Democrats continued pushing for gun legislation by taking the hot-button issue to their congressional districts on Wednesday, a week after they launched a daylong sit-in on the House floor to protest inaction on measures to curb violence. The group of Democrats are calling Wednesday the National Day of Action, and it’s taking place 17 days […]
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USAA new history of the Star Trek science fiction television and movie franchise reveals plans during the 1970s for a feature film that would have seen Star Trek’s first iconic captain, James T. Kirk, in a fist fight with Jesus Christ — yes, Jesus Christ — on the bridge of the starship Enterprise. The film
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAn Orthodox Jewish woman and her six-year old child were attacked by stone-throwers in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon, narrowly escaping injury. The incident took place on Nostrand Avenue near Avenue J at approximately 5:00 p.m. Witnesses say two African American teenagers threw stones at a vehicle driven by an Orthodox Jewish woman while yelling anti-Semitic slurs.
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USADonald Trump vowed Tuesday that if elected president he would cancel a pending trade deal with Pacific Rim countries and demand Mexico and Canada accept sweeping changes to NAFTA – or else he will nix that one, too. It was part of an anti-globalization agenda that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee offered to revitalize U.S.
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International, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump responded on Tuesday to the terrorist attacks on the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, calling on the world to realize what is going on and saying that such terrorist attacks must be prevented from happening in the United States. “Yet another terrorist attack, this time in Turkey. Will the world ever
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International, USADonald Trump’s presidential campaign is illegally soliciting campaign donations from foreign nationals, according to a complaint being filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Trump’s campaign has emailed solicitations to foreign nationals in Iceland, Scotland, Britain, and Australia requesting that they make contributions to his presidential campaign, according to a copy of the complaint
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International, USADonald Trump may travel in a private jet, but he knows how to talk like a grizzled union grunt. Standing in front of wall of garbage on Tuesday, the presumptive Republican nominee trashed the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and pitched himself as a friend of the American worker. On Wednesday, the nation’s largest alliance
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego City Councilwomen kicked off their shoes at the Copley-Price Family YMCA on Wednesday, June 29, and on the shaded playground turf led a pep rally in which they instructed a multi-ethnic group of young day campers to refrain from
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, USABy Colleen O’Connor SAN DIEGO — If you nodded off or went fishing for the last several days, you missed some of the best real-time history in more than a century. The U.K. voted to leave the European Union Or, in Trump-ese, “they took their country back.” Almost the entire chattering/polling/news and betting “experts” missed
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International, USAThe Freedom From Religion Foundation is erecting a billboard that features a Ronald Reagan quote stressing the importance of separation of church and state ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month. “We establish no religion in this country … Church and state are, and must remain, separate,” the billboard will read, Raw
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USAConnecting Israeli Jews to Jewish communities in the Diaspora – this is the aim of a new campaign launched by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs. The driving force of the new project stems from the understanding that Israel is committed not only to its own future and prosperity, but to the future and prosperity of
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International, Middle East, USAThe Islamic State has released a new video which praises Omar Mateen and specifically threatens Las Vegas and San Francisco with video of the area. The video of San Francisco shows footage shot from a car driving across the Golden Gate Bridge and also shows camera footage of different locations around the city, including the
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USAThe First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, accompanied by her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, arrived Monday night in Marrakech where she was greeted by HRH Princess Lalla Salma. After having reviewed a detachment of the Auxiliary Forces who made the honors, Mrs. Obama was greeted by Abdelfattah El Bjioui, Wali of the
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — Jesse Williams made explicit what so much of this year’s BET Awards has been trying to imply: Things are different now, and so much of black America is fed up. The “Grey’s Anatomy” actor, teacher and producer/star of BET’s “Stay Woke” documentary delivered arguably one of the most searing speeches in the