Plagiarism allegations have been leveled against Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, amid the Senate’s debate this week over the 10th Circuit Court judge’s confirmation. Reports from Politico and BuzzFeed published late Tuesday night pointed to documents from which Gorsuch is accused of copying for his 2006 book and for an […]
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USAPresident Donald Trump Wednesday defended Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly amid the recent disclosure that the TV personality or the network settled on five occasions in which women alleged sexual harassment or other inappropriate actions. “I think he’s a person I know well—he is a good person,” Trump told The New York Times in an exclusive
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USANEW YORK — Now it is Donald Trump’s turn at the plate, after consecutive presidents before him have failed to solve the problem of North Korea. A considerable portion of this week’s powwow with Chinese President Xi Jinping will be devoted to the long-festering crisis of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Trump’s predecessors have tried
With $90 billion at their discretion, why are the majority of Jewish funds and federations not only skipping Israel, but investing in ‘enemy’ countries? By Cathryn J. Prince NEW YORK — For the first time in its history the Jewish Federation of Greater Metro West New Jersey will make a dedicated allocation to Israel equities.
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Middle East, USAThe U.S. could be vulnerable in the face of the threat posed by nuclear-capable Russian cruise missiles deployed by Moscow last month, according to the head of the U.S. Strategic Command. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, who was the chief commander of the U.S. missile and nuclear warhead arsenal, told members of Congress Tuesday that
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International, USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to hand over documents that he brought to a meeting with President Donald Trump outlining a strategic plan for the Department of Homeland Security. He’s been ordered to turn over those papers for a camera review by 5
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International, USANorth Korea launched a ballistic missile Wednesday into the East Sea, South Korea’s military said, just two days ahead of summit talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. “North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the East Sea from a site in the vicinity of Sinpo, South Hamgyong Province, at
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Rick Perry was named to the National Security Council in a memo released on Wednesday, putting the secretary of energy and longtime Texas governor into Donald Trump’s inner circle for national security decisions. The decision was part of a larger reshuffling of the NSC announced in a notice published in the federal register
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International, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has removed his controversial chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, from the powerful National Security Council in a staff reshuffle that consolidated the power of the White House national security adviser, H.R. McMaster. During the first weeks of his presidency, Trump was sharply criticized for authorizing his political adviser to attend
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International, USALOS ANGELES — In the latest round of the simmering feud between Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Donald Trump, the former California governor Wednesday blasted the president’s proposal to slash federal funding for after-school programs. “President Trump promised us that he wants to make America great again. That’s not how you make America great, by taking
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPerhaps having celebrity model and reality TV star Kendall Jenner re-enact a seminal moment in the Black Lives Matter protest movement to sell Pepsi wasn’t such a good idea after all. After initially defending its online video featuring Jenner and a can of soda as peacemakers in a street standoff between marchers and police, PepsiCo
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARussia is under fire from other world powers at the UN Security Council over Tuesday’s deadly chemical attack in Syria, which the West blames on President Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces. The United States has even waved the threat of unilateral action in the war-torn country, with US President Donald Trump saying the “horrible” gas attack
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International, Middle East, USACongress’s top tax expert led Republicans Wednesday in demanding President Trump fire IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, saying the tax agency cannot be repaired as long as he’s at the helm. “Trust in the IRS is hitting rock-bottom,” the Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a
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USALaw enforcement officials are not saying whether they will charge broadcaster Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist ally of President Donald Trump, for publicly threatening to “beat” Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and telling Schiff to “fill your hand”—a reference to taking up a pistol. But, says an attorney with expertise in federal law, Jones’s threats
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