KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In yet another horror story about the state of commercial aviation, a nurse from Kansas City says she was forced to pee into a cup in her seat because she was not allowed to use the plane’s lavatory. Nicole Harper posted her account early Saturday on Facebook after, she says, she […]
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Travel and Food, USANorth Korea said Tuesday that the conservative bloc in South Korea should not be allowed to take power again as South Korea held its presidential election. In a move apparently aimed at intervening in the South’s politics, Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s main newspaper, said in its commentary that the removal of the conservative group will
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InternationalResponding to Erdogan comments on ‘Judaization’ of Israel’s capital, president says Israel will continue to ensure freedom of religion for all faiths By Marissa Newman and Raphael Ahren Reuven Rivlin at the Western Wall after winning the presidency, June 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday rebuked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Middle EastRIVER FALLS, Mass. — A judge Tuesday vacated Aaron Hernandez’s conviction for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd because the former New England Patriots star from died while his appeal was pending. It is unclear if the decision will have implications for the pending civil lawsuit against Hernandez’s estate filed by Lloyd’s mother. Her lawyer
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Sports & Competitions, USAFBI Director James Comey has been fired and like nearly everything in U.S. politics in recent years, it might be because of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Authorities told the Washington Post and ProPublica that Comey misspoke last week when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Human Abedin, Clinton’s right-hand woman, regularly forwarded “hundreds and thousands”
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USAJust hours after the FBI sent a letter Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee clarifying his testimony in relation to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, FBI Director James Comey was fired. “Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office,” White House Press Secretary Sean
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James B. Comey, who has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans since the presidential election. “The president has accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” press secretary Sean Spicer
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USAActress urges US president’s daughter to ‘tell your dad about real people who are suffering’ By Gabe Friedman JTA – Tell us how you really feel, Debra Messing. Accepting an award from GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, on Saturday night, the Jewish actress implored Ivanka Trump to stand up to her father, US President Donald
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray ended his campaign for re-election Tuesday — bowing out of a race that weeks ago he had been expected to win easily, shutting the door on a second term in Seattle’s highest office and aborting a political career that’s spanned decades. Murray’s decision comes a month after he was
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USAIllegal immigration across the southwest border dropped yet again in April, with the number of illegal immigrant children fallen below 1,000 for the first time in recent records, Homeland Security announced Tuesday. The numbers are part of a stunning drop since the beginning of the Trump administration. Border Patrol apprehensions alone are down a shocking
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By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Immigration has never been easy–moving to a new country, learning a new language, and adapting to new cultural norms can be the most difficult thing a person ever does. Immigrating is not easy today nor has it been easy in the past. About the Dybbuks, a collection of short stories
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USABy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Since he wrote it in 1984, Larry Shue’s play The Foreigner has been produced and revived by amateurs, students, and professional companies almost continually. It’s a two-act, two-and-a-half-hour absurdist comedy that taxes the abilities of the lead actor, who has to speak in gibberish the entire time. Fortunately, Mike Niedzwiecki is up
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAbbas says he is ready to meet with Netanyahu ‘to make peace’ (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he is ready to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of President Donald Trump’s renewed peace efforts. “We affirmed to [Trump] that we are ready to cooperate with him and meet
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Middle EastFormer U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested Sunday an income tax cut to get the economy moving is unnecessary, and the country would be better off with infrastructure spending and tax reform. “I think that it is important, as I mentioned, even though the recovery is proceeding, the underlying growth path is not very
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