International

Fight to isolate al-Raqqa high on Tillerson’s agenda in Turkey visit

Washington (dpa) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will confer with Turkish leaders on Syria and a host of other issues central to relations between the United States and Turkey when Tillerson travels to Ankara later this week, State Department officials said Monday. Tillerson will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after arriving in […]

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Middle East, USA

Palestinian cause scores high on Arab summit agenda

By JT – Mar 28,2017 – Last updated at Mar 28,2017 DEAD SEA — Concerns over the regional situation and its impact on Arab people dominated Arab officials’ speeches at the opening session of Monday’s foreign ministers’ preparatory meeting. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who received presidency from his Mauritanian counterpart Isselkou Ould Ahmed Izid Bih,

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International, Middle East

Democrats ramp up calls for Devin Nunes to recuse himself from Russia investigation

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee signaled Tuesday they will not let up on their calls for Chairman Devin Nunes to recuse himself from the panel’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. “Why should I?” said Mr. Nunes, underscoring his determination to see the panel’s investigation

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International, USA

Wall Street’s Fearless Girl Statue To Remain Until 2018

New York’s popular bronze ‘Fearless Girl’ statue will continue to defiantly stare down Wall Street’s ‘Charging Bull’ until 2018, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The city initially permitted the installation of the statue—funded by asset managers State Street Global Advisors—for one week from March 7 to commemorate International Women’s Day. The plaque

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Dick Cheney calls Russian election meddling ‘an act of war’

Russia may have committed an “act of war” by interfering in last year’s White House race, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday. Mr. Cheney did anything but downplay Russian President Vladimir Putin’s widely-purported role in the November election while speaking this week at the Economic Times’ Global Business Summit 2017 in New Delhi. “There’s

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International, USA

Chris Matthews compares Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump to Uday and Qusay Hussein

MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday compared Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s prominent roles in the White House to the power wielded by the late Saddam Hussein’s two eldest sons during his reign in Iraq. “Do you think this bothers the country to have sort of a Romanov royal family running the place?” the “Hardball”

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Middle East, USA

Bill O’Reilly Mocks Congresswoman’s ‘James Brown Wig’

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly mocked a black congresswoman and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying he couldn’t hear a word she said because he was distracted by her “James Brown wig.” O’Reilly made the comments on “Fox and Friends” after watching video footage in which California Democrat Maxine Waters delivered an

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USA

Nikki Haley, personable, serious, and the undisputed star of AIPAC’s conference

‘That’s the next president’ said a man next to me, reflecting the adulation as Trump’s UN ambassador left the stage to the event’s biggest ovation by far By David Horovitz WASHINGTON — Fourteen minutes. That’s how long Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, spent in conversation with interviewer Dan Senor at AIPAC’s

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International, Middle East, USA

Passport Wallenberg used to save Jews in WWII to be auctioned

Bidding at LA auction house to start at $8,000 for fake permit issued by Swedish Embassy in Budapest in September 1944 By Sue Surkes Raoul Wallenberg (Wikimedia Commons) A rare passport signed by Raoul Wallenberg — the man who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary from deportation to the gas chambers —

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International, Jewish History, USA

Menendez decries ‘white nationalist dog whistles’ are being blown from Trump White House

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez took aim at President Donald Trump’s top White House aide as he criticized anti-Semitism before the annual Washington gathering of the leading pro-Israel lobby. Menendez pledged to use his position as a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee to call out the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement directed

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Middle East, USA

2 Miami-Dade police detectives shot Monday night were ambushed in unmarked car

MIAMI —Two Miami-Dade police undercover detectives working a gang detail in Miami’s Brownsville neighborhood were shot as they sat in their unmarked vehicle Monday night by suspects who walked past them, opened fire and fled. The officers, who were rushed to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in the back of a pickup by

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