I was walking along a beach in northern Istanbul just recently, after the July 15 coup attempt, when I was jarred by a Cold War image. Wedged into the sandstone cliffs lining the beach were two abandoned gun emplacements, which silently spoke of how this golden stretch of sand was once part of NATO’s first […]
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International, Middle East, USAAmericans may not have been able to visit Yosemite National Park with President Obama and the First Family earlier this summer, but they can get a glimpse of the president’s trip by watching a newly released virtual reality film of his experience. During Obama’s Yosemite trip ahead of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, he
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The World We Share, USAThroughout its 100-year history, US National Parks have served as a model for other countries trying to set up their own networks of protected spaces. Now China is quietly planning its own national parks system. And, like Costa Rica and India before them, the Chinese are looking toward America. “They’ve visited several locations in the
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International, The World We Share, USANearly hundred years ago, women won the right to vote in the United States on Aug. 26, 1920. The anniversary is now known as National Women’s Equality Day. To celebrate, 13 quotes from inspiring females have been shared below: 1.“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons … but few have the courage to raise
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USAActress, comedian, and reality TV star Roseanne Barr blasted Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton this week, warning that a Clinton victory would “be the absolute death of Israel”. Barr, best known for her eponymously named sit-com Roseanne which ran from 1988 to 1997, was raised in a Jewish family in Salt Lake City Utah. A
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, August 26, 2016 – With the hacking of his organization’s activities, George Soros has made the news again, this time proving that greed and power can bring about a dangerous outcome. Years of documents have come to surface, shining light on the usually hidden arena where Soros lives. While his organization “Open Society Foundations,”
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International, USATRENTON, N.J. — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has hired Bill Stepien, a former close adviser to Gov. Chris Christie who was cut off from his inner circle in the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal, according to reports. Christie cut ties with Stepien on the morning of Jan. 9, 2014, after The Record revealed
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USAWASHINGTON, August 25, 2016 – Three sentences in rape and sexual assault cases have drawn intense scrutiny and criticism in the last six months. They have been condemned as evidence that the criminal justice system devalues women and sexual assault and that the system is broken. They are, in fact, evidence that the system is
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Often, when I am booked for lectures or radio and television interviews, I am provided questions in advance to help me prepare. Some of the questions are provocative, the kind that make me stop and think. So much so, I am sharing a few here with my replies.
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAThe White House said Friday that President Obama’s top advisers conducted an “even-handed” transition meeting with representatives of presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, even though Mr. Obama is rooting for Mrs. Clinton. “The president and his team are determined to being even-handed in planning for a presidential transition,” said White House press secretary
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USAPALO ALTO, Calif. — The Santa Clara County judge who faces a recall threat for giving a light sentence to a Stanford student convicted of sexual assault will no longer handle criminal cases — at his own request. Judge Aaron Persky asked to be reassigned from hearing criminal cases at the Palo Alto courthouse, where
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USANorth Korea’s in a good mood these days. The nation is celebrating its first successful test of a submarine-launched missile. The country’s leader — Kim Jong Un — says the US mainland is now within striking range of his nuclear weapons. That sounds like a threat. Joel Wit, a former US nuclear negotiator with North
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — In my book Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism I detail the discovery of a new strain of anti-Semitism that I noticed in Europe, namely the urge by haters to drive a wedge between the local Jew and the Jewish State. I wrote of several examples of the modern form of
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By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, two Syrian government Su-24 airplanes bombed the Kurdish-held areas of the city of Hasakah. The attack was unexpected. The Kurds have operated semi-autonomously in Syria because their pressure on ISIS has been helpful to Damascus, and because the Kurdish agenda has been primarily regional