Donald Trump complained to Puerto Rican hurricane victims this week that their suffering is throwing his budget “out of whack,” but for the same cost as the first family’s exorbitant travel, the government could have sent nearly 130 cargo ships to the island, a new analysis shows. The president and first family have reportedly spent […]
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USAMIAMI — Tropical Storm Nate formed early Thursday, dumping heavy rain across the Central American coast on a northward track headed for the U.S. At 8 a.m., the storm was located about 10 miles south of Nicaragua’s north coast with sustained winds of 40 mph. It’s expected to make landfall Thursday as it continues moving
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump’s expanded deportation orders, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark “sanctuary state” legislation Thursday, vastly limiting who state and local law enforcement agencies can hold, question and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities. Senate Bill 54, which takes effect in January, has been
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International, USARussian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with the king of Saudi Arabia. Salman bin Abdulaziz is on an historic first visit to Russia by a monarch of the Gulf kingdom. “This is the first visit of the King of #SaudiArabia to #Russia in the history of our relations” – #Putin https://t.co/c6AEG0dTkO pic.twitter.com/Veqlhgpirv— Sputnik (@SputnikInt)
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Middle East, USAWhen the Iranian pianist and composer, Amir Darabi, was accepted to Berklee College of Music this past summer, everything seemed to be going his way. He had already established himself as a piano prodigy in his home country, released a full-length debut album and performed in numerous prominent venues, including Tehran’s Roudaki Hall. He didn’t
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAKazuo Ishiguro is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, the awarding Swedish Academy said Thursday. Born in Japan and raised in Britain, Ishiguro is best known for the novels “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go.” Published in 1989, “The Remains of the Day” won the Man Booker Prize and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalHollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer delivered $10,000 to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. in 2015, in the months after Vance’s office decided not to prosecute Weinstein over sexual assault allegations, according to an International Business Times review of campaign finance documents. That contribution from attorney David Boies — who previously headlined a fundraiser for
US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted Iran has not acted in keeping with a deal to curb its nuclear program, days before he must decide on the future of the accord. “You will be hearing about Iran very shortly,” said Trump as he met military leaders to discuss the issue. Get The Times of
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Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu touted their cordial relationship during and after the president”s May trip to the Jewish state – a welcome change from the often frigid relations between Jerusalem and Washington during the eight years of the Obama administration. According to a report by Haaretz this week, however, behind
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Middle East, USASEATTLE, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — John Ripin Miller, a political leader from Seattle for over 20 years and a highly acclaimed human rights diplomat, died today in Corte Madera, CA, according to Discovery Institute. He had struggled with cancer for several years. In August, Amazon published The Man Who Could Be King, a well-received
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Obituaries & memorials, USAIran”s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday equated Kurdish independence with the establishment of a “new Israel” in the region. Speaking after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran and quoted by Reuters, Khamenei said the two countries should prevent Iraq”s Kurdistan region from declaring independence. “Turkey and Iran must take
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Middle East, USACanada’s government removed a plaque at a new Holocaust memorial that omitted any reference to Jews or anti-Semitism. The National Holocaust Memorial, in the capital of Ottawa, was inaugurated last week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up On
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International, Jewish HistoryThis story will likely be familiar to anyone who has followed the bizarre saga of Andrew Anglin, an obsessively anti-Semitic blogger whose clownish, millennial-targeted Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer has bounced across roughly nine different Internet hosts, in the wake of a post he wrote mocking the death of activist Heather Heyer, the woman who
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USAA day after a 70-year-old Jewish man was found murdered in an Arab town in central Israel, questions remain regarding the nature of his murder and the details of the gruesome slaying. The victim, Reuven Shmerling, a long-time resident of Elkana in western Samaria, was found dead Wednesday afternoon in a factory he owns in
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