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Clinton campaign slams ‘offensive’ Max Blumenthal remarks on Elie Wiesel’s death

Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday rebuked comments by pro-Palestinian Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal, son of longtime aide Sidney Blumenthal, regarding the recent death of Holocaust survivor and political activist Elie Wiesel. “Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential […]

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Abner Mikva — lawmaker, judge, presidential adviser — dies at 90

CHICAGO — Abner Mikva was turned down in his first attempt at civic duty with a line that became embedded in Chicago’s political lore, “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” Undeterred, the young, liberal outsider from Hyde Park forged ahead for a sterling career as a state legislator, congressman, federal appellate judge and presidential adviser,

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Before suicide, woman penned book about her ordeals in ultra-Orthodox world

A formerly ultra-Orthodox woman who was found dead in her car on Sunday after apparently taking her own life days earlier, had written a short autobiography describing the rigors of living within the Gur Hasidic sect and the pain she felt when her daughters cut ties with her over her choice to give up religion.

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Morley Safer, longtime ’60 Minutes’ correspondent, dies at 84

Morley Safer, a longtime reporter for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” has died, the network confirmed Thursday. Safer, 84, died at his home in Manhattan. He was the longest-serving correspondent at CBS News. Funeral arrangements are private, CBS said, adding that a memorial service will be announced at a later date. Due to declining health, he announced

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Rev. Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder

“The Witness” finally closed his eyes last night OCEANSIDE, California — Rev. Samuel “Billy” Kyles died on Tuesday evening, April 26,  in Memphis at the age of 81.  For the last 48 years of his life, he had been both burdened and motivated by his personal witnessing of a most barbaric act.  Kyles directly beheld the

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