The US and South Korea will launch a major air force exercise involving hundreds of aircraft on Monday, a move denounced by North Korea for bringing the region to the “brink of nuclear war”. The war games involve 12,000 US military personnel and 230 aircraft – including US F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets – and […]
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International, USAThe administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a United Nations pact to improve the handling of migrant and refugee situations, deeming it “inconsistent” with its policies, the US mission to the global body announced Saturday. “Today, the US Mission to the United Nations informed the UN Secretary-General that the United
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International, USAPresident Trump Delivers Remarks In The Diplomatic Room Of The White House President Donald Trump spent part of his early Sunday morning criticizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, its handling of the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email server and its former director, James Comey. He followed up on news that special counsel Robert Mueller had
Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement considered to be illegal under international law, on financial records he filed with the Office of Government Ethics earlier this year. The latest development follows
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By Donald H Harrison SAN DIEGO – Amid growing indignation over aggressive Palestinian tactics at universities throughout the Diaspora, Dore Gold, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, provided a note of optimism at a StandWithUs banquet Saturday night attended by over 500 Israel supporters. Interviewed on stage by Waxie Sanitary Supply Chairman
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFORT WORTH, Texas December 2, 2017 – Robert May’s holiday standard, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer will be 78 next month. Rudolph first appeared in a 1939 booklet written by Robert L. May and published by Montgomery Ward, a retail and catalog department store in Chicago, Illinois The origins of Rudolph The author of one of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALauerHathaway As Matt Lauer’s fall from grace continues, footage resurfaced of comments he made to Anne Hathaway in 2012 — and it’s extremely brow raising. The actress dropped by “The TODAY Show” to promote her Oscar-winning role in “Les Miserables” when the news anchor lead her down a sketchy path. Watch the video RELATED: This
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USANorth Korea earlier this week launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile – the Hwasong-15 – that reached an altitude of about 4,500 kilometers and traveled about 1,000 kilometers. Pyongyang claims the missile could reach any target in the continental United States. What is this thing? On November 28, at 1:17 p.m. EST, the U.S. tracked
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International, USABarack Obama Former President Barack Obama took shots at Fox News during a speech in India, joking that he wouldn’t have “voted for [himself]” if he watched the conservative-leaning news network. On Friday, Obama gave a speech in New Delhi, India, to the Hindustan Leadership Summit, during which he laid into the news network, saying
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak insisted on Friday night that either moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or recognizing the holy city as Israel’s capital would not be that big of a deal. “I don’t think that this is a consequential event,” he said at the Brookings
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Middle East, USAU.S. Senator Jeff Flake now says he will vote for the Republicans’ massive $1.5 trillion tax bill. And in return for his “yes” vote, he says he has obtained a commitment to pass legislation that would safeguard almost 800,000 undocumented young people who were brought to the U.S. as children. In a statement released Friday,
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USAFlorida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan to aid corporations and the wealthy will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it. Rubio told reporters this week that in order to address the federal deficit, which will grow by at least $1 trillion if the tax plan passes,
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USASen. Bob Corker of Tennessee on Friday announced he can’t support the Senate GOP’s $1.4 trillion-plus tax cut bill, citing concerns about looming federal deficits and the ballooning debt. “This is yet another tough vote. I am disappointed. I wanted to get to yes,” Mr. Corker said in a statement. “But at the end of
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USAFormer President Barack Obama and Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, met in New Delhi Friday to discuss promoting peace in the world, according to the Dalai Lama’s office. Obama, who is on a three nation tour, also met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, where he arrived after visiting China. “It was very
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