Vice President Mike Pence combined some of his running mate’s favorite slogans in an optimistic speech at the March for Life on Friday, telling a crowd of hundreds of thousands that “life is winning again in America.” He said the pro-life movement has had an uphill battle since the Supreme Court created a constitutional right […]
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a significant milestone for transgender rights, California legislators this week introduced a bill that would make the Golden State the first in the nation to create a third gender marker on its driver’s licenses, birth certificates and state IDs. The Gender Recognition Act of 2017 would add “non-binary” to male and
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USAWashington (dpa) – US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order designed to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States, saying the US wants to admit only people who will “love” Americans. In a ceremony at the Pentagon after the swearing-in of James Mattis as defence secretary, Trump also signed a
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International, USAIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Iran represents the “greatest danger” to Jewish people and Israel, expressing hope that President Trump would end the world’s “deafening silence” on the matter. “The greatest danger that we face, of hatred for the Jewish people and the Jewish state [referring to Israel] comes from Iran,” Netanyahu
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Middle East, USAPresident Trump’s embrace of Israel poses an unlikely dilemma for leaders of the Jewish state: They have to decide what they want from America, and on that question, there’s sharp disagreement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved to seize the Trump moment Tuesday by announcing that Israel plans to construct 2,500 housing units in West Bank
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Middle East, USA(Pertinent segment begins at 26:30) The damage caused by eight years of tensions between the White House and Israel has already been repaired, President Donald Trump claimed in a sit-down interview with Fox News Thursday evening. Speaking with Sean Hannity, President Trump said that Israel had been mistreated in the past, but that the US-Israel
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Middle East, USALola Gayle, STEAM Register January 28, 1986 was a tragic day in NASA history. At 73 seconds into its flight (11:39 EST, 16:39 UTC), NASA Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members as the orbiter disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. STS-51-L
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAYossi Chaikin’s tale of hard work, grit and determination took him from Kiryat Yam to the Juilliard School of Dance. Now, he’s made it to the big leagues By Ronit Bezalel CHICAGO — Yossi Chaikin, grew up in Kiryat Yam with immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union. So while he always knew that he
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWhen details leaked earlier this week about a spate of immigration-related executive orders from President Donald Trump, much public discussion focused on a 30-day ban on new visas for citizens from seven “terror-prone” countries. But the order signed this afternoon by Trump is actually more severe, increasing the ban to 90 days. And its effects
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, took to Twitter on Saturday to endorse President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the United States’ border with Mexico. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Mr. Netanyahu tweeted. The Israeli wall
Donald Trump’s “extreme vetting” plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists,” is a policy based in fear, rather than facts. The ban suspends immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days and suspends all entry of Syrian nationals indefinitely. This means the fixers that have saved my life in the Middle East for the past
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International, Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly seriously considering labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, making business political or business contact with the international Sunni Islamist group a punishable offense under U.S. law. The move would be seen as a victory for conservatives who have long been suspicious of the organization’s foreign ties, which span
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Middle East, USAShia LaBeouf was arrested during his livestreamed anti-Trump protest early Thursday morning at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. The actor and performance artist was charged with misdemeanor assault. LaBeouf, 30, was continuing his four-year protest called “He will not divide us,” which began Friday when Donald Trump was sworn in
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy JT – Jan 26,2017 – Last updated at Jan 26,2017 AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah is scheduled to start a working visit to the US next Monday, a Royal Court statement said Thursday. During the visit, the King is slated to hold talks with key US administration officials and members of Congress, according
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