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Trump notes latest accuser is a porn star: ‘Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before’

Donald Trump on Monday defended himself against the latest allegations of sexual misconduct by pointing out that the accuser worked as an adult film actress. “One said, ‘He grabbed me on the arm.’ And she’s a porn star,” Trump said in an interview with a New Hampshire radio station. “Now you know, this one that […]

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Obama’s campaign mission: Protect legacy, pummel GOP – oh, and elect Hillary Clinton

MIAMI — Something is missing from President Barack Obama’s list. “Progress is on the ballot,” he said at a campaign rally here last week. “Tolerance is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Equality is on the ballot. Our democracy is on the ballot!” It’s not as if Obama forgot that Hillary Clinton, the

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Breitbart News To Hire Conservative Conspiracy Theorist Curt Schilling

The “alt-right” website Breitbart News is reportedly set to announce that they have hired former ESPN analyst Curt Schilling to host a conservative talk radio show. Schilling was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday for “positioning Israel as a partisan issue” after he pushed the anti-Semitic trope that American Jewish people should all support

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Middle East, USA

In California bus crash tragedy, echoes of one of New York City’s deadliest crashes

LOS ANGELES — In 2011, a tour bus returning from a casino overturned on a highway in the Bronx and rammed into a support pole on a sign, killing 15 people and injuring several others. Five years later, another tour bus returning from a casino crashed — this one on a Southern California freeway. The

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Herb Kent, legendary Chicago radio personality, dies at 88

CHICAGO — Chicago radio legend Herb Kent, the longest-running DJ in the history of radio and a fixture on local airwaves for more than 70 years, died Saturday. He was 88. Kent’s death was announced Sunday by executives at V103, where Kent worked for the past three decades. Also known as “The Cool Gent,” “King

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Fans are mourning the loss of one of the most beloved pop stars of the early ’60s

MINNEAPOLIS — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, whose

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Hillary Clinton’s top techie in State Dept pleads the Fifth

John Bentel, the man who oversaw then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s technology at the State Department, refused to answer questions about his knowledge of her activities in a sworn deposition Monday, according to Judicial Watch. Mr. Bentel had protected Mrs. Clinton during her time in office, assuring lower-level employees that her use of a secret email account

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Bill Clinton: Jews should understand danger of Trump better than anyone

Canvassing in Florida, former president warns Jewish audience against ‘threat to fundamental character of the nation, future of our children and grandchildren’ By Eric Cortellessa In this July 26, 2016 file photo, former president Bill Clinton speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) WASHINGTON — Former

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Middle East, USA

Study: NY, California universities among ‘hotspots’ of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic activity on campus

Brandeis survey of 50 US campuses finds one of the strongest predictors of hostile climate toward Jews, Israel is active SJP group By Times of Israel staff An image from the documentary ‘Crossing the Line 2,’ which depicts rising anti-Semitic activity on North American campuses. (Courtesy) The City University of New York in Brooklyn, Northwestern

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘Bad Hombres’ and ‘Nasty’ Women Get the ‘SNL’ Treatment

“Saturday Night Live” saved its funniest barbs for Donald Trump’s allegations of media bias, as the NBC sketch comedy show satirized the third and final debate in the cold open to the show Saturday night. Host Tom Hanks, playing debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News, asked Trump, played by Alec Baldwin, whether he would

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

What’s up with all the creepy clowns? Psychologists say there are many factors at play in current craze

SEATTLE — What’s up with these creepy clowns? Across the nation, and even across seas, people have been calling police to report being menaced by people in clown costumes. An expert in the field of group psychology at Washington State University says there are several factors that could play into the motives of the “deviant”

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Trump Aides Tied To Firm That Wanted To Help Russia Spy

Two former aids to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly are tied to a firm that wanted to help expand the Russian government’s ability to spy on its own people. The New York Post reported former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and ex-aide Rick Gates are linked to EyeLock, which wanted to provide iris-reading technology for

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