Washington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump has appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to be one of his most influential White House counselors. Trump named the 36-year-old husband of his daughter Ivanka to be senior advisor to the president, the Trump transition team said Monday in a statement. “Kushner will work closely with chief of […]
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USATaipei (dpa) – Taiwanese officials have refuted news reports that President Tsai Ing-wen met with members of US president-elect Donald Trump’s transition team during a weekend stopover in Houston, state-run media reported Monday. Taiwan’s Liberty Times reported that Tsai met with Edwin Feulner and Walter Lohman from the conservative Heritage Foundation as she was passing
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International, USAAMMAN, Jordan — A team of Army Delta Force commandos carried out a raid in Islamic State-held territories of eastern Syria, killing at least two militants with the extremist group, U.S. officials said Monday. The officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the classified operation, said a special operations team carried out the
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Middle East, USALEXINGTON, Ky. — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a legal challenge Monday to a new law that requires women to have an ultrasound before receiving an abortion in Kentucky. The law, which took effect immediately after Gov. Matt Bevin signed it Monday, requires doctors to show women an image of the ultrasound, describe what
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USAJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In Eric Greitens’ first official act as Missouri’s 56th governor, the Republican newcomer signed an order barring employees under his control from accepting freebies from lobbyists. It isn’t a new concept, or even one that may be judicially enforceable based on a 2002 court ruling. But it highlighted what the political
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USASenate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer pushed back Monday against charges Democrats are obstructing confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, saying Republicans demanded the same thorough vetting of President Obama’s picks. Democrats have legitimate concerns, he said, that most of Mr. Trump’s nominees have not been properly vetted by the transition team and are being
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USAHARTFORD, Conn. — A 91-year-old gay veteran from Connecticut has won his legal quest to upgrade his discharge status to honorable. H. Edward Spires of Norwalk was notified Friday morning that his application to the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records was approved, eliminating the undesirable discharge designation that has marked his service
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the recently retired UC Santa Cruz Hebrew and Jewish Studies professor who heads the national AMCHA Initiative, said Monday that she fears that Jewish students across the country may bear the brunt of a lot of anger now that they are returning from winter break to
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USACHARLESTON, S.C. — Convicted killer Dylann Roof said Monday he will offer no witnesses to counter the prosecution’s case that he should die by execution. As the jury watched, Roof rose from his table in the front of the courtroom around noon Monday. “The defense rests,” Roof told U.S. Judge Richard Gergel, then sat back
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USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) – The Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (J-REC) is visiting Israel to advocate for religious pluralism. Created and led by AJC, J-REC is a broad-based coalition of American Jews and Israelis dedicated to the realization of full religious equality in the Jewish state, and is mobilizing support for the creation of alternatives to the
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAPalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat blasted the U.S. Congress for overwhelmingly voting to condemn United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. The bipartisan House measure passed last week by a majority of 342-80. It said that Resolution 2334 “undermines the prospect of Israelis
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Middle East, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmud Abbas has written to US President-elect Donald Trump urging him not to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, official PA media reported Monday Monday. The PA news agency Wafa did not say when the letter was sent but said it aimed to explain the “risks” of moving the embassy from
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Middle East, USASenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he’s still hoping to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s national security Cabinet picks on Jan. 20, just after the new president is sworn in. After meeting with Mr. Trump in New York, Mr. McConnell emerged to say Republicans will give all the nominees scrutiny, but he’s pushing to have
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USABy Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D. Student in Educational Leadership and Policy, Miami University. Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos speaks in Grand Rapids, Michigan. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File After President-elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos to become the head of the United States Department of Education, her name has spurred a great deal of conversation within the K-12
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