A senior official in charge of a federal loan guarantee program resigned after ProPublica reported his prior role in obtaining a guarantee under the same program as part of a deal that failed. The official, Gavin Clarkson, stepped down Monday as deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development in the Interior Department’s Bureau of […]
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USAPresident Donald Trump was treated to a state dinner in Vietnam prominently featuring fish dishes, including a seafood soup containing shark fin—an expensive local delicacy responsible for driving sharks to extinction. The Vietnamese seafood soup, the fifth dish served in the seven-course menu on Saturday, contained another controversial ingredient. Demand for fish maw, also known
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International, USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — The billionaire casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson said on Monday that he will not support Steve Bannon’s attempts to buck Republican leadership and try to unseat the party’s incumbents from Congress in 2018. “The Adelsons will not be supporting Steve Bannon’s efforts,” Andy Abboud, a family spokesman, told
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USARutgers Hillel calls Syrian apologist on faculty a ‘national embarrassment’ Mazen Adi, adjunct professor at Rutgers, served in Syrian Pres. Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Suddenly, two New Jersey college campuses have become battlegrounds for two very different fights facing Jewish students when it comes to the fraught issue of Israel. One battle, at Princeton, is being
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. During the meeting, the two discussed the strong ties between Israel and the United States and the courageous connection between cities in Israel and Los Angeles. The president invited the mayor to visit Israel in order to better get to know Israeli society.
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Middle East, USADonald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is urging American Jews to join his war against the Republican establishment — and he’s bringing along a host of white supremacists and alt-right conspiracy theorists with him. “We’re leading an insurgency movement against the Republican establishment,” Bannon told the crowd at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual
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USABy TOI staff LOS ANGELES — The Jewish Federations of North America called on Israel to reverse its “divisive and damaging” steps to freeze an agreement on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and its support of a bill that would grant a monopoly to Orthodox authorities in Israel over conversions to Judaism. The JFNA’s
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International, Middle East, USAWarner Bros. finds itself in an awkward situation with Gal Gadot, the star of its most important movie of the year, “Justice League,” which debuts Friday. At the center of the issue is the studio’s relationship with embattled filmmaker Brett Ratner, who has been accused by several women of a range of sexual misconduct. A
President Trump has reportedly asked China President Xi Jinping to help resolve the shoplifting case against three UCLA men’s basketball players, according to the Washington Post. The three players — LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley — were arrested last week while on a trip in China for allegedly stealing sunglasses from a Louis
WASHINGTON — House Democrats will have an excellent opportunity to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions — again — about the Donald Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia when he appears Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee. Prominent on their list of queries: Why did Sessions never previously mention he had been in a March 2016 meeting
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USAA sixth woman came forward Monday accusing George H.W. Bush of inappropriate touching — this time, a young woman who says the former president groped her when she was 16. Roslyn Corrigan said the alleged incident occurred during an event she attended with her parents in 2003, at the Central Intelligence Agency’s offices in The
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USANEW YORK — A fifth woman has come forward to accuse former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore of inappropriate sexual conduct. Beverly Young Nelson, 55, said Moore, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old high school student working as a waitress in Gadsden, Ala. Nelson said Moore had
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USANEWARK, N.J. — Jurors considering criminal corruption charges against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday told the judge overseeing the case they were deadlocked and asked for help on what to do next. The note sent to the courtroom said: “As of 2pm, on behalf of all jurors, we cannot reach a unanimous decision on
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USAU.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly praised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, virtually ignoring discussion of Duterte’s human rights record in carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings in his war against drug suspects. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said human rights “briefly came up in the context of the Philippines’ fight against illegal drugs”
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