It would be easy to see the Trump-Obama transition as a mess for the president-elect. He continues to face criticism for his extraordinary breach of traditional financial disclosure norms, not only failing to release his taxes but making only the cursory moves toward separating himself from his businesses. Trump has had to contend with an
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USABy JT – Jan 15,2017 – Last updated at Jan 15,2017 AMMAN — A Royal Decree was issued on Sunday approving a reshuffle in Prime Minister Hani Mulki’s government. The Royal Decree, upon Mulki’s recommendation, included five new ministers and a new portfolio for a Cabinet member from Mulki’s first government. The ministers who joined
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Middle EastAmid new revelations about Arnon Mozes negotiating with Netanyahu to sideline some writers, Ron Yaron says staff would have quit en masse, but defends boss as still ‘utterly loyal’ By Times of Israel staff Editor-in-Chief of Israeli newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, Ron Yaron, speaks at the opening of a conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, March
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Middle EastReince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, called on President Obama to tell Democrats to stop trying to delegitimatize the election of President-elect Donald Trump. “President Obama could step up,” Mr. Priebus said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Mr. Priebus said of the latest attack on Mr. Trump’s legitimacy form civil rights hero
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International, USAIn Donald Trump’s America, the jokes seem to write themselves. The president-elect gave “Saturday Night Live” writers a tall task this week: how to parody a press conference that already offered its own macabre humor, from “golden shower gate” to Trump’s plan to barely-not-really separate himself from his businesses to his insults directed at the
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAActivists from Lev HaOlam and other organizations arrived in Paris today to protest the anti-Israel conference that convenes there today. Cornelia, an activist for the organization who came specially from Holland with approximately 120 more Dutch people to Paris for the demonstration, told Arutz Sheva, “We are gathering here to stand up for the Nation
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International, Middle EastIsrael’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday held a ceremony welcoming a Torah scroll to its synagogue in Jerusalem’s government complex. Attending the ceremony were Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau, senior officials in both the Religious Services and Foreign Ministries, and representatives from Romania’s Jewish community. The “new” Torah scroll
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastHe’s a former British spy, a man used to operating in the shadows. Now he is dramatically, and uncomfortably, in the spotlight. Christopher Steele has been identified in news reports as the author of a dossier suggesting that Russian officials had gathered compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump that could be used to blackmail him.
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International, USAWhite House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump should be reaching out to Rep. John Lewis as a show of unity for Americans and as a message to Russians. Mr. Trump lashed out at Mr. Lewis on Twitter after the civil rights icon questioned the legitimacy of the incoming administration
Ilan Shmuel, who worked for the PM until 2014, was convicted in September of a variety of sexual offenses against 6 girls By Times of Israel staff Ilan Shmuel (center), former driver for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem District Court on January 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) A former driver for Prime Minister Benjamin
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Middle EastThe Paris peace conference is hoping to drive home a message of opposition to Israeli settlements and the establishment of a Palestinian state, just days ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Though it will call on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to re-state their commit to the two-state solution, neither will be represented at the Paris
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International, Middle East, USAOutgoing CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday rebuked President-elect Donald Trump for comparing the intelligence community to Nazi Germany, saying those type of remarks impact national security. “What I do find outrageous is equating the intelligence community with Nazi Germany,” Mr. Brennan said on “Fox New Sunday.” “I do take great umbrage with that and
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International, USASpeaking as 70 countries gather for Mideast peace talks in Paris on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault warned of “extremely serious consequences” if the US moves its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as planned. Ayrault told French media that he believed US President-elect Donald Trump would find it “impossible” to fulfill his campaign
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin HARLEM, New York–Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 88 years old today, Sunday, January 15. As a pastor’s son growing up in the “Sweet Auburn” section of central Atlanta, pranking his friends and mimicking preachers with wicked accuracy, he’d had never dreamed that the day of his birth would be
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