Alabama conservative Judge Roy Moore appears to be losing his shot at a seat in the U.S. Senate that was previously a near-guaranteed win. This follows numerous accusations of inappropriate behavior, including making sexual advances on a 14-year-old girl. Related: Here’s how Donald Trump could actually be impeached The allegations arrived during a watershed moment […]
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USAAl Franken Hours after sports commentator Leeann Tweeden accused Democratic Senator Al Franken of groping and kissing her without her consent, another woman is stepping forward with harrowing claims about the man. “Yes, it’s true. I was stalked and harassed by Al Franken,” Media Equalizer and Media Equality Project Co-Founder Melanie Morgan tweeted on Thursday.
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Adam L. Braverman, a veteran prosecutor who has spent a significant part of his government career pursuing large-scale international drug trafficking cartels, took the oath of office today to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California following his interim appointment by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “It is an
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By Donald H. Harrison JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, California – The story is told on this national park’s website that Mormon travelers gave the Joshua Tree its name: “Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USANorth Korea’s state media on Wednesday slammed Donald Trump for insulting leader Kim Jong-Un, saying the US president deserved the death penalty and calling him a coward for cancelling a visit to the inter-Korean border. An editorial in the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun focused its anger on Trump’s visit to South Korea last week,
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International, USAA group of Democrats on Wednesday announced that they would be filing multiple articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, marking the most significant push to remove the president from office. The move was led by Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who first declared his intention to initiate the impeachment process following Trump’s controversial “both
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USANEWARK, N.J.—The sixth full day of deliberations at the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez came and went without a single note or question from the jury — and no verdict. Jurors emerged from 5{ hours of discussions Wednesday afternoon with their heads hung, seemingly fatigued. U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls dismissed
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USAUCLA freshmen basketball players LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were suspended indefinitely by the school on Wednesday after returning from China where they were held last week for shoplifting. UCLA coach Steve Alford said at a news conference Wednesday that the trio will not take part in practice or games while the school
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International, USAHungary expressed “shock” Wednesday at a US plan to finance independent media outlets outside Budapest, a move it called “intervention in an ally’s internal affairs”. Last week Washington announced a call for funding applications totalling some $700,000 (euros) for media projects outside the Hungarian capital. The bidding projects should aim to “increase citizens’ access to
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International, USAAttendees of the fourth annual Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Muslim Jewish Women’s Leadership Conference held hands to form a circle around the entire room. Photos by Karen Mancinelli/Drew University Sheryl Olitzky, cofounder of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom (SOSS), stood up before a largely female audience of some 630 Muslims and Jews and said, “For
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Middle East, USAAn unprecedented joint declaration released Wednesday by Members of Congress and Knesset has laid our core principles for a new paradigm to end the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict ahead of an expected new push for Middle East peace by President Donald Trump. The declaration, signed by members of the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC) and the
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Middle East, USAThe Genesis Prize Foundation announced Wednesday that US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would receive the foundation’s first ever Lifetime Achievement Award. The Genesis Prize, which was called the ‘Jewish Nobel’ by Time Magazine, recognizes Jewish people who have attained recognition and excellence in their fields. The foundation said that the five previous recipients
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The Jews are just like everyone else, but different. Also Israel. The country of the Jews is like others, but different. This note is provoked by comment from an otherwise rational friend that Israel’s real borders are the Jordan and the Mediterranean. And his question about my description of Israeli Arabs. Was
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s our problem, actually, and we’ve made it theirs. It is the West that simultaneously wants “the Arab Spring” and “stability.” Democracy and strong government control. Honest government and stable kleptocrats. Check out our split-brain reaction to the Palestinian Authority. By rights, the U.S. should have nothing to do with
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