Congress’s top tax expert led Republicans Wednesday in demanding President Trump fire IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, saying the tax agency cannot be repaired as long as he’s at the helm. “Trust in the IRS is hitting rock-bottom,” the Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a […]
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USALaw enforcement officials are not saying whether they will charge broadcaster Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist ally of President Donald Trump, for publicly threatening to “beat” Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and telling Schiff to “fill your hand”—a reference to taking up a pistol. But, says an attorney with expertise in federal law, Jones’s threats
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USARasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiya, will be heading to Ankara, Turkey By Dov Lieber Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiyye, is Israel’s first female Arab-Muslim diplomat. (Twitter) The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday appointed Rasha Atamny, 31, to represent the Jewish state in Ankara, Turkey, making her Israel’s first female Muslim diplomat. Atamny, who is
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Middle EastFORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas inmate has won a 12-year battle with the state over access to kosher meals in prison. Inmate Max Moussazadeh dropped his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after persuading the state to provide kosher food not only to him but to all Orthodox Jewish inmates in
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Jewish Religion, USAIsrael’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, held a Passover Seder at the UN with the participation of dozens of ambassadors from various countries. Danon told the ambassadors about the meaning of the Passover holiday and explained to them the holiday’s customs. Afterwards, ambassadors read excerpts from the Haggadah and ate the traditional holiday
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau passed his first electoral test this week since coming to power in 2015, protecting his Liberal party’s majority in five by-elections. However national polls show the 45-year-old leader’s personal popularity at home has started to fall even though he is internationally admired. Reuters reported a comfortable win in the regional
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InternationalIsrael has been working on a massive wall along its border with the Gaza Strip that aims to rob Hamas of its main strategic weapon: tunnels. Nachal Oz, Israel (dpa) – A tractor lazily chugs across a field as sunlight streams down on the landscape awash with spring colours. It would be a perfect pastoral
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Middle EastChelsea Clinton appeared on CBS Tuesday morning to quash rampant rumors about her mother’s future in politics. When asked if the former presidential candidate would run again in the future, her daughter responded, “I don’t think so.” Hillary Clinton has kept a low profile since losing the election to Donald Trump in November. The former
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USAThe city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of America’s hotspots for liberals-slash-progressives, just voted on a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Sigh. The City Council actually voted on this. Seven-to-one, with one abstention. The resolution asks the House of Representatives to “look into the president’s various business interests, and their potential violation
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USAPresident Donald Trump has signed a repeal of internet privacy rules despite criticism that it threatens to undermine online safety and enable unconstitutional mass surveillance. The overturning of the Obama-era privacy protections, which was supported by Congress in a March 28 vote, will allow internet providers to share personal information with advertisers and other third
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USAKyrgyzstan’s security service says the likely suspect in Monday’s deadly blast in the Russian city of St Petersburg is a native of the former Soviet republic who obtained Russian citizenship. A spokesman for the GKNB security service identified the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, born in the city of Osh in 1995. He provided no other
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InternationalOfficers allegedly hit the man repeatedly with their rifles and threatened to shoot him, believing he was behind stabbing attack By Times of Israel staff An Israeli Border Police officer frisks a Palestinian man in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on September 20, 2016 (Sebi Berens/Flash90) Two Border Police officers were indicted
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Middle EastFormer Trump campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he passed documents to a Russian spy in 2013 but the information was not sensitive, BuzzFeed reported Monday. Page, an energy consultant, met with Russian intelligence agent Victor Podobnyy at a January 2013 energy conference in New York as the SVR agent tried to recruit Page. Podobnyy and
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International, USASpecial congressional elections are notoriously quirky and often hazardous to ruling parties. So with Donald Trump struggling in Washington, it’s hardly surprising that Republicans are nervous about four contests this spring, especially one this month in Atlanta’s suburbs. The poster child for what could happen occurred in Mississippi in 1981, six months after Ronald Reagan
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