One of Washington state’s Democratic presidential electors is vowing not to cast his Electoral College vote for Hillary Clinton, even if she wins the state on Election Day. Another elector says he is considering withholding his vote. “No, no, no on Hillary. Absolutely not. No way,” said Robert Satiacum, a member of Washington’s Puyallup Tribe […]
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USAWASHINGTON—President Barack Obama extolled the virtues of Hillary Clinton and warned of the dangers of Donald Trump, and then he boiled it down to a personal appeal: “I need you to go out and just nag the heck out of folks who aren’t voting,” Obama said Friday. “I need you to tell them that Barack
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USAThe end of a wild campaign happily near, her presidential prize tantalizingly close, Hillary Clinton took the stage in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Saturday afternoon in torrential rain to ask voters one more time to stick with her. “Boy, is this a hardy group,” she said, overlooking an outdoor crowd sheltering under umbrellas and makeshift ponchos.
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USAWASHINGTON — Even before they elect a new president, voters are signaling a continued stalemate post-election on major issues such as health care, immigration and the Supreme Court. Hillary Clinton’s supporters are eager for compromise on such issues. Donald Trump’s backers want the government to stand on principle even if it means continued paralysis, a
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USAA growing number of Jews are using psychedelics to reach spiritual highs, and you might be surprised to learn some Orthodox don’t frown upon the practice By Madison Margolin NEW YORK — Spiritual leader Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert, a nice Jewish boy from Boston. But in 1963, the former psychologist prof was expelled
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPreviously: A 103-Year-Old Feminist Critiques the 2016 Presidential Candidates Ruth Littman has lived through 26 presidential elections. She’s been voting since 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt clobbered Herbert Hoover. She is as old as one Ted Cruz plus one Marco Rubio plus five North “Nori” Wests. Littman is 105. (Last week, she celebrated her birthday
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USAMiami DJ Scott Melker took to his Facebook on Thursday to tell some stories about Donald Trump Jr. According to Melker, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with Trump Jr. and was witness to some his poor behavior and alleged resentment of his father. Melker wrote that he hopes to shed “a bit of light
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USAAs a middle-class, white Ashkenazi Jew living in California in 2016, I’ve been privileged to avoid the systemic, cultural and interpersonal racism faced by many Muslims, immigrants and people of color across the U.S. today. However, my uncle was not as fortunate. He was a Holocaust survivor who saw his entire family killed in front
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USASome people get angry when I and others compare Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to George Wallace. What they’re forgetting, or perhaps never knew if they’re too young, is that Wallace didn’t run for president in 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 as a segregationist, though he was one; he ran as a populist defender of
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USAIn phone calls, meetings and cables, America’s European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump’s public statements denying Moscow’s role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election. They fear the Republican nominee for president has emboldened the Kremlin in its unprecedented cyber-campaign to disrupt elections in multiple countries in hopes
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International, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Following one of the most bitter, divisive and exhausting presidential races in the history of the United States, the opportunity to celebrate a well-deserved Sabbath as a global community will take place on the very first weekend after Election Day on the Shabbat of November 11th and 12th, the Third Annual
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USAEvangelical group urges members of the faith to ‘refresh diplomats’ memory’ on Judaism and Christianity’s historical ties to Jerusalem By Times of Israel staff (illustrative photo credit: image of New Testament/Shutterstock) A group of evangelical Christians has called upon members of the faith to mail bibles to UNESCO leadership in Paris in response to the
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International, Middle East, USAWINTERVILLE, N.C. — In the final days of the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has a consistent theme: Donald Trump. There was a point at which Clinton’s advisers had envisioned a more positive ending, but in the final days of a tight race, the Democratic nominee has backed away from emphasizing a sunny message
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USATEHRAN, Iran —In an annual rite of anti-Americanism in Iran, thousands gathered Thursday at the site of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of its takeover by student activists in 1979. The demonstrators brought by buses to the former embassy complex included young and old, university students, military staff and employees
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