March 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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International, Middle East, USAA gang of five Arab terrorists attacked the Jewish town of Beit El in Samaria Thursday night, hurling firebombs at the entrance to the community. The terrorists drove up to the entrance of Beit El in a car, exited the vehicle, and began throwing the firebombs towards the town. IDF soldiers stationed in Beit El
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Middle EastAUSTIN, Texas — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks the president stole the election. No, he’s not talking about President Donald Trump, Perry’s new boss as the former governor leads the Energy Department. He’s talking about Bobby Brooks, a kid from Belton who just was elected student body president at Perry’s alma mater Texas A&M
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump can continue to lease a downtown Washington hotel from the federal government, a federal agency has decided, determining that the unprecedented arrangement does not present a conflict. The Trump organization has changed the lease to prevent the president from receiving any of the proceeds from hotel operations, a contracting officer
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USAWASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes seemed to set his partisan gloves aside when he stepped into the national ring as the new chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2015. Now, upending the committee’s most politically sensitive investigation, the 43-year-old California Republican has antagonized the panel’s Democrats, who until now have
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) —U.S. Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL), Co-Chair of the GOP Israel Caucus, and Juan Vargas (D-CA) introduced the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, legislation to further combat the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. In the United States Senate, a companion bill was introduced by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD).
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