Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on President Donald Trump to put aside his hardline politics and offer assistance to Iran after the country was hit Sunday by what’s become the deadliest earthquake of the year. With casualties having reached at least 452 people dead and thousands more injured, mostly in Iran, according […]
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Middle East, USAThe Trump administration is hiring a small army of attorneys to fight landowners so the government can seize the property needed to build the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump promised his supporters. It is not clear how many Americans will have their land seized, how long the process will take, or
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USAWilmot Collins thought he was running for mayor of a small city with challenges he had a plan to address. What he didn’t realize is that by actually winning the election he would also become an overnight symbol of what refugees can achieve in America. Collins, who arrived in the US with his wife as
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USAAshley Judd Appointed As The UN Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Goodwill Ambassador There was a time when people believed most celebrities lived perfect lives. But if 2017 has taught us anything, it’s that some of the most beautiful people in the world have the saddest of skeletons in their closets. And many are not remaining silent
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USAThis story is being co-published with MapLight. Republican state law enforcement chiefs dined with their top donors at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last weekend, according to an agenda obtained by MapLight through a public records request. An agenda for the Republican Attorneys General Association’s fall meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., lists a dinner on
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USAA senior official in charge of a federal loan guarantee program resigned after ProPublica reported his prior role in obtaining a guarantee under the same program as part of a deal that failed. The official, Gavin Clarkson, stepped down Monday as deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development in the Interior Department’s Bureau of
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USAPresident Donald Trump was treated to a state dinner in Vietnam prominently featuring fish dishes, including a seafood soup containing shark fin—an expensive local delicacy responsible for driving sharks to extinction. The Vietnamese seafood soup, the fifth dish served in the seven-course menu on Saturday, contained another controversial ingredient. Demand for fish maw, also known
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International, USABy TOI staff In a heated Knesset session Monday called by the opposition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed criticisms of his conduct and leadership, saying the left had had it in for him from the start. At a special plenum session called by 40 MKs, opposition leaders censured the prime minister on issues ranging from
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Middle EastChairman of the Yesh Atid party, MK Yair Lapid, responded Tuesday to the statements of Zionist Union Chairman Avi Gabbay, according to which he would agree to be “Number 2” to Lapid if the move yields more seats. “If Gabbay chooses me, I will also turn to the Likud because the state needs a national
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Middle EastBy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — The billionaire casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson said on Monday that he will not support Steve Bannon’s attempts to buck Republican leadership and try to unseat the party’s incumbents from Congress in 2018. “The Adelsons will not be supporting Steve Bannon’s efforts,” Andy Abboud, a family spokesman, told
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USAMore than 70 years after World War II ended, 45 Holocaust survivors in Israel finally got a chance to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for the first time yesterday, Monday morning, at the Western Wall, Judaism”s holiest site. The survivors reached bar or bat mitzvah age during the war or immediately afterwards, but
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During the meeting, the two discussed the strong ties between Israel and the United States and the courageous connection between cities in Israel and Los Angeles. The president invited the mayor to visit Israel in order to better get to know Israeli society.
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Middle East, USAThe Jewish population in Judea and Samaria is on the brink of a period of major growth, and could top one million residents within 10 to 15 years, a veteran settlement leader said Tuesday morning. Ze”ev “Zambish” Haver, Secretary-General of the Amana settlement organization and a long-time activist in Judea and Samaria, addressed an Amana
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