International

French actress Jeanne Moreau has died at 89

Jeanne Moreau, the quintessential French actress whose mother was an English cabaret club dancer, has died at 89. Moreau, a petite chain-smoker who worked with most of the world’s top directors of the first few decades after World War II, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders among them. In one profile story, Britain’s Guardian […]

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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Moon, Trump to hold telephone talks over North Korea

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump will hold telephone discussions over ways to deal with North Korea’s provocations, an official from Seoul’s presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Monday. “(President Moon) and President Trump are soon expected to hold telephone talks. The sides are now working to arrange the conversation,”

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International, USA

US sanctions Venezuelan President Maduro, calls him a ‘dictator’

The Trump administration on Monday froze assets, banned travel and prohibited Americans from dealing with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, calling him a dictator and accusing him of undermining democracy after he carried out an election Sunday for an all-powerful new legislative assembly in defiance of warnings from the international community. As part of what are

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International, USA

Republicans give Trump what he wants � new Clinton investigations

WASHINGTON — A powerful Senate committee has given the Justice Department until Thursday to disclose whether it’s investigating reported Ukrainian efforts in the 2016 election on behalf of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. If Justice says it’s not investigating the allegations, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s chairman wants to know why they’re not. “Are you investigating the

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International, USA

Amnesty International calls on Hamas to free Israeli hostages

In first, human rights organization publicly criticizes terror group, and campaigns for release of Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed By Times of Israel staff The parents of Avraham Abera Mengistu protest outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem, September 11, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel) In an unusual move, Amnesty International called on activists Monday

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Middle East

Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House communications director

President Trump removed newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci Monday, just over a week after the president had hired him to help force out chief of staff Reince Priebus. The stunning move came just hours after Mr. Trump swore in his new chief of staff, retired Gen. John F. Kelly, former Homeland Security

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USA

Palestinian flag over Jewish day camp is insanity

By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel —  When a Jewish day camp in America flies the Palestinian flag as Palestinians are killing Israelis you know that PC in the US has gone off the cliff. This is what happened at Camp Solomon Schechter. They claim to be “unabashed pro-Israel.” They should call themselves “embarrassing terror supporters.”

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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA

U.S. realism and idealism in the Middle East

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Elliott Abrams’ Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Police after the Arab Spring (A Council on Foreign Relations Book, Cambridge University Press, 2017) is both a useful assessment of Arab Spring and what came next, and an insightful commentary on the nature of a world power and those who serve it.

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Donald Trump’s biggest littlest fan got the response of a lifetime to a letter he sent the president

A 9-year-old boy from Stockton, California, who is essentially President Donald Trump’s biggest littlest fan, wrote a letter to the president, asked to be his friend and has gotten a huge yes in response. Dylan “Pickle” Harbin got a special shout-out from White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wednesday when she read the

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USA

Sanders Says He’s ‘Absolutely’ Introducing Single-Payer

Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders said Sunday he would “absolutely” introduce a single-payer healthcare bill following failed Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare. “Absolutely, of course we are,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday. “We’re just tweaking the final points of the bill and we’re figuring out how we can mount a national campaign to bring

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Bad Smell: Trump Golf Plans Stymied By Scottish Law

Two environmental agencies in Scotland have objected to plans by the Trump Organization to build a new 18-hole golf course at the Trump International Golf Links in northeastern Scotland. Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has informed the president’s company that its expansion plans violate sewage pollution, environmental protection and groundwater conservation rules, reported Scotland’s Daily

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Mike Pence Will Soon Be President, Maxine Waters Tweets

An outspoken Democratic critic of President Donald Trump’s is leading the call for Vice President Mike Pence to become the next commander-in-chief. California Representative Maxine Waters, who has become an internet sensation among the left for her frank criticism of the president in recent months, tweeted Saturday: “Mike Pence is somewhere planning an inauguration. Priebus

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