“Saturday Night Live” writer Katie Rich has come under intense criticism in the last 24 hours after she made a joke about Barron Trump that many felt was in poor taste. Barron, the young son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, has been the subject of lots of Internet attention as he […]
WASHINGTON — At the center of his foreign policy vision, Donald Trump has put “America First,” a phrase with an anti-Semitic and isolationist history going back to the years before the U.S. entry into World War II. Trump started using the slogan in the later months of his campaign, and despite requests from the Anti-Defamation
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Jewish History, USAAs Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, moves from New York’s Upper East Side to Washington for a possibly illegal position as the president-elect’s senior adviser, he’ll be leaving much behind in the Big Apple: the newspaper he owns, the Orthodox Jewish temples he and his traditionally Democratic family would frequent on Saturdays and the real
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USADaughter of Donald Trump Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who are orthodox Jews, have reportedly received rabbinical permission to travel to Donald Trump”s Presidential inauguration by car – after the onset of Shabbat. In an interview with Kol Barama radio, Mark Zell, the chair of the Republican Party in Israel, said that the couple
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON — On a visit to CIA headquarters Saturday, President Donald Trump took a shot at Democrats, saying they were playing politics with the confirmation of Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, his choice to head the agency. An objection from three Democratic senators delayed the U.S. Senate’s vote to confirm Pompeo as the CIA’s new director
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USAWashington (dpa) – Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators packed the National Mall in Washington on Saturday, creating a sea of pink “pussy hats” and protest signs, for a Women’s March in opposition to President Donald Trump one day after his inauguration. Organizers in Washington increased their expected participation to more than 500,000 participants, but final
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USAAfter President Donald Trump’s inauguration, alt-right leader Richard Spencer was punched in the face by a protester while in the middle of an interview. RELATED: The alt-right will soon end its love affair with Donald Trump Watch the video Spencer was on the corner of 14th and K Streets around 2:30 p.m. when a masked
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USAWASHINGTON—After months of mocking the CIA and questioning its conclusions on Russian interference in the election, President Donald Trump went to the agency headquarters in Langley, Va., on Saturday ostensibly to reach out but instead delivered an animated, rambling address in front of its memorial to fallen officers. The visit was designed to send a
WASHINGTON, January 20, 2017 – Just a few hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that allows federal agencies the power to loosen enforcement of large chunks of Obamacare, including the mandate requiring Americans to purchase insurance. The order was signed during an Oval Office ceremony. The order
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USANEW YORK—The inauguration of President Donald Trump was watched by 30.6 million television viewers on Friday, 19 percent below the audience of 37.8 million for former President Barack Obama’s first swearing-in ceremony in 2009. The figure is based on preliminary data from Nielsen for inauguration coverage that aired from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Sky M. Masori SAN DIEGO – LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya has solved one of Balboa Park’s greatest problems: how to see as much as possible in an hour or so. With 18 museums of varying size and subject matter to tempt them, San Diegans know that it takes
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USAWASHINGTON — He’s been bounced out of the U.S. Senate, but will Mark Kirk’s landing spot be just down the road at Washington’s home of lobbying, K Street? Speaking Thursday night at the Heartland Ball, a bipartisan celebration of the presidential inauguration for Illinoisans in D.C., the former U.S. senator told Chicago Inc. that he’s
There was no pivot. There was no olive branch, no binding of wounds, no lofty summons to the better angels of our nature. The 16-minute inaugural address that President Donald Trump delivered was Trumpism distilled to its raw essence: angry, blunt-spoken and deeply aggrieved. He spoke of ending the “American carnage” under President Barack Obama,
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USAMexico has extradited drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to the United States — handing US authorities a massive drug case on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Guzmán is the head of the Sinaloa cartel, which is accused of generating much of the deadly violence in Mexico and providing tons of drugs to the
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