WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court extended trademark protection on Monday to words and names that may be offensive, ruling that the First Amendment right to free speech allows an Asian-American band to call itself The Slants. The unanimous decision will also likely preserve the trademarked and controversial name of the Redskins, Washington’s NFL team. In […]
Lawyers seeking to unseal documents related to the criminal past of a former business partner of President Donald Trump said in federal court on Monday that the documents may contain evidence that Trump committed fraud. The sealed documents are from a federal case against Felix Sater, who Trump reportedly tapped as a senior advisor for
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USAWASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the power player, but Sen. Kamala Harris is becoming the star. Methodical and measured, Feinstein, D-Calif., is the only Democrat serving on both the Senate Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee, putting her in a unique position to influence congressional inquiries into Russia, the 2016 elections, the Trump campaign and
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USAPM accuses Palestinian leader of lying to the world, ‘poisoning’ minds of Palestinians youth, as Jenin square named after infamous terrorist By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Amid resurgent US peacemaking efforts and the arrival of two top Washington
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Middle East, USABy David Anderson Reprinted from The Moderate Voice NEW YORK — Spats between Persian Gulf nations are commonplace: they’re similar countries with a shared language, religion, and culture. All walk the tightrope between conservative Islam and modern openness to various degrees. Conflicts are often in the differences of how each pursues modernity verses Islam. The Gulf
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Middle East, USAUpdated | Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year before returning home earlier this month, died Monday. The University of Cincinnati Medical Center, which was treating the 22-year-old for brain damage, confirmed his death to WCPO. His family gave a statement to ABC News. “It
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International, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s straight talk about veneration of violence in Palestinian society has had important consequences. It was the catalyst for Norway and Denmark to disassociate from the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) habit of naming public spaces for terrorists. UNRWA, the Red Crescent (UAE), and the U.N. secretary general have
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABill Gates, the richest person in the world, may soon lose the top spot in the list of billionaires. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com is merely $5 billion away from becoming the richest person. After Amazon announced it was buying Whole Foods, the surge in Amazon stock added $1.8 billion to his net worth,
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International, USARussia has shut down a vital communication line with its U.S. counterparts in Syria, threatening to target any aircraft operating above Russian and Syrian regime-controlled territory in the country. Moscow outlined the changes in Syria war policy via a terse statement by officials from the Russian Ministry of Defense released Monday, local news reports state.
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International, USAA man has been charged with murder in Virginia after a 17-year-old girl was killed as she left late-night Ramadan prayers at a mosque on Sunday. Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia, was reported missing around 4 A.M. local time on Sunday, the Washington Post reported. Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, has been arrested and
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USABy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — It was just announced that grocery store chain Whole Foods is being acquired by Amazon for $13.4 billion. Whole Foods once found themselves in the middle of which of the following Jewish-related controversies? A. In 2015, charges were leveled against the Whole Foods store at Columbus Circle in New York
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABarack Obama has taken to Twitter to share a heartfelt Father’s Day message to his two daughters. The Democrat former president wrote on social media on Sunday: “Of all that I’ve done in my life, I’m most proud to be Sasha and Malia’s dad. To all those lucky enough to be a dad, Happy Father’s
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USAIRBIL, Iraq — A U.S. warplane shot down a Syrian jet on Sunday near the Islamic State-held city of Raqqah, officials said, marking the latest escalation between the U.S. and Syria since the blood-soaked civil war began six years ago. The Pentagon said the U.S.-led coalition took the unprecedented move after a Syrian Su-22 attack
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Middle East, USARep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is just beginning while Sen. Angus King said he doesn’t understand why President Donald Trump and his attorney general appear uninterested in the issue. Trump’s focus has been to get investigators
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