WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a strong new stand against racial bias in jury rooms, ruling for the first time that reports of racist comments by jurors may require setting aside a verdict and holding a new trial. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, announcing the court’s decision Monday, wrote that the “imperative to purge racial […]
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USAFormer Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Sunday that the Obama administration did not seek or receive a special warrant to electronically monitor communications from Trump Tower after President Trump’s election victory. Mr. Clapper’s comments came as the White House demanded that Congress investigate the Obama administration’s role in the 2016 election amid unconfirmed
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International, USAIsrael’s defense minister said Monday that the United States has warned Israel against imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, saying that would lead to an “immediate crisis” with President Donald Trump administration. “We received a direct message — not an indirect message and not a hint — from the United States. Imposing Israeli sovereignty
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Middle East, USA[twittervideo:2025490] New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) held a press conference Sunday morning to discuss the desecration of the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, where dozens of headstones were found to have been overturned Saturday. The Washington Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world. “More than 40 headstones were overturned,” said Hikind.
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USABy Debra DeLee WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans for Peace Now strongly condemns new Israeli legislation adopted Monday by the Knesset, which would ban entry to Israel of foreign nationals who support or publicly engage in boycotts of either Israel or West Bank settlements. This new draconian law is a severe blow to Israeli democracy. It
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Middle East, USACameroonian authorities detained opposition leader Jean Michel Nintcheu at his residence to frustrate a planned rally and street march by the supporters of the Social Democratic Front (SDF). Anti-riot forces stormed Mr Nintcheu’s residence on Saturday to enforce the restriction on his movements. The regional chair of the opposition party and main planner of the
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InternationalBangkok (dpa) – A team of Thai veterinary surgeons on Monday successfully removed nearly a thousand coins from a turtle’s stomach, the world’s first such surgery. Five veterinarians at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University conducted a six-hour surgery on Omsin, Thai for “piggy bank,” to remove a total of 915 coins weighing five kilograms from the 59-kilogram
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International, The World We ShareI must admit, a decade ago, I did not think that George W. Bush would teach us something about wisdom. Bush, at the time, was in his seventh year as president. His patriotic glow from 9/11 was waning. His approval ratings were in the low 30s. He was under fire from the media, from Democrats,
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USATokyo (dpa) – All nine people aboard a local government helicopter were confirmed dead Monday following its crash into a mountain in central Japan a day earlier, local police said. Three people were already confirmed dead on Sunday following the crash of the rescue helicopter on Mount Hachibuse, 170 kilometres north-west of Tokyo. About 100
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InternationalSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –A forum on President Trump’s policies toward refugees will be conducted from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 8, at Temple Emanu-El, 6299 Capri Drive. Titled “We Were Refugees Too: Educate for Action,” the forum will include such speakers as Mark Hetfield, the national chief executive officer of HIAS (formerly known
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International, San Diego Calendar, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –The ZOA praises the FBI for its investigation and arrest of Juan M. Thompson, a fired former reporter for a left-wing online newspaper and hate-filled, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, anti-white, anti-Trump, pro-Bernie Sanders, anti-western society, anti-American, Communist, anti-police radical Islamist, for allegedly perpetrating at least eight of the recent bomb threats
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Middle East, USADonald Trump has styled himself as a hardline opponent of the Iranian regime, but new details of a business deal in Azerbaijan point to his organization’s relationship with an oligarch’s family that has close links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. A New Yorker feature alleges that indirect ties between Trump’s business interests and the Iranian
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International, USAA Democratic congressman apologized late Sunday for a crude joke about a top White House adviser, hours after his comment put House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on the spot over the lack of Democratic outrage. Rep. Cedric Richmond, Louisiana Democrat, issued a statement apologizing for the tasteless comment made Wednesday during a Washington Press Club
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USAAt event commemorating 25th anniversary of Buenos Aires embassy bombing, PM says Israel constantly thwarts attacks on Israeli missions abroad By Raphael Ahren Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Foreign Ministry on the 25th anniversary of the Buenos Aires embassy bombing, on March 6, 2017. (Koby Gideon/PMO) Iran is the source of the vast
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