MIAMI — In the heat of the Republican presidential primary, Marco Rubio called Donald Trump a “con man.” And he doesn’t take it back. “I’ve stood by everything I ever said in my campaign,” Rubio told the Miami Herald editorial board Monday. But Rubio still supports Trump for president. In fact, Rubio insists, Trump is […]
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USAWhile campaigning for Hillary Clinton in front of a group of working-class residents of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said he believes the phrase Donald Trump probably is most proud of is, “You’re fired.” While his reference to the line Trump made famous during his days as a reality TV star wasn’t
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USAThis article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. If there is one key word we are likely to hear mentioned over and over again during the upcoming U.S. election it will be “stupid”. Some see Donald Trump’s campaign as a “cult of stupidity;” others claim Hillary Clinton is running a “painfully
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USAThe same year Bill and Hillary Clinton gave $42,000 in charity to the Desert Classic Charities, that charity turned around and cut the Clinton Foundation a $700,000 check, according to Desert Classic Charities’ tax returns. Talk about a return on investment. The $700,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation was to be dedicated to a “childhood
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USALooking for an absentee-voter boost in swing-states like Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, Donald Trump is actively courting American Jews living in Israel in what the campaign hints could be an insurance policy against a repeat of the 2000 Bush-Gore deadlock in Florida. Managed by the Republicans Abroad Israel branch of the GOP, the new campaign
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Middle East, USASome 50 nuclear weapons owned by the United States and stored at a Turkish air base near the Syrian border are in danger of falling into the hands of “terrorists or other hostile forces,” a think tank said in a new report released on Monday. The Incirlik air base in southern Turkey is situated just
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Middle East, USAAs his hopes of occupying the oval office recede, Donald Trump’s list of people and institutions to blame is ballooning at a rapid rate. Over the weekend he launched a sustained attack on the media, which he says is out to get him. At a rally on Saturday he threatened to ban the New York
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USARepublican presidential nominee and noted poll lover Donald Trump has decided to subvert the system and conduct a survey of his own. In a fundraising email sent Monday and shared by several reporters on Twitter, Trump said he wanted to hold the media responsible for attempting to fix the outcome of the upcoming election. “All
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USAHillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 30 points in a head-to-head match-up in New York, according to a Siena College poll released Monday. Mrs. Clinton had a 57 percent to 27 percent lead over Mr. Trump in a head-to-head match-up in the poll. In a four-way contest, she held a 25-point, 50 percent to 25
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USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign is fighting back against a New York Times story published Sunday night that told of handwritten ledgers indicating that Trump’s campaign chairman received $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. The report — showing even closer ties between Trump’s inner circle and Russia than
The day started as a regular, nondescript morning. I was preparing to see my patients. I picked up my phone and saw news that three coordinated suicide bombings had just occurred in Brussels, Belgium. I went through the all-too-familiar ritual that a lot of Muslims go through, of hoping that the perpetrators would not be
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIn 1948, the US territory of Puerto Rico competed as an indepedent nation in its first Olympics. Thank the International Olympic Committee for that. The IOC has the power to determine which states get to compete as independent nations. Call it “sports sovereignty” or “Independent … enough.” And while Puerto Rico has competed for the
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International, Sports & Competitions, USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — On December 23, 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush, about to leave office, exercised his right of forgiveness by pardoning 19 Americans convicted of crimes. One pardon, granted posthumously, went to Charles Winters, Irish Protestant from Boston who in January 1949, pleading guilty to a felony before
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — It is not always easy being a Latino or Hispanic performer in the entertainment community. Many times the roles that are offered to actors are limited, as are jobs for directors, producers, stagehands, and technicians. Amigos Del REP founding members Herbert Siguenza, John Padilla, and Dave Rivas wanted to
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