The U.S. Treasury Department is considering whether to approve the sale of commercial aircraft to Iran by Boeing and Airbus – and 42 former top national security officials have written a letter raising serious concerns about it. The nuclear deal signed last year with Iran by the U.S. and other Western countries enables such sales […]
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Middle East, USADonald Trump unveiled his economic advisory council Friday morning, three days before he’s scheduled to take the stage at the Detroit Economic Club for a speech laying out his ideas for “revitalizing the American economy.” Perhaps not surprisingly, given his business background, his roster of advisers is heavy on CEOs and financiers and short on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, USARIO DE JANEIRO — Virginia Thrasher has a gold medal, but it won’t get her a pass with her physics professor. She will return to classes at West Virginia only 20 hours after returning to the U.S. on Aug. 17. “I’ll be in physics at 8:30 a.m.,” she said. Thrasher might want to volunteer for
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAWASHINGTON — The Obama administration has released a redacted version of its “playbook” for the lethal U.S. drone program, a booklet of presidential guidelines that sets legal standards for deciding whom to kill, where and under what circumstances. The document was drawn up in May 2013, after President Barack Obama promised more transparency and oversight
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USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Friday she did nothing wrong as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, but resigned to avoid becoming a distraction as Hillary Clinton was about to become the party’s presidential nominee. Despite the critical verdicts delivered by cable TV talking heads, supporters of defeated presidential candidate Bernie
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USADespite pledges early in the primary season to maintain neutrality in dealings with Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Donald Trump has since emphasized his pro-Israel bona fides and hinted at a major deviation from policies supported by presidents of both parties since the 1967 Six Day War, including the two-state solution, Israeli construction in Judea
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Middle East, USANeither the Libertarian nor Green parties are guaranteed a space in this year’s presidential debates, a federal court ruled Friday, dealing a blow to their candidates, who were counting on being able to get onto the stage in order to boost their long-shot bids. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ruled that the commission on presidential
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USADemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump has narrowed to less than 3 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. Polls released just at the beginning of the week found that Clinton had a larger lead, ranging from 7% in a CBS poll to as high as
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USAIsrael’s Defense Ministry on Friday responded to U.S. President Barack Obama’s claims from a day earlier that the nuclear deal signed between Iran and the West had been successful in improving the security situation in the Middle East, and that even Israel acknowledges this fact. “The Israeli defense establishment believes that agreements have value only
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Middle East, USAI spoke to Dr. Jill Stein just days before she received the Green Party’s nomination for president. A Harvard-trained doctor, Stein also ran for the presidency in 2012, when she received about a half-million votes. Today, though, she hopes to pick up votes from many of the progressives who felt the Bern and have no
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USAAmerica’s election is at risk of being stolen: That, in essence, is what some news reports, as well as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his allies, have been suggesting lately. The threat could come from a variety of places, some say. Many have suggested that Russia, suspected to be behind the recent hack of
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USAGREEN BAY, Wis. — With no prominent Wisconsin Republicans on hand, GOP nominee Donald Trump limped into Wisconsin on Friday and belatedly endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan and 2008 nominee Sen. John McCain, trying to heal the wounds of a rough week of party infighting. “I fully support and endorse Paul Ryan,” Trump said Friday,
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USAWith Donald Trump plummeting in the polls and Hillary Clinton registering high negatives, the Libertarian Party ticket has a rare opportunity: to be represented in the presidential debates for the first time since 1992. That opportunity has been underscored by a new Fox News poll that shows the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, Gary Johnson, the
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