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Rio police say Ryan Lochte lied about gunpoint robbery

RIO DE JANIERO — Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about a gunpoint robbery earlier this week and was actually involved in a scuffle at a gas station, Brazilian police officials told the Associated Press on Thursday. Meanwhile, Brazilian police told ABC News that there is a tape showing Lochte or one of the three U.S. […]

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Donald Trump’s trade talk is making the drug industry uneasy

WASHINGTON – The drug industry is quietly troubled over Donald Trump’s tough talk on trade. The Republican presidential nominee has promised to aggressively renegotiate America’s trade deals – and to tear them up if need be. Those pledges are now rankling a biopharmaceutical sector that depends heavily on the deals to protect their intellectual property

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

No, Mr. Trump, the Debate Schedule Wasn’t Fumbled

Donald Trump has questioned the fairness of the scheduling for the upcoming presidential debates—when he will face off against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton—because two of the three forums are slotted to overlap with nationally televised National Football League games. Last month, the Republican presidential nominee went so far as to say he had received a

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Campaign email warns of Harlem takevoer by ‘greedy Jews’

A fundraising email sent out by a candidate running for New York City”s City Council has sparked controversy amid accusations of anti-Semitism and racial incitement. The man at the center of the controversy, Thomas Lopez-Pierre, denies claims his campaign”s rhetoric is anti-Semitic, prominently featuring a 2014 article on his website entitled “Fighting Jewish Slumlords Isn”t

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Libertarian ticket hits Miami seeking disenfranchised voters

MIAMI—In an election rife with Never-Trumpers and Bernie Bros, the Libertarian presidential ticket traveled to Miami-Dade County Wednesday evening in search of disenfranchised voters and some badly needed media exposure. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, both former two-term Republican governors, spoke to a packed and excited house at Florida International University’s Herbert and Nicole Wertheim

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Soros hacks reveal massive funding of Black Lives Matter

In the latest revelation to emerge from a treasure trove of hacked documents from organizations tied to the Hungarian-born billionaire and prominent Democratic donor George Soros, an internal memo from Soros” Open Society Institute indicates he funded the radical Black Lives Matter movement to the tune of some $650,000. The information, gleaned from an Open

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$400 million payment to Iran was ransom for prisoners, accounts of transaction suggest

The Obama administration has insisted that its $400 million transfer to Iran was unrelated to Tehran’s same-day freeing of Americans held by the Islamic republic. But detailed accounts of the payment from U.S. officials and others briefed on the operation who spoke to The Wall Street Journal tell a completely different story. Their accounts describe

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Middle East, USA

NY Times misses key factors in Mideast analysis

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New York Times has published an exceptionally long article about the collapse of the Middle East, the chaos of what used to be functioning governments, the misery and streams of refugees that it has produced. It’s good journalism, telling its story through the eyes of individuals interviewed over the course

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

California Genocide

Close The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County “excepting a few children”; an Indian girl raped and left to die somewhere near Mendocino; as many as 50 killed at Goose Lake; and, two months later, as many as 257 murdered at Grouse Creek, scores of them women and children.

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