By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Often, when I am booked for lectures or radio and television interviews, I am provided questions in advance to help me prepare. Some of the questions are provocative, the kind that make me stop and think. So much so, I am sharing a few here with my replies. […]
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAThe White House said Friday that President Obama’s top advisers conducted an “even-handed” transition meeting with representatives of presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, even though Mr. Obama is rooting for Mrs. Clinton. “The president and his team are determined to being even-handed in planning for a presidential transition,” said White House press secretary
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USAPALO ALTO, Calif. — The Santa Clara County judge who faces a recall threat for giving a light sentence to a Stanford student convicted of sexual assault will no longer handle criminal cases — at his own request. Judge Aaron Persky asked to be reassigned from hearing criminal cases at the Palo Alto courthouse, where
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USANorth Korea’s in a good mood these days. The nation is celebrating its first successful test of a submarine-launched missile. The country’s leader — Kim Jong Un — says the US mainland is now within striking range of his nuclear weapons. That sounds like a threat. Joel Wit, a former US nuclear negotiator with North
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — In my book Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism I detail the discovery of a new strain of anti-Semitism that I noticed in Europe, namely the urge by haters to drive a wedge between the local Jew and the Jewish State. I wrote of several examples of the modern form of
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By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, two Syrian government Su-24 airplanes bombed the Kurdish-held areas of the city of Hasakah. The attack was unexpected. The Kurds have operated semi-autonomously in Syria because their pressure on ISIS has been helpful to Damascus, and because the Kurdish agenda has been primarily regional
By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States was humiliated this week when the USS Nitze came under simulated attack by four Iranian missile and torpedo-equipped speedboats in international waters. Despite American warnings, radio calls, flares and foghorns, two of the boats came within a few hundred yards of the Nitze.
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAHillary Clinton is pushing back on a report this week that she took many meetings with Clinton Foundation donors as secretary of state, saying there’s “a lot of smoke” but “no fire.” “My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces,” Mrs. Clinton said in a telephone interview with CNN Wednesday
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USAWashington (dpa) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused Republican rival Donald Trump of “prejudice and paranoia” and said he has embraced the racist fringe of the United States. “A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the
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USAAuthorities in Brazil have filed charges accusing U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte of making a false police report and want him in Brazil to respond to them. According to a police statement, Mr. Lochte, who has publicly acknowledged exaggerating his account of the gas-station confrontation, will be informed of the charges in the U.S. and asked
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAAnn Coulter, the author of “In Trump We Trust,” is publicly lambasting Donald Trump’s “softening” on immigration policy. Ms. Coulter found herself in the odd position Wednesday of trying to promote a book on the Republican Party’s presidential candidate while criticizing his new rhetoric on illegal immigration. “No citizenship. Let me go a step further
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International, USAIn the face of withering criticism, Mylan Pharmaceuticals took steps Thursday to make its EpiPen device more affordable. Specifically, the company is increasing the amount of money on a copay assistance card from $100 to $300, and is also widening eligibility for patients to receive the device through that assistance program. “We recognize the significant
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIt wasn’t too long ago that the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was boasting he could make states that traditionally vote Democratic, like California and New York, competitive in the 2016 presidential election. “We’re going to play heavy, as an example, in California,” Trump told a crowd in Billings, Montana, on May 26. “Now no
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USAI have astonishment fatigue. Every day this summer, I’m newly and horribly astonished at what we humans dish out to each other. Wednesday it was Leslie Jones’ website being hacked, followed quickly by the reaction to the Leslie Jones website hack. Jones, the “Saturday Night Live” actress who stars in the new “Ghostbusters” movie, saw
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