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In flooded Louisiana neighborhood, residents ride home through alligator-infested waters

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Anita Leblanc was riding home on a tractor through several feet of floodwater Sunday, the same tractor that moments before had towed her car away from the overflowing Vermilion River to safety. More than a week after a storm flooded much of central Louisiana, killing 13, more than 86,000 have applied […]

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Black Lives Matter takes heat for Louisiana flood relief inaction after Baton Rouge protests

Black Lives Matter is coming under fire for its lackluster response to the catastrophic Louisiana flooding less than a month after mobilizing crowds to protest the shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge. In an online video going viral, Baton Rouge resident Jerry L. Washington asks, “Where are the Black Lives Matter and the

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Claressa Shields defends Olympic boxing title, first US boxer to win back-to-back golds

RIO DE JANEIRO — American Claressa Shields made history Sunday afternoon, becoming the first U.S. boxer to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals, defeating the Netherland’s Nouchka Fontijn in the women’s middleweight (75 kg). This is gold medal story of survival, escaping from poverty and a difficult childhood, bouncing between 11 homes by the time she

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Trump won’t release tax returns while under IRS audit, aide says

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s new campaign manager said Sunday that the GOP nominee will not release his income tax returns to the public until an Internal Revenue Service audit is complete. It was a reversal for Kellyanne Conway, who was named Trump’s campaign manager on Wednesday. Earlier this year, the Republican pollster and strategist had

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Clinton Foundation Needs ‘Some Time’ on Donation Issue

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager defended her commitment to transparency and trustworthiness Sunday amid continuing doubts about her honesty and integrity. The decision of the Clinton Foundation to stop accepting foreign donations should the Democratic nominee become president as well as State Department emails that sparked fresh questions about access to Clinton were discussed on CNN’s

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International, USA

US crushes Serbia, 96-66, for men’s basketball Olympic gold

RIO DE JANEIRO — After Kevin Durant hit a 3-pointer early in the second quarter, he walked back down the court while pounding his fist on his chest and yelling at his teammates on the bench nearby. Turns out he was just clearing his throat. It was Durant’s monster second quarter that ended any notion

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Trump ‘wrestling’ with how ‘and whether’ to deport 11 million people

Aides to Donald Trump suggested Sunday that the Republican presidential nominee may be reconsidering his campaign promise to round up and deport 11 million people who are in the United States illegally. His new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if Trump still wants a “deportation force” to remove

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International, USA

Ben Cardin, Maryland U.S. senator: Efforts to pry into Clinton emails are a ‘partisan witch hunt’

Sen. Ben Cardin on Sunday said ongoing attempts to dig into Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of private email at the State Department amount to a “partisan with hunt” by congressional Republicans and right-leaning groups hoping to distract from Donald Trump’s own issues. Mr. Cardin, Maryland Democrat, said Republicans should be focused on the Trump team’s

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No matter how they try, Hillary can’t be made clean

By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California –The Talmudic Sages coined a phrase to express their dismay and revulsion against the bad habit of one of their lower-level scholars who always tried ” to purify a non-kosher animal with 150 reasons (letaher sheretz bekan teamim.) They meant that, even for a flagrantly treif meat, forbidden for consumption according

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Americans’ Triumph at Olympics Shows Greatness of Melting Pot, Not Diversity

AKUMAL, Mexico–As luck would have it, my family and I have been watching that feast of American greatness called the Olympics while in vacation here in Mexico. Our routine is pretty simple: we do some combination of hitting the beach, visiting Maya ruins or reading, and then have dinner at our hideaway before huddling in

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

American Zionist honors Netanyahu – with a grove of trees

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently received an unusual expression of appreciation: a plaque indicating that a grove of 1,000 trees had been donated in his honor. The gift was from So. Florida resident Sheryl Silver, a former national secretary of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and founder of the Enough is Enough Initiative. Born

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Middle East, USA

US State Dept. finally cites PA anti-Semitism

The US State Department has finally called out the anti-Semitism of the Palestinian Authority, in its newly-released annual report on international religious freedom. The new report indicated that official Palestinian Authority media “carried religiously intolerant material” in its television programs that “denied a historical Jewish presence in Jerusalem” or referred to Jews as “evil.” The

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Middle East, USA