At least two people have been killed and several injured on Greece’s Kos island by a strong earthquake that struck between Greece and Turkey early on Friday morning. The deaths were confirmed by George Kyritsis, the mayor of the island which is a major tourist resort in the Dodecanese Islands archipelago. Greece’s fire service reported […]
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InternationalLOS ANGELES — Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington died by hanging at his Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., home, the Los Angeles County coroner confirmed Friday. An employee discovered the 41-year-old’s body Thursday morning hanging from a belt on a bedroom door inside his home in the 2800 block of Via Victoria, said Ed Winter, spokesman
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, USAOne cop, 8 Palestinians hurt in Wadi Joz as protesters throw rocks, water bottles and set off fireworks, police respond with tear gas; rioting at Qalandiya By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff Israeli security forces stand guard in front of Palestinian Muslim worshipers outside Lions Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21,
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Middle EastPA president holds emergency meetings over rising tensions at Temple Mount; IDF arrests ten Fatah leaders overnight in bid to stave off protests By Times of Israel staff Muslim worshipers perform noon prayers by the Lions Gate, outside the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City, July 20, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
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Middle East, USACould Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) become 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Maxine Waters? It appears it could happen, she told The Daily Caller — if Millennials want her to run, that is. Waters will be in New Hampshire this weekend to speak at a Strafford County Democratic event, but she said her appearance there has nothing
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USAPresident Trump’s legal team is looking into potential conflicts of interest within special counsel, Robert Mueller’s, investigative team and potential pardons for relatives and White House staff, according to reports. Mueller has been tasked with determining if the president’s campaign team co-ordinated with Russia during the last election. The new reports come on the heels
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USAThis 10-year-old boy is being credited with the discovery of a rare fossil buried deep in the New Mexican desert. Jude Sparks and his family were exploring the Las Cruces desert back in November when he tripped on a protruding substance that was jutting out from the rock. When Sparks fell to the ground, he
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USACorpse of teen covered in bloodied white sheet seen being carried over wall in footage posted by Palestinian media By Times of Israel staff Screenshot from footage posted on Palestinian media showing what appears to be a body of a protester covered in a bloodied sheet being carried over a wall in East Jerusalem after
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Middle EastEarlier this month a group of Florida teens filmed and mocked a disabled man while he was drowning in a retention pond, police said. Jamel Dunn, 32, drowned in a retention pond off Plaza Parkway in Cocoa, Florida, on July 9 – his body was found July 12, Florida Today reported. There were no calls
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USADon’t weep for Sean Spicer, who resigned Friday as press secretary to President Donald Trump. He started out in his job six months ago lying about the size of the crowd for Trump’s inauguration, and the rest of his tenure was mainly marked by belligerence and severely reduced access for the press. Remember in March
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USAWASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sean Spicer has resigned, it was announced Friday. The decision came after President Donald Trump hired Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier, as communications director. In a Twitter statement, Spicer said he would leave the White House in August. For months, Spicer’s daily news briefings were must-see television although
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USATRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie on Friday signed into law legislation that raises the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products and electronic cigarettes in New Jersey from 19 to 21. Vendors licensed to sell tobacco products would be subject to fines of up to $1,000 for violating the law. Christie, a Republican, has made
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — An investigation following the terrorist shooting on July 14 on the Temple Mount Complex in the Old City of Jerusalem revealed that an accomplice brought weapons into the compound in the early hours of the morning in readiness for the attack. In this attack two Druze police officers were shot
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastMARIPOSA, Calif. — It has destroyed 29 structures, temporarily cut off power to Yosemite National Park and threatened the historic gold-mining town of Mariposa, sending its residents fleeing. It’s sent its smoke as far away as Idaho, and it burned so hot that it created its own weather system. If the Detwiler fire, which has