When this 31-year-old ballet dancer saw that no one was moving to rescue a homeless man who had fallen onto the New York City subway tracks, he knew that he had to be the one to act. Gray Davis was returning from watching his wife perform with the American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera
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USAHillary Clinton on Monday praised London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s leadership following Saturday’s terrorist attack, telling a crowd in Baltimore that now is not the time to use terror “for political gain.” The failed Democratic presidential nominee issued the thinly veiled attack against President Trump, without naming him or his policies directly, while speaking in Fells
The promised wall between the Trump Organization and the Trump presidency is no more—if it ever existed to begin with. On Tuesday evening, Eric Trump, one of the Trump children supposedly managing the family business while their father manages the nation, went on Fox News to complain about the Democratic Party in an astonishingly vitriolic
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USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump has challenged London Mayor Sadiq Khan to an IQ test after he said Trump was ignorant about Islam. Khan tweeted back that Trump’s hashtag should be Sad IQ Con, but Trump bragged he will win because the test consists of one question and only he knows the answer: What
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAPresident Donald Trump has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to authorize his ban on travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim countries. The president and his administration have insisted his executive order limiting travel to the United States was not a travel ban, but he called it that Monday on Twitter. “People, the
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International, USAIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been on the phone to regional leaders following the crisis between Qatar and several Arab Gulf nations, in the hope that the sudden breakdown in relations can be resolved, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Tuesday. Turkey is seen as having a close relationship with Qatar,
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Middle EastAfter violent Kafr Kassem protest, furious Arab lawmakers call for strike, say police neglecting to fight crime in Arab towns; Cops minister blames locals who ‘terrorize anyone’ trying to work with law enforcement By Times of Israel staff Police forces in Qafr Kassem on June 6, 2017 (Courtesy) Arab leaders on Tuesday announced a state
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Middle EastMEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities moved Monday to extradite an ex-governor on corruption charges, making him the eighth former Mexican governor facing criminal charges or already convicted. Roberto Borge, who served from 2011 to 2016 as governor of the state of Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun, the country’s major tourist destination, was arrested Sunday in
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InternationalUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had a frosty welcome as he made a brief visit to New Zealand, amid the furore over the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement. Despite a traditional Maori greeting befitting a foreign dignitary after he landed in Wellington, locals made rude gestures at his motorcade as it
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International, USALondon Mayor Sadiq Khan called Monday on the British government to cancel an anticipated state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump after Trump’s tweets criticizing Khan’s response to the radical Islamist attack in London Bridge that killed seven people over the weekend. Trump censured Khan on Sunday but misquoted him. Khan, in his statement after
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International, USAAustralian authorities are treating as “an act of terrorism”, a siege in Melbourne on Monday in which a man was killed along with the assailant. The so-called Islamic State said the gunman was one of its fighters. After shooting the man dead in the foyer of a block of flats in a residential area, he
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InternationalOur swiftly tilting planet Earth rotating at night. NASA Close your eyes and picture what the Earth looks like. You’re probably picturing a circle, mostly blue thanks to the ocean, with swirls of clouds and the occasional green and brown land mass. The entire sphere is floating in a mass of impossible black. You’re picturing
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International, The World We ShareA National Security Agency contractor named Reality Winner, 25, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with retaining and transmitting classified national defense information in violation of United States code 18 U.S.C. § 793(e). That’s according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Winner, who worked for the Pluribus International Corporation and
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International, USATuesday marks 73 years since D-Day, the pivotal World War II operation in which Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. It is known to be the largest seaborne invasion in history, with more than 160,000 soldiers landing on the beach in Normandy to take on the Nazi German fighters. Up to 12,000
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