USA

Trump’s 2-minute closing ad draws ire of Jewish groups

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s closing ad is drawing criticism from Jewish groups, who say it plays on Jewish stereotypes. The two-minute ad, “Donald Trump’s Argument for America,” rails against “those who control the levers of power in Washington” and “global special interests” and includes shadowy footage of several prominent Jews, including financier George Soros, Federal

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USA

Concert review: Bob Dylan as you have always � and never � known him

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ghosts haunted the Belk Theater stage Sunday night during the concert by Bob Dylan and his band. Shades of all the other authors who have won the Nobel Prize for literature, challenging him to sing the complex and poetic lyrics that earned him the award this year. The spirit of Frank Sinatra,

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has lost her battle with Parkinson’s disease

MIAMI — Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died. She was 78. Reno died early Monday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D’Alemberte said. D’Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

FBI memos have shown that a maid who worked for the Clintons played a close role in Hillary’s emails

The New York Post reports that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton instructed her maid to print out classified emails during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, according to FBI memos: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government e-mails and documents — including ones containing classified information —

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International, USA

Obama seeks to settle scores with Republicans as he campaigns for Clinton

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Campaigning for Hillary Clinton at a Florida baseball stadium, President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that the nature of this year’s presidential race has become so negative that even “Saturday Night Live” this week couldn’t keep parodying it. What bothered him most, the president said, was the way “stuff that’s not normal, people

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USA

Malik Obama, Donald Trump supporter, gets curse from president’s Kenya family, villagers

KOGELO, Kenya – Things are no less divisive in the Obama precincts here as they are across the Atlantic as Election Day looms. President Obama’s relatives and others in his ancestral village are angry that the president’s half-brother Malik Obama has come out in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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International, USA