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The nonexistent rise and tragic plateau of PA President Mahmoud Abbas

Journalist Amir Tibon and his book, ‘The Last Palestinian.’ (Courtesy) The murder of two Israeli police by a Palestinian gunman on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in July led to an escalation of violence that caused Israeli security to place metal detectors at entrances to the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In retaliation, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas […]

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Middle East, USA

Trump Made North Korea Rocket Strike ‘Inevitable’

One of North Korea’s top officials further escalated tensions and threats with the United States. Due to President Donald Trump calling the North’s leader Kim Jong Un “rocket man,” the country’s foreign minister told the United Nations Saturday Trump made an attack by the North on the U.S. mainland “inevitable,” according to Reuters. “Through such

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International, USA

Bernie Sanders calls for rethink on US aid to Israel, Iran policy

US senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called for Washington to adopt a friendlier approach to Iran, and said he would consider supporting slashing US aid to Israel over the Jewish state’s policies towards the Palestinians. In an interview Thursday with The Intercept, the Jewish senator said the US was “complicit” in what he

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Middle East, USA

Trump picks fights with NFL, NBA — and athletes fight back

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has picked fights with two of the nation’s most popular professional sports leagues, setting off a Twitter war with top athletes who were quick to fight back in an extraordinary display of political trash-talking with thinly veiled racial undertones. Even National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell jumped into the fray

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Sports & Competitions, USA

US bombers fly off east coast of North Korea: Pentagon

US bombers flew off the east coast of North Korea Saturday in a show of force designed to project American military power in the face of Pyongyang’s weapons programs, escalating already sky-high tensions. The flight came after days of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s regime, as

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International, USA

Puerto Rico’s power grid ‘destroyed’ by Hurricane Maria, leaving millions cut off

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Hurricane Maria continued to cross the Caribbean on Friday, officials in Puerto Rico took stock of the deadly toll the historic storm left in its wake: nearly half of the storm’s total death toll of 32. At least 15 people were killed in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo

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How satire got a cartoonist fired from a Jewish newspaper

Cartoonist and satirist Eli Valley. (Loubna Mrie) NEW YORK — Virtually no person or subject is safe from cartoonist and satirist Eli Valley’s knifelike nib. Throughout his career he’s skewered Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. He’s taken umbrage at the notion that intermarriage will erode one’s

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Despite tense relations, US and Mexico come together for earthquake recovery

MEXICO CITY — It’s been a tough year for U.S.-Mexico relations. The countries are locked in tense talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, and Mexican public opinion of the U.S. has plummeted as President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Mexico and vowed to make it pay for construction of a border wall.

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McCain delivers a potentially fatal blow to GOP effort to repeal Obamacare

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., dealt a critical blow to Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act on Friday, announcing he will not vote for sweeping repeal legislation that GOP leaders plan to bring to the Senate floor for a vote next week. “We should not be content to pass health

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Dreadful attendance reportedly making NFL consider forcing franchise to move

The Chargers have been the Los Angeles Chargers for only two weeks now, and the 0-2 start isn’t the only thing worrying the organization. Don Banks of The Athletic recently joined the Darren Smith Show in San Diego and he painted a picture that’s quite troublesome for the NFL. Apparently, according to Banks, the league

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Aides warned Trump not to attack North Korea’s leader personally before his fiery UN address

WASHINGTON — Senior aides to President Donald Trump repeatedly warned him not to deliver a personal attack on North Korea’s leader at the United Nations this week, saying insulting the young despot in such a prominent venue could irreparably escalate tensions and shut off any chance for negotiations to defuse the nuclear crisis. Trump’s derisive

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