AUSTIN, Texas — Will Texas billionaire Mark Cuban run for president? During a talk at South by Southwest, the judge of the reality show “Shark Tank” didn’t rule out a 2020 race for the White House. “I’ve got a lot of time to decide, and we’ll see what happens,” he told the crowd. Cuban’s topic […]
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USAST. LOUIS — A federal judge Monday ordered that a St. Louis man accused of making at least eight bomb threats to Jewish organizations remain in jail until his possible indictment and trial. U.S. District Judge David Noce said that the allegations against Juan M. Thompson, 32, were “very serious,” and that allowing him out
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USATwenty-four million people will lose health insurance by 2026 if the healthcare plan put forward by House Republicans is enacted, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report released Monday. The CBO estimated the American Health Care Act, the bill proposed by House Republicans to repeal and replace the American Care Act, also
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — USC professor Raphael Bostic made history on Monday when he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, becoming the first African-American to lead one of the Fed’s 12 regional banks. The choice of Bostic, 50, director of the Bedrosian Center on Governance at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy,
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USAOpposition to a congressional bill that would explicitly remove genetic privacy protections from workplace wellness programs grew on Monday, with one of the country’s leading wellness associations calling the proposed changes “punitive.” The bill, approved by a House committee last week, would eliminate longstanding genetic privacy protections from workplace wellness programs, which are allowed to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher has developed a new technique that could provide virtually 100 percent protection against cyberattacks launched through internet videos or images, which are a growing threat. “Any downloaded or streamed video or picture is a potential vehicle for a cyberattack,” says Professor Ofer Hadar,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe American Wealth Care Act By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The Congressional Budget Office projects that 14,000,000 people currently covered under Obamacare will lose their health care under the American Health Care Act by 2018. Given the priorities of Paul Ryan and his House colleagues who crafted the bill, this is a good thing. After all,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAFor the past 25 years, members of the two-century-old community of Mahakan Fort have been fighting to remain in houses built by their ancestors – ever since a bill was passed to expropriate land plots deemed to belong to the state. Bangkok (dpa) – In the Thai capital, where some 10 million people live, rapid
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InternationalIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying Persians once tried to destroy the Jewish people, accusing the Israeli premier of distorting Jewish history. On a trip to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Netanyahu said Persians tried to destroy the Jewish people 2,500 years
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Jewish History, Middle EastPresident Donald Trump may have bested the Clintons with his electoral upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, but another American political dynasty could be planning for a major comeback in 2020. The Kennedys have several Democratic candidates who could potentially announce bids for the ticket to take on the sitting-president, including Rep. Joseph P.
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USASenate Democrats said Monday that they will block any spending bill that includes money for President Trump’s border wall, even if it leads to a government shutdown, saying it’s up to Republicans to resist touchy issues in the looming spending debate. In a letter led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, top Democrats also said
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Last week, the White House tried to avoid giving further life to President Donald Trump’s stunning and unsupported allegation that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of him last year. And when WikiLeaks posted new documents claiming to expose surveillance tactics available to the intelligence community, the White House steadfastly refused to confirm
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USAFive Jewish community centers across the United States and Canada were evacuated following bomb threats during the Purim holiday on Sunday, the latest incidents in a wave of harassment targeting Jewish institutions across North America. The targets of Sunday”s bomb threats included the Jewish Community Center of Rochester, the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center, the Evelyn
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International, USAThe war in Syria has left more than 465,000 people dead or missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Monday. The U.K.-based monitoring group, which uses a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said that 321,000 people, including 96,000 civilians, had died as a result of the conflict since it began
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