WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has instructed his Department of Justice to investigate the leaks that have plagued his administration for the last month. “We are looking into that very seriously,” he said at a lengthy news conference. “It’s a criminal act.” Since being sworn into office Jan. 20, Trump has […]
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that “nobody that I know of” from his campaign contacted Russian agents or government officials before his election. His denial was perhaps the most notable development in a lengthy news conference in which he berated the press and complained that he had “inherited a mess.” Trump also defended
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, faced hecklers and tough questions Thursday in his Senate confirmation hearing. Friedman, an attorney who worked for Trump and who has expressed hard-line, pro-Israel positions, sought to distance himself from his more inflammatory comments. “I cannot justify these hurtful words, which I deeply
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate former Justice Department official R. Alexander Acosta as labor secretary after his first pick, fast-food executive Andy Puzder, withdrew. If confirmed, Acosta would be the only Latino in Trump’s Cabinet. “I think he’ll be a tremendous secretary of labor,” Trump said in announcing the
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) moved to aid military families being blocked from benefits that help them put food on the table. Rep. Davis introduced the Military Hunger Prevention Act (H.R. 1078) to ensure eligibility for food supplement benefits for servicemembers and their families. Davis was joined by Reps. Lynn
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San Diego County, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The optics, certainly, were fine. It was good to see an American president and an Israeli prime minister standing together on the podium with what appeared to be genuine good will. Most important, and promising for the future, perhaps, was how they dealt with the “two state solution” mantra. There
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Charles B. Strozier, Professor of History, City University of New York. Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY In the spring of 1837, a “long, gawky, ugly, shapeless man” walked into Joshua Speed’s dry goods store in Springfield, Illinois, requesting supplies for a bed. Speed said the cost would
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USATentatively backing Trump, foreign minister says government wants Palestinian statehood but will support new idea if both sides come up with something else By Stuart Winer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO) Australia’s foreign minister expressed
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International, Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — Extremism and terrorism contributed to the deaths of at least 69 people in the United States in 2016, a slight increase from the 65 deaths attributed to violent extremism in 2015, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League. That figure establishes 2016 as the second deadliest year for
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke with President Trump at the White House press conference on February 15 he spoke about the inadmissibility of forcing Israel to live alongside a terrorist state of Palestine as the result of a global effort to establish a Palestinian state. Ignored by
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TEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release)– Seventy-two members of the Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday. A total of 102 members of the Bnei Menashe were brought on Aliyah this week by Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that aims to strengthen ties between the Jewish people and descendants of Jews
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International, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) – On Tuesday, United Hatzalah of Israel received a letter from a 10-year-old boy thanking them for saving the lives of people in Israel. The organization, which serves as Israel’s fully volunteer community-based EMS organization, also received a donation of 50 NIS from the young boy. According to an attached letter from
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Middle East, San Diego CountyTEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release)– Magen David Adom, with the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been flying blood units to Lima, Peru, in order to save the life of Zohar Katz, an Israeli traveler who is hospitalized there in severe condition. On Thursday, MDA paramedic Yonat Daskal took 100 blood units and
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday held a press briefing following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he revealed that he asked Trump to fully recognize Israel”s presence in Golan Heights as part of the State of Israel. He noted that Trump did not rule out the possibility and was not surprised
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