The Trump Train hasn’t fallen off the tracks — but the engines might just be stalling out. The candidate who is seemingly unable to be derailed by controversy has seen his campaign significantly hurt after he attacked the Muslim parents of a fallen U.S. soldier. A quick recap: the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army […]
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USAA man Donald Trump introduced as retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman presented the Republican presidential nominee with his Purple Heart before a rally Tuesday in Virginia. “I said to him, ‘Is that like the real one, or is that a copy?” Mr. Trump recalled in his speech at a high school in Ashburn. He said
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USAThe Islamic State is targeting the U.S. Army, putting out a hit list of 700 soldiers and ordering its terror army to “kill the dogs.” United Cyber Caliphate (UCC), the Islamic State’s 3-month-old hacking consortium, has posted a number of such lists. Analysts say most names appear to be publicly available and randomly chosen as
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Middle East, USAASHBURN, Va. — Donald Trump tried change the news narrative Tuesday during a rally in suburban Virginia, re-focusing on his now-signature pledge to overhaul trade deals and build a border wall while avoiding his latest controversy: a high-profile spat with the parents of a slain Muslim-American soldier. Hundreds packed into an Ashburn high school —
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USABALTIMORE — Baltimore County police said they shot and killed a woman Monday after she pointed a gun at officers and threatened to kill them during an hours-long standoff at an apartment in Randallstown, Maryland. Police identified the woman as 23-year-old Korryn Gaines. A 5-year-old boy in the home was taken to the hospital with
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USADonald Trump outdid himself by attacking the American Muslim parents of a decorated soldier killed in Iraq who challenged his persistent racism in one of the Democratic convention’s most compelling moments. But that revealing insight into his character may not have been the worst thing Trump did in a week that revealed his true self
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Despite Donald Trump’s criticism of the family of a fallen Muslim U.S. Army captain, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said he could not imagine rescinding his endorsement of the Republican presidential nominee. “That would mean supporting Hillary Clinton, who I would never be able to support,” Rubio said Tuesday. The former presidential candidate joined
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USANo one said it would be easy being Donald Trump’s running-mate. And at a rally in Nevada on Monday, Mike Pence found himself treading a delicate line. Indiana Gov. Pence defended the Republican candidate but also a military mother’s right to criticise Trump for his attacks on the Muslim parents of a US soldier killed
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USAMark Langfan, Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI), commented Tuesday on the case of Lenny, the 90-year old Jew who spontaneously apologized to the daughter of a top Palestinian terrorist for so-called “Islamophobia,” when he bumped into her and her daughters at a Boston bookstore. Lenny’s apology was featured in a viral post
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Middle East, USAFormer Israeli president Shimon Peres appeared to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that carrying out his isolationist foreign policy vision would be “a very great mistake.” In an interview with Bloomberg quoted by JTA, Peres did not refer to the Republican presidential nominee by name. But when asked about Trump”s statements on foreign
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Middle East, USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump is warning about the possibility that the November election will be “rigged” and “taken away” from Republicans. “It was rigged, I thought, a little bit for me and we won in landslides,” Mr. Trump said on Fox News’ “Hannity” program Monday evening. “I think it was rigged against Bernie Sanders
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USAThere is no doubt that U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan was a noble young man. His courage was obvious in the way he died at a military compound in Baquoba, Iraq. When Khan saw a taxicab crash through the gates of the base, he quickly ordered his men to take cover. But instead of running
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USADonald Trump is not in a happy place. He thinks the world is conspiring against him. He warned an audience in Ohio Monday that the election could be “rigged.” He thinks Hillary Clinton is not just an everyday adversary but “the devil” in human form. A growing corps of Republicans are denouncing him, for fear
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as commander in chief and dared Republicans to rescind their endorsements of their presidential nominee. Leading Republicans’ denunciations of Trump’s comments “ring hollow” so long as they continue to endorse his candidacy, Obama said. “If you are repeatedly having to say,