President Donald Trump likes to live in the lap of luxury, and he’s not going to let presidential tasks like launching 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria disrupt the decadent lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed. In a new interview with Fox Business, Trump described the Palm Beach scene from which he authorized the airstrike last […]
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International, Middle East, USARALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina state lawmaker said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page who were criticizing his bill that would have directed state government to defy a
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USAAlan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard law professor and progressive in good standing, lashed out at activists and Democratic Party officials who are trying to make political hay out of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s . Spicer created a firestorm at the daily briefing Tuesday when he said even Hitler never sunk so low as
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International, Middle East, USAHead of the Palestinian Federation in Chile barred over alleged efforts to promote boycott of Jewish state By Times of Israel staff The Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and Israel (Shay Levy/Flash90) A Chilean Palestinian BDS activist was barred from entering the West Bank on Monday, weeks after the Knesset passed a bill allowing
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International, Middle EastOpposition MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) on Wednesday announced she would fight the law forbidding public showing of chametz (leavened products) during the Pesach (Passover) holiday. The new proposal would cancel the existing law and allow the public display of chametz during Pesach. It will be proposed immediately following the end of the holiday. Zandberg claims
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastJapan plans to send several warships to the Korean Peninsula to join the U.S. warship Carl Vinson, which was redeployed to the region Monday according to reports. Kyodo news agency, a cooperative news agency based in Japan, and Reuters both cited sources that had confirmed ships from Japan’s naval fleet would travel to the East
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International, USATokyo/Beijing (dpa) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing wanted to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula by peaceful means. Japan’s Defence Ministry told dpa on Wednesday that the Japanese Navy plans to soon conduct a joint military exercise with a US aircraft carrier
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International, USAAfter a long-fought battle with leukemia, comedian Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy, died Wednesday. He was 57. Charlie Murphy was mostly known for his comedic sketches on “Chappelle’s Show.” Murphy also co-wrote some of his brother’s movies and appeared in a few movies such as “Are We There Yet,” “The Boondocks” and
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWhen former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put his name forward as a candidate in the country’s May 19 presidential election, it surprised observers both inside and outside the Islamic Republic. Not least because Iran’s highest religious figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had discouraged Ahmadinejad from running. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s current leader and the reformist
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Middle EastThree Republican lawmakers in North Carolina filed a bill Tuesday that seeks to defy the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. House Bill 780, otherwise known as the Uphold Historical Marriage Act, said the Supreme Court “overstepped its constitutional bounds” when it struck down an amendment of North Carolina’s constitution in its
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USAAfter bringing down News of the World for cell phone hacking, Mark Lewis is intent on combating anti-Semitism — even as he travels to Israel to fight his multiple sclerosis By Jenni Frazer LONDON — You really wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of media and libel lawyer Mark Lewis. For a good
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International, Middle EastIn a landmark amendment to their pre-existing laws, Taiwan has become the first country in Asia to totally ban the consumption of dog and cat meat. According to the Animals Asia Foundation, the Animal Protection Act enforced on the island only prohibited the slaughter and marketing of pet meats. Now, the actual act of eating
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International, The World We ShareManila (dpa) – Philippine security forces have killed a leader of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group who was suspected to be behind the beheading of a German tourist in February, officials said Wednesday. Muammar Askali, who goes by the alias Abu Rami, was among six Abu Sayyaf militants killed in a firefight on the central
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InternationalMOSCOW — As top diplomats from Russia and the United States held a testy meeting Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at the Trump administration, saying relations between Washington and Moscow had deteriorated. “You can say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military side, has not improved but
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