WASHINGTON — A Chinese ship on Thursday seized a small U.S. Navy underwater drone that had been operating in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic complaint from the U.S. government. Two drones were collecting oceanographic information more than 50 miles off the coast of U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines when […]
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International, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump sent out a tweet ripping into Vanity Fair Thursday morning. The President-elect of the United States wrote that the magazine has “really poor numbers” and is in “big trouble.” “Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine,” Trump wrote. “Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will
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USASydney (dpa) – The Anglican archbishop of the Western Australian city of Perth stepped down late Thursday, four months after admitting he had failed to inform police about alleged child abuse by a senior cleric. The Anglican Church Diocese of Perth said in a statement that Herft had decided to retire in July of next
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InternationalPresident Park Geun-hye is set to make her case to the Consitutional Court on Friday in a written statement addressing a series of charges cited in the parliamentary impeachment motion via her legal representatives, an informed source said. After the National Assembly voted last Friday to impeach the president over a corruption scandal involving her
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InternationalThe Navy’s plan calls for a 38 percent increase in the number of attack submarine, like the Virginia-class sub USS Minnesota seen here under construction in Newport News. WASHINGTON: Mr. Trump, we’ll see your campaign pledge of a 350-ship fleet and raise you five vessels, the US Navy effectively said this morning. The long-anticipated Force
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International, USABarack Obama says the US will take action against Russia over claims of its involvement in the country’s recent presidential election. The US president made the statement in a national radio interview. Obama tells NPRinskeep that U.S. “will take action” in response to Russia hacking during election. pic.twitter.com/a8IxbfD17o— NPR (NPR) December 16, 2016 What Obama
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International, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — As we East Coast residents shudder in anticipation of snow and sleet, we also tremble a little at the thought of the inevitable flurry of year-end letters to come. It you’ve ever received any, you know that the no-detail-too-small missives (of interest mainly to grandparents) almost always come
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Several years ago I read The Pianist of Willesden Lane written by Mona Golabek about the experiences of her mother, Lisa Jura, first in Vienna and then in London. She had been sent there at the age of fourteen in the framework of the Kindertransport, the undertaking that
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he plans to nominate as ambassador to Israel his lawyer, a hard-liner on the Middle East who has voiced opposition to decades of U.S. policy in the region. David Friedman, who served as one of Trump’s main advisers on Israel during the campaign, vowed to perform as
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Middle East, USAGuyanese author, teacher and diplomat E.R. Braithwaite, whose 1959 book To Sir, With Love told the story of a black teacher struggling in a classroom in a white London slum, has died in surburban Washington at age 104. Braithwaite moved into teaching after a career as an oil worker and serving in Britain’s Royal Air
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFor two days and two nights in December, the Israelis and their American friends in Washington, D.C., convened among the carolers and Christmas trees at a luxury hotel near the White House. It was supposed to be Haim Saban’s political bar mitzvah, the ultimate celebration of his president-making powers. In 2016, the billionaire emerged as
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Middle East, USAEditor’s Note: The incident described below happened “a few months ago,” according to Ami Horowitz. An American Jewish filmmaker was beaten by Muslim residents of a “no-go zone” just outside of the Swedish capital. Ami Horowitz, a filmmaker and regular contributor to Breitbart News, set out for a predominantly Muslim suburb of the Swedish capital
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InternationalSen. Cory Booker told Jewish activists that advocating for criminal justice reform serves “the greater cause of justice.” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told Jewish community activists Dec. 13 that he will fight against the confirmation of his fellow senator, Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama, to become the United States attorney general. Declaring Sessions to be
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USAWASHINGTON — South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison’s bid to become national Democratic Party chairman got tougher Thursday, as Labor Secretary Tom Perez joined the race. That makes four candidates who want to lead the ailing party. The other two are Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who has the strong backing from the party’s more liberal wing, and
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