LOS ANGELES — The administration of the University of California system pays top workers salaries significantly higher than that of similar state employees, has provided millions of dollars in benefits not typical to the public sector and failed to disclose to the Board of Regents and the public that it had $175 million in budget […]
By Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — The elections are over but debates about the issues raised and promises made by Candidate Trump are in full swing without any signs of subsiding. The following is an analysis of his intention to work towards establishing a good relationship with Russia. To avoid misunderstanding, I should start
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, USAMiami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has reached an agreement in principle to sell the team to a group led by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and including former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter, pending Major League Baseball approval and other details still to be worked out in the drawing up and execution of a
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Sports & Competitions, USAIvanka Trump was booed in Berlin when she described her father, Donald, as a “tremendous champion of supporting families”. During a podium discussion in Berlin at a women’s summit organised by the G20 group of major economies, Trump said she is still working out how she could make an impact and trying to learn from
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International, USAWASHINGTON — About that border wall with Mexico. President Donald Trump backed off demands that Congress fund his promised border wall with Mexico after political opposition threatened a government shutdown, averting what could have been an embarrassing moment Friday on the eve of marking his first 100 days in the White House. Trump’s reversal was
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to confirm Rod J. Rosenstein as the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, a post that puts the veteran prosecutor in charge of the investigation into whether current or former aides to President Donald Trump coordinated with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Rosenstein, 52, won unusual bipartisan
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International, USASAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge placed a nationwide hold Tuesday on President Donald Trump’s order to strip funds from municipal governments that refuse to cooperate fully with immigration agents. U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick III, an Obama appointee based in San Francisco, said Trump’s Jan. 25 order, directed at so-called sanctuary cities and
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International, USAErin Moran’s husband is finally speaking out. In an open letter to fans, posted on Scott Baio’s Facebook page, Steve Fleischmann opened up about his wife’s cancer battle. In the letter, Fleischmann said he first noticed signs of her cancer just before Thanksgiving, when she woke up with blood on her pillow. Watch the video
Rebecca Zeff Today at the beach, an Arab asked me if he could use my sunscreen, after a couple of Israeli girls denied him and his friends their sunscreen “because…you are Arabs.” But that was after he and his friends denied the girls some of their vodka (to go with the girls’ energy drinks) “because…you
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Middle East, Travel and FoodKing Mohammed V stopped the Nazis short of eradicating his Jewish community — but not of imposing anti-Semitic laws. Now Germany pays reparations, even as scholars fill in gaps By Julie Masis MONTREAL — Montreal engineer Sam Edery has a special copper menorah at home, passed down to him from his grandfather, who was the
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International, Jewish HistoryBerlin (dpa) – The registered number of Jews in Germany declined slightly in 2016 for the 10th time in a row. According to statistics from the Central Office of Jews in Germany, there were 98,594 members of the Jewish community in Germany at the end of last year compared with 99,695 in 2015. The number
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International, Jewish HistoryThe growing phenomenon of water theft in the northern Jordan River Valley area is leaving some local farmers in dire straits, with little water left over after the illegal siphoning for irrigation. Yehuda Reines, a Jewish farmer and one of the founders of the town of Mehola in the Jordan River Valley, spoke with Arutz
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Middle EastSydney (dpa) – When Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November, the Australian government was scrambling to figure out how to contact him. Former top golfer Greg Norman, who is Australian and lives in Florida, passed on Trump’s mobile phone number to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, making it possible for him to
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International, USAOn Saturday, U.S. citizen Kim Sang-duk became the third U.S. citizen to be held in North Korea after police arrested him as he prepared to board a flight at Pyongyang International Airport. Since the 1990s, the majority of foreigners detained in North Korea have been U.S. citizens, with 15 arrested in total since 1995. North
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