International

Marine Le Pen reportedly short of funds for 2017 French presidential run

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen lacks the resources needed to fund a presidential campaign in 2017 because French banks refuse to lend her National Front party money for political reasons, a senior party official said Monday. National Front party Secretary General Nicolas Bay told Europe 1 radio that he had asked for a loan […]

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International

Clarence Thomas Should Be Included in the African-American History Museum

On Sept. 24, 2016, after years of effort, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was finally opened to the public. The Smithsonian’s new museum has been rightly praised for its detailed, complex, and powerful portrayal of the African-American experience in the United States. As the Wall Street Journal and New York Times

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USA

What Trump, Friedman may auger for Israel, Palestine

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Trump’s choice of David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel appears to be an excellent decision. It has already brought howls of protest from people invested heavily in the Oslo and subsequent accords, the “peace process” and the concept of the United States as an “evenhanded” broker between Israelis

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

President-Elect Trump: Berlin Attack Proves I’m ‘100% Correct’ on Muslim Ban

Trump: Berlin Attack Proves Muslim Ban Would be ‘100% Correct’ (Image via Screenshot) President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday condemned the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin earlier this week as an “attack on humanity.” “It’s an attack on humanity — that’s what it is,” said Trump, speaking to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago, Fla., residence.

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International, USA

Obama moves to block Trump, bans offshore drilling in federal waters

Vowing that his successor won’t be able to reverse his actions, President Obama on Tuesday used executive authority to permanently ban new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean. Mr. Obama used authority in a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to

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USA

California secession organizers say they’ve opened an embassy in Moscow

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California gained an embassy in Russia last weekend, at least in the eyes of those who have promised to seek a statewide vote on secession, nicknamed “Calexit,” in 2018. Louis Marinelli, a San Diego resident who is the leader of the group promoting an effort to turn the state into an independent

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USA

COP urges Obama to support Israel in next U.N. battle

NEW YORK (Press Release) …Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday, Dec. 21, called on the United States to “unequivocally affirm” that it would veto any one-sided condemnatory United Nations Security Council resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli issue if it is presented to the Council for a vote. Stephen M.

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International, Middle East, USA

Britain’s 90-year-old Queen Elizabeth eases her workload – slightly

File photo: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip bid farewell to Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife Maria Clemencia de Santos following their state visit, at Buckingham Palace in London, Nov 3, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] LONDON – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will step down as patron from a number of national organizations in the coming

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International

Erekat threatens: PLO will cancel its ‘recognition of Israel’

Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), is threatening that the PLO will revoke all its previously signed agreements with Israel as well as its 1993 “recognition of Israel” if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Speaking at a

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Middle East, USA