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Tehran Vows To Destroy US Military Base If President Trump ‘Makes A Mistake’

A senior Iranian government official said Saturday Tehran was prepared to attack Tel Aviv and destroy a U.S. military base in Bahrain if the Trump White House ordered a military strike against Iran. Mojtaba Zonour, a member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and a former Islamic Revolution Guards Corps official, said Iran […]

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President Rooted For New England Patriots From His Winter White House

When President Donald Trump isn’t on Twitter or signing executive orders, he apparently likes to watch the Super Bowl along with the rest of us. The difference is while you were either at a bar or sitting down on your living room couch drinking beer as the New England Patriots faced down the Atlanta Falcons,

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Sports & Competitions, USA

No more ‘B.S.!’ Look who Trump picks for EU ambassador

Donald Trump WASHINGTON – The next U.S. ambassador to the European Union is warning that his boss, President Donald Trump, won’t take any “bull–” from Brussels. How’s that for start to diplomacy? Ted Malloch, Trump’s pick for the post, shocked BBC presenters Sunday morning with his bluntness, predicting the impending collapse of the EU as

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International, USA

‘Late Night’ host Seth Meyers riffs on Trump in Morristown

MORRISTOWN — Seth Meyers once riffed, with Donald Trump in the audience, about Trump someday running for president — not as a Republican, but as a joke. “Some people have actually blamed me for the fact that Donald Trump decided to run,” Meyers said of his 2011 roasting of Trump at the White House Correspondents’

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Anti-Semite vandalizes Chicago Loop Synagogue

Chicago Police are investigating an attack on the Chicago Loop Synagogue. The synagogue’s surveillance cameras show a dark-clothed man wearing a mask exit a dark vehicle, plaster swastika stickers on the synagogue’s front door, smash the synagogue’s front windows with a metal object, then run back to his car. Construction workers working nearby noticed the

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Jewish Religion, USA

McCarthy threatens the press as Sean Spicer on ‘SNL’

The sharp-tongued, sputtering rage actress Melissa McCarthy deploys to hilarious effect in a slew of Hollywood hits turns out to be perfect to lampoon the already toxic relationship White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has with the media. RELATED: Ansari hits ‘lower-case KKK’ backing Trump on ‘SNL’ McCarthy was a surprise performer on this weekend’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Viral rabbi captures hearts of online ‘congregation’ via social media

All that Meir Kay wants from his audience is a smile. But the millions of YouTube hits don’t hurt, too By Lisa Klug NEW YORK — While Americans are still digesting the presidential inauguration, the new administration, and the Women’s Marches across the country, one of their brethren is putting his focus elsewhere. With a

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Jewish Religion, USA

Trump defends Putin, says US has ‘got a lot of killers’

Washington (dpa) – US President Donald Trump has brushed off a description of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as a “killer,” saying, “What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?” In an interview with Fox News to be broadcast on Sunday, interviewer Bill O’Reilly asked Trump if he respected Putin, whom he has praised in

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Mike Pence, vice president: White House ‘evaluating’ President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal

The Trump administration put Iran “on notice” last week, but Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that the White House right now is evaluating whether to keep in place the nuclear deal with Tehran that President Trump said he’d shred if elected. In an interview with ABC News that aired Sunday, the vice president said

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Middle East, USA

US appeals court denies Justice Department request to restore Trump’s immigration ban

A US federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by the Department of Justice to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump’s travel ban barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees. “Appellants’ request for an immediate administrative stay pending full consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is denied,”

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International, Middle East, USA

BuzzFeed sued over Trump dossier by Russian tech exec

BuzzFeed was sued for defamation by a Russian tech magnate Friday over its publication of a salacious dossier last month devoted largely to President Trump. The alleged product of a former British spy, the explosive but unverified dossier claimed in part that Russian tech executive Aleksej Gubarev had been “recruited under duress” by Moscow to

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US Justice Department appeals judge’s suspension of travel ban

Washington (dpa) – The US Justice Department Saturday filed a notice to appeal a federal judge’s decision that temporarily halted the implementation of President Donald Trump’s one-week-old immigration order. The department filed its appeal seeking the reinstatement of the controversial executive order temporarily suspending the US refugee programme, temporarily banning travellers from seven majority-Muslim countries

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