New York (dpa) – US President Donald Trump’s childhood home in New York City has sold for 2.1 million dollars to a real estate auction house just a few months after selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars less than that. The five-bedroom Tudor style house built in 1940 in the borough of Queens was […]
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USALANSING, Mich. — Michigan will allocate $87 million for the city of Flint to identify and replace at least 18,000 unsafe water lines by 2020 under a proposed settlement of a federal lawsuit that also provides the state with a road map to end free distribution of bottled water. The proposed settlement also requires the
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USAWASHINGTON — A Yosemite National Park trademark fight has an influential new combatant with the recruitment of a top D.C. lawyer whose clients include the daughter and son-in-law of President Donald Trump. Attorney Jamie S. Gorelick, a longtime D.C. power player since her years as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, now represents Yosemite’s
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USAWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hackers are trying to breach the city of West Palm Beach’s computers, and they could be motivated by President Donald Trump’s ties to the area, Mayor Jeri Muoio said Monday. The FBI is investigating, and more than $150,000 has been spent trying to find out what is happening, she said.
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USAWASHINGTON — The day before the House Intelligence Committee chairman revealed that conversations by Trump transition officials may have been inadvertently picked up by U.S. surveillance, he met with the source of the information at the White House, his spokesman said Monday Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., went to the White House because there was a
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International, USADespite restaurants and businesses being ordered to evacuate the exclusion zone during Wednesday’s terror attack in London, this man insisted on staying open and feeding 500 police officers and emergency personnel while they worked. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> Ibrahim Dogus, a Muslim-born man who owns three Kurdish restaurants in the Westminster area, was ordered to shut
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InternationalPHOENIX — NFL owners Monday overwhelmingly gave Las Vegas its blessing to host one of the league’s most storied franchises as the Raiders are headed for the desert as expected. The owners’ historic 31-1 decision allows owner Mark Davis to uproot for the team for the third time in 35 years — much to the
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Sports & Competitions, USAAttorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money – and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past. Speaking at the White House, Mr. Sessions said his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s first woman president in a decade, Lillian Pinkus, told the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) Sunday night that its work nurturing a new generation of women leaders is “transformative.” Pinkus, meeting with JWRP leaders at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, recalled seeing a group of women
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Middle East, USAWellington (dpa) – China and New Zealand have agreed to a number of joint initiatives on climate change, tourism and education, Prime Minister Bill English announced Monday after meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The two countries also will begin talks next month on upgrading their free trade agreement, English said, calling the deal, which
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InternationalPolice said to seek witnesses to turn against Haim Katz in investigation into Israel Aerospace Industries By Times of Israel staff Israeli Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs Haim Katz arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL) Police are seeking witnesses to
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Middle EastThe World Health Organization and U.N. children’s fund are spearheading a massive immunization campaign across Africa to rid the continent of the last vestiges of polio. Tens of thousands of health workers will fan out across 13 central and western African countries to vaccinate more than 116 million children under age five against the crippling
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationSouth Korean prosecutors said on Monday they will seek an arrest warrant for ousted president Park Geun-hye, which would see her held in a cell for up to 20 days while being investigated on charges of taking bribes from big businesses. In the latest twist in this shocking affair, Park, 65, became South Korea’s first
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InternationalDetention of Rafat Nasif, who has spent decades in and out of prison, linked to secretive elections underway for group’s West Bank leadership By Judah Ari Gross and Times of Israel staff Illustrative: IDF soldiers during an arrest raid in the central West Bank on February 23, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit) Israeli forces arrested a
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