By Joel H Cohen NEW YORK –Despite the very mixed reviews of his recent visit with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico City, Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to go to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and address the Knesset. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not yet responded […]
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Middle East, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — Martin Luther King Jr. is understandably remembered and cherished as the iconic civil rights leader, “the drum major for justice,” and for his brilliant oratorical skills. Some also recall his provocative, brave cri de coeur as the vanguard protestor against the Vietnam War—which did not line up in his
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USAA month after Donald Trump suffered his weakest poll numbers since effectively securing the nomination in May, Hillary Clinton”s campaign has hit its own nadir, with steady reversals first in national and now state polling. After benefiting from weeks of unforced errors by the Republican nominee, Clinton”s lead nationwide over Trump spiked to over 7
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USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump made an appearance at a black church in Detroit Saturday, and received a prayer shawl (tallit) for the occasion. After giving a brief speech, Trump received a Jewish Heritage Study Bible along with the prayer shawl from Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, pastor of Great Faith Ministries International. Trump wore the
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Jewish Religion, USAThe US is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justice, President Barack Obama said Sunday, as the two leaders met during the official opening of the G20 summit in Hangzhou. Ankara accuses US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of being behind the July uprising. At talks with
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International, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — If you want to study the weakness of American foreign policy under the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Administration, just look at the Turkish-Kurdish-Syrian triangle. America’s formal position is that it opposes the Assad regime, that it looks on Turkey as a close ally, and that it arms the Kurds in their fight
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USARepublican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence will release his tax returns next week while his running mate continues to cite audits to justify his refusal to do the same. “I’ll release mine in the next week,” Pence told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an advance clip from Sunday’s “Meet the Press.” “Donald Trump and I are
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USATwo archives containing Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as secretary of state were misplaced shortly after it was revealed that the Democratic presidential nominee used a personal account for official government business, according to notes from the FBI’s investigation into the matter. The archives were created in spring 2013 by Monica Hanley, a former
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USASANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Santa Clara police union says its officers may stop working San Francisco 49ers’ home games amid quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest police brutality and racial injustice by refusing to stand during the national anthem, according to media reports. A letter from the Santa Clara Police Officers’ Association to the
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump stuck largely to script Saturday in addressing a traditionally black church in Detroit, where he made his pitch in an attempt to woo a portion of the electorate that overwhelmingly favors Hillary Clinton. The Republican nominee for president gave his first address before a predominantly black audience at Great Faith Ministries and avoided
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USAPHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump told a handful of blacks in North Philadelphia on Friday that the perception that he is a racist is because the media have interpreted his comments that way. “He does not see himself as a racist and neither did the people around the table,” said Renee Amoore, the
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USAPHILADELPHIA — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in North Philadelphia on Friday as protesters gathered outside a church venue where he was to meet privately with African-American voters — stirring visible unwelcome for the GOP presidential nominee in the City of Brotherly Love. Trump arrived in an SUV with a police motorcade down Broad
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USAGary Johnson and Jill Stein are on the ballot in yet another state for the November presidential election, but a spot on the main stage in the presidential debates remains a long shot for the third-party candidates. Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s nominee, and Stein, nominated by the Green Party, qualified for the Oregon ballot before
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USADonald Trump’s latest campaign hire is David Bossie, the longtime president of Citizens United, the infamous conservative organization named in the 2010 Supreme Court ruling scaling back regulations on corporate financing of political messaging. Trump called Bossie “a friend of mine for many years,” according to the Washington Post. “Solid. Smart. Loves politics, knows how
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