Texas parents were arrested by Border Patrol May 24 while they waited for their infant son to have a serious medical operation. Oscar and Irma Sanchez wanted to do whatever it took to ensure the health of their son, which meant being arrested when they arrived at the hospital. A Border Patrol officer followed the […]
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InternationalA former White House ethics chief says that Donald Trump would likely be impeached if it is proven he sought to obstruct justice by firing ex-FBI Director James Comey in hopes of ending his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Richard Painter, who worked for President George W. Bush, told MSNBC on Wednesday
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USASenior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has traveled to Washington and is waiting for a lung transplant after his health deteriorated in recent months. In an interview broadcast Thursday on Palestinian national television, Erekat, who is secretary general of the PLO Executive Committee, gave what was seen as a farewell message to the Palestinian public. Get
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USANew England Patriots fans berated their team by booing them as players kneeled in protest during the national anthem. Before the Patriots took on the Houston Texans in Foxborough, Mass. Sunday, more than a half-dozen players took a knee during the national anthem performance, — the first time a Patriots player had done so. A
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has reportedly been using a private email account to conduct official White House business. The president’s adviser, who is married to his daughter Ivanka Trump, uses both his official and private email accounts in his White House role, something Politico reported was part of the systemic use of private email
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USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a new ban Sunday on most travel to the U.S. by nationals of seven countries, including North Korea and six in the Mideast and North Africa. The new order replaces the much-disputed travel ban that President Donald Trump issued in March, parts of which were blocked in court. That
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International, USABritain’s Prince Harry met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, while in Toronto for the third edition of the Invictus Games he founded for wounded veterans. The pair seemed to hit it off. These pictures of Prince Harry and Justin Trudeau hanging out that will make your day https://t.co/mcSmIdmTsh pic.twitter.com/JWjoeYopAN— Harper’s Bazaar UK
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InternationalThe CEO of an Israeli binary options company accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was doubtless surprised to find herself surrounded by FBI agents shortly after arriving in the United States last week. Binary options is a vast, largely fraudulent Israel-based industry that Israeli law enforcement has failed to tackle for the
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Middle East, USAOn a day when the Pittsburgh Steelers announced that they, as a team, would stay in the locker room for the national anthem, the Pittsburgh Penguins have announced that, unlike other championship teams, they will indeed accept the president’s invite to the White House. RELATED: NFL coach on Trump: “there’s no longer a place to
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Sports & Competitions, USADisabled protesters on Sunday continued their lightning strikes on major highways to campaign for higher disability stipends by blocking an intersection of the Ayalon freeway, the main artery running through Tel Aviv. Traffic came to a standstill as Israelis, returning to work after a long weekend for the Jewish new year, were blocked by a
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Middle EastMK Oren Hazan (Likud), a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, has demanded that the chairman of the committee convene an urgent discussion on the Iranian threat. “The world”s silence vis-a-vis the Iranians is reminiscent of the world”s silence in the face of North Korea’s nuclear bullying, which led to a situation in
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Middle EastDeputy Education Minister Meir Porush (UTJ) was involved in an unpleasant situation in Monsey when members of the Satmar hassidic sect burst into the Synagogue during prayers and hurled insults. Porush had spent the Rosh Hashanah holiday in New York’s Vitznitz-Monsey community. On Shabbat, he was in the middle of Shabbat prayers when a band
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Middle East, USARick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents Reform congregations in North America, penned an open letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday, demanding he recognize the Reform Movement”s “rights” to a non-traditional prayer space at the Western Wall and official recognition by the State of Israel. The Reform Movement, represented in
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAStudents at an all-girl Kentucky Catholic school will not face expulsion after playing a game of “Swastika beer pong,” the latest in a string of “Jews v. Nazis” drinking games in the U.S. The teenagers involved in the drinking game at St. Teresa’s Academy were pictured on social media app Snapchat playing the game, but
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