President Donald Trump has hired his son’s brother-in-law to oversee an Energy Department office that apparently is dismantling some of former President Barack Obama’s climate change initiatives. Lara Trump’s brother, Kyle Yunaska, has been named chief of staff of the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, Environmental & Energy Publishing reported on Wednesday. Lara […]
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USAEllen Social media exploded Wednesday evening as Ellen DeGeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi went public with a story about action movie star and director Steven Seagal. RELATED: Jane Fonda’s controversial statement about Harvey Weinstein’s victims De Rossi tweeted that during a final audition for a Seagal movie she was approached with a lewd advance, saying
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia is escalating in the media and on the ground after the weekend launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen which hit near the airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The Saudis accuse Iran of arming Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who fired the missile. Saudi state TV announced
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USASAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s difficult to keep guns away from ex-cons and the mentally disturbed, but a one-of-a-kind California program is designed to do just that. And in light of the Texas church shooting that left 26 dead, some are debating whether a program like it could have thwarted Devin Kelley’s murderous rampage. The
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USAWASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced new rules Wednesday to make it tougher for U.S. businesses to work in Cuba and for Americans to travel to the island. The restrictions are aimed at enacting what President Donald Trump in June described as plans to reverse the Obama administration’s diplomatic opening with the communist-ruled island. Effective
By Cathryn J. Prince NEW YORK — For Matthew Bielski his saba and savta (grandfather and grandmother) were nothing short of modern day Maccabees. As the grandson of Jewish partisans Sonia and Zus Bielski, Mattthew Bielski, 33, frequently heard stories about surviving frigid winters deep in the Nalibaki forest, in northwestern Belarus. He also heard
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International, Jewish History, USARacial minorities and LGBTQ candidates picked up historic wins in races across the country Tuesday. They included two openly transgender politicians, African-Americans who prevailed in several mayoral races and the first Sikh mayor in New Jersey. — A transgender woman, Latinas and an Asian-American win in Virginia Danica Roem became the first openly transgender person
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USAWASHINGTON — The Tuesday night rout of Republican candidates up and down the ballot has triggered alarm bells in Republican circles that a deteriorating political environment could set in motion a Democratic wave in the 2018 midterm elections. The most dramatic results unfolded in Virginia, where Democrats swept up victories in the governor’s race and
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USABy Raphael Ahren American lawmakers on Wednesday discussed the possibility of moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, some three weeks before US President Donald Trump will have to decided on whether to postpone the action for another six months. The two-hour discussion took place in the House Oversight Subcommittee for National Security,
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Middle East, USADaniel Markind Three weeks ago, Professor Alan Dershowitz gave a speech at the University of California-Berkeley in which he laid out the liberal case for Israel. Shortly thereafter, a cartoon appeared in the student newspaper, the Daily Californian, that depicted Professor Dershowitz with spider-like features smiling as he sticks his head through a cardboard cutout.
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Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The egregious violation of freedom of the press in Turkey has reached a mammoth proportion that places Turkey among the most oppressive nations for journalists. It is sadder than sad that the US and the EU, who champion free press as one of the main pillars of democracy, have
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USAUS Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has exaggerated his personal wealth and is not in fact a billionaire, a leading business magazine reported Tuesday. The report by Forbes also accused Ross of serial dishonesty and was more unwelcome publicity for the Trump ally after leaked files this week showed he retained business interests tied to Vladimir
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International, USASEOUL, South Korea — President Donald Trump didn’t threaten to unleash “fire and fury” or to “totally destroy” North Korea. He didn’t needle Kim Jong Un by calling him “little rocket man.” Instead, at a news conference in South Korea’s capital Tuesday within range of North Korean artillery, Trump spoke in unusually measured tones and
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International, USAHACKENSACK, N.J.—As voters headed to the polls Tuesday to pick a replacement for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, jurors at the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez weighed a decision of their own, spending their first full day deliberating on a verdict. There was one question — but no verdict — submitted by jurors
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