In a Huffington Post blog published Tuesday, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore states that he knows “for a fact” that Republican nominee Donald Trump never truly wanted to be president, but actually just wanted to negotiate a better deal from NBC for The Apprentice, his reality competition show. And, in turn, is sabotaging his own […]
A fast moving wildfire in southern California has forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 people just east of Los Angeles. Around 700 firefighters are struggling to contain the so called Bluecut blaze in San Bernardino County which has already engulfed 15,000 acres. Fueled by fierce winds and high temperatures the fire broke out on
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USATaylor Swift is donating $1 million to help the people affected by the Louisiana floods, a natural disaster that has killed at least 11 people and affected thousands of others. The massive flooding has caused widespread destruction in Louisiana — the state where the 26-year-old singer kicked off her “1989 World Tour” last year. “We
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin this morning (Wednesday) addressed a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport for 233 new Olim (immigrants to Israel) from North America, who made Aliyah on a special flight organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh. The President also presented the organization’s 50,000th Olah, Rebecca Glanzer, 22, from Brooklyn, with her Israeli ID card. The welcoming
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Middle East, USAThe FBI went to bat for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, saying that handling emails with classified information – even when it’s marked – isn’t enough to prove she had “knowledge or intent” to break the law. In a letter to congressional investigators, the FBI’s chief liaison to Capitol Hill said Mrs. Clinton did handle three
Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked schools and libraries to recall and destroy a catalog of works linked to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the government blames for orchestrating the attempted military coup last month, Turkish media reports. A letter to educational institutions dated August 9, published by the Turkish news website Duvar, puts a ban
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Middle East, USAFox News reports that a major donor to the Clinton Foundation benefited from State Department efforts to buy land in Nigeria, just two weeks after Hillary Clinton left the post of Secretary of State. The donor, Gilbert Chagoury, a is Lebanese-born businessman whom federal records show has donated between $1 and $5 million to the
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International, USAIn a major shake-up of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon was named the campaign’s chief executive Wednesday in a move seen as a demotion for campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whose ties to a pro-Russian party in Ukraine have come under scrutiny in recent days with new allegations emerging Wednesday. Manafort,
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International, USALibertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson has secured more than $2.7 million in online contributions so far in August, including more than $1.5 million in donations tied to a “money bomb”on Monday to try to boost his name ID ahead of the presidential debates. The Johnson campaign said it exceeded a $1.5 million goal for
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USARepublican Donald Trump made his most direct appeal yet Tuesday for black voters in the presidential race, pushing forward an agenda to restore law and order and revitalize inner-city neighborhoods that he said suffer from years of misguided Democratic policies. In a speech delivered not far from Milwaukee neighborhoods rocked by anti-police riots, Mr. Trump
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USASerbian protesters greeted Vice President Joseph R. Biden Tuesday with derisive chants of “Vote for Trump!” Hundreds of demonstrators in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, chanted for the U.S. Republican presidential nominee upon Mr. Biden’s arrival, Reuters reported. The demonstrators were Serbian ultranationalists protesting Mr. Biden’s one-day stop in Belgrade before his visit to Kosovo. They
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International, USARussia has has opened up a new front in the Syria conflict by using a base in Iran to launch its airstrikes. It’s the first time Moscow has struck targets inside Syria from a third country. #Breaking Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes in #Syria from #Iran after Tu-23 bombers arrived at Hamadan AB pic.twitter.com/jGVptJHHqv— Michael
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International, USATwo presidential running mates will answer questions Wednesday night during a town hall on CNN as they look to increase their name recognition and tell voters about the issues that they stand for. While the Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, has only marginal name recognition compared to the other candidates in the race, there
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USALOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles police officer shot and killed someone Tuesday afternoon during a traffic stop in South L.A., hours after activists and others made an emotional appeal for police officials to release more information about a high-profile shooting last week. Tuesday’s killing occurred after an officer on a motorcycle stopped a dark sedan along
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