WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich said Thursday he will not serve in the Donald Trump administration in any official role. The former House speaker and presidential candidate had been mentioned frequently as a potential top member of the new government, possibly as secretary of defense, state or health and human services. But he ended that speculation
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USAIsraeli-designed laser technology detects explosives and other hazardous materials from a distance By Times of Israel staff SpectroDrone by LDS: Drone-Operated, Laser-Based Explosive Detection System (Screen capture: Vimeo) An Israeli-designed, drone-based sensor capable of remotely detecting explosives, hazardous material and drugs was unveiled at a trade show in Tel Aviv this week at the Homeland
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON — So, about that wall. After Donald Trump’s upset win last week, Texas Republicans in Congress find themselves grappling with some of the president-elect’s campaign proposals. Foremost among them is the oft-touted, Mexican-funded, “big, beautiful” border wall that became a defining feature of Trump’s stump speech. Now that he is preparing to take office,
The House of Commons is where impassioned speeches are made, laws are born or die and political parties fight for their competing visions of Canada – just please refrain from using a word such as “fart,” lest you offend other MPs. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May took issue with the language used by Michelle Rempel
A prominent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump cited the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as a legal justification for creating a national registration list “for immigrants from Muslim countries.” Speaking to anchor Megyn Kelly on Fox News on Wednesday night, Carl Higbie, author of “Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: A SEAL’s Story,” defended
The following are opening remarks by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” Summit on Anti-Semitism, which is taking place on November 17, 2016 in New York City. By Jonathan Greenblatt NEW YORK — Thank you for that kind introduction, and thank you all for coming here today for ADL’s inaugural Summit
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) moved to aid military families being blocked from benefits that help them put food on the table. Rep. Davis, the Ranking Member of the Military Personnel Subcommittee, introduced the Military Hunger Prevention Act to ensure eligibility for food supplement benefits for service members and their families. “Those
By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes when decisions do not work out exactly as intended, they work out just fine. In the midst of Operation Protective Edge — Israel’s response to 182 Hamas rockets and mortars fired at Israeli towns and villages in the first week of July 2014 — the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — It was brought to my attention this morning that the story about paid protesters to which I alluded in a column, here linked, was indeed a fake story. For this I apologize. Paul Horner loves fooling people with fabricated articles. In fact, Horner’s con was so effective,
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK – In a recent conversation I had with students, faculty, and alumni at New York University just before the start of my program “Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir” on November 3, I had the opportunity to answer some questions concerning the turmoil in the Middle East and America’s role
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAStockholm (dpa) – Rock legend Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel Literature laureate, will miss out on the December 10 award ceremony “due to pre-existing commitments,” the Swedish Academy said Wednesday. The US singer-songwriter wrote a personal letter to the Academy saying that, “due to pre-existing commitments, he is unable to travel to Stockholm in December,”
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsPresident-elect Donald Trump is not the only midtown Manhattan resident encountering problems with his transition game this week. So too is Saturday Night Live, which failed to consider the possibility of the erstwhile star of NBC’s The Apprentice becoming the 45th president. Who will SNL’s longtime producer, Lorne Michaels, install to impersonate the most bombastic
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFifty years after Star Trek first beamed onto U.S. television screens, fans continue to be fascinated by stories of behind-the-scenes dramas. Now handwritten notes written by Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, to be auctioned Thursday, are giving diehard Trekkies an inside look into some of the problems that plagued the cult hit in its infancy.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAColson Whitehead won the National Book Award in fiction on Wednesday for his bestselling novel and Oprah Book Club pick The Underground Railroad. His fellow winners that evening were Ibram X. Kendi in nonfiction for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America; Daniel Borzutzky in poetry for The Performance of
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