Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ibtihaj Muhammad is set to leave a mark at the Summer Olympics, no matter how she ends up doing in the women’s sabre fencing events in Rio de Janeiro. When she takes the stage at the Carioca arena in Monday’s individual tournament, she will be the first US athlete to […]
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International, Sports & Competitions, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Alan Baker is a distinguished, British-born Israeli expert in international law and Israel’s former ambassador to Canada. According to Baker, the US State Department promulgates the notion that, “Israel’s settlement activity is the source of all evil in the world, and the US is waging a massive war of
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAWASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2016 – Money is the milk of presidential campaigns and polls are the cereal. They come together to decide whether a candidate will have the nourishment and stamina to make it across the finish line first. According to the New York Times, tens of thousands of small donors across the nation are
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USAWashington (dpa) – The United States killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in an airstrike in central Yemen, US military authorities announced Friday. The airstrike, which took place on Thursday, occurred in Shabwah Governorate, US Central Command said in a statement. “AQAP remains a significant threat to the region, the United
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — After Rep. Lee Zeldin created a firestorm for publicly musing whether US President Barack Obama is “playing for some other team,” liberal Jewish organizations castigated the GOP congressman for suggesting their commander in chief is secretly acting as a foreign agent. In a statement Wednesday, Zeldin responded to a Wall Street Journal report
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Middle East, USAIndiana Gov. Mike Pence said Friday that while President Obama might claim otherwise, the whole world knows that a $400 million payment to Iran in January as American hostages were being released was a “ransom.” “Most Americans are reeling this week with the news that the Obama administration delivered 400 million in cash to the
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Middle East, USARussia on Friday hit back at American criticism over Syria, accusing Washington of lacking trust in Moscow and not behaving as a true partner. “The United States sometimes don’t behave as partners when dealing with us on Syrian issues and are not always ready to negotiate on equal grounds,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told
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International, Middle East, USAThis article originally appeared on the International Business Times. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton raised money this week from a deep-pocketed donor with a potential interest in one of the most controversial issues facing voters in Colorado this November. Clinton attended an Aspen fundraiser Tuesday hosted by Charif Souki, who amassed his fortune working for
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USADuring World War II, an American B-29 bomber called the ‘Enola Gay’ dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb killed close to 80,000 people instantly and the death toll later went up to about 135,000. Several died of the long-term effects of radiation sickness. It was
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International, USAFirst Daughter Sasha Obama didn’t get to laze around the White House this summer ahead of her sophomore year of high school — she got a job. The Boston Herald exclusively reported Wednesday that Sasha, 15, has recently been working at Nancy’s Restaurant in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. “It’s pretty random,” one employee told the Herald.
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USAThe U.S. Treasury Department is considering whether to approve the sale of commercial aircraft to Iran by Boeing and Airbus – and 42 former top national security officials have written a letter raising serious concerns about it. The nuclear deal signed last year with Iran by the U.S. and other Western countries enables such sales
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Middle East, USADonald Trump unveiled his economic advisory council Friday morning, three days before he’s scheduled to take the stage at the Detroit Economic Club for a speech laying out his ideas for “revitalizing the American economy.” Perhaps not surprisingly, given his business background, his roster of advisers is heavy on CEOs and financiers and short on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Virginia Thrasher has a gold medal, but it won’t get her a pass with her physics professor. She will return to classes at West Virginia only 20 hours after returning to the U.S. on Aug. 17. “I’ll be in physics at 8:30 a.m.,” she said. Thrasher might want to volunteer for
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