Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics national poll released Tuesday finds. The poll shows Clinton leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in November’s election, with 55 percent of those polled saying they could never vote for Trump. Most […]
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USAThe leader in exile of the political wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, is to step down by the end of the year, choosing not to run in the next elections, according to Arab media reports. Meshaal, 56, has decided that he will not take part in the leadership elections for the Palestinian
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Middle EastDonald Trump is saying he will meet with representatives of the National Rifle Association to discuss “not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no-fly list, to buy guns.” The announcement, which the presumptive GOP presidential nominee made on Twitter, follows the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, last weekend, the
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USAKnesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) married his partner Irina Nevzlin in a small ceremony Tuesday night. The chuppah took place on the roof of Aish Hatorah Yeshiva, in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, while the reception was conducted in the Kotel tunnels. About 180 guests attended. Rabbi Gideon Perl, the chief rabbi of
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Middle EastThe Knesset Ethics Committee has rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to allow MKs to visit the Temple Mount. The committee listen to police assessments of the situation and chose “in the meantime, not to change its earlier decision” banning Knesset members from the site for eight months. “However,” the ruling noted, “when security officials
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Middle EastHillary Clinton has formally wrapped up the U.S. Democratic presidential primaries with a 79 percent win in Washington, D.C. Her focus is now on uniting the party and securing the support of defeated Bernie Sanders in the race to the White House. The pair met for more than an hour and a half behind closed
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USABy Paul Miller BUFFALO GROVE, Illinois — Earlier this year, 200 progressive activists stormed the downtown Chicago Hilton with the intention of disrupting a gay rights event. Not that they had anything against gay rights. No, the object of their contempt was the Israelis who had organized this event to support the rights of gay
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–John Shapiro was elected President of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) during the organization’s Global Forum 2016 in Washington, D.C. Shapiro, who chaired AJC’s Board of Trustees for the past three years, succeeds Stanley M. Bergman. “In a time of increasing opportunity and trepidation for Jews worldwide, AJC is privileged to have
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USAObama administration opposes proposed funding boost for Israeli missile defense (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Obama administration on Tuesday announced its opposition to a Congressional proposal for a $455 million increase in funding for Israel’s missile defense program in the 2017 U.S. budget. A statement published on Tuesday by the White House’s Office of Management
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By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada –Colonel, David Daniel “Mickey” Marcus (U.S. Army), having parachuted into Normandy on D-day, having participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and having assisted in the Nuremberg Trial of Major Nazi War Criminals, retired into civilian life in 1947, settled in New York with his wife,
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastU.S. President Barack Obama lashed out at Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying the Republican presidential candidate is the one who’s un-American, CNN reports. The comments came in response to Trump”s own comments in an interview with Fox News on Monday, when he hinted that the President was complicit or approved of Islamic terror attacks and
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USAWashington (dpa) – Hillary Clinton won the primary in the US capital of Washington on Tuesday, the last vote in the state-by-state presidential nomination process that began in February. The former secretary of state and first lady had 79 per cent of the vote with 75 per cent of precincts counted. The end of the
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USAJewish Republicans are criticizing Donald Trump for his renewed call to ban Muslim immigration, although few of his Jewish supporters seem to be reconsidering their endorsement of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But at least one, celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, rescinded his apparent backing of Trump following the billionaire real estate magnate”s remarks. One day
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USAWashington (dpa) – Russian spies hacked into the computer system of the Democratic Party and obtained a complete dossier on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Tuesday citing party officials. A Russian embassy spokesman in Washington told the newspaper it had no knowledge of such intrusions. The government hackers had access to
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