Seventy-four days before this year”s presidential election, polls forecast a tight election. Or do they suggest Clinton is on track for a landslide win? In fact, recent polling tends to reinforce both narratives simultaneously, a fact that not surprisingly has led to much confusion and consternation among voters tracking the election horserace. But how is […]
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USABOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, August 20, 2016 – Anyone visiting Colombia from the United States this year is soon asked about Donald Trump. The Trump phenomenon dominates the international news cycle, and everyone in Colombia is intrigued with Trump. Even blue collar workers seem fascinated by the candidacy of Trump. Unlike in the US, in Colombia, anyone
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International, USALAKEWOOD, Pennsylvania — There was a time when you couldn’t get kosher sushi or iced coffee while at sleepaway camp. But most campers don’t remember those dark days. “No sushi?” asked Yael, a 13-year-old camper from Camp Lavi in Lakewood, Pennsylvania. “How’d you survive?” Welcome to the Pocono Mountains, home to approximately 50 sleepaway camps
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Jewish Religion, USAORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Health and Florida Hospital will not bill survivors of the Pulse nightclub massacre for out-of-pocket medical expenses, officials announced Wednesday. Instead, the hospitals will write off an estimated $5.5 million or more in care. “The pulse shooting was a horrendous tragedy for the victims, their families and our entire community,” Orlando
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’re all on the borders of cultures. We express the condition by where we travel, with whom we deal, and how we deal with those who are different from ourselves. Staying close to home and minding our own business are conventional ways of dealing with strangers, some of whom may
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, August 25, 2016 – The Clinton presidential campaign has hit back at an AP report on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meetings with private individuals. According to the report, 85 of 154 meetings were with donors to the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton team argues that Clinton met with thousands of people, not just those
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International, USAWASHINGTON — The CIA pulled the veil back Wednesday on long-classified foreign intelligence briefings it gave President Richard M. Nixon in the 1970s during the height of his power and his fall from grace, a period of intense turmoil at home and abroad. The release of 2,500 President’s Daily Briefs — about 28,000 pages in
WASHINGTON — If there were a moment in this presidential race when Hillary Clinton could act on her stated outrage over the obscene amount of money in politics, it is probably now, having eclipsed her rival Donald Trump in terms of cash in the bank and blocked off his most direct paths to victory. But
The United States on Tuesday called on Americans in the Gaza Strip to leave the coastal enclave “as soon as possible.” Palestinians militant and the Israeli military have not engaged in a conflict since the seven-week war that began in July 2014 and left more than 2,200 Palestinians and 70 Israelis dead but flare-ups have
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Middle East, USAPHOENIX — John McCain came to talk about honor and duty. The setting was an American Legion post, where Arizona’s senior senator unfurled an army’s worth of endorsements from military brass supporting his November reelection bid. A group of veterans sat at a small cluster of tables pushed together in the nearly empty room before
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USAHillary Clinton is remarkably suited to be a modern candidate for president of the United States. She possesses the gift of reason. She is the product of a coherent combination of intellectual curiosity, spiritual integrity and professional achievement. She knows what will be required of the next president in a modern world. The difficulty for
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USACHARLOTTE, N.C. — Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Wednesday that Democratic and Republican administrations have been “eroding the foundation” of American manufacturing. Speaking at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, the Indiana governor said he and presidential candidate Donald Trump would restore that foundation by getting tough on trade and easing regulations on business. “Donald
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International, USAThe US Vice President Joe Biden has voiced support for Turkey during the highest-level visit by a Western diplomat since the failed coup in mid-July. It comes as anti-Western sentiment has soared in the country: governments have been criticised for being slow in condemning the coup. Many Turks suspect the US was involved in some
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Middle East, USAThe frenzy and furor over Hillary Clinton’s email habits while at the State Department, now into their 16th month and still going strong, have predictably and effectively chipped away at her reputation, so a sizable majority of Americans (67 percent in a poll last month) find her “untrustworthy.” That’s what a year of FBI investigation—leading
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