confirmed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, her replacement, former Lieutenant Gov. Henry McMaster, came under renewed public scrutiny for his affiliation with a country club accused of racial segregation. At least 840 people have signed a petition demanding
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USAU.S. politician Madeleine Albright has announced she is “ready to register as Muslim” in response to Donald Trump’s impending immigration policies. Albright, the first woman to have become the U.S. Secretary of State in 1997, said she would stand in “solidarity” with followers of the Islamic faith if a registry was brought in by the
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USANow retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature By Rich Tenorio CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Seventy-five years ago, a young Austrian-Jewish refugee fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents and older brother. That 7-year-old boy named Michael
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe election of President Donald Trump is causing extreme reactions of support and dissent. The latter now includes a senior U.S. Secret Service agent who wrote in a Facebook post that she would not feel compelled to protect the nation’s new leader. Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district,