The co-author of Donald Trump’s best-selling business guide and memoir The Art Of The Deal announced the president is undergoing a “significant meltdown” in a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper. “I think he’s reacting from a survival place,” Tony Schwartz told Cooper Wednesday. He’s in pure defensive mode…he’s being run by the part of his
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAUS President Donald Trump would consider leaving the North Atlantic Treaty Organization if member states do not follow through with pledges to increase their annual contributions to the Alliance, a senior White House official said. The White House official said, on condition of anonymity, that Trump wants to see faster and more concrete developments at
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International, USAResponding to censure, Jerusalem institution says graduation ceremony has followed same format for years, and that anthem is always aired at the state ceremonies it holds By Stuart Winer View of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus seen from Jerusalem’s Old City, on June 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and politicians lined
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON — The Trump administration, taking the first formal step toward overhauling the North American Free Trade Agreement, notified Congress Thursday of its intent to renegotiate the pact with Canada and Mexico in 90 days. The letter to lawmakers, sent by the newly confirmed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, means that Trump’s trade officials could
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International, USAWorkshopping resumes. Quietly discussing future job prospects. Sending out the classic, “I’d love to grab coffee and catch up!” email. What sounds like the inside of a fledgling business in the final weeks ahead of a Chapter 11 “restructuring” is actually President Donald Trump’s White House, as several staffers and aides scramble to save their
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned from a brief Twitter hiatus Thursday to call himself the victim of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” illustrating his anger over the appointment of a special counsel to head the investigation of Russian interference in last year’s election. His tweets undercut the more
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International, USAAttending film festival opening, Miri Regev wears picture of Western Wall, Dome of Rock to mark 50 years since reunification of city By Times of Israel staff Culture Minister Miri Regev (r) wears specially designed Jerusalem dress to Cannes film festival, May 17, 2017 (Screen capture: Channel 10) Culture Minister Miri Regev used the red
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastDETROIT — Chris Cornell, whose band Soundgarden was one of the architects of grunge music, was found dead at midnight in his MGM Grand hotel room in Detroit. Police told the Associated Press the 52-year-old musician’s death was being investigated as a possible suicide. A spokesman for the Detroit Police Department told the Free Press
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USASen. Elizabeth Warren became the first potential 2020 presidential candidate to raise the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump. In a podcast interview on Wednesday with International Business Times reporter David Sirota, the Massachusetts Democrat also endorsed the idea of a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care system, and urged her party to promote that concept to
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USARoger Ailes, the longtime head of Fox News, died Thursday morning at 77, according to a statement released by his wife. “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning,” Elizabeth Ailes said. “Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPresident Donald Trump has canceled a planned visit and speech at the ancient mountain fortress of Masada in Israel after authorities told him that he could not land his helicopter on top of the UNESCO-listed site. Instead, Trump will now deliver a speech at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It comes after an Israeli Air
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Middle East, USAAfter decades of house arrest, Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar López Rivera was released. His case made him a martyr for his followers and at the same time a terrorist for others; winning the hatred of those who lost loved ones in a series of bomb attacks that he directed. In the 1970s and 1980s, López
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USALondon (dpa) – Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny resigned as head of the ruling Fine Gael party on Wednesday, paving the way for him to be replaced as the country’s leader. In a statement via Twitter following a meeting of Fine Gael lawmakers, Kenny, 66, said he had asked the party to complete the process
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InternationalViewers tuning into CNN and Fox News on Tuesday evening for coverage of the purported memo by former FBI Director James B. Comey were treated to wildly different accounts. A close associate of Comey confirmed that the FBI director had written a memo reporting that President Donald Trump had asked Comey to “lay … off”
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