Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off on the question of abortion in the final debate. And it quickly became painfully obvious that the only person on stage, including the moderator, who knew much about women’s health was the woman. When Chris Wallace asked Clinton why she had “voted against a ban on late-term, partial-birth
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA top Democrat demanded Monday that the FBI make public any investigations it is conducting into GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump or his associates, saying it’s only fair now that the agency has confirmed it has renewed its probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the
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USATAMPA, Fla. – George Gold has voted Democrat in every presidential election since he cast his first ballot for John F. Kennedy in 1960, but he is breaking the streak this year to back Donald Trump, caught up in the anti-establishment fervor that has become the Republican nominee’s best hope for a Nov. 8 surge
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USAWASHINGTON — FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information on a private email server Sunday obtained a warrant to search a computer used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner for messages they believe may be related to their inquiry, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. Agents stumbled across the potentially
Quake of magnitude 6.6 strikes in Le Marche and Umbria regions Strongest for 36 years Historic basilica of St Benedict destroyed Italy’s Prime Minister is promising that the homes, churches and properties destroyed in a string of earthquakes over the past two months will be rebuilt. Matteo Renzi made the pledge just hours after another
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InternationalReykjavik (dpa) – Iceland was facing the prospect of tough coalition negotiations Sunday after a parliamentary election ousted the centre-right ruling government, but produced no clear winner. With all the votes counted, the conservative Independence Party emerged on top with 29 per cent, giving it 21 seats in the 63-seat chamber, the Iceland Monitor news
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InternationalThis article originally appeared on The Conversation. The U.S. election has given WikiLeaks an opportunity to revive its image as a world leader in “transparency” leaks. For several years, its leader, Julian Assange, seemed a forlorn and frustrated figure confined to a small office of the Ecuadorian embassy near the Harrods department store in London’s
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s running mate Sunday seized on new revelations by the FBI director to feed voters’ doubts about the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton, saying they are a reminder that she is a “risky choice” to be president. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway signaled in television interviews how the Trump
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USAWASHINGTON, October 30, 2016 – Things continued to get worse for Hillary Clinton and her campaign, as Fox News released a follow-on bombshell scoop this morning to the fast-breaking announcement that the FBI was effectively re-opening the Clinton email case. According to a syndicated Sunday morning report posted on Town News.com, “Fox News chief political
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We don’t live in a world of clear contrasts, whether we call them blacks and whites, or good and evil. Israel’s relations with its neighbors have evolved over the course of 70 years to something that is far more subtle and nuanced than what is expressed by intense nationalists or
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Devil Out of Texas by Roger Raffee, 2016; Amazon Publications; 456 pages; now on Kindle. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author Roger Raffee, a fellow San Diegan, has written a novel—and I’ll repeat that word “novel”—purportedly about a great-great grandfather who was a sure-shooting, fast-drawing Texas Ranger who could snuff out a
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, USAAs reality show star Donald Trump whipped his rally crowd into a frenzy last night, one man in a ‘Hillary for Prison’ t-shirt taunted the press pool with chants of “JEW-S-A!” instead of ‘U-S-A!’ This incident is just the latest example of anti-Semitic sentiments breaking through the surface with the Trump campaign. Observers worry that
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USAAs US reelected to UN’s much-chastised rights body, top US diplomat says focusing on rights abuses, rather than on Israel, an ‘important challenge’ By Eric Cortellessa US Secretary of State John Kerry makes opening remarks during a ministerial meeting at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts on September 24, 2016 (AFP/Matthew Healey) WASHINGTON — Secretary of
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International, USAThis article was originally published by International Business Times. On my first morning in Tel Aviv, I happened upon the Albi Cafe, infamous as a hub for left-wing activism. I wanted to speak to both Palestinian and Israeli women about feminist cooperation, and whether it is possible to work together to challenge male violence and
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