The longtime fire marshal of Colorado Springs, Colorado defended his decision to limit the number of people allowed to attend a speech delivered by Donald Trump on Friday after being berated by the Republican candidate for president multiple times during the hour-long address. Brett Lacey has served as fire marshal of Colorado Springs since 1998, […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch kick off their biannual summit with their extensive network of donors, Donald Trump lobbed a pre-emptive shot, claiming he had rebuffed the industrialists’ request for a meeting. But top officials to the Koch operation threw cold water on that Saturday afternoon, saying they had
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USAWhile a contentious presidential election dominates the media, a new survey finds that a sense of “alienation” among average Americans is at an all-time high. For decades, the Harris Poll has gauged how much, or how little, people feel their interests are heard and addressed by those with power and influence. The latest survey found
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USAPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Sunday, 31 July 2016), at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, addressed the comments made by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls to the effect that he is open to banning foreign funding for mosques in France in the wake of the terror attack in the church in Normandy
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International, Middle East, USASome 7,000 police officers in heavy vehicles overnight Saturday surrounded the Incirlik air base in Turkey, which is used by NATO forces in Adana, in what a Turkish minister called a “security check”, Russia Today reports. While there was no official explanation for the move, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported earlier that Adana police had
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — John McCain has backed Donald Trump, but his granddaughter says she is still “nursing a grudge” against the Republican nominee, who famously questioned the Arizona senator’s heroism a year ago. Caroline McCain endorsed Hillary Clinton in an essay on Medium this week. “Trump’s statement, in my view, is unforgivable, and speaks to the
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USAAnother story with image of mural: https://www.yahoo.com/news/swimsuit-mural-hillary-clinton-creates-stir-australia-072457596.html
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USALOS ANGELES — Luke Aikins accomplished something Saturday night that no one else has ever done: he jumped out a helicopter 25,000 feet up in the air and landed in a net without a wingsuit or parachute. Aikins landed in a 100-by-100-foot net that was set up several stories above the ground in Big Sky
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Sports & Competitions, USALOCKHART, Texas — A fiery hot air balloon crash killed 16 people west of Lockhart on Saturday, marking one of the most deadly single incidents to hit the Austin area. The balloon had been gliding along a portion of Caldwell County near Jolly Road, about two miles west of Lockhart, when witnesses said it appeared
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The preacher, i.e.. Kohelet,said in the Book of Ecclesiastes, that is as much Greek as Judaic in its philosophy, מַה-שֶּׁהָיָה הוּא שֶׁיִּהְיֶה וּמַה-שֶּׁנַּעֲשָׂה הוּא שֶׁיֵּעָשֶׂה וְאֵין כָּל-חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAFor nearly a decade, residents of the villages of Nilin and Bilin, located near the haredi town of Modiin Illit, have held fiery, often violent demonstrations against the construction of the security fence every Friday. The demonstrations, which often include stone-throwings, draw anarchists and opponents of the Jewish state from around the world. While provocations
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Middle EastThe Lebanese television station Al-Mayadeen, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, aired the first segment of a three-part series on the abduction of two IDF soldiers at the outset of the 2006 Lebanon war. The program, which was aired on Saturday, included never-before seen footage from the terror operation which kidnapped IDF soldiers
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Middle EastPARIS — A Syrian refugee was arrested by French police on suspicion of being involved in a deadly jihadist attack on Tuesday on a Catholic church, a source close to the probe said Friday. The arrest, which took place in central France on Thursday, raises to three the number of people currently being held as
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InternationalRome (dpa) – Fethullah Gulen, an exiled religious leader blamed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for this month’s coup attempt in Turkey, said in an interview Friday that the United States will not hand him over to Ankara. “It is very clear that this demand is politically motivated, and I am confident the facts will
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