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Adelson: Trump Will Be Best-Ever President for Israel

Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson told a private crowd of Republican donors Thursday evening that President Donald Trump will be the “best president for Israel ever,” in a significant show of backing from one of the most influential Republican contributors. Adelson made the comments at the event, held at Adelson’s Venetian Hotel in Las […]

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Middle East, USA

Donald Trump hails conservative support at CPAC, slams ‘fake’ media

President Trump received a raucous reception at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, thanking the “power of the people” for electing him and slamming the “fake news” media for much of his address. “Now you finally have a president, finally!” Mr. Trump told the cheering crowd at National Harbor. “It took you a long

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The Wandering Review: Oscar Predictions 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−It’s always risky to prognosticate the winners of the Academy Awards.  While the nominees usually exemplify excellent filmmaking, which ones will garner the gold statuettes often reflect contemporary politics, personality issues, and studio lobbying.  My predictions are based more on monitoring entertainment and trade publications than on my own tastes. BEST

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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Last holdouts are cleared from main Dakota Access pipeline protest camp

Law enforcement took control of the largest Dakota Access pipeline protest camp Thursday, arresting or moving the few dozen people who had remained in the mud and snow in one of the largest environmental protests in American history. “At 2:09 p.m., Oceti Sakowin protest camp was completely cleared by law enforcement!” the Morton County Sheriff’s

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The World We Share, USA

Jaime Harrison drops out of DNC race, endorses former labor secretary

ATLANTA — South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison said Thursday that he was ending his candidacy to become head of the Democratic National Committee, leaving a race in which he failed to gain serious traction despite his longstanding ties to the party. “I know what a path to victory looks like,” Harrison said in

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Taking manatees off the endangered species list doesn’t mean we should stop protecting them

Come for the sea cow pictures, stay for the environmental policy Keith Ramos // Fish and Wildlife Service Even the fish love these big guys. The fightin’ sea cows are making a comeback. Manatees have been on the endangered species list since 1972, but in the last few years they’ve been more abundant than ever.

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Trump adviser Steve Bannon rails at ‘corporatist, globalist media’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The two men with the most heavily dissected relationship in President Donald Trump’s White House held a rare public appearance together Thursday and agreed on one common enemy: the media. Reince Priebus, the chief of staff who is often described as “embattled,” said he has grown “conditioned” to the media counting

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Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.

Habib Zahori was deep in the forest, his face and fingers going numb. He was lost, freezing and growing desperate by the hour. Like hundreds of refugees, Zahori was risking his life to sneak into Canada. But Zahori was not fleeing some war-torn country. He was running away from the US. Zahori worked as a

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International, USA

Hundreds of scientists urge Trump to withdraw from U.N. climate-change agency

More than 300 scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate-change agency, warning that its push to curtail carbon dioxide threatens to exacerbate poverty without improving the environment. In a Thursday letter to the president, MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen called the United States and other nations to “change course on an

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U.S. Jewish Roundup: February 23, 2017

Reform Movement, Bend the Arc, ADL protest Trump Administration’s decision to have states decide transgender bathroom rules WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism condemn President Trump’s decision, and resulting actions by the Offices of Civil Rights of

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Op-Ed: Trump Should Use The Perot Model In Denouncing Anti-Semitism

I didn’t vote for Ross Perot in 1992. However, I have always remembered one line from the Independent candidate during the third presidential debate that garnered little attention. “If you hate people,” Perot declared in his Texas twang, “I don’t want your vote.” Perot didn’t proclaim himself “the least racist person there is,” or, “the

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