Two federal judges, in Hawaii and Maryland, recently froze parts of President Donald Trump’s order to block travel and immigration from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. All heavily Muslim nations. Groups pushing to stop the order say it was a Muslim ban and followed what Trump said he’d do during
More people are listening to National Public Radio than ever before, NPR announced Wednesday. In fall 2016, the total weekly listeners reached 37.5 million — 4 million more than fall 2015, and the most in its nearly 50-year history. That’s good news for public radio lovers, and it comes at a time when they need
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USAA Secret Service agent’s laptop containing sensitive information was stolen from an unoccupied vehicle outside the agent’s home in Brooklyn Thursday morning, according to multiple reports. Sources told a local CBS News affiliate that the laptop contained floor plans and evacuation protocol for New York City’s Trump Tower, where first lady Melania Trump and 10-year-old
An alleged Twitter troll behind a virtual attack that caused Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald to suffer a seizure was arrested on Friday. The suspect faces federal charges and could face additional counts in Dallas, where Eichenwald lives, according to the writer. FBI officials arrested the man at his home in in Salisbury, Maryland, before
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFormer U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration last week, was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s health secretary, according to a person familiar with the office. Tom Price, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, came under scrutiny during his confirmation
COP applauds Guterres on rejection of ESCWA’s anti-Israel resolution NEW YORK (Pess Release) –Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued the following statement: “We applaud Secretary General Guterres for his principled, forceful and swift rejection of the scurrilous report commissioned by the United
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International, Middle East, USAPosters plastered across the University of Illinois at Chicago campus accusing American Jews of benefiting from “Jewish privilege” have rattled the local Jewish community amid a wave bomb threats and vandalism targeting Jewish institutions nationwide. The posters reference the idea of “white privilege”, a notion pushed by the American progressive-left that disparities in social and
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USAA group of prominent Orthodox rabbis and thinkers have launched a new American rabbinic organization to counter the media”s tendency to cite left-wing partisans in the American Jewish community as representative of mainstream Jewish thought. The new organization is called the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV). “The media tends to solicit statements on Jewish concerns
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Middle East, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –Once again, we have seen political opponents of the Trump Administration concocting a false charge of anti-Semitism against a senior White House official, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump. Dr. Gorka is a member of the Strategic Initiatives Group created by Steve Bannon, another senior official subjected
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump sent a letter Thursday to the oldest-living survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack to wish him on his birthday. Ray Chavez, a Poway, California, man turned 105 on March 11. Trump’s letter was tweeted by his Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The president wrote “keep going!” beside his signature at the end of
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USAGaza City (dpa) – Israeli war planes early Thursday launched two airstrikes on militant facilities in the Gaza Strip, ruled by the militant Islamic movement Hamas, in response to an overnight rocket attack, Palestinian security and medical sources said. No injuries were reported from the strikes on a militants’ facility in eastern Gaza and another
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Middle EastThe U.S. State Department clarified on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year would not reduce aid to Israel, but added that assistance levels to other nations, including Egypt and Jordan, were still being evaluated. “Our assistance to Israel is … guaranteed and that reflects obviously our strong commitment to
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Middle East, USAPresident Trump on Thursday hosted Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the White House for its annual St. Patrick’s Day events, a tradition dating back to the 1950s that celebrates the bonds between the two countries. Mr. Trump welcomed Mr. Kenny, officially titled Taoiseach Kenny, in the Oval Office for bilateral meetings. All in attendance, except
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International, USAPalestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday slammed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman”s decision to designate the Palestinian National Fund (PNF) as a terrorist organization. A statement issued by Abbas”s bureau said that the PNF is one of the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which operates according to international agreements and standards. “At
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