By Ken Stone Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — –Khizr Khan paid the World Series no heed. He smiles wistfully when asked about cricket, the national pastime of his native Pakistan. “I don’t have time for popular culture yet, but God willing soon,” he said Wednesday after his 163rd public appearance since the […]
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USAcapsized boat The video taken of Sam, an eighth-grader at Independence Middle School, went viral. Taken by a drone, the video shows Ruskin swimming out to the struggling man, placing him stomach-down on his surf board and pushing him to the south side of the inlet. “He could have drowned,” said Ruskin, who wants to
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USAUniversity Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels who violently arrested in July by a Salt Lake City police officer reached a settlement of $500,000 with all the parties involved Tuesday. Wubbels’ controversial arrest after she refused to let the officer Jeff Payne draw blood from an unconscious patient without his consent, was recorded on officers’ body camera,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Jacob Magid Billboards announcing the upcoming memorial service for slain far-right activist Meir Kahane were removed from a pair of hotels at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday following pressure from left-wing lawmakers and NGOs. The signs — which also included a message of support for recently detained activist Bentzi Gopstein — were hung
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Middle East, USAMichelle Obama has a message for the men of the world: Do better, try harder and most importantly, communicate more. On Wednesday, the former first lady sat down with poet Elizabeth Alexander on the second day of the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, the first of an annual event. The topic turned to gender, and
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USANew court filings show special counsel Robert Mueller considers the Trump campaign’s former chairman Paul Manafort a “serious” flight risk and that he has multiple passports under different numbers. “The government has also learned that in March of this year, Manafort registered a phone and an email account using an alias,” Mueller’s office wrote in
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USAThe Houston Astros, powered by a record-equalling home run by George Springer won the World Series for the first time on Wednesday with a 5-1 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers. George Springer belted his fifth home run of the Series as the Astros roughed up Dodgers starting pitcher Yu Darvish, who endured his second
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Sports & Competitions, USAAmid a growing list of Hollywood men who have been accused of sexual assault, Donald Trump Jr. chimed in on Twitter, retweeting a Washington Times opinion piece blasting liberals for hating his father while these acts occurred. Social media users were quick to point out that his father, President Donald Trump, has also been accused
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USA55th New York Film Festival – “Meyerowitz Stories” Actor Dustin Hoffman has been accused of being sexually inappropriate with a woman who worked as an intern on a production set of one of his films when she was just 17. Anna Graham Hunter made the allegations against Hoffman in a guest article written for The
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAP_164132358152 (1) Former House Speaker John Boehner gave an interview to Politico Magazine that they dubbed: “John Boehner Unchained.” “Unhinged” would have been a more apt description — the former speaker delivers salty commentary and bitter bromides against former colleagues and current leading lights, dropping f*** bombs more frequency than a sailor. Shockingly, Boehner also
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USALOS ANGELES — Attorneys representing a consortium of news outlets including the Los Angeles Times filed two lawsuits in Nevada on Wednesday night asking officials to turn over law enforcement records related to the Oct. 1 massacre in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead. A month after the shooting, many questions remain unanswered about
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USAIt’s the worst mass killing in New York City since 9/11. A man drove a pickup truck into a bike lane and a festive crowd on Halloween night, killing eight and injuring roughly a dozen people. The suspect was shot and critically injured by police. On Wednesday, he was charged with federal terrorism offenses. New
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International, USANorth Korea slammed President Donald Trump Tuesday, criticizing his mental health and calling him “incurably mentally deranged.” The comments came ahead of Trump’s first visit to Asia as president and amid increasingly tense relations between the United States and North Korea. “[Trump] disclosed his true nature as a nuclear war maniac before the world and
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International, USALOS ANGELES — SWAT officers on Tuesday evening swarmed a Riverside elementary school classroom and shot a parent who had taken a teacher hostage, ending an hourslong standoff. The parent, identified as Luvelle Kennon, 27, of Riverside died later at a hospital, said Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback. The teacher, Linda Montgomery, sustained some scrapes
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