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Ivanka Trump celebrates 8 happy years of marriage with the love of her life

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary on Wednesday, and the first daughter and assistant to the president took to Instagram to commemorate the occasion. “Happy eight-year anniversary to the love of my life!” she wrote alongside a photo from the couple’s wedding day, which features a […]

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GOP tightens restrictions on Rep. Rohrabacher’s subcommittee over Russia ties

WASHINGTON — The congressional subcommittee led by California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is being heavily monitored by GOP leaders because of allegations the congressman has been overly influenced by his connections to Russia. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce will be “more involved in guiding the direction” of the subcommittee that is in part

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International, USA

Donald Trump recalls death of brother Fred from alcoholism, promotes abstinence campaign

In rallying the nation against drug addiction Thursday, President Trump spoke in unusually personal terms about the death of his older brother Fred from alcoholism, and about the lesson it holds for him in the value of abstinence. To an audience at the White House, Mr. Trump recalled his older brother as a “great guy.”

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Ashley Judd says she made a deal with Harvey Weinstein to escape sexual harassment

Feeling trapped and facing a barrage of propositions years ago in Harvey Weinstein’s hotel room, Ashley Judd says, she made a deal with the now-disgraced producer: She would say yes to his sexual advances after she won an Academy Award for one of his films. He countered with after she was nominated for one. She

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Megyn Kelly Slams Bill O’Reilly, Lists Sexual Harassers Including Donald Trump

Megyn Kelly made an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” where she recalled her time at FOX News and called out Billy O’Reilly as someone that sexually harrassed her. “It was time to tell that story,” Kelly said on the late night show. “I take no pleasure in discussing Fox News in that way

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

MSNBC political analyst Mark Halperin put on leave over sexual harassment claims

Political journalist and author Mark Halperin was pulled Thursday from his contributor’s role at MSNBC after a report that he sexually harassed five women during his tenure at ABC News. Five women who worked with Halperin when he was political director of ABC News in the early 2000s told CNN that he propositioned them or

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Baltimore lacked authority to take down Confederate monuments, state says

BALTIMORE — The state agency charged with protecting Maryland’s history has concluded that Baltimore officials didn’t have the legal authority to remove three statues commemorating the Confederacy and says it reserves the right to order the city to put them back. Elizabeth Hughes, director of the Maryland Historical Trust, shared the trustees’ conclusions in an

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House Republicans pass GOP budget with $1.5 trillion deficit increase to fund Trump’s tax cuts

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday gave final approval to a 2018 GOP budget resolution, allowing for a $1.5-trillion deficit increase that sets the stage for President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. Republicans overcame internal divisions about the budget but must still resolve differences over the coming tax package, which is scheduled to be unveiled next

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Poland objects to planned visit by US white supremacist

Poland’s foreign ministry on Thursday said it objected to a visit by US white supremacist Richard Spencer, whom Polish nationalists have invited to an Independence Day event next month. Spencer is the 39-year-old leader of the so-called “alt-right” movement — encompassing white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan — and the organiser of a

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International, USA

Berkeley student newspaper apologizes for Alan Dershowitz cartoon decried as anti-Semitic

The University of California Berkeley student newspaper has apologized for an editorial cartoon of Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz that had been denounced as anti-Semitic. “We have seen with sharp clarity the pain and anger caused by an editorial cartoon that ran online in our opinion section on Oct. 18, and we apologize for

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

French priest who uncovered Nazi killing sites awarded Lantos rights prize

By Eric Cortellessa WASHINGTON — A French priest whose work has uncovered millions of previously unknown victims of the Nazi genocide was awarded the Lantos Foundation’s Human Rights Prize on Thursday morning, named for the Holocaust survivor and longtime California congressman. Father Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic clergyman who teaches at Georgetown University’s Program for

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International, Jewish History, USA

Jewish Agency snubs Netanyahu ahead of upcoming board meeting

By Raphael Ahren The Jewish Agency did not reach out to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of its upcoming conference in Jerusalem, neither asking him to address the delegates nor to meet privately with the organization’s top leadership, The Times of Israel has learned. The Jewish Agency’s snub highlights the bitterness of the ongoing dispute

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