WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual move, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Friday to discipline lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union because they helped a 17-year old migrant obtain an abortion two weeks ago. The move escalates a legal battle over abortion that arose when Trump administration officials refused to allow […]
White House advisor and daughter of President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, has urged nations to reverse a decline of women working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) during a Tokyo speech just two days ahead of her father’s first visit to Asia as president. “Women today represent only 13 percent of engineers and 24
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International, USAAnyone who has ever been trick-or-treating before is familiar with when you find a bowl sitting out on a household’s steps, promising candy – only to discover that it’s empty. Hayden Chapple of Idaho Falls experienced this exact same scenario while trick-or-treating on Halloween this year, except he responded to it by doing something that
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USAA South Florida Jewish center’s planned celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration Thursday was canceled over a bomb threat from a local college student, the Miami Herald reported Thursday night. Police believe it was 21-year-old Florida International University student Oscar Aguayo who issued a threat against the Miami Beach-based Jewish Museum of
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s inner circle expressed shock when Hillary Clinton failed to quickly condemn Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein after allegations of sexual assault. Now, the president’s team may find the shoe on the other foot as allegations land on a business partner of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Until June, Mnuchin co-owned RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAU.S. federal prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against Sayfullo Saipov, 29, an Uzbek immigrant accused of carrying out Tuesday’s deadly terror attack in New York. The suspect is accused of using a rented truck to run down people on a busy bike path in Manhattan, killing eight and injuring 12 others. The attack raised concerns
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, an immigration hard-liner and climate change skeptic, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of his current term. He’s the second GOP chairman this week from Texas to retire. He chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and under GOP rules would hit a
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USAWASHINGTON — Sam Clovis, a fiery Iowa talk radio host and former Trump campaign co-chairman who has been caught up in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has withdrawn his name from consideration to be chief scientific adviser to the secretary of agriculture. The nomination was controversial because Clovis, 68, had no scientific or medical degrees
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International, USAWASHINGTON — A liberal activist group on Thursday labeled Ralph Northam’s campaign “racist,” criticizing the Virginia Democrat running for governor a day after he declared that he would not support “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants. “Let’s be really clear: If Ralph Northam wins next Tuesday, it won’t be because he publicly backtracked on his commitment
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USAHillary Clinton’s campaign took over the Democratic National Committee’s funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party’s one-time interim chairwoman. The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, wrote in Politico Magazine on Thursday that she
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USATalia Osteen had never considered herself particularly political before the election of Donald Trump last year. The 34-year-old musician from California was concerned by social issues and often volunteered to help the homeless. But she found the cut-and-thrust of the Washington Beltway too divorced from her everyday life — until things got “personal.” “I’m a
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USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — Two US senators will introduce a resolution this week commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 that expressed support for the creation of a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. Authored by Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia,
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International, Middle East, USAAttacks against Jews have become much more frequent since August, when a group of white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting “Jews will not replace us,” a new report shows. The number of antisemitic increased throughout 2017, but the biggest jump was right after Charlottesville, when the number of attacks increased by
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — It is not the U.S. president’s political party that determines how well he is liked in Israel, rather it is how empathetic he is toward the Jewish state, Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz commented Thursday night at the Men’s Event of the Jewish Federation of
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