WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee is seeking copies of thousands of work-related emails that Hillary Clinton stored on her private computer server but failed to turn over to the State Department despite its repeated requests, according to a public records request obtained by McClatchy. The RNC sent the request to the State Department this […]
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USAU.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Wednesday defended a controversial image he posted on Twitter mocking his political rival Hillary Clinton. The image featured Clinton against a backdrop of hundred dollar bills and a red six-pointed star, most commonly known as the Jewish Star of David symbol. The text on the star read: “Most corrupt
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USABefore, During, and After the Holocaust—from Africa to Berlin to North Carolina (c) By Edwin Black In recent years, some in the African-American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare. After all, African-Americans are still struggling to achieve general recognition of the barbarity of the
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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Press Release) — Corey Samuels’ journey to tell the story of her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Henry Oertelt recently culminated in an emotional donation of Oertelt’s personal belongings to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Oertelt had been liberated by General Patton’s Third Army during the Flossenburg death march in April 1945. He arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, in
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International, Jewish History, USAWASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders was booed during a closed meeting with House Democrats on Wednesday, as lawmakers shouted “Timeline! Timeline!” — pressing for his endorsement of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee. The Vermont senator did not directly answer Democrats’ many questions about his intentions, according to a source in the
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USADonald Trump defended his praise of Saddam Hussein at an Ohio rally where he spent nearly an hour heaping scorn on television networks for the way they have covered his presidential campaign. “I don’t love Saddam Hussein,” Trump said of the late Iraqi dictator on Wednesday. “I hate Saddam Hussein. But he was damn good
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Middle East, USAIt looks as though Hillary Clinton will escape the State Department email scandal without being indicted, but she did not escape comedian Trevor Noah Tuesday without taking a few shots. In a press conference led by FBI Director James Comey Tuesday, the FBI recommended that no charges be filed against the former secretary of state
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USAMarine Le Pen, the leader of France’s resurgent nationalist party National Front, has endorsed U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump and defended Britain’s decision to leave the EU, French newspaper Le Parisien reports. Le Pen, who has been accused of making anti-Muslim and anti-refugee remarks, is currently among the most popular party leaders in France and
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International, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— NASA’s Juno spacecraft went into orbit around Jupiter on July 4 after a five-year trip covering nearly 2 billion miles in outer space — and Prof. Ravit Helled of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Geosciences played a major role in getting it there. “It’s really fun and exciting! It’s great to
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Middle East, USAPresumptive U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has criticized Hillary Clinton’s use of private email while secretary of state for putting the “entire country in danger.” The threat of criminal charges hanging over Clinton was finally lifted by the FBI Tuesday morning—hours before the presumptive Democratic nominee for president began campaigning with Barack Obama for
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USADemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump to 13 percentage points, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday found. The poll was taken over the weekend, before the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended on Tuesday that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton over her use of private
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USAHillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday rebuked comments by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal, son of longtime aide Sidney Blumenthal, regarding the recent death of Holocaust survivor and political activist Elie Wiesel. “Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential
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Obituaries & memorials, USADonald Trump has come under fire from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign for praising Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq who was captured by U.S. forces in 2003 and executed by the Iraqi government in 2006. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, during a Tuesday rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, praised the late Iraqi
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Middle East, USAThe most audacious speech Tony Blair ever made as Britain’s prime minister was in Chicago in April 1999, before he knew that George W. Bush would become U.S. president and long before 9/11 changed the course of his premiership. The doctrine of liberal intervention that he laid out became the siren song that led him
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