WASHINGTON — A 4-year-old Northern California child found himself on the terrorist watch list that’s now at the center of the congressional gun control debate. Identified as Baby Doe in court filings, the boy was one of more than 1 million people added to the federal government’s secret database that’s grown by leaps and bounds […]
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USA(AFP) The United States denied Tuesday that it is in a dispute with its ally Saudi Arabia over how to handle the crisis in Syria. US Secretary of State John Kerry was all smiles late Monday when he welcomed deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to his home in Washington. The influential 30-year-old prince, who
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Middle East, USAThe acting head of Israel’s National Security Council has said reports concerning the White House’s alleged refusal to increase military aid to Israel have been spun beyond recognition or simply misinterpreted by many commentators. Speaking to Arm Radio, Yaakov Nagel described many of the reports as “ridiculous.” “I am conducting the negotiations intensively,” he said.
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Middle East, USADemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics national poll released Tuesday finds. The poll shows Clinton leading Trump 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in November’s election, with 55 percent of those polled saying they could never vote for Trump. Most
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USADonald Trump is saying he will meet with representatives of the National Rifle Association to discuss “not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no-fly list, to buy guns.” The announcement, which the presumptive GOP presidential nominee made on Twitter, follows the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, last weekend, the
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USAHillary Clinton has formally wrapped up the U.S. Democratic presidential primaries with a 79 percent win in Washington, D.C. Her focus is now on uniting the party and securing the support of defeated Bernie Sanders in the race to the White House. The pair met for more than an hour and a half behind closed
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USABy Paul Miller BUFFALO GROVE, Illinois — Earlier this year, 200 progressive activists stormed the downtown Chicago Hilton with the intention of disrupting a gay rights event. Not that they had anything against gay rights. No, the object of their contempt was the Israelis who had organized this event to support the rights of gay
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–John Shapiro was elected President of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) during the organization’s Global Forum 2016 in Washington, D.C. Shapiro, who chaired AJC’s Board of Trustees for the past three years, succeeds Stanley M. Bergman. “In a time of increasing opportunity and trepidation for Jews worldwide, AJC is privileged to have
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USAU.S. President Barack Obama lashed out at Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying the Republican presidential candidate is the one who’s un-American, CNN reports. The comments came in response to Trump”s own comments in an interview with Fox News on Monday, when he hinted that the President was complicit or approved of Islamic terror attacks and
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USAWashington (dpa) – Hillary Clinton won the primary in the US capital of Washington on Tuesday, the last vote in the state-by-state presidential nomination process that began in February. The former secretary of state and first lady had 79 per cent of the vote with 75 per cent of precincts counted. The end of the
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USAJewish Republicans are criticizing Donald Trump for his renewed call to ban Muslim immigration, although few of his Jewish supporters seem to be reconsidering their endorsement of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But at least one, celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, rescinded his apparent backing of Trump following the billionaire real estate magnate”s remarks. One day
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USAWashington (dpa) – Russian spies hacked into the computer system of the Democratic Party and obtained a complete dossier on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported Tuesday citing party officials. A Russian embassy spokesman in Washington told the newspaper it had no knowledge of such intrusions. The government hackers had access to
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International, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that President Barack Obama sometimes “seems more in support of Muslims than Israel”. “For example the Iran deal, which was one of the worst deals in history, gave $150 billion dollars to a radical regime, which will allow them to fund terrorist activities as well as pursue
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Orlando, Fla., massacre is unlikely to mean much change in how the Republican Party deals with gay rights. The Sunday shootings gave the GOP, long struggling to erase an image of intolerance, a big stage to show its support and sympathy for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. But a day later
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