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Jared Kushner under fire over reported talks with Russian ambassador

President Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is under fire for a series of new allegations involving his past interactions with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak. Mr. Kushner spoke with Moscow’s envoy last year about creating a covert channel that would let Mr. Trump’s transition team communicate privately with the Kremlin […]

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International, USA

The complete timeline of awkward moments from Trump’s two days in Israel

From the moment Air Force One touched down on the runway at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, as well as their hosts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, provided Israelis with seemingly endless opportunities for giggles, laughs and snark. For most leaders, and in most countries, red

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Middle East, USA

Pence tells Naval Academy graduates they have a friend in Trump

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Vowing that the Trump administration would “rebuild the military,” Vice President Mike Pence told the Naval Academy’s graduating class on Friday that they should be confident their commander-in-chief would have their support as they begin a career of service. “President Donald Trump is the best friend the armed forces of the United

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Jewish schools, Hillels should teach self- defense

By Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Almost every day, we hear and read news about verbal and even physical attacks of Jewish students on college campuses. In many instances, it makes their lives on campuses very difficult and even dangerous. Some Jewish leaders and organizations have reacted in the following ways: appealing to authorities; appealing

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Arkady Mamaysky, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

US Justice Department will appeal travel ban to Supreme Court

Washington (dpa) – The US Department of Justice said Thursday it will appeal a ruling upholding a suspension of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to the US Supreme Court. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the decision in a statement after a US appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling blocking Trump’s executive order which bans

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UC Berkeley fires professor for sexually harassing 4 students

BERKELEY, Calif. — University of California, Berkeley has fired an assistant professor for sexually harassing four students. Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, was found to have violated the school’s faculty code of conduct and its sexual harassment policy, the school said. The firing, effective immediately, apparently ends

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Trump talks terrorism while Europe shouts, ‘Climate!’

TAORMINA, Italy — While terrorism may top President Donald Trump’s agenda, European leaders keep pressing him on climate change and the environment. French President Emmanuel Macron worked on Trump during lunch Thursday, urging the U.S. president not to ditch the 196-nation Paris Agreement on climate change before getting on a plane to Sicily, Italy. “My

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International, USA

How the GOP’s Gianforte Won Montana’s Special Election

Normally the words “Montana Special Election” don’t set the political class refreshing their browsers into the middle of the night. But Thursday’s Republican victory for an open House of Representatives seat turned out to be a hyper-interpreted microcosm of America’s crazy national moment, complete with a “body slam” that sent a reporter to the hospital.

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As Trump wavers over Paris climate accord, European leaders give him an earful

WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump balking on his vow to shred the Obama-negotiated Paris agreement on climate change, the last place the pact’s staunch opponents wanted to see the president is where he will be this weekend — meeting other world leaders unanimous in their warnings that withdrawal from the accord would seriously damage

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