DETROIT — After a lawyer urged him not to stick taxpayers with a $5 million recount tab, a federal judge on Wednesday dissolved his earlier decision and halted the hand recount of 4.8 million ballots that were cast for president in Michigan. The controversial issue, however, is far from over as an appeal will follow. […]
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USAWASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — AJC is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt the bipartisan Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016. The Senate has already passed the measure, and once the House does so it can be delivered to President Obama for his signature before Congress recesses. “The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
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USABy Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON, Massachusetts — On a November night in 2004, almost four hundred students at Columbia University sat crowded into the theater of the University’s Lerner Hall to watch a troubling 25-minute film that was finally being released to the public, “Columbia Unbecoming,” produced by Dr. Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser.
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to multiple reports. The pick of Mr. Pruitt, who has sued the EPA multiple times to challenge President Obama’s regulatory agenda, is guaranteed to thrill conservatives who think the agency has overstepped its authority. But the
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USAA whole new kind of ‘breaking up’ around the holidays NASA/John Sonntag A rare ice crack not formed by that squirrel from the Ice Age movies An iceberg the size of Delaware is starting to break away from Antarctica. It began with a small crack, but has now grown 70 miles long and more than
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International, The World We ShareInterior Minister Aryeh Deri addressed a special conference of 100 Sephardic rabbis from around the world in the Knesset Tuesday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein also participated in the conference. Deri criticized the Reform Movement during his speech. “I am asked, ‘Why fight for Jewish causes? Why don’t you make a
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe prevailing opinion on President-elect Donald Trump is that he’s unpredictable, a man of no fixed views who transcends traditional notions of right and left. “Donald Trump is post-ideological,” Trump’s campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, said at a Harvard University conference last week. With Trump, “you will have no idea each morning what’s going to happen,”
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USAThe search for remains at the scene of the deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif., has concluded, leaving the death toll at 36, officials said Wednesday. “We are not going to find more victims in the fire,” said Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Although the search for
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USAChina has accused Taiwan’s president of seeking to use a planned stopover in the United States to undermine Beijing. It comes as Tsai Ing-wen’s controversial phone call to Donald Trump continues to cause rancour. China regards the self-governing island of Taiwan as a rogue province, and in Beijing the Chinese foreign ministry seized on the
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International, USAGerman Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party CDU Angela Merkel reacts after her speech at the CDU party convention in Essen, Germany, December 6, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday was reelected chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at the annual convention of the party with
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InternationalChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel met with President-Elect Donald Trump in New York on Wednesday morning, using the discussion to urge Trump to reconsider his positions on immigration. During his 45-minute meeting with the president-elect in his personal office high above Manhattan in Trump Tower, Emanuel hand-delivered a letter from the mayors of some of the
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USABangkok (dpa) – Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-ocha said in a press conference Wednesday there is no exception for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in regards to being prosecuted for lese-majesty after the broadcaster published online a controversial biography on Thailand’s new King Rama X. “If they have an office in Thailand and there are Thai
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InternationalWASHINGTON — Donald Trump has picked Terry Branstad, the long-serving Iowa governor who proved a loyal and unflinching surrogate in the presidential race, to be the ambassador to China, the transition team said Wednesday. The choice of Branstad is likely to reassure Beijing, which has been rattled by Trump’s rhetoric about China and his breaking
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump picked retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly to be the next chief of Homeland Security, The Washington Times confirmed Wednesday, selecting a man who has repeatedly warned of the dangers of a porous southwestern border and has been a staunch opponent of drug legalization. After watching the surge of illegal immigrants in
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