By Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — I have never met the woman. Never met her parent or her grandparents, her friends or enemies. Don’t live in the District. But, seriously, give the woman, Sara Jacobs, a fighting chance. A recent article in the San Diego Union-Tribune contains the opening salvo in […]
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San Diego County, USAThe White House pushed back on claims Wednesday that President Donald Trump is days away from announcing the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and an official statement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel”s capital. Earlier on Wednesday, Israel”s Channel 2 reported that senior officials in Jerusalem said that the Israeli
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Middle East, USAIsraeli officials expect President Donald Trump to announce plans to relocate the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the coming days, and to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. According to a report by Channel 2, senior Israeli officials have claimed that the Israeli government expects an
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Middle East, USATen Democratic senators, among them four Jews, on Wednesday wrote Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urging him not to demolish Palestinian Arab villages despite the fact that they are illegal and built without authorization. “We have long championed a two-state solution as a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said the letter, initiated by Senators Dianne
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Middle East, USAFormer Israeli Ambassador to the US and current Kulanu MK Michael Oren made a rare public jab at a senior Obama administration official on Wednesday, accusing former Secretary of State and the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry of harboring an “obsessive” anti-Israel bias and antipathy towards the country”s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyhau. In an
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Middle East, USAA private research university in New York City held a panel discussion on anti-Semitism Tuesday, featuring five far-left activists, including anti-Zionist, Sharia advocate Linda Sarsour. The event, titled “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice”, was hosted by the New School on its Manhattan campus. While the panel was ostensibly charged with discussing the rise of
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Middle East, USAThe American Jewish Congress issued a statement encouraging the US administration to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as soon as possible. On Tuesday, US Vice President Mike Pence said US President Donald Trump and his administration will “always stand with Israel,” and that Trump was considering when to follow
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Middle East, USAArriving in New York for a series of meetings in the US, Labor party leader Avi Gabbay attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Zionist Union is a joint list made up of Labor, MK Tzipi Livni’s defunct Hatnuah party, and the Green Movement. “Israel’s crisis with US Jewry is mostly the result of a
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback worked Capitol Hill on Wednesday in an effort to get his stalled nomination as ambassador for religious liberty moving through a recalcitrant Congress. Brownback, who told reporters last week he was hoping for a vote on his confirmation by Christmas, huddled with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Brownback’s would-be
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USANorth Korea fired what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), ending its 75-day pause of weapons testing and shattering expectations that the hiatus might lead to dialogue over the North’s nuclear and missile programs. The missile traveled about 960 kilometers and flew for 53 minutes before landing in the waters within 370 nautical
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International, USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — In a dramatic video, a U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri called Roy Moore a “legendary patriot who stands up and fights no matter what,” and he implied the reporting of sexual assault allegations against Moore could lead to the destruction of America. Courtland Sykes — who recently moved to Missouri as
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USAThe Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East. The Saudi government wants nuclear power to free up more oil for export, but current and former American officials suspect
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Middle East, USAComedian Trevor Noah did some digging into Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s past this week after “Pocahontas” comments made by President Trump, but what he found put him at odds with his ideological ally. The host of “The Daily Show” told his studio audience on Tuesday night that the president’s ongoing “Pocahontas” jokes surrounding Ms. Warren
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAMatt Lauer was fired from NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday after the company said it received a complaint about the co-anchor concerning “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” The stunning announcement certain to disrupt the morning TV landscape was read at the top of NBC’s iconic program by Lauer’s on-air partners Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb,
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