As his campaign for president gathered steam, Sen. Bernie Sanders went on CNBC and challenged the business news network’s audience. “You can’t just continue growth for the sake of growth in a world in which we are struggling with climate change and all kinds of environmental problems. All right?” he said. “You don’t necessarily need […]
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USAA fundraising email sent out by a candidate running for New York City”s City Council has sparked controversy amid accusations of anti-Semitism and racial incitement. The man at the center of the controversy, Thomas Lopez-Pierre, denies claims his campaign”s rhetoric is anti-Semitic, prominently featuring a 2014 article on his website entitled “Fighting Jewish Slumlords Isn”t
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USAAs Donald Trump’s prospects have diminished, so too has the likelihood that Gary Johnson, Jill Stein or Evan McMullin will play any significant role in the 2016 election. To do so would require a close race between Trump and Hillary Clinton — and enough support for at least one of them to qualify for the
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USAMIAMI—In an election rife with Never-Trumpers and Bernie Bros, the Libertarian presidential ticket traveled to Miami-Dade County Wednesday evening in search of disenfranchised voters and some badly needed media exposure. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, both former two-term Republican governors, spoke to a packed and excited house at Florida International University’s Herbert and Nicole Wertheim
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USAIn the latest revelation to emerge from a treasure trove of hacked documents from organizations tied to the Hungarian-born billionaire and prominent Democratic donor George Soros, an internal memo from Soros” Open Society Institute indicates he funded the radical Black Lives Matter movement to the tune of some $650,000. The information, gleaned from an Open
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USAThe Obama administration has insisted that its $400 million transfer to Iran was unrelated to Tehran’s same-day freeing of Americans held by the Islamic republic. But detailed accounts of the payment from U.S. officials and others briefed on the operation who spoke to The Wall Street Journal tell a completely different story. Their accounts describe
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New York Times has published an exceptionally long article about the collapse of the Middle East, the chaos of what used to be functioning governments, the misery and streams of refugees that it has produced. It’s good journalism, telling its story through the eyes of individuals interviewed over the course
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USARIO DE JANEIRO — They didn’t want to be here. They didn’t want to play this match. Why did they have to play this match? When Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross stepped on to the sand at Rio’s beach volleyball arena on Copacabana Beach a couple of hours before midnight Wednesday, they wanted to
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAClose The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County “excepting a few children”; an Indian girl raped and left to die somewhere near Mendocino; as many as 50 killed at Goose Lake; and, two months later, as many as 257 murdered at Grouse Creek, scores of them women and children.
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USARIO DE JANEIRO — Moments after she had left the track after leading the first-ever 1-2-3 sweep by athletes from one country in the 100-meter hurdles, Brianna Rollins clutched a precious golden object in her right hand. Her prize? Not a medal — an apple. “I’m so hungry,” she said, the only downside of waiting
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles didn’t quite feel like she truly belonged to the Famous U.S. Olympian Club. She admitted to feeling a “little nervous” around the likes of swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky during a recent photo shoot. She was underestimating herself. Another gold-medal performance by the transcendent talent suggested the club
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International, Sports & Competitions, USARyan Lochte has come clean about the confusion surrounding the robbery he and three other American swimmers endured at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Lochte told USA Today that they didn’t tell the U.S. Olympic Committee about the incident that happened early Sunday “because we were afraid we’d get in trouble.” When reports
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian judge ordered local police to seize the passports of U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen on Wednesday to bar them from leaving the country after the athletes said they were part of a group robbed at gunpoint earlier this week. In a statement, Judge Keyla Blanc de Cnop
Hillary Clinton has a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in both Colorado and Virginia, while Mr. Trump remains within striking distance in Iowa, according to polling of the three battleground states released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University. In head-to-head match-ups, Mrs. Clinton led Mr. Trump by 10 points in Colorado, 49 percent to 39 percent, and
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