President Donald Trump has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to authorize his ban on travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim countries. The president and his administration have insisted his executive order limiting travel to the United States was not a travel ban, but he called it that Monday on Twitter. “People, the […]
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International, USAUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had a frosty welcome as he made a brief visit to New Zealand, amid the furore over the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement. Despite a traditional Maori greeting befitting a foreign dignitary after he landed in Wellington, locals made rude gestures at his motorcade as it
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International, USALondon Mayor Sadiq Khan called Monday on the British government to cancel an anticipated state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump after Trump’s tweets criticizing Khan’s response to the radical Islamist attack in London Bridge that killed seven people over the weekend. Trump censured Khan on Sunday but misquoted him. Khan, in his statement after
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International, USAA National Security Agency contractor named Reality Winner, 25, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with retaining and transmitting classified national defense information in violation of United States code 18 U.S.C. § 793(e). That’s according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Winner, who worked for the Pluribus International Corporation and
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International, USATuesday marks 73 years since D-Day, the pivotal World War II operation in which Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. It is known to be the largest seaborne invasion in history, with more than 160,000 soldiers landing on the beach in Normandy to take on the Nazi German fighters. Up to 12,000
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International, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Reading the paper and watching the news on television increases my stress hormones on a daily basis. Like many of us today, I am depressed. There are so many distressing things happening: the growing homeless population, the unsafe streets, the increased drug use, the humanitarian crises around
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAUS Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who will visit Israel next week along with her Israeli counterpart, Ambassador Danny Danon, will tour the Old City of Jerusalem during her trip to the region. Ambassador Hailey will arrive in Israel this coming Wednesday morning, and during the day she will meet with President Reuven Rivlin
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Middle East, USAA passenger onboard a direct flight from Tel Aviv to New York City died suddenly Sunday night, Yeshiva World News reported. The passenger, a 65-year old resident of Flatbush in Brooklyn, was reportedly on her way home to the US after having attended a Bar Mitzvah in Israel. The incident occurred on El Al Flight
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USAPresident Trump fired back Monday at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, saying the mayor had a “pathetic excuse” for telling city residents not to be alarmed after the horrific terrorist attack at London Bridge. “Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his “no reason to be alarmed” statement. MSM is
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders last year entered the 1 percent club he has often railed against. According to a Senate financial disclosure form he filed over the weekend, the former Democratic presidential candidate made some $858,750 off of book royalties alone last year. Combined with his Senate salary, he likely cleared $1 million in earnings.
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USAORLANDO, Fla. — Five employees were killed in a shooting at Fiamma, a business on North Forsyth Road near Hanging Moss Road near Orlando, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office reported Monday morning. The shooter — a former “disgruntled employee” who was fired in April — then killed himself, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said. The
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USAWASHINGTON — A coalition of well-heeled Democratic groups is launching a grassroots-oriented effort targeting nearly a dozen House Republican incumbents, as party operatives prepare for a midterm election cycle they increasingly think will yield big gains for Democrats. The campaign will even go after House GOP Speaker Paul Ryan, organizing protests and rallies in his
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lawyers found themselves undercut by their client Monday when the chief executive tweeted that he wanted a “much tougher version” of a “travel ban,” and “not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted” to the Supreme Court last week. In four tweets posted between 5:25 a.m. and 5:44 a.m.,
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International, USACHICAGO — A federal appeals court Monday rejected former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s request for a rehearing, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court his only option to try to overturn his corruption conviction and 14-year prison sentence. The petition for a rare en banc hearing before the entire 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was
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