ST. LOUIS — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed in their second debate Sunday night in a flurry of biting and personal attacks over regulating taxes, Russia’s role in Syria, and even which of them pushed the idea that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States. The face-off came as Trump, the Republican […]
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USAEveryone knew it was coming: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump trading fire Sunday night over a 2005 recording of him joking about sexually assaulting women. And their exchange on the debate stage in St. Louis was just as brutal and tawdry as anticipated. After the dust settled from first 20 minutes of jousting, Trump was
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USAST. LOUIS — It began with two presidential candidates tensely refusing to shake hands at the opening of a nationally televised debate, breaking decades of civil tradition. By the time it was over, one of them had vowed that, if elected, his opponent would be in jail. In what was undoubtedly the angriest presidential debate
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USAST. LOUIS — Donald Trump took a scorched-earth approach to trying to right his faltering campaign Sunday night, lashing out at his rival — and even threatening her with imprisonment — during a presidential debate where he confronted the turmoil that’s pushing his party toward mutiny. Before an audience projected to be in the tens
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USAWith less than two hours until the second presidential debate, Donald Trump appeared before reporters with women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct in decades past. One by one, the women defended Trump, denounced Clinton and criticized Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent. “Mr. Trump may have said some bad words,” said
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USAThey did shake hands at the very end, but it was still such an upsetting evening that you kind of wish we could all be given a companion animal, a golden retriever to help deal with the trauma. It was bad enough that we—a nation of 330 million-plus—had to spend the last 48 hours listening
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USA“Today” co-anchor Billy Bush has been suspended by NBC News in light of his role in the leaked recording of his lewd conversation with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “I know we’ve all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours,” said “Today” executive producer Noah Oppenheim in a memo to staffers.
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USAResidents of the Coptic neighborhood in central Yaffo continue their protest on Sunday against the construction of a religious Jewish school in Yaffo saying that they object to “The settlers’ conquest,” according to the Arabic newspaper, Falastin. A member of neighborhood council, Yosef Asfur, told the newspaper that the residents of the neighborhood are protesting
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Middle EastIt could be the storyline of a Bollywood film: Militants trained in Pakistan cross over to India’s side of Kashmir, inflict many casualties and bring the two nuclear-armed nations to the brink of war. Except that this is no fantasy. It is real and depressingly familiar. It’s also a sign that India and Pakistan should
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InternationalWASHINGTON, October 9, 2016 – As progressive as we are in the United States, certainly compared to many other countries, too many individual states still have in place rape and sexual assault laws that leave much to be desired. Many states do not view the assault of an unconscious woman the same as if force
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USAST. LOUIS | Support for Donald Trump dipped slightly after a videotape surfaced in which he used vulgar language to boast about his womanizing, but most Republican voters said GOP leaders should stand by the party’s presidential nominee, according to a new poll released Sunday. Mr. Trump’s campaign has been reeling and about 40 GOP
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USAFormer New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani came to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s defense on Sunday, saying the New York businessman’s remarks were lewd but not outside of the scope of male banter behind closed doors. “The fact is that men at times talk like that,” Mr. Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the
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USAUN ambassador Danny Danon responded sharply to the UN Human Rights Commissioner’s demand to boycott Israeli and international companies which have dealings in Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights. The Commissioner also demanded that the UN cut off its ties with Israeli companies working in these areas. “The countries of the world
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International, Middle EastRabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was brutally attacked at Zhitomir”s central train station early Friday morning. After the attack, Deitsch was found and transported to a local hospital. The motive for the attack remains unknown. Violent anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine are rare, and there is no
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