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Carrier strike group wasn’t headed toward N. Korea, despite Trump’s saber-rattling

WASHINGTON — An aircraft carrier strike group that the Trump administration had said was headed toward North Korea in a powerful show of force has instead spent the past week thousands of miles away — and heading in the opposite direction. Adm. Harry Harris, who heads U.S. Pacific Command, initially announced in a news release […]

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United Airlines CEO: No one will be fired in passenger-dragging incident

CHICAGO — United Airlines will not fire employees involved in the recent dragging of a passenger from his seat, an incident CEO Oscar Munoz on Tuesday called “a system failure.” Executives of the Chicago-based airline sought to assure investors that United is working to learn from the recent uproar over viral videos of Chicago Aviation

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Hemingway’s love letter to Marlene Dietrich goes on the auction block

“Dearest Marlene: I always love you and admire you and I have all sorts of mixed up feelings about you […] please know that I love you always and forget you sometimes as I forget my heart beats. But it beats always.” The letter was addressed to Marlene Dietrich and written by Ernest Hemingway, one

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Sierra Snowpack Bigger Than Last Four Years Combined: NASA

New NASA data show that snowpack in the Tuolumne River Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada — a major source of water for San Francisco and California’s Central Valley — is currently larger than the four previous years of snowpack combined. NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) measured the Tuolumne Basin snowpack on April 1, a critical

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The World We Share, USA

A memoir of travel, encounters with the famous

As I Remember It by Cynthia Citron, © 2017 Xlibris; ISBN 9780152-4571627. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Given that Nancy and I are mentioned in Cynthia Citron’s book, I feel a bit embarrassed recommending it to you. But the fact is, Cynthia also writes in her memoir about important people with whom she

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This one woman show is ‘Not That Jewish,’ but it is that funny

Award-winning comedienne Monica Piper tickles audiences until they cry with the bittersweet story of her life By Cathryn J. Prince NEW YORK — Some may laugh in the face of danger; Monica Piper laughs in the face of the “the dark stuff.” And right now she thinks America needs to laugh more. “It’s getting harder

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Trump has no red line for N.Korea but ready to take ‘decisive’ action: White House

U.S. President Donald Trump has no “red line” in dealing with North Korea, but he is ready to take “decisive” action when it is deemed appropriate, the White House said Monday. In a regular press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that China is playing an active role with respect to the

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Documentary animates autistic boy who found his voice through Disney

Based on Ron Suskind’s book, ‘Life, Animated’ interweaves family footage with animation as cartoons help Owen to speak — and even become a bar mitzvah By Rich Tenorio BOSTON — Ron Suskind has won the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism; his books on American presidents have made the best-seller lists. But in recent years, Suskind

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John Kelly, DHS chief, tells critics to ‘shut up’ and let agents to their jobs

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly told the host of critics to “shut up” and let his agents do their jobs, pushing back against the overwhelming wave of criticism from advocacy groups who have complained that immigration enforcement has grown too strict under the Trump administration. “If lawmakers do not like the laws they’ve passed

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American charity worker in Egypt is acquitted after three years in jail

After almost three years in an Egyptian prison, on Sunday a court in Cairo acquitted an American of all potential charges, including child abuse and human trafficking relating to a shelter for street children she ran. The courtroom erupted in applause when the judge issued the quick verdict that the 30-year-old Egyptian-US dual citizen Hijazi,

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Steve Bannon’s Ideological Ties to Russia

These days, having any sort of ties to Moscow is politically toxic in Washington. Recent reports indicate Donald Trump may have borrowed Russian money to keep his property empire afloat—while a congressional investigation looms into alleged Kremlin interference in the U.S. presidential election and a host of murky connections between Trump campaign officials and Russian

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