The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East. The Saudi government wants nuclear power to free up more oil for export, but current and former American officials suspect
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Middle East, USAComedian Trevor Noah did some digging into Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s past this week after “Pocahontas” comments made by President Trump, but what he found put him at odds with his ideological ally. The host of “The Daily Show” told his studio audience on Tuesday night that the president’s ongoing “Pocahontas” jokes surrounding Ms. Warren
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAMatt Lauer was fired from NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday after the company said it received a complaint about the co-anchor concerning “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” The stunning announcement certain to disrupt the morning TV landscape was read at the top of NBC’s iconic program by Lauer’s on-air partners Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb,
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe White House failed to invite a popular and combative black reporter to the annual holiday party because, the reporter said, officials in the Trump administration “don’t like me.” American Urban Radio Networks Washington Bureau Chief April Ryan, one of the few minority female journalists credentialed to attend the White House daily press briefings, said
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USAPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy head of a British far-right group who has been convicted of a hate crime. One of them purports to show a Muslim beating up a Dutch boy on crutches. Another is described as showing an Islamist mob pushing a teenager of a
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International, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It may be early to prepare for a change at the top, either through resignations or a national election. However, there are increasing signs of stress in the strangeness of key officials’ behavior. The macro problem appears clear to all but those dependent on the continued rule of Benjamin Netanyahu:
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastMIAMI — A Hollywood man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up an Aventura synagogue suffers from such acute psychosis due to a cyst in his brain that he will be placed in a U.S. prison’s medical facility while serving at least 25 years, a federal judge in Miami ruled Tuesday. James Gonzalo Medina,
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USAThe top two Democrats in Congress canceled a meeting with President Trump slated for later Tuesday, saying they didn’t see him as a viable partner in trying to strike an end-of-year spending deal. The stunning move attempts to further sideline Mr. Trump and portray him as at odds with his party’s own leadership in Congress.
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USALess than a month after its top news executive, Mike Oreskes, resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct, National Public Radio has lost another senior editor after female journalists accused him of sexual harassment. David Sweeney has stepped down from his role as NPR’s chief news editor following accusations by at least three current and former
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy TOI staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane lifted off for Kenya Tuesday morning for an official visit that will include meetings with 11 African leaders. The purpose of the one-day trip to Nairobi, Netanyahu said before boarding the plane, “is to deepen [Israel’s] ties with Africa, including by establishing connections with nations with which
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International, Middle EastPresident Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is doing business with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law, a bombshell new report revealed Tuesday. A large leak of financial documents called the Paradise Papers revealed several weeks ago that Russian billionaire Kirill Shamanov, the son of a close friend of Putin, does business with Ross — but
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International, USASEATTLE — Jenny Durkan took the oath of office as Seattle mayor Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead the city since the 1920s as the result of her win in the Nov. 7 election. Durkan was sworn in at the Ethiopian Community Center in Rainier Beach, the first of five neighborhood destinations as she
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USABy Judah Ari Gross With disarming honesty, passable Arabic and an eyebrow ring, self-described “proud pro-Israel American Jew” Michael Bassin set off for the United Arab Emirates as a junior for a study abroad program at the American university in the midst of the 2006 Second Lebanon War. His parents weren’t thrilled. So begins Bassin’s
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump said “we will take care of it” after North Korea launched yet another intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday, defying sanctions and world condemnation. “It is a situation we will handle,” the president told reporters at the White House, without being specific. But he did say the U.S. approach toward North Korea has not
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