The US presidential campaign has taken another personal turn. What did Trump say? Speaking at a rally in the swing state of Ohio, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump likened his Democrat rival to the Chancellor of Germany. He then drew parallel’s with Europe’s migrant crisis. “In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel […]
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International, USAWASHINGTON — Donald Trump, who has made tighter controls on immigration a mainstay of his campaign, has a new plan: an ideological test for anyone entering the U.S. Trump has famously proposed building a wall on the Mexican border and a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., an idea that has spawned continuing attacks on
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International, USARIO DE JANEIRO — The day before the women’s gymnastics team final, a Twitter user suggested Simone Biles and her coach Aimee Boorman were their sport’s equivalent to Walter Payton and Mike Ditka. “Sounds about right,” Payton’s son, Jarrett, chimed in on Twitter. Never mind that the Chicago-born Boorman doesn’t smoke cigars, has never thrown
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAEven Wonder Woman can do with a little extra protection sometimes. The upcoming movie depicting the DC comic heroine got some defense this week from director Patty Jenkins after a letter published online claimed that, inside the production studio, the film is seen as “a mess.” “Woah, just saw this press about WW having problems,”
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAOne generation from now, it may be impossible to hear firsthand stories of the Holocaust. Seventy-one years after the end of World War II, there’s a growing urgency to preserve the stories of survivors. A new museum in Brooklyn is trying to do just that. But the Amud Aish Holocaust Museum and Memorial is a
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s doctor certified that she “is in excellent physical condition.” Donald Trump’s physician declared he would be the healthiest president – ever. Testaments like these have become a ritual of American politics. But in the absence of detailed medical records, nobody seems to take them seriously. The result has been a political
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAMILWAUKEE — Shaken by two nights of violent unrest in the Sherman Park neighborhood, Milwaukee authorities imposed a 10 p.m. citywide curfew for teens Monday while faith leaders took to the streets to pray and talk with residents. The combination of law, order and faith was an attempt to break a cycle of violence that
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USAPHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was convicted Monday of perjury, obstruction and other crimes after squandering her once-bright political future on an illegal vendetta against an enemy. Four years after Kane’s election in a landslide as the first Democrat and first woman elected attorney general, a jury of six men and six women
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USAFor more than two decades, the lunatic fringe has gradually taken control of the Republican Party, thanks to craven media figures like Fox News’s Sean Hannity. A man who purports to be a dutiful Catholic, Hannity has made a career out of violating the ninth commandment (or eighth in his faith) against lying about others.
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USAFor the New York Daily News, the mugging of US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro was important enough news to warrant a front-page banner headline: “ROBBED AT THE OLYMPICS.” Today’s front page: ROBBED AT THE OLYMPICS – Ryan Lochte, teammates held up at gunpoint https://t.co/ZVicRp2Zfh pic.twitter.com/KgGduhJsb7 — New York Daily
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAPHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Monday denied Bill Cosby’s request to reseal excerpts from a 2005 deposition in which he discussed his extramarital affairs and the use of drugs to seduce young women. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit declared moot the question over the documents’ release, which
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USAThe mayor of the US city of Milwaukee says a still image pulled from a police officer’s body camera shows “without question” that the black man shot by an officer was holding a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting. 23-year-old Sylville K.Smith was shot after a traffic stop on Saturday. His
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USAMIDDLETOWN, Calif. — Firefighters are battling a 3,000-acre wildfire in Northern California that destroyed at least 175 buildings and forced about 1,400 residents to flee their lake community, authorities said Monday. The fast-moving Clayton fire broke out late Saturday afternoon off Highway 29 and Clayton Creek Road, forcing the entire community of Lower Lake —
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