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Ted Cruz, Texas Republican senator: GOP’s three-phase health plan ‘ain’t gonna happen’

Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday said a House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is fatally flawed because it relies on a three-pronged plan for totally gutting the 2010 law instead of killing it outright. GOP leaders have urged their troops to rally around a bill that repeals Obamacare’s mandate requiring people to hold insurance […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Sign depicts Trump with swastika-like imagery

Phoenix billboard’s designer says it is supposed to represent ‘power, money and dictatorship’ By Times of Israel staff A new billboard created by an artist depicting President Donald Trump with swastika-like imagery for dollar signs in downtown Phoenix, Arizona on March 18, 2017. (Screen capture/Reuters) Residents of Phoenix, Arizona, expressed shock Saturday over a billboard

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House Speaker Paul Ryan: Health care bill is on track for passage this week

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Sunday he feels “very good” about his Obamacare replacement’s prospects for passage this week, saying President Trump is a “great closer” who will bring enough Republicans on board with the plan. Yet Mr. Ryan confirmed that negotiators are looking at ways to offer additional help to older Americans whose

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Mel Gibson quietlly supporting Holocaust survivors

Mel Gibson, the Catholic actor/director who in the past struggled with an anti-Jewish image, has been discreetly supporting an organization that helps Holocaust survivors. Comedy director Zane Buzby, founder of the Survivor Mitzvah Project, recently told Extra that her organization helps “bring emergency aid to Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe who are in desperate need

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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Are New York taxpayers funding rabid anti-Semite’s appearance?’

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D – Brooklyn) reacted angrily to the news that the Brooklyn Public Library would host a lecture by anti-Israel activist and Hezbollah supporter Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein’s “No Free Speech for Fascists” lecture series at the library may be funded by the municipality. “It”s no secret that Norman Finkelstein is a

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Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism at University of Illinois

Just days after posters accusing Jews of benefiting from “Jewish Privilege” were discovered on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, Jewish students say yet another wave of anti-Semitic materials has been found on school grounds. Last week, posters accusing Jews of economically dominating the United States were found plastered around campus. “ENDING WHITE PRIVILEGE…

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Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

In a first, former CIA captive appeals Guantanamo trial to Supreme Court

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the man accused of orchestrating the USS Cole bombing have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the military tribunal at Guantanamo using accounts of the captive’s CIA torture drawn from declassified documents and an interrogator’s recent memoirs. The petition with hundreds of pages of supporting

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International, Middle East, USA

Vahe Gregorian: Former KU and Chicago Bears great Gale Sayers is battling dementia

WAKARUSA, Ind. — More than 50 years after Gale Sayers, the “Kansas Comet,” inspired awe as a Jayhawk, he was honored in January in Topeka, Kan., by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas as one of its Kansans of the Year. So this was overdue but due, nonetheless, which is why former Kansas Sen.

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Diapora Museum receives huge donation

The San Francisco-based Koret Foundation has granted the Diaspora Museum 10 million dollars, the largest donation the museum has received from an American foundation in its 40-year history. The donation will serve to expand the International School for Jewish Nation studies at the museum, to be named after the foundation. The expansion of the school

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader: Trump ‘doesn’t know or doesn’t care’ what his health bill does

President Trump “either doesn’t know or doesn’t care” what his health care bill will do to his most ardent supporters, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday. “He really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s most unfortunate,” she told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said the Republican bill pushed by House

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