WASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, an immigration hard-liner and climate change skeptic, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of his current term. He’s the second GOP chairman this week from Texas to retire. He chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and under GOP rules would hit a […]
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USAWASHINGTON — Sam Clovis, a fiery Iowa talk radio host and former Trump campaign co-chairman who has been caught up in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has withdrawn his name from consideration to be chief scientific adviser to the secretary of agriculture. The nomination was controversial because Clovis, 68, had no scientific or medical degrees
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International, USAWASHINGTON — A liberal activist group on Thursday labeled Ralph Northam’s campaign “racist,” criticizing the Virginia Democrat running for governor a day after he declared that he would not support “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants. “Let’s be really clear: If Ralph Northam wins next Tuesday, it won’t be because he publicly backtracked on his commitment
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USAHillary Clinton’s campaign took over the Democratic National Committee’s funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party’s one-time interim chairwoman. The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, wrote in Politico Magazine on Thursday that she
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USATalia Osteen had never considered herself particularly political before the election of Donald Trump last year. The 34-year-old musician from California was concerned by social issues and often volunteered to help the homeless. But she found the cut-and-thrust of the Washington Beltway too divorced from her everyday life — until things got “personal.” “I’m a
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USABy Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — Two US senators will introduce a resolution this week commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 that expressed support for the creation of a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. Authored by Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia,
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International, Middle East, USAAttacks against Jews have become much more frequent since August, when a group of white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting “Jews will not replace us,” a new report shows. The number of antisemitic increased throughout 2017, but the biggest jump was right after Charlottesville, when the number of attacks increased by
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — It is not the U.S. president’s political party that determines how well he is liked in Israel, rather it is how empathetic he is toward the Jewish state, Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz commented Thursday night at the Men’s Event of the Jewish Federation of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Ken Stone Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — –Khizr Khan paid the World Series no heed. He smiles wistfully when asked about cricket, the national pastime of his native Pakistan. “I don’t have time for popular culture yet, but God willing soon,” he said Wednesday after his 163rd public appearance since the
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USAcapsized boat The video taken of Sam, an eighth-grader at Independence Middle School, went viral. Taken by a drone, the video shows Ruskin swimming out to the struggling man, placing him stomach-down on his surf board and pushing him to the south side of the inlet. “He could have drowned,” said Ruskin, who wants to
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USAUniversity Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels who violently arrested in July by a Salt Lake City police officer reached a settlement of $500,000 with all the parties involved Tuesday. Wubbels’ controversial arrest after she refused to let the officer Jeff Payne draw blood from an unconscious patient without his consent, was recorded on officers’ body camera,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Jacob Magid Billboards announcing the upcoming memorial service for slain far-right activist Meir Kahane were removed from a pair of hotels at the entrance to Jerusalem on Wednesday following pressure from left-wing lawmakers and NGOs. The signs — which also included a message of support for recently detained activist Bentzi Gopstein — were hung
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Middle East, USAMichelle Obama has a message for the men of the world: Do better, try harder and most importantly, communicate more. On Wednesday, the former first lady sat down with poet Elizabeth Alexander on the second day of the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, the first of an annual event. The topic turned to gender, and
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USANew court filings show special counsel Robert Mueller considers the Trump campaign’s former chairman Paul Manafort a “serious” flight risk and that he has multiple passports under different numbers. “The government has also learned that in March of this year, Manafort registered a phone and an email account using an alias,” Mueller’s office wrote in
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