By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a lot that is hidden from view, but what we can see is not promising. The US Secretary of State and other ranking officials are overlooking the considerable Russian investment in Bashar al-Assad, and demanding that Putin et al abandon their ally and work with the US in […]
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAThe revelation that Vice President Mike Pence, a self-described evangelical Catholic, won’t dine alone with any woman other than his wife has generated some discussion. More relevant to millions of women and their families is the fact that Mr. Pence was the tie-breaking vote allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood. Thus a man who professes
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USAFox News host Bill O’Reilly said he will take a previously planned vacation as he faces mounting pressure over multiple sexual harassment allegations. O’Reilly announced his plans during his Tuesday night broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, saying he typically takes a vacation around this time of the year. “I grab
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPresident Donald Trump likes to live in the lap of luxury, and he’s not going to let presidential tasks like launching 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria disrupt the decadent lifestyle to which he’s become accustomed. In a new interview with Fox Business, Trump described the Palm Beach scene from which he authorized the airstrike last
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International, Middle East, USARALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina state lawmaker said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a “tyrant” similar to Germany’s Adolf Hitler. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page who were criticizing his bill that would have directed state government to defy a
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USAAlan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard law professor and progressive in good standing, lashed out at activists and Democratic Party officials who are trying to make political hay out of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s . Spicer created a firestorm at the daily briefing Tuesday when he said even Hitler never sunk so low as
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International, Middle East, USAJapan plans to send several warships to the Korean Peninsula to join the U.S. warship Carl Vinson, which was redeployed to the region Monday according to reports. Kyodo news agency, a cooperative news agency based in Japan, and Reuters both cited sources that had confirmed ships from Japan’s naval fleet would travel to the East
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International, USATokyo/Beijing (dpa) – Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing wanted to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula by peaceful means. Japan’s Defence Ministry told dpa on Wednesday that the Japanese Navy plans to soon conduct a joint military exercise with a US aircraft carrier
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International, USAAfter a long-fought battle with leukemia, comedian Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy, died Wednesday. He was 57. Charlie Murphy was mostly known for his comedic sketches on “Chappelle’s Show.” Murphy also co-wrote some of his brother’s movies and appeared in a few movies such as “Are We There Yet,” “The Boondocks” and
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThree Republican lawmakers in North Carolina filed a bill Tuesday that seeks to defy the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. House Bill 780, otherwise known as the Uphold Historical Marriage Act, said the Supreme Court “overstepped its constitutional bounds” when it struck down an amendment of North Carolina’s constitution in its
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USAMOSCOW — As top diplomats from Russia and the United States held a testy meeting Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at the Trump administration, saying relations between Washington and Moscow had deteriorated. “You can say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military side, has not improved but
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International, USAWASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 – First Lady Melania Trump has won her lawsuit against British tabloid The Daily Mail over a highly critical and arguably false 2016 article about her time as a model. Her attorneys argued that the story damaged her ability to be build businesses based on her status as a “successful businesswoman.”
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International, USAPolice outside Washington ‘diligently’ searching for vandals who spray-painted anti-Semitic and derogatory slogans on Passover By Times of Israel staff The swastika found daubed on the Jewish Community Center in northern Virginia on April 11, 2017. (screen capture: NBC Washington) Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were found daubed on a suburban Washington, DC, Jewish community
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USAMIAMI — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s two-day visit to Miami — his third stop on a national listening tour — started with a big glitch. Carson, Miami-Dade County Public Housing Director Michael Liu and five other people got stuck inside an elevator Wednesday on the way down from a visit to the
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