President Donald Trump is by no means popular—compared with his predecessors his approval rating has been remarkably low his entire tenure in the White House. But there’s some small solace this week: Trump’s approval rating is, at least for the moment, a hair better then where former President Bill Clinton stood at the same point […]
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would pick Christopher Wray, a former Justice Department official who also has represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, to lead the FBI. The announcement on Twitter, which caught many in Washington off guard, appeared to be an effort to seize attention ahead of what is expected
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USAThe parents of 25-year-old Reality Winner sat down with Anderson Cooper of CNN on Tuesday night and tried to explain their daughter’s mindset when she leaked classified information to a website. The Air Force veteran printed out a classified summary of attempts that Russian hackers made to influence the 2016 presidential election. She also communicated
President Trump announced a new round of 11 judicial nominations Wednesday, including three nominees for high-profile federal appeals courts. One of the nominees, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid, is being tapped by the president to fill a vacancy on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created when Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed
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USALast week’s rejection of Jonathan Pollard’s appeal to ease his difficult parole restrictions is largely due to a letter written by a US Navy admiral – the contents of which have been called a “myth.” An investigative report by the Hamodia newspaper shows that the letter, written in 1995, contains never-before raised grave accusations against
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Middle East, USA“Wonder Woman” and the film’s star, Gal Gadot, have been delivered a taste of the lasso of truth as they’ve entered into non-stop war leading up to the film’s box office debut. After its arrival, many potential viewers are in opposition of the Amazonian warrior’s tale primarily due to Gadot’s nationality. On Friday, June 2,
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFormer President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised public and private entities for vowing to press ahead with the goals of the Paris accord on climate change, despite his successor’s decision to abandon the landmark global agreement. Speaking at an event in Montreal, one of the few public appearances he has made since leaving office in
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International, USAMossad said to have listened in on secret Egyptian transmissions using radioactive batteries supplied by Zalman Shapiro of NUMEC By Times of Israel staff Illustrative image of technicians handling a RTG battery, February 2, 2007. (Public domain, Wikimedia commons) A year before the 1967 Six Day War, a Jewish-American scientist reportedly gave Israel groundbreaking technology
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Middle East, USAAUGUSTA, Ga. — To get to the tiny Texas town where Reality Winner grew up, start out in San Antonio, point the car toward Mexico and, for about the next two hours, take in an expansive landscape of cattle, crops and oil derricks. Her now-deleted social media accounts are full of images you might see
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USALOS ANGELES — A neo-Nazi blogger has been promised donations of more than $150,000 for his legal defense after the Southern Poverty Law Center sued him for organizing a “troll storm” against a Jewish woman in Montana. The donations to Andrew Anglin and the website he founded, the Daily Stormer, came in over the course
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USAWhen this 31-year-old ballet dancer saw that no one was moving to rescue a homeless man who had fallen onto the New York City subway tracks, he knew that he had to be the one to act. Gray Davis was returning from watching his wife perform with the American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera
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USAHillary Clinton on Monday praised London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s leadership following Saturday’s terrorist attack, telling a crowd in Baltimore that now is not the time to use terror “for political gain.” The failed Democratic presidential nominee issued the thinly veiled attack against President Trump, without naming him or his policies directly, while speaking in Fells
The promised wall between the Trump Organization and the Trump presidency is no more—if it ever existed to begin with. On Tuesday evening, Eric Trump, one of the Trump children supposedly managing the family business while their father manages the nation, went on Fox News to complain about the Democratic Party in an astonishingly vitriolic
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USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump has challenged London Mayor Sadiq Khan to an IQ test after he said Trump was ignorant about Islam. Khan tweeted back that Trump’s hashtag should be Sad IQ Con, but Trump bragged he will win because the test consists of one question and only he knows the answer: What
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