In a tweet while watching the presidential debate Monday, former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean questioned whether Republican nominee Donald Trump was using cocaine. “Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?” tweeted Mr. Dean, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. The remark quickly gained more than 7,000 retweets and more […]
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USA“How are you, Donald,” Hillary Clinton said as she shook her opponent’s hand on stage at Hofstra University on Monday. She wasn’t going to use the “Mr. Trump” honorific like some sort of Apprentice contestant. Trump, of the other hand, asked her if Secretary Clinton was a good label and then slipped and used “Hillary”
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USAWASHINGTON — Polls show the presidential race tightening, helping to justify some of the unusual hype surrounding Monday’s initial debate between the two candidates. Here are a few things we learned: — Hillary Clinton wants to make the election all about Donald Trump. She attacked him early and often, accusing him of withholding his tax
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USATel Aviv-U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro revealed on Sunday that Washington is circulating several proposals to resume the stalled peace talks. Dan Shapiro did not rule out the adoption of an international resolution in this regard. This came as Americans have been leaking information that the the White House is outraged at the Israeli
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International, Middle East, USAA dramatic deterioration Tuesday in the condition of former president Shimon Peres, who is hospitalized at the Sheba (Tel Hashomer) hospital in Ramat Gan since suffering a stroke nearly two weeks ago. Doctors now believe that his neurological situation is irreversible. Peres’s condition deteriorated despite daily improvements since he suffered the stroke. Last week President
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Multiple sclerosis is one of the most devastating neurodegenerative diseases. It affects some 2.5 million people worldwide. It has no known cure. Until now, researchers have speculated that the body’s own immune system was unleashing an uncontrolled attack on myelin sheaths — our neurons’ protective shield — that was largely responsible
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationThe First Presidential Debate By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Trump prided himself for not studying the issues or participating in mock debates to prepare for debating Hillary Clinton. While that may not be his style, it quickly became apparent that he should have taken a crash course in impulse control. * Donald Trump practiced birther
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAA man suspected of injuring nine people in a mass shooting in Houston Monday owned Nazi paraphernalia, and wore what appeared to be an old German uniform with swastikas during the attack, according to a report from KPRC2 in Houston. Nathan DeSai, a local lawyer, has been connected to the attack. The suspected attacker was
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USADemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday that, if elected, she would oppose any attempts to impose an outside solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as any one-sided action at the UN. In a meeting in New York, Clinton said she was committed to countering efforts to delegitimize Israel and
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Middle East, USAHEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump step onto the biggest shared stage of their presidential campaign Monday chasing the same goal: persuading voters to discard long-held and sharply negative views of them. Trump faces the biggest task in this first presidential debate, to accomplish in one night what he has not been able
As we embark on Hispanic Heritage Month, and ahead of the first presidential debate, it is no secret how different this election cycle has been for many Latinos in America. None of us anticipated the extent our community would be the face, and in many ways the target, of the most prominent issue of this
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USAThe world’s largest single-dish radio telescope — Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) — has received its first signals from space. The behemoth, nestled in a natural crater in Guizhou Province in southwest China, will now be tested for three years before it becomes fully operational. “This is very exciting,” Peng Bo, FAST
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationIn the summer of 1966, hundreds of farm workers in Texas marched from Rio Grande City to Austin — almost 500 miles over 90 days — to demand change. They weren’t asking for anything fancy. They wanted better wages, restrooms and uncontaminated water for the people cultivating and picking melons and other crops. Now 50
This week’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is the first of three the candidates will engage in before the November election. As in years past, each debate will be broadly aimed at one of three single subject areas—domestic policy, the economy and foreign policy. For the last several election cycles, a consortium of
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