ORLANDO, Fla. — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday praised Orlando’s resolve after the Pulse nightclub shootings and called for police reform in the wake of a summer of violence across the nation. The Democratic presidential nominee was in Orlando for the first time since early August, looking to shore up support in a state that is […]
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USAWASHINGTON — North Texas billionaires Robert Bass and Ross Perot Jr. are big political donors — with very different party preferences. The two Texas investors have extensive ties to Tarrant County, where Fort Worth is located. Bass, 68, who Forbes magazine calculates has a net worth of $2.8 billion, is one of four brothers who
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USAForget Hillary Clinton if you’re speaking to members of the U.S. military: For most active-duty troops, the presidential election comes down to a tight race between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. Trump leads Johnson by about 1 percentage point, 38 percent to 37 percent, according to a joint survey of 2,207
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USACHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte, N.C., city leaders appealed for calm Wednesday and promised a thorough investigation of Tuesday’s fatal police shooting of a black man that triggered a night of violent protests. Authorities said they were reviewing video from body cams and dash cams from the deadly confrontation. The dead man was Keith Lamont Scott,
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USANATIONAL HARBOR: The increasingly “adversarial” relationships with Russia and China are forcing the Pentagon to classify its previously public National Military Strategy, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says. Classification will allow bolder and more specific discussions of how to manage those relationships and our responses to them, Gen. Joe Dunford told the
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International, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I am gravely concerned that the Obama-Clinton team is involved in an ongoing subversion policy not only on a national scale but on a global one. Certainly, as far as Israel is concerned there is a grand deception going on. In his UN General Assembly speech, President Obama spoke
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastHaving failed to make progress during the past eight years with Israel toward a two-state solution, President Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he’s turning over the challenge to the next president as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a new U.S. military aid package. “Obviously, I’m only going to be president for
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Middle East, USACHARLOTTE, North Carolina, September 21, 2016 – On September 20, 1881, one day after President James A. Garfield finally succumbed to a gunshot wound, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States. Today’s trivia entry is a tribute to this little known president who still claims title as having
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USAWASHINGTON — As the first debate of the presidential campaign approaches, voters are in an increasingly frustrated and unhappy mood, driven to their choices more often by dislike of the opposing candidate than admiration for their own, new polling data find. Nearly 6 in 10 voters described themselves as frustrated by this year’s campaign, according
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USAWashington (dpa) – Former president George HW Bush will reportedly not vote for the presidential candidate of his Republican Party, according to reports from those who have spoken with the centre-right party’s senior statesman. Word of Bush’s decision first came after a member of another prominent political clan, the Kennedys, met with the senior Bush.
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USAYoav Elitzur resides in Ofrah, the first Jewish community in the Binyamin area of Judea and Samaria in the modern age (founded in 1975). He has produced a short video, in Hebrew, in which he explains succinctly how the myth of, “privately-owned Arab lands in Judea and Samaria,” came to be. His explanation, if disseminated
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Middle EastPresident Reuven Rivlin this morning (Tuesday) met in his office with Lana Carrer, daughter of the Lucas Carrer, who served as Mayor of the Greek island of Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation of the island. Mayor Carrer, together with the local bishop, were responsible for saving the nearly 300 Jews who lived on the island
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International, Middle EastUK Prime Minister Theresa May met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In what was their first meeting, they discussed rebuilding the relationship between the two countries in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal. According to Iran’s Tasnim news site, May
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InternationalAlmost half of Australians would support a proposal to ban Muslim immigration down under, according to new polling. The leader of the right-wing populist One Nation leader Pauline Hanson put forward the policy in a speech last week in which she warned of Australia becoming “swamped” with Muslims. And more Australians back that proposal than
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