By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO –The media has been covering the presidential election nonstop. At least the Olympics have been a good distraction! As the Olympics come to a close, we’ll be back to seeing more of the election year soap opera. But, what about real information? We’ve heard very little about the candidates’ tax […]
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Sheryl Rowling, USAThese days, Donald Trump may be willing to accept support from anywhere he can get it when it comes to big names in politics. However, the Republican presidential candidate might want to make sure his supporters don’t slip up and make avoidable mistakes when they hit the campaign trail on his behalf. Take, for example,
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USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump pounced Tuesday on Obamacare’s latest setback, saying Aetna’s decision to withdraw from nearly a dozen states is a sign that the law is “imploding” and should be repealed. The Hartford, Connecticut-based insurer said will remain in just four states next year, making it the most recent insurer to beat a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2017 – Stating “we can’t let this continue,” Donald Trump outlined his Immigration policy yesterday in Ohio. But there is little new about the Trump immigration proposal. As the candidate noted, he is calling for a strategy similar to the one the U.S. instituted during the Cold War, which included an ideological
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USAPresidential campaigns have more to do with stories than they do with arguments. Ronald Reagan’s story was about how morning would soon brighten a land darkened by the dour Jimmy Carter years; Bill Clinton’s was about the boy from Hope, Arkansas, who remained true to his humble roots, or at least pretended to. These stories
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USAIn a Huffington Post blog published Tuesday, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore states that he knows “for a fact” that Republican nominee Donald Trump never truly wanted to be president, but actually just wanted to negotiate a better deal from NBC for The Apprentice, his reality competition show. And, in turn, is sabotaging his own
A fast moving wildfire in southern California has forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 people just east of Los Angeles. Around 700 firefighters are struggling to contain the so called Bluecut blaze in San Bernardino County which has already engulfed 15,000 acres. Fueled by fierce winds and high temperatures the fire broke out on
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USATaylor Swift is donating $1 million to help the people affected by the Louisiana floods, a natural disaster that has killed at least 11 people and affected thousands of others. The massive flooding has caused widespread destruction in Louisiana — the state where the 26-year-old singer kicked off her “1989 World Tour” last year. “We
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAPresident Reuven Rivlin this morning (Wednesday) addressed a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport for 233 new Olim (immigrants to Israel) from North America, who made Aliyah on a special flight organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh. The President also presented the organization’s 50,000th Olah, Rebecca Glanzer, 22, from Brooklyn, with her Israeli ID card. The welcoming
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Middle East, USAThe FBI went to bat for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, saying that handling emails with classified information – even when it’s marked – isn’t enough to prove she had “knowledge or intent” to break the law. In a letter to congressional investigators, the FBI’s chief liaison to Capitol Hill said Mrs. Clinton did handle three
Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked schools and libraries to recall and destroy a catalog of works linked to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the government blames for orchestrating the attempted military coup last month, Turkish media reports. A letter to educational institutions dated August 9, published by the Turkish news website Duvar, puts a ban
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Middle East, USAFox News reports that a major donor to the Clinton Foundation benefited from State Department efforts to buy land in Nigeria, just two weeks after Hillary Clinton left the post of Secretary of State. The donor, Gilbert Chagoury, a is Lebanese-born businessman whom federal records show has donated between $1 and $5 million to the
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International, USAIn a major shake-up of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon was named the campaign’s chief executive Wednesday in a move seen as a demotion for campaign chairman Paul Manafort, whose ties to a pro-Russian party in Ukraine have come under scrutiny in recent days with new allegations emerging Wednesday. Manafort,
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International, USALibertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson has secured more than $2.7 million in online contributions so far in August, including more than $1.5 million in donations tied to a “money bomb”on Monday to try to boost his name ID ahead of the presidential debates. The Johnson campaign said it exceeded a $1.5 million goal for
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