CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton opened her sprint to Election Day with a lancing denunciation of Donald Trump, her Republican opponent, who was also campaigning in the key state of Ohio. In a speech in Cleveland that was interrupted by a coughing fit that left her voice raw, Clinton spent the majority of her time castigating […]
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USAPresident Obama defended 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the national anthem Monday, saying he has a constitutional right not to show respect for “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the start of games. “My understanding is he’s exercising his constitutional right to make a statement,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference in Hangzhou, China, in
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International, Sports & Competitions, USADespite evidence of Russia hacking into U.S. election systems, President Obama said Monday that he doesn’t want to escalate into a “wild, wild West” cyberwar with Moscow. Emerging from a 90-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, Mr. Obama acknowledged that the Russians have been attacking U.S. institutions on the Internet. “We’ve had
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International, USALANSDALE, Pa. — Marie Jeffries has a very firm view of Donald Trump, and she says it won’t change in the nine weeks before Election Day. “He’s a wild man. I think he might put us into a war,” said Jeffries, who was among hundreds sauntering down Main Street in this southeastern Pennsylvania town on
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USAHANGZHOU, China – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was silent Monday after reports that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the G20 to pointedly criticize U.S. president Barack Obama over his support for Kurdish troops fighting ISIL in Syria. Trudeau didn’t respond to a question about whether similar concerns had been raised in his “pull aside”
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International, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An Internet friend sent me a YouTube showing a scene from the TV drama, The Newsroom. It has characters claiming that America is the greatest country on earth. Then the star of the show sets them straight with comparative data that reveal something much different. Among the items he cites
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (WJC)–The World Jewish Congress-United States (WJC-US) on Thursday expressed its deep dismay concerning the decision by the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to dismiss a $655.5 million terrorism judgement against the Palestinian Authority (PA), calling it a strong setback to the efforts to hold the PA liable for attacks
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Middle East, USAA high school in upstate South Carolina will have extra security measures in place when students return after the Labor Day weekend, after Jewish and Muslim students were threatened on social media, JTA reported Sunday. A student reported the “extremely vulgar” threats to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office on Friday night, according to local media.
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USAHANGZHAO, China — President Barack Obama’s emissaries spent much of Sunday talking with Russian officials here about how to quell the violence in Syria, but the president all but shrugged his shoulders when asked about the prospects of a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Given the previous failures of cessations of hostilities to hold,
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International, Middle East, USADemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has come under fire for going 274 days without a press conference, but her running mate insists that’s not true: She’s done one. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said Sunday that he wanted to “push back on the notion that she hasn’t done a press conference.” “She gave a
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USABy Joel H Cohen NEW YORK –Despite the very mixed reviews of his recent visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico City, Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to go to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and address the Knesset. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not yet responded
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Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Martin Luther King Jr. is understandably remembered and cherished as the iconic civil rights leader, “the drum major for justice,” and for his brilliant oratorical skills. Some also recall his provocative, brave cri de coeur as the vanguard protestor against the Vietnam War—which did not line up in his
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USAA month after Donald Trump suffered his weakest poll numbers since effectively securing the nomination in May, Hillary Clinton”s campaign has hit its own nadir, with steady reversals first in national and now state polling. After benefiting from weeks of unforced errors by the Republican nominee, Clinton”s lead nationwide over Trump spiked to over 7
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USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump made an appearance at a black church in Detroit Saturday, and received a prayer shawl (tallit) for the occasion. After giving a brief speech, Trump received a Jewish Heritage Study Bible along with the prayer shawl from Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, pastor of Great Faith Ministries International. Trump wore the
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