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Kobach was a source of Trump’s unfounded voter fraud allegation, Conway says

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Friday that a source of the Republican’s unfounded allegation that millions voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kellyanne Conway, the Trump-Pence campaign manager who has continued to help the president-elect during the transition, made the comment on ABC’s […]

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Real challenge: Eliminate lashon hara

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The motto on a bumper sticker in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn — “Stamp Out Lashon Hara” — seemed like a wonderful idea. Curbing our “evil tongue” — ridding ourselves of the inclination, if not the desire, to gossip about, slander, defame, disparage, ridicule, belittle or simply embarrass another person — was and is certainly a

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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, USA

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin stable after South Pole evacuation

Washington (dpa) – Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, was in a stable condition in a New Zealand hospital Friday after being evacuated from the South Pole, tour operator White Desert said. “He currently has fluid in his lungs but is responding well to antibiotics and being kept for observation,” White

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Princess Cruises to pay $40 million fine for dumping oily waste and lying about it

Princess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $40 million fine for dumping illegal waste off the coast of England three years ago and trying to cover it up by lying to the U.S. Coast Guard. The fine is the largest criminal penalty ever paid involving deliberate dumping by a cruise ship,

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Trump says he never really meant to promise that Carrier jobs would return

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he never really meant to promise that he would bring jobs back that Carrier, the heating and cooling company, had promised this year to ship to Mexico. “That was a euphemism,” Trump said, meaning he was treating the company as a proxy for U.S. manufacturers that send

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Gov. Brown taps California’s Rep. Becerra to be state’s first Latino attorney general

WASHINGTON — California Gov. Jerry Brown has tapped House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra to be the state’s next attorney general. He will succeed Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in November. Becerra, 58, has served 12 terms in Congress and was making a bid to become the ranking Democrat on the

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In phone call with leader, Trump lavishes praise on Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — The annals of international relations are filled with mundane readouts of conversations between world leaders, the language shorn of sharp edges and massaged into shapeless lumps of diplomatic-speak. The report of a telephone call between Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was more interesting than that. “You are a terrific guy,”

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