By Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego The polls are tightening. The Democrats are fretting. And Hillary Clinton has stumbled. If she is to win the Presidency decisively — with both the popular and Electoral College vote — she needs to return to San Diego to regain her momentum. San Diego was her “lucky city” […]
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San Diego County, USAWASHINGTON — The grandchildren of Dwight D. Eisenhower have reached an agreement with the architect of a long-planned memorial to the former president and supreme allied commander in Washington, ending an impasse over the project’s design. The family accepted the design by architect Frank Gehry after former Secretary of State James Baker brokered a compromise.
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USAThe filters are off this election season. And honestly, a lot of the talk is terrible to hear. Hate speech feels commonplace at rallies. And many critics of presidential candidate Donald Trump say his blunt — some would use worse adjectives — talk is to blame. But is his speech actually worse than usual? It’s
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USAPhiladelphia, where nearly 80 percent of the registered voters are Democrats, should be a bastion of support for that party’s presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. It is also a majority-minority city, with African Americans making up 44 percent of the population and Hispanics another 14 percent—and Clinton leads by a wide margin among both ethnic groups
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USAIt is clear that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children never really knew their father. Perhaps it is because they were so young when an assassin’s bullet took him away. How could we forget the iconic picture of little Bernice at the funeral, with her pigtails and white petticoat dress, and her head resting
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USAWASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton made a direct appeal to young voters to get “off the sidelines” and behind her candidacy with an unusually personal address Monday, conceding she has to overcome doubts that they — and others — still harbor toward her even as they also reject her Republican opponent. Speaking to 300 students at
A federal judge blasted the Obama administration for slow-walking the release of some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails, saying in court Monday that the government appears to be withholding information from voters ahead of the election. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the State Department in not “being all that cooperative,” and
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USASCRANTON, Pa. — After some good-natured banter between Kelly Ripa and Neil Patrick Harris on their morning show, there was Hillary Clinton suddenly on screen, with a dark message of looming danger. During a break in Thursday morning’s “Live with Kelly” show, the Clinton ad painted Donald Trump as a risk to all things America
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USAPHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton, campaigning Monday at Temple University, told college students — many of whom are drowning in debt — that she’s the candidate to address their needs. “No one will work harder to make your life better,” Clinton said, promising to give young people a say in White House decision-making. Clinton told the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe University of California, Berkeley has reinstated a course on the history of Palestine, just days after suspending it amid criticism that it fostered anti-Semitism and indoctrinated students against Israel. The university’s ethnic studies department has revised the original course description and syllabus, which aimed to examine Palestine through the “lens of settler colonialism,” according
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump still doesn’t have John Kasich’s support. And he says he doesn’t care. Speaking on “Fox & Friends” Monday, Trump again found himself discussing the long-since resolved primary battle for the GOP nomination, even as only 50 days remain until the general election. The Ohio governor has been defending what he calls
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USAA Newsweek article about Donald Trump’s foreign business entanglements has prompted 55 former U.S. government and national security officials to publish an open letter calling for transparency regarding the Trump Organization’s dealings. “Donald Trump still has not revealed to the American public his international business relationships, even as it becomes increasingly clear that his overseas
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International, USANEW YORK (JNS.org) –Following a shootout with New Jersey police on Monday, authorities arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalized American of Afghani descent, in connection with the spate bombings in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend. The shootout and arrest came after the FBI circulated his photograph. Rahami, an Elizabeth, New
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International, USAThough the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday celebrated television’s best moments, the ceremony gave near equal time to celebrating its own newfound diversity — and joking about the Oscars’ lack of it. “This year’s nominees are the most diverse ever,” host Jimmy Kimmel said in his opening monologue of a field that included 18
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