The number of people known to have been killed by Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean is now running into the hundreds. By the end of Thursday the authorities in Haiti had put the figure at 339. The extent of the destruction in the island nation’s worst disaster since the huge earthquake in 2010 is beginning […]
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InternationalWASHINGTON — The rebukes of Donald Trump from the holy order of the GOP are as relentless as they are brutal, extending from the party’s living ex-presidents to the descendants of Ronald Reagan — and Republican voters almost always respond to them the same way. With a shrug. Even in this unusual race, GOP voters
NEW YORK — It’s Thursday evening and Matthew Miller is exhausted. He woke up early in the morning prepared to take on a full schedule of appointments and interviews as Matisyahu, but ended up spending most of the day as Dad, having spontaneously accompanied his son’s kindergarten class on a field trip. By sunset he
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USARussian President Vladimir Putin is trying to meddle in the U.S. election through cyberattacks, the Obama administration said Friday, officially placing blame for the attack that struck the Democratic National Committee and other major political figures. Hacks on state election systems also have some fingerprints pointing to Russia, but officials said they can’t be certain
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USADonald Trump boasted in vulgar terms in 2005 about making sexual advances on a woman, the latest hurdle for a candidate who has struggled to make inroads with women voters. In a 2005 audio, obtained by The Washington Post and released Friday, Trump is heard talking with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood,” as he bragged
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USAGov. Mike Pence, warn your buddy Donald Trump. That Mexican Thing you mentioned in the vice-presidential debate — it’s coming for you. Like La Llorona and El Chupacabra, the folkloric spooks that Mexican parents tell stories about to scare the bejeezus out of their naughty children, That Mexican Thing is not to be trifled with.
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USANorth Korea is showing increased activity at its nuclear test site in what could be part of preparations for a new test, a U.S. website monitoring the North said Thursday, amid concern the regime could undertake provocations to mark a key anniversary next week. Commercial satellite imagery taken on Oct. 1 of the Punggye-ri underground
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USAWASHINGTON — It was hard to miss the red and white gingham tablecloths, the lively green plants and the red and blue furry creatures jumping up and down above a pile of hay in the White House Kitchen Garden this week. Children laughed as they ran around the tables, and the TV creatures behind the
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USADonald Trump said Friday that U.S. officials are allowing immigrants to enter the country illegally so they can vote in the November election. Trump’s views are at odds with election laws that allow only U.S. citizens to be eligible to vote in the presidential election this fall. “They are letting people pour into this country
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USAOslo (dpa) – The decision to award the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was welcomed Friday across the political spectrum in Norway, home to the prestigious award. Norway – along with Cuba – has been facilitator in the peace process between Santos’ government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of
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International*/]]> */]]> */]]> Friends and relatives gathered Friday in Moshav Mazor, east of Tel Aviv, to bury an Israeli Air Force pilot who was killed when his F16 fighter jet crash-landed Wednesday. Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, 34, was killed as his two-seater fighter returned from a bombing run against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
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Middle EastShortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trump’s business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me. He used the internet to do it. Throughout my adulthood, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have epilepsy. It’s better controlled
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USAKids from Newark club and Kushner day school inaugural visitors Mayor Ras Baraka, right, cuts the ceremonial ribbon with Manischewitz CEO David Sugarman, surrounded by children from the Boys and Girls Club of Newark and students from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School. PHOTOS BY JOHANNA GINSBERG All decked out in their official touring gear, Mayor
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Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAThe format was a town hall, just like Sunday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but on Thursday night in New Hampshire Trump immediately and repeatedly batted away the notion that the event had any connection to the upcoming clash with his Democratic opponent. “They were saying this is practice for Sunday. This isn’t