At the edge of his farm, Menkir Tamrat walks over to a pepper plant and pulls back the dark green leaves to reveal dozens of shiny red peppers. “Looks like we have a whole bunch of ripe ones, red ones, ready to be plucked,” he says as he rubs his hands together. Over the next […]
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Five years ago, Hillary Clinton made a little-noticed deal obligating Japan to continue paying nearly $2 billion a year to help defray the cost of U.S. troops stationed on its territory. The money is used to build housing and training areas for U.S. forces, pay wages to thousands of Japanese workers on U.S
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International, USAPolice in the El Cajon suburb of San Diego have released a surveillance video from a local business that shows an unarmed Ugandan refugee being shot dead in a car park on Tuesday. As two police officers close in on Alfred Olango his sister Lisa Peterson, who is standing nearby, shouts: “Officer don’t shoot him!”
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USANewsweek said its website was knocked offline by hackers Thursday evening after it published an article accusing one of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s companies of having violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Editor-in-chief Jim Impoco told reporters Friday that Newsweek’s website was unavailable for several hours the night before as the result of what
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Zvia, Yoni, Chemi and generations of the Peres family; President Rivlin; Prime Minister Netanyahu; members of the Israeli government and the Knesset; heads of state and the government and guests from around the world, including President Abbas, whose presence here is a gesture and a reminder of the unfinished business of peace; to
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Middle East, USAMary J. Blige launched her new interview series, “The 411,” by sitting down with Hillary Clinton and asking the question that has dogged her political aspirations for years — why does she struggle to bridge the gap between how she wants to be perceived and the way people perceive her? “I’ve always been the same
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USACORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Hillary Clinton showed she knew her South Florida audience, provided a dose of policy prescriptions and offered lots of Donald Trump bashing at a campaign rally Friday. People in the crowd of more than 2,000 — most of whom stood for hours in a sweltering gymnasium waiting for her arrival and
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USAFox News’ Megyn Kelly has challenged Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to come on her show instead of referencing her name in attacks on Donald Trump. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has used multiple new cycles since Monday’s first presidential debate to paint Donald Trump as a sexist. “The Kelly Factor” host decided Friday that it was
WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans heard the name Alicia Machado for the first time this week in the final minutes of the most-watched presidential debate in history. But there were actually a year’s worth of twists and turns, largely behind the scenes, that led Hillary Clinton to utter the name of the Latina beauty queen,
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USABy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — When listening to Bret Stephens, you wonder why US foreign policy is so complicated? The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist laid out a succinct set of foreign policy goals to the 1100 participants in the Jewish Federation of San Diego’s Men’s Event. Under a perfect evening suitable for a leisurely
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Middle East, USAPresident Obama paid tribute to the late Israeli President Shimon Peres Friday as a man who saw “all people as deserving of dignity and respect.” Mr. Obama, wearing a Jewish skullcap as a sign of respect at the funeral in Israel, said of the 93-year-old leader who died Wednesday, “The last of the founding generation
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Middle East, USAA Newsweek report on Donald Trump’s hotel and casino company violating U.S. embargo against Cuba prompted response from Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday. In his home state of Florida, a critical swing state in the 2016 presidential election, Rubio is the Republican nominee’s most prominent Cuban-American supporter. “The article makes some very serious and troubling
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board endorsed Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson Friday. “Libertarians Gary Johnson of New Mexico and running mate William Weld of Massachusetts are agile, practical and, unlike the major-party candidates, experienced at managing governments. They offer an agenda that appeals not only to the Tribune’s principles but to those of
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Friday that Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton was “duped” into using his comments about a “disgusting” former Miss Universe to attack him. Trump has repeatedly gone after 1996 Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, now a U.S. citizen living in Los Angeles, after Clinton brought her up in Monday night’s presidential
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