FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas inmate has won a 12-year battle with the state over access to kosher meals in prison. Inmate Max Moussazadeh dropped his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after persuading the state to provide kosher food not only to him but to all Orthodox Jewish inmates in […]
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Jewish Religion, USAChelsea Clinton appeared on CBS Tuesday morning to quash rampant rumors about her mother’s future in politics. When asked if the former presidential candidate would run again in the future, her daughter responded, “I don’t think so.” Hillary Clinton has kept a low profile since losing the election to Donald Trump in November. The former
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USAThe city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of America’s hotspots for liberals-slash-progressives, just voted on a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Sigh. The City Council actually voted on this. Seven-to-one, with one abstention. The resolution asks the House of Representatives to “look into the president’s various business interests, and their potential violation
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USAPresident Donald Trump has signed a repeal of internet privacy rules despite criticism that it threatens to undermine online safety and enable unconstitutional mass surveillance. The overturning of the Obama-era privacy protections, which was supported by Congress in a March 28 vote, will allow internet providers to share personal information with advertisers and other third
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USAFormer Trump campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he passed documents to a Russian spy in 2013 but the information was not sensitive, BuzzFeed reported Monday. Page, an energy consultant, met with Russian intelligence agent Victor Podobnyy at a January 2013 energy conference in New York as the SVR agent tried to recruit Page. Podobnyy and
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International, USASpecial congressional elections are notoriously quirky and often hazardous to ruling parties. So with Donald Trump struggling in Washington, it’s hardly surprising that Republicans are nervous about four contests this spring, especially one this month in Atlanta’s suburbs. The poster child for what could happen occurred in Mississippi in 1981, six months after Ronald Reagan
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USAWASHINGTON — A top government ethics official said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should not be disciplined for plugging “The Lego Batman Movie” — as long as he keeps his promise not to do it again. Mnuchin handled the controversy better than White House adviser Kellyanne Conway did when she ran afoul of the same law
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFormer National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice said Tuesday the notion she used her powers to unmask members of the Trump campaign or transition for political purposes is “absolutely false.” Speaking to MSNBC, Ms. Rice also said she never kept a spreadsheet of instances in which intelligence community picked up conversations involving the Trump campaign
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International, USAFORT WORTH, Texas — Bernie Appel was known as Mr. RadioShack. Over a 34-year career that started before Charles Tandy brought the company to Fort Worth, Appel was credited with transforming the consumer electronics retailer from transistor radios and telephone jacks to computers and camcorders. Appel died Sunday. He was 85. The Boston native joined
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Obituaries & memorials, USAST. PAUL, Minn. — The Democratic leader in the Minnesota state House of Representatives is not apologizing for a crack about white men during a floor speech that led at least one Republican colleague to demand on Tuesday she resign from her leadership post. “I hate to break up the 100 percent white male card
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USAOn the heels of a bombshell report that Susan Rice – former President Barack Obama’s right hand woman – asked dozens of times for intelligence agencies to unmask the names of Trump associates, the mainstream media is predictably, providing her cover. Instead of investigating the report, which was first broken by Bloomberg News on Monday,
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Several businessmen and celebrities from the former Soviet Union gathered on the Turkish Riviera in June 2005 to celebrate the grand opening of what was billed then as the country’s most luxurious hotel. The owners were from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and it was the birthday of one of them, Tofik Arifov, a
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International, USAThings aren’t looking up for President Donald Trump, a man long obsessed with ratings of any sort. His approval rating took another dip this week. Just 34 percent of the country approved of the job Trump is doing, down from 44.1 percent in March, according to the latest survey this week from Investor’s Business Daily/TechnoMetrica
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL) and Grace Meng (D-NY) called on a key House Committee to continue funding for U.S.-Israel defense cooperation programs. Earlier this week, U.S. and Israeli officials announced the David’s Sling air defense system has officially entered into service. Rep. Roskam, who serves as Co-Chair of the
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