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USA – SeaWord San Diego ends world-famous killer whale show

SeaWorld San Diego ended its long-running killer whale show on Sunday, following years of protests and falling attendance. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. announced last year that it was ending its theatrical orca shows and breeding programme. The final performances, which featured whales cavorting with trainers and leaping high out of the Shamu Stadium pool, came only […]

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The World We Share, USA

Netanyahus said treated to expensive gourmet meals, new details into illicit gifts probe reveal

Australian businessman James Packer reportedly paid for meals worth thousands of shekels sent to PM’s private home in Caesarea, split costs of cigars, champagne with Arnon Milchan By Raoul Wootliff and Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tour Ramat Hanadiv, a nature park in northern Israel, April 25, 2016.

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International, Middle East, USA

Accused airport shooter told his maximum penalty ‘is death’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Esteban Santiago, handcuffed, shackled and wearing a red maximum-security jumpsuit, spoke in a monotone Monday as he answered questions from a federal magistrate during a hearing that lasted about 30 minutes. Santiago, 26, who is accused of killing five people and wounding six others at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, was flanked by

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USA

Everything That Donald Trump Thinks Is Overrated

During her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, Meryl Streep took a rather large swipe at Donald Trump. “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

President Obama: Donald Trump has been cordial, even if they’re “sort of opposites”

President Obama on Sunday said he and his Twitter-loving successor, Donald Trump, are “sort of opposites in some ways,” though he acknowledged that neither of them suffers from a lack of confidence. “It’s probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the

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Civil rights leader Roy Innis, who moved from liberalism to libertarianism, dies at 82

Civil rights icon Roy Innis, who for over 50 years in public life confounded stereotypes and the conventional wisdom of politics, died Sunday morning in New York City after a long illness. He was 82. “Roy got up every day and followed his conscience on what he thought was right, and if that led him

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

‘Hidden Figures’ is a hit, nearly tying ‘Rogue One’ for No. 1 box-office spot

LOS ANGELES — The new movie “Hidden Figures” tells the uplifting true story of a trio of women who defied expectations as they helped the U.S. space program. Now the tale is also beating the odds at the box office. The Oscar hopeful surpassed industry projections in its wide-release debut over the weekend, collecting $21.8

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Meryl Streep denounces Donald Trump, defends persecuted Hollywood actors at Golden Globes

Meryl Streep used almost all of her acceptance speech at Sunday night’s Golden Globes to denounce Donald Trump and sports fans, and to place Hollywood actors among the world’s most persecuted people. Miss Streep was garlanded with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) lifetime achievement award and said that in addition to losing her voice,

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Top American academic group rejects BDS bid

At Philadelphia convention, Modern Language Association also votes to refrain from future boycott measures By Times of Israel staff Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons) The Modern Language Association, a top American academic group, on Saturday voted down a proposal to boycott Israeli academia. The measure, which

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA