CHICAGO — After attending funerals for slain teenagers, Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., always knew there was a possibility that someone close to him could get hurt from gun violence. “It is so unfortunate when these tragedies continue to occur and reoccur and somehow or another our society has not been able to find and exact […]
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USAThe hit television show” Law & Order SVU” is a national favorite, as the New York City squad investigates sexually based crimes, murders, suicides and assaults. While the show is purely fictional, art is know imitating life. It is being reported that an actress from the show has been found dead. According to Huffington Post,
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHillary Clinton, the press, refugees, fellow Republicans—the list of Donald Trump’s Twitter targets is long, with no signs of letup now that he’s less than two months away from inauguration day. We can now add a cultural phenomenon to the extensive list of perceived enemies: the cast of the Broadway smash Hamilton. The president-elect demanded
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe North Pole is over 36 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average, a new report found. In fact, the entire Arctic region, the report said, is about 13 degrees warmer than usual. At the same time, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic is at a record low beating the all-time low seen in 2012.
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International, The World We ShareA golf course in Scotland. Loans from a Chinese bank. Hotels the world over. President-elect Donald Trump has substantial financial holdings and business interests both in the US and abroad. He has conducted business with many different countries, including China, Azerbaijan and Uruguay. Eric Lipton, a reporter for The New York Times, has been doing
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USAThe actor playing Aaron Burr in the Broadway hit “Hamilton” issued a challenge Friday night to Vice-President-elect Mike Pence. It wasn’t for a duel, but the man playing the role of the nation’s third vice-president did direct some verbal shots toward Pence after the curtain call. Actor Brandon Victor Dixon let Pence know that Hamilton’s
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next U.S. attorney general. He previous served in that role for Alabama, and was also a federal prosecutor before his election to the Senate. Sessions was the first senator and among the only members of Congress to endorse Trump during the
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USAPresident-elect Donald Trump has reportedly decided to pay out $25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit concerning Trump University. According to sources first cited by the New York Daily News, Trump was planning to pay out approximately $20 million to settle outstanding claims related to the program. The amount was later bumped up to $25
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Morton A. Klein NEW YORK –As a bi-partisan organization, the ZOA treasures opportunities to work with lawmakers and opinion makers on “both side of the aisle.” Alarmingly, Congressional bipartisanship on pro-Israel issues, as well as on issues related to U.S. security, is likely to be immeasurably harmed if radical Muslim-American Congressman Keith Ellison a/k/a
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Middle East, USAThis story was co-published with The Guardian. I would like to express my gratitude to Jared Kushner for reviving interest in my 2006 book, “ The Price of Admission.” I have never met or spoken with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor. Of course, I doubt he became
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USADonald Trump is slowly starting to fill out his important cabinet positions ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. And like the President-elect himself, many have a past littered with controversial comments. In particular, those in the frame are unlikely to assuage the fears of the Muslim community, already on edge by Trump’s rhetoric during
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USADemocratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts continued with her attacks against the transition to the Donald Trump White House on Friday by advising Mitt Romney to bring his “binders full of women” to his weekend meeting with the president-elect. Her tweet refers to a comment Romney made during the 2012 election season, when he was
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USAAlthough Charles and David Koch are longtime Republican donors, the billionaire brothers declined to back the party’s 2016 presidential nominee. But it looks as though the oil and gas tycoons, who run a network of conservative think-tanks and advocacy groups, will still have an ally in the Donald Trump administration: The president-elect has reportedly tapped
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USAA conservative Kansas congressman who has been accused of being anti-Muslim and having participated in a racist political campaign has been tapped to become the next leader of the Central Intelligence Agency, CNBC reported. Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo accepted the job after he was offered it by President-elect Donald Trump on Friday morning. The third
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