AUSTIN, Texas (Press Release) — At SXSW, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt announced Sunday that ADL has secured seed funding from Omidyar Network to build a state-of-the-art command center in Silicon Valley to combat the growing threat posed by hate online. The center will employ the best technology and seasoned experts to monitor, […]
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International, USANorth Korea may soon conduct a powerful nuclear test as the reclusive country is continuing to excavate a tunnel at its nuclear site, U.S. analysts said Saturday. The news comes just a day after a former CIA official raised concerns over Pyongyang’s ability to attack the U.S. with a ballistic missile. Kim Jong Un’s latest
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International, USAWASHINGTON, March 11, 2017 – Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R- November 17, 2003 – January 3, 2011) is considering a 2018 Senate run as a third-party, or independent, candidate. Schwarzenegger’s entrance would give him the stage to continue to lock horns with President Trump over political issues. Trump has publically excoriated the former body
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARussia’s longtime envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died from a heart attack suffered inside his Manhattan office last month, a city official said Friday. The ambassador’s cause of death was confirmed by a senior city official on condition of anonymity Friday after the medical examiner’s office declined to release details about his passing
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International, Obituaries & memorials, USAFriday’s first presidential phone call, in which the PA chief was invited to the White House, has the Palestinians extremely upbeat By Avi Issacharoff Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas greets his supporters following a trip to Washington DC, on March 20, 2014, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90) US President Donald Trump’s
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Middle East, USASen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said a House GOP leadership’s proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will require “a lot of carpentry on that framework” before conservative Republicans in Congress can support it during an interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week.” When House leadership unveiled the American Health Care Act last week,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOhio Gov. John Kasich said Sunday that both political parties are falling apart at the seams as Republicans and Democrats focus more on scoring political points than on helping Americans in need. The former GOP presidential candidate said the debate over health care reform has become so politicized that both sides have forgotten that their
Trump administration officials guaranteed Sunday that the president will hit the road soon to rally support for the health care bill put forth by House Republicans, saying the White House is “fully committed” to the legislation. “The president, the vice president, all of us at the White House are fully committed to this bill, and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHillary Clinton, who addressed the 16th annual Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards on Wednesday, debuted a new hairstyle the same day. The awards ceremony, which honors people who support women in leadership roles, was held on International Women’s Day. “Stand up, resist, run for office” – Hillary Clinton on Snapchat #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/7xqTLv2ude — Joshua Hoyos
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USAAUSTIN – Practically shouting for emphasis, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned plea Sunday to an audience at the South by Southwest festival to find a cure for cancer. “You are the future,” Biden said in his first major speech on cancer since leaving the White House. “Many of you are developing technologies
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I’ve recently received notes from two of my Internet friends suggesting that the usual tension among Jews has reached a point of high fever. Involved in the uptick is the continuing issue of Israel not doing enough to accommodate Palestinians, and the election of Donald Trump. Both notes come from Jews
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAPresident Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have tried to present a unified front on the GOP’s health care bill, but a top Republican critic of that legislation on Sunday tried to stoke divisions between the two. Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said flatly that he doesn’t believe the president is fully committed to the
Senator John McCain wants Donald Trump to put up or shut up about his unsubstantiated claims of wiretapping during the presidential election. The veteran Senate Republican issued his call Sunday, one day before top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee expect the Justice Department to provide any evidence that could back up the president’s claims
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USAPolice in Seattle are searching for suspects after one of the city”s largest synagogues was vandalized with Holocaust denial graffiti. The message read “Holocaust is fake history!” with the letter “S” replaced by a dollar sign. It was discovered on Friday at the Temple De Hirsch. “There were two things we felt: shock and sadness,
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