USA

A Trump family lawyer and DC insider enters Yosemite trademark fight

WASHINGTON — A Yosemite National Park trademark fight has an influential new combatant with the recruitment of a top D.C. lawyer whose clients include the daughter and son-in-law of President Donald Trump. Attorney Jamie S. Gorelick, a longtime D.C. power player since her years as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, now represents Yosemite’s […]

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USA

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago visits heighten cyberattack, terrorism threats, mayor says

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hackers are trying to breach the city of West Palm Beach’s computers, and they could be motivated by President Donald Trump’s ties to the area, Mayor Jeri Muoio said Monday. The FBI is investigating, and more than $150,000 has been spent trying to find out what is happening, she said.

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USA

Nunes’ spokesman concedes he met source for surveillance claim at White House

WASHINGTON — The day before the House Intelligence Committee chairman revealed that conversations by Trump transition officials may have been inadvertently picked up by U.S. surveillance, he met with the source of the information at the White House, his spokesman said Monday Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., went to the White House because there was a

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International, USA

Jeff Sessions says he’ll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money – and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past. Speaking at the White House, Mr. Sessions said his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this

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USA

AIPAC president a fan of JWRP

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s first woman president in a decade, Lillian Pinkus, told the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) Sunday night that its work nurturing a new generation of women leaders is “transformative.” Pinkus, meeting with JWRP leaders at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, recalled seeing a group of women

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Middle East, USA

Barack Obama To Start Working On His Memoir In South Pacific

Former President Barack Obama is planning to extend his stay in Tetiaroa, a South Pacific island once owned by legendary Hollywood actor Marlon Brando, as he starts to pen his memoir about his experiences of the eight years he spent as the American president. Both Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, inked a multimillion-dollar

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International, USA

Pence at AIPAC: Trump still seriously considering moving embassy to Jerusalem

In passionate speech at annual confab, vice president celebrates Friedman as newly-confirmed envoy to Israel; vows admin will confront Iran, seek Israeli-Palestinian peace By Eric Cortellessa Vice President Mike Pence speaks at AIPAC’s annual Policy Conference on March 26, 2017 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC (screenshot) WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence delivered

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International, Middle East, USA

Iran hits back with sanctions on 15 US firms

Washington (dpa) – Iran has sanctioned 15 US companies, in retaliation over sanctions recently imposed on the Islamic Republic by Washington, state news agency IRNA reported Sunday. The companies were singled out for cooperating with Israel and “their blatant violation of human rights and international humanitarian rights,” the foreign ministry said in a statement. The

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Middle East, USA

Germany demands US acknowledge Berlin’s NATO contributions

Berlin (dpa) – Germany’s defence minister has demanded the US recognize and show appreciation for Germany’s engagement with the NATO military alliance. The US must “acknowledge what individual nations contribute on a daily basis to NATO,” Ursula von der Leyen told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in comments published Saturday. Germany assists NATO through its support

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International, USA

Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, offers Democrat help to fix Obamacare if repeal off the table

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Sunday that Democrats are ready to work with President Trump to fix Obamacare if Republicans abandon their drive to repeal the law. The New York Democrat made the offer in the wake of Friday’s decision by Mr. Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to pull the GOP

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘If Iran was benign the Mideast’s problems would be solvable’

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for a new approach to Arab-Israeli peacemaking, and blamed the Ayatollahs’ regime in Iran for the intractability of the Middle East’s problems at the AIPAC annual policy conference Sunday. “If you had a benign regime in Iran, all of the problems in the Middle East would be resolvable,”

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International, Middle East, USA

‘For first time in years no daylight between Israel and US’

Israeli Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer praised the unprecedented lack of “daylight” between Israel and the US under the administration of President Donald Trump. “When it comes to the great challenges facing Israel and the United States, for the first time in many years, perhaps in many decades, there is no daylight between our

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Middle East, USA