If you are wondering about Donald Trump’s temperament after some of his remarks, you might want to compare it with Hillary Clinton’s. On a daily basis, Hillary treats the Secret Service agents who protect her with such nastiness and contempt that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment. For my book […]
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USAEditor’s note: A ‘riding association’ in Canada is the basic geographic unit of a political party.
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International, Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s coalition would grow in size if elections were held today, a new poll shows, while the Zionist Union continues to hemorrhage voters. According to a Maagar Mohot poll published Thursday morning, the six parties currently in the coalition would rise from a combined 67 seats today to 70 if elections were
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Middle EastSydney (dpa) – The Sydney Opera House, Australia’s top tourist attraction, is set to receive a 150-million-dollar renovation over the next six years, the state government said Thursday. Changes will be made to the concert hall, the foyer and the entrance, said New South Wales state deputy premier Troy Grant, who unveiled the new working
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and FoodWhen he ran for the presidency, this candidate rallied voters with menacing pronouncements. He liked to drop obscenities and vowed to launch a “bloody war” on crime and corruption that would sweep aside political niceties. He offered a simple formula for dealing with criminals and drug addicts. More: Protests erupt over deadly anti-drug policy of
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InternationalA joint counter-terrorism operation Wednesday in Iraq resulted in the killing of a top leader for the Islamic State group, according to multiple reports. Sami Jassim Mohamad al-Jabouri, who was more familiarly known as Haji Hamid, was in charge of “natural resources” in Iraq and Syria for the militant group that is more commonly known
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Middle EastMILAN — It’s seven in the morning and two-year-old Noam is ready to start a new day. She happily runs back and forth between her mother and her father in her red sweat pants, clutching a snack she has been given for breakfast. Noam and her family are from Ethiopia, and the snack is a
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InternationalRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump continued his verbal assault on President Barack Obama on Wednesday, accusing him of being the “founder” of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). He didn’t stop there, however. The construction magnate then took aim at his presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, saying that she had a role to play in the
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Middle East, USAGOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio leads by 9 points in his re-election bid, while GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has a smaller advantage, and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is slightly behind, according to polling released Thursday. Mr. Portman had a 9-point, 49 percent to 40 percent, lead over Democrat Ted Strickland
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USAInterstate 195 in New Jersey. The 5 p.m. commute. Eastbound from Trenton it’s a traffic jam. But heading west, it’s open road. And as I drive past strip malls, pay-at-the-pump gas stations, a minor league ballpark, I marvel that this slice of Americana produced one of the most influential soldiers the Israel Defense Forces will
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Middle East, USAEthiopia must admit international observers to establish the facts around deadly protests that killed scores of people over the weekend, according to the United Nations human rights chief. Anti-government protesters took to the streets in several parts of the Horn of Africa country to demonstrate against alleged economic and political marginalization. In the Oromia region—which
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InternationalLUDWIGSBURG, Germany (JNS.org) Germany’s lead Nazi crimes investigator has identified eight people who are suspected of working at concentration camps in Poland during the Holocaust. The head of Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Ludwigsburg, Jens Rommel, told German news agencyDPA that information about the eight elderly suspects, four men and
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International, Jewish HistoryIsraeli startups win Global Innovation Awards in China (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Two Israeli startups have won first and second place at the Global Innovation Awards 2016 in Beijing. Israeli startup NiNiSpeech, which developed an ingenious digital platform for speech disorder treatment, won first place, and Israeli startup AerialGuard, which has developed an autonomous navigation
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening met with visiting Togo President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé. “Togo is very important to us and Africa is very important to us. We have a great relationship, a great friendship. And we are seeking to intensify our cooperation and our friendship for the continued success of Togo and also
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