On April 13, 2016, barely a month after I started observing hijab, I attended an event called “Conversations with Bill.” It was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, one of the first I had attended, and I was so excited to hear from the former president. Unfortunately, before the event could even get going I was […]
PHILADELPHIA – Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the Democrats’ 2016 vice presidential nominee, said the party is more unified than it was at this point eight years ago and that supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders understand that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is “a threat to everything they care about.” “I actually think where we
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USAIt’s crystal clear that Hillary Clinton stands a very good chance at becoming the next president of the United States. But win or lose, now is the time for her to act like the president she hopes to be. She’ll begin, of course, Thursday night as she makes her first and fullest statement yet as
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USADonald Trump said Thursday morning that he was being “sarcastic” about asking Russians to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails from her tenure as secretary of state. He also said that he didn’t know who had hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s emails. “Of course I am being sarcastic,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in
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International, USAHere is the full transcript of Barack Obama’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia: So 12 years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha—now two amazing young women who just fill me with pride. You fell for my brilliant
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USAPHILADELPHIA (Press Release) The following are former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016: “Let me thank all of you for welcoming an outsider here to deliver what will be an unconventional convention speech. I am not here as
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By Ken Stone and Chris Stone Using #NeverHillary hashtags, some in the “Bernie or Bust” movement are swearing allegiance to Jill Stein of the Green Party. That sends shivers up the spine of Rep. Juan Vargas, the two-term San Diego congressman whose 51st District borders Mexico. “I understand that some people are disappointed,” Vargas said
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Ken Stone, USAIt’s a long way from where I grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, to the dining room in Vice President Joe Biden’s home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Yet that’s where I found myself one day last December, along with a handful of other cancer specialists. We had been invited to offer our perspectives
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Utah State Senator Mark Madsen has announced his switch from the Republican party to the Libertarian party and his endorsement of Gary Johnson for president. Madsen held a press conference at 1:30 Monday afternoon in Salt Lake City, stating, “Today I announce that I am joining the Libertarian party and will
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USAEntering the Wells Fargo arena to “City of Blinding Lights” by U2, President Barack Obama took one of his final primetime bows on Wednesday. The event marked perhaps the last of the soaring speeches that have defined his unlikely rise to the White House, his defiant re-election and his place in history as the first
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USALONDON, England (Press Release) — Dozens of celebrities have offered their support for a Jewish family who has just a month to find a bone marrow donor to save their mother’s life after her leukaemia returned. Stars such as Sharon Osbourne, Matt Lucas, boyband Blue, Bear Grylls, Jeremy Kyle and London mayor Sadiq Khan have
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By Ken Stone Cracking a slight smile only after finishing her remarks, an ex-Marine from San Diego completed her mission Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention: Attacking Donald Trump. “The military is defined by discipline. Leadership. Integrity,” Kristen Kavanaugh said in a 4-minute talk just before former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. “Those are the qualities
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)- Bend the Arc Jewish Action PAC on Thursday, July 28, announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. Bend the Arc Jewish Action CEO Stosh Cotler issued the following statement: “We are excited to join President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders and other leading
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USAPHILADELPHIA — President Barack Obama forcefully made the case Wednesday that Hillary Clinton has the tenacity, heart and temperament to guide the nation as commander in chief, while painting Donald Trump as a candidate of cynicism and fear unfit for the office. “There has never been a man or a woman” more qualified to be