Turner Sports NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager has died at the age of 65, the network announced Thursday. Sager waged a public battle with cancer over the past two years after originally being diagnosed with leukemia in 2014. The cancer went into remission after a bone marrow transplant but returned in March 2015. Sager, who […]
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Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — Capitol Hill tensions over handling of the alleged Russian cyber-hacking scandal boiled over late Wednesday, as the chairman of the House intelligence panel blasted U.S. spy agency officials for declining to brief the committee this week. In a blunt statement that exposed raw feelings and hinted at deeper conflicts, Rep. Devin Nunes, a
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International, USABaseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew is set to receive a heart transplant on Thursday, 15 months after a massive heart attack nearly killed him. A suitable donor was identified and the procedure will be performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Carew also will undergo a kidney transplant. “We appreciate your thoughts and
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Sports & Competitions, USAPresident-elect Donald Trump tapped Monica Crowley to join his cabinet as senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council Thursday. Crowley had previously been mentioned as a potential pick for press secretary. “I am deeply honored, humbled and grateful to be asked by the President-elect to join the extraordinary national security team he
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USACHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof is guilty of murder and hate crimes, a federal jury decided in the slayings of nine people last year at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The next question is whether the jury will give Roof the death penalty. Testimony for that phase of the trial is set to begin Jan.
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USARALEIGH, N.C. — Responding to the General Assembly’s effort to limit his power before he takes office Jan. 1, Gov.-elect Roy Cooper said it’s time for lawmakers to go home. “Major changes in the way state government operates should be done deliberately, with input from all parties, particularly something as important as elections and making
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USAWASHINGTON — Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, announced Thursday that he would leave the agency Jan. 20, guaranteeing Republicans will have a majority after President-elect Donald Trump takes office that day. The move makes it easier for Republicans to try to repeal new online traffic rules known as net neutrality, as
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USABy Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. Susan Abeles’ saga began in 2013 when she took time off to observe the last two days of Passover, just as she had done annually for the past 26 years. During those years, Abeles, an Orthodox Jew, worked for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), mainly as a data specialist.
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Edwin Black, Jewish Religion, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is horrified by the wanton destruction of Aleppo, Syria’s third largest city, by the Bashar al-Assad regime, Russia and Iran. “For more than five-and-a-half years, Syrian President Assad has waged a ruthless war against his own people, leaving well over 500,000 dead, millions displaced within
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Middle East, USAFive weeks before Trump assumes power, president tells American Jews: ‘We look forward to working with you on the other side’ By Eric Cortellessa Mika Almog, granddaughter of the late former Israeli president Shimon Peres, lights a menorah candle as Rabbi Rachel Isaacs says a blessing during a Hanukkah reception in The East Room at
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USASince President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of fast food CEO Andrew Puzder as labor secretary, there’s been lots of speculation that the administration could undo worker protections. The single best window into Puzder’s thinking may be an obscure book he wrote six years ago. It’s a blistering attack on business regulations, unions, and the Obama administration’s
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USAThe White House announced Thursday that President Barack Obama would not sign a bill passed last month that extended U.S. sanctions on Iran for a decade but acknowledged the law would go through anyway. White House spokesman Eric Schultz had previously indicated that Obama would likely sign the bill, which would not affect the multilateral
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Middle East, USAPolitico has severed ties with one of its magazine contributors after she posted an obscene tweet about President-elect Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka. A now-deleted tweet posted Wednesday afternoon by writer Julia Ioffe read, “Either Trump is f-ing his daughter or he’s shirking nepotism laws. Which is worse?” Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris and Editor
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USAFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen warned reporters of the potential for economic instability under President-elect Donald Trump in a Wednesday news conference following the central bank’s decision to raise its interest rate target. She also emphasized the Fed’s independence from other areas of government — namely, the executive branch — and pledged to stay in
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