International

France: Teenage girl charged with planning jihadist attack

A French court on Monday remanded in custody a 16-year-old girl accused of planning a jihadist attack in a country on edge following a series of brutal terror assaults, a judicial source said, according to AFP. The teenager was charged with “criminal conspiracy with terrorists” and “provocation to committing terrorist acts using online communication”, the […]

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Emails show Clinton, aides in touch with Morgan Stanley exec, Clinton Foundation official

Messages involving the then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and a top Clinton Foundation official and donor are among the dozens of new email exchanges from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state released on Tuesday by a watchdog group. One message from Stephen Roach, then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, to Mrs. Clinton provides his upcoming

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USA

Sportsmanship be damned – this gold medal was personal for Michael Phelps

RIO DE JANEIRO – Michael Phelps continues to define greatness in ways other swimmers or other athletes can only dream of. His own greatness. He came back to these Olympics because he couldn’t get defeat out of his mind. That rare defeat. A defeat that so consumed him he couldn’t live with it. He came

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Donald Trump under fire for suggesting ‘Second Amendment people’ can stop Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump warned voters at a North Carolina rally Tuesday that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would appoint Supreme Court justices who would revoke gun rights, and then he pondered whether “Second Amendment people” could do something about it. “Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick

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Israeli artist helps Sudanese refugees

  By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I walked into the exhibit at the New Americans Museum at Liberty Station with no intention of writing a story. I was just there as a guest at the opening reception of Project Vision. However, the exhibit moved me so much that I changed my mind. As an ESL teacher

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Erdogan Vows to ‘Do Much’ With ‘Friend’ Vladimir Putin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for his country to turn “a new page” in its relations with Russia and his “friend Vladimir” Putin, ahead of a visit to St Petersburg this week. Relations between the two presidents turned sour in November 2015 when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet for a brief

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International, Middle East

New bill: No petty criminal investigations of sitting PM

Chairman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee MK Dudi Amsalem (Likud) has initiated a new bill which would prohibit criminal investigation of a sitting Prime Minister for small infractions. “My bill proposes that no criminal investigation will be opened against the Prime Minister for crimes that have a penalty of less than six

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Middle East

Wadi Gaitan, Florida GOP spokesman, quits over Trump

The chief spokesman for the Florida Republican Party is quitting his job because of his refusal to support the party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Wadi Gaitan, a former senior House Republican aide who focused on Hispanic affairs, will be joining the LIBRE Initiative, a grass-roots conservative organization backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, The

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USA

Woodrow Wilson Center, D.C. think tank, rejects charges of helping spur Turkish coup

The Woodrow Wilson Center, one of Washington’s best-known think tanks, is defending itself against charges that it played a role in the failed military coup against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month. The charges, played up prominently on Turkish newspapers in recent days, are a sign of a sharp deterioration in

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USA

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 13 points nationally: poll

Hillary Clinton has jumped out to a 13-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters nationwide, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday that showed Mr. Trump has some ground to make up in unifying Republicans around his presidential candidacy. Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had a 50 percent to 37 percent lead over

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