WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — The US State Department has published its annual survey of world-wide terrorism which names the Islamic Republic of Iran as the main state sponsor of terror in 2015. Iran had provided “a range of support, including financial, training, and equipment, to groups around the world,” the report said. It went on to highlight the […]
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Middle East, USAHarvard University is employing a “visiting scholar” from Iran, who firmly backs the regime in Tehran and has warned against the “Jewish threat” in the past, revealed Washington Free Beacon on Thursday. Ali Akbar Alikhani is an associate professor at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of World Studies, and currently he is teaching for a
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Middle East, USAThe Wall Street Journal reports Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who spent over $100 million during the 2012 election, plans to establish a super PAC in support of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Funds raised by the super PAC would also be used to back Republicans in important congressional races. Adelson has been an omnipresent
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By Sam Ben-Meir JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — At his final White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama quipped that “the end of the republic never looked better.” With Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee, and Hillary Clinton beginning to steadily lose ground to him in national polls, it is time for millions of Americans to
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By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO — The flowers came from La Mesa, the girl from Afghanistan. When Hillary Clinton accepted a large bouquet after her 35-minute Trump-bashing national security speech Thursday in Balboa Park, some assumed it was ethnic pandering.“Nice touch Hillary Clinton have a little Mexican give you flowers after your speech in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Democratic presidential hopeful and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday, June 2, that Donald Trump’s views on foreign policy are “dangerously incoherent” and “not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies. He is not just unprepared, he is
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that he intended to wage a summer and fall campaign against both Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, a one-two attack that drew cheers from a boisterous crowd here. “These are crooked people,” said the presumptive Republican nominee. “They’ve been crooked from the beginning.” Trump, who
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USAIran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said on Wednesday that the nuclear deal reached last year with world powers can’t be renegotiated, despite Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s pledge to do so if elected. Speaking after a lecture in Stockholm and quoted by The Associated Press (AP), Zarif said the deal “is not an Iran-U.S.
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International, Middle East, USAWhen Trump nixed a possible visit to Israel back in December, the GOP frontrunner pledged he would visit Israel after he became president. Despite talk in March of a spring trip, Trump declared he would not be flying abroad in the midst of primary season. Now that he has clinched the 1,237 delegates needed to
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-59th in a series– Exit 33, Willows Road, Alpine (eastbound) By Donald H. Harrison VIEJAS INDIAN RESERVATION, California — I wrote the following story for the Sept. 19, 1997 edition of the San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage, of which I was editor. The sentiments expressed in this excerpt still apply today, and provide background for any
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USANEWARK, N.J. — Hillary Clinton, seeking to clinch the Democratic nomination for president in New Jersey’s primary next week, attacked presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday as “a fraud” who has “disqualified himself completely” from holding the nation’s highest office, likely offering a glimpse into the next five months of the 2016 White House
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge refused Wednesday to reopen voter registration in California ahead of next week’s presidential primary, telling a group led by backers of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that the rights of the state’s unaffiliated voters have not been harmed. “There’s absolutely no showing of any federal violation,” said U.S. District Judge
Even without a Democratic nominee yet, President Obama is jumping into the presidential campaign with both feet Wednesday, telling voters in Indiana that the choice in November “isn’t even close.” Mr. Obama will tell voters in Elkhart, Indiana, that economic issues should lead them to vote for the Democratic nominee, presumably Hillary Clinton, over Republican
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Prime Minister has generally avoided public comment about Sara, but he denied this story, and brought suit against a journalist who posted it on Facebook. . Israel’s media, with one prominent exception, has headlined Sara’s problems. TV and radio news programs have also provided opportunity for Netanyahu family
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