Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager on Tuesday said if the FBI is going to providing updates about Mrs. Clinton’s emails, then they should be doing so for Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia as well. “Why is it important to hold back information about Russians and it’s not important to hold back information about a Democratic […]
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USAThe gruesome death of a fishmonger in Morocco last week has triggered the country’s largest protests in years, stirring memories of the death of a Tunisian vendor in 2010 which is often regarded as the spark that set the Arab Spring in motion. Thousands of Moroccans took to the streets in a northern city on
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Middle EastHouse Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday he has already voted for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, though he referred to Mr. Trump as “our nominee” and said he’d be campaigning elsewhere as Mr. Trump swings through Wisconsin later in the day. “I stand where I’ve stood all fall and all summer,” Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin
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USAThe Netherlands’ most prominent anti-immigration politician had his day in court on Monday — and opted to skip it. Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders was represented by a lawyer and an empty chair on the first day of his trial in Amsterdam for racial discrimination and inciting hatred. The charges carry a possible sentence of
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InternationalVenezuela’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leaders agreed Monday to hold Vatican-sponsored talks to defuse a growing political crisis, but mistrust lingers after an attempt to recall the president was scuttled. With the mediation of the Vatican and the Union of South American Nations, the two sides agreed after hours-long talks on an agenda
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InternationalHalloween in Spain isn’t like Halloween in the US. There’s a lot less candy and excitement. And maybe because I hadn’t eaten a pumpkin Reese’s Cup all month or feared missing out on some sort of hip, hidden Halloween thing in Barcelona, I started looking into what people do on Oct. 31 and the local
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International, Travel and FoodGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — As Donald Trump kicked off the final full week before Election Day, he dedicated a day of campaigning solely in Michigan, a state that has not backed a Republican for president since 1988. Up next, a policy speech in Pennsylvania and a rally in Wisconsin, states that also haven’t gone red
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USABALTIMORE — Six people have died after a school bus and commuter bus collided early Tuesday in Southwest Baltimore, police said. No students were on the school bus during the crash, police said. T.J. Smith, a police spokesman, said the incident occurred in the 3800 block of Frederick Avenue before 7 a.m. Smith said the
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USASANTA CRUZ, California — More than 175 faculty members and 47 religious, civil rights, education and research organizations representing thousands of concerned students, parents and alumni on Tuesday Nov. 1, wrote to the top official at the University of California, UC President Janet Napolitano, demanding she stop faculty from using the classroom as a pulpit
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When I came to live in Israel fifty years ago, and even before that on my occasional visits to the country, my father equipped me with a typewritten list of names and addresses of relatives. I dutifully visited most of them, and so I got to know the numerous
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Travel and FoodBob Dylan says he not only wants to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in December, but he also hopes to return to China. In an interview with Edna Gunderson for British newspaper The Telegraph, posted on Saturday, the US singer-songwriter was quoted as saying he “absolutely” wants to attend the ceremony, “if it’s at all
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAThe country music community is mourning the loss of one of its most brilliant songwriters, Curly Putman Jr. According to a Facebook post from Curly’s friend and hit co-writer, Bobby Braddock, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer passed away in the morning of Oct. 30 after being ill. Watch the video RELATED: Watch this country
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAKENT, Ohio — Hillary Clinton urged voters not to be “distracted” by the FBI’s revived scrutiny of her email practices and sought to turn the focus to her Republican rival, casting Donald Trump as an untested leader who can’t be trusted with nuclear weapons. Kicking off the final week of the presidential race with a
WASHINGTON — Tech billionaire Peter Thiel claims Silicon Valley exists in a “coastal bubble” and can’t abide the nonconformism of his support for Donald Trump. Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and a board member of Facebook, appeared at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday to tout Trump a week before the election. His appearance
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