Palestinian mother-of-five Nayla Abu Jubbah launched a small revolution this week by becoming the first female taxi driver in the deeply conservative Gaza Strip.In the impoverished Palestinian territory, women have the same legal rights as men to drive a vehicle, but in practice the trade of taxi driver has been exclusively male — until now.”One
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What’s Donald Trump’s top diplomat to do when allies have turned the page and are waiting for Joe Biden but the president refuses to concede?Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is addressing the complex predicament with a most unusual 10-day trip – a farewell tour in everything but name in which he has dodged the press
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Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday welcomed the ending of strict parole conditions on convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed in the US in 1985 for spying for Israel.”The prime minister welcomes the lifting of restrictions from Jonathan Pollard” and expects him to “arrive in Israel soon,” a statement from the premier’s office said.Pollard
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump reiterated his unproven claim that there was “massive voter fraud” in Michigan’s election on Saturday, a day after he met with Republican lawmakers from the state at the White House.In Saturday morning tweets, as multiple Michigan lawmakers departed the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., the president responded to a
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) has publicly attacked President Donald Trump‘s claim of election fraud by calling out Trump’s legal team for failing to provide substantial evidence to back their allegations.Sasse is one of the few Republican leaders to criticize the president’s attempts to overturn the election outcome and President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory. Most have yet
ATLANTA — The voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams is pumping $2.7 million to boost the work of a network of grassroots organizations ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs — not to finance more TV ads but to strengthen their get-out-the-vote apparatus.Fair Fight announced Saturday it was contributing to 13 groups to “build the
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Four white supremacists have been charged in a conspiracy to build, transport and sell illegal guns, the Justice Department announced Friday in a press release.Paul Kryscuk, a 35-year-old reported porn star, sold multiple manufactured weapons to 21-year-old then-Marine Liam Collins, the feds said. Kryscuk allegedly mailed the illegal DIY weapons from his homes in New
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Congresswoman-elect Sara Jacobs of San Diego has been appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the freshman representative on the House Democrats’ Steering and Policy Committee — a plum assignment that may mark the wealthy Californian as a future leader in the Democratic Caucus. Jacobs, who succeeds retiring Congresswoman Susan Davis as the representative of California’s 53rd Congressional District is the granddaughter of Qualcomm co-founder and billionaire Irwin Jacobs, Ph.D, and herself a millionaire. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
NETANYA, Israel — Do United Nations diplomats ever read the numerous anti-Israel resolutions put in front of them? Or do they automatically raise their hand in a five-decade automatic knee-jerk reaction? I ask because I read some of the conditions of a recently approved stab at Israel on 18 November 2020. This draft resolution had to do with treating Jewish homes in Judea & Samaria and our capital, Jerusalem, as if they belong to a non-existing country and that Israel has no right to our ancient land and our homes. [Barry Shaw]
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Washington (AFP) – An American jailed in 1985 for spying for Israel was released from strict parole conditions Friday, allowing his move to Israel, the US Justice Department said.Jonathan Pollard served 30 years for giving away classified US documents and had been confined by parole terms to the United States since his release in 2015,
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Ivanka Trump is among a growing number of President Donald Trump’s close advisers who want nothing to do with his legal efforts to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election, according to a new report.These advisers may publicly act as though they believe Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani can pull some kind
…The agony lasted for eight hours, until the day I thought would never end finally did. I had not baited a hook nor cast a line. I just endured the worst day in my life. I was so traumatized by the experience that six years later the Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard Officer Candidate School I attended wrote in my service jacket that I was not to go to sea. Seasickness was one of the motivating factors that propelled me toward flight school. [Ira Spector]
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Israel has accused Lebanon of changing its position in talks on their disputed maritime border and warned it could lead to a “dead end” that would be damaging for the whole region.The two countries, which remain technically at war, opened negotiations on the border dispute under US and UN auspices last month to clear the
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After breezing through her caucus’ nomination to serve as Speaker of House, Nancy Pelosi (D-California) seemed to note that this would be her last term.For months, Pelosi has evaded questions about a statement she made two years ago with Democrats to serve only four more years in power. Pelosi more or less affirmed that she
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