A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries has received threatening messages since the ruling. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii will receive 24-hour protection to ensure his safety, FBI officials told BuzzFeed News and CNN this week. Watson ruled on March 15 against Trump’s […]
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USAThe Trump administration scored a victory Friday in its effort to enact a temporary ban on refugee resettlement and travel of foreign nationals from six countries, with a federal judge in Virginia siding with President Trump over a Muslim civil-rights group that challenged the legality of his revised executive order. Two other federal court rulings
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Tensions between the two leaders of the House investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia escalated Friday as the committee announced it would soon question President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters at a news conference that former Trump campaign
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International, USAORLANDO, Fla. — Investment firm Blackstone Group has sold its 21 percent stake in SeaWorld to a Chinese company. The deal with Zhonghong Group gives SeaWorld a path into the growing Chinese tourism market and a partner with experience in theme-park development there. Zhonghong Group will buy the stock at $23 per share, Orlando-based SeaWorld
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International, San Diego County, The World We Share, USAConvicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh, an organizer of a Day Without a Woman, has agreed to leave the country in exchange for no jail time for failing to disclose the conviction on her U.S. visa application. Odeh, a resident of Chicago who has lived in the U.S. for about 20 years, plans to plead
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Middle East, USAMarch Sadness By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Though overshadowed by the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the real competition to watch this month is what is going on in Washington, DC. The number one seed, the Trump Travesties, is facing stiffer competition than expected. This makes it difficult for spectators to fill in their brackets as the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAMoscow (dpa) – French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen met with Russian lawmakers in Moscow on Friday and called for closer ties between France and Russia. Le Pen attended a meeting of the lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee upon an invitation by the committee’s chairman Leonid Slutsky. Le Pen, who leads the
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InternationalA Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee stopped short of calling for Rep. Devin Nunes to be stripped of his chairmanship over the Republican’s decision to go public with allegations that communications from the Trump transition team were inadvertently intercepted by U.S. spy agencies before sharing the information with Democrats on the panel. Rep.
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International, USAIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed David Friedman as the U.S. ambassador to Israel in a Tweet, Thursday. Senators voted 52-46 and approved the first of President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassadors. Netanyahu said that Friedman would be warmly welcomed by Israel. Israeli envoy to the U.S. Ron Dermer also posted on Twitter congratulating Friedman.
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Middle East, USAA Canadian mosque received intense scrutiny from the local Muslim community and was facing a police complaint after a video emerged online showing a visiting Imam imploring its worshippers to kill Jews, according to local reports Thursday. The sermon was given last year on Dec. 23 at the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque in Montreal’s predominately poor
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InternationalWASHINGTON — House GOP leaders postponed a much-anticipated vote Thursday on legislation to overhaul the Affordable Care Act amid a Republican revolt that raised doubts about the fate of the measure as well as President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed negotiating skills. After initially vowing to continue talks through the night, a frustrated White House told a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — The head of the House Intelligence Committee partially backed away from his dramatic claim that officials in President Donald Trump’s transition team had been subjects of surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies, with an aide saying that Chairman Devin Nunes did not know “for sure.” On Wednesday, Nunes, R-Calif., said that names of transition
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International, USAThe Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on Wednesday accused Israel of “repression” after its leader was arrested over alleged tax fraud. Qatari-born Omar Barghouti, founder of both the BDS movement and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion he committed tax evasion over the
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Middle EastA teenager with dual US-Israeli citizenship who allegedly made hundreds of false bomb threats over the years to Jewish community centers around the world may have been paid for foreign entities to do so, Channel 2 reported Thursday night. The suspect, a resident of the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, was arrested by Israeli authorities
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