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Civil Rights Movement still has personal impact

By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — I could not have dreamed it while attending the urban, turbulent Woodward High School in Cincinnati during the 1960s—a microcosm of the racially-charged, painfully transitional America.  Finding myself enthralled with the civil rights movement and realizing that black people are America’s Hebrews, I would read and watch (on television)

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What would happen if a U.S. presidential candidate actually threatened to kill a rival?

While speaking to a North Carolina crowd about gun rights on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared to obliquely suggest that firearms could be used either to affect the presidential election, or future judicial nominees. “If she (Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” he said.

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Emails show Clinton, aides in touch with Morgan Stanley exec, Clinton Foundation official

Messages involving the then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and a top Clinton Foundation official and donor are among the dozens of new email exchanges from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state released on Tuesday by a watchdog group. One message from Stephen Roach, then-chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, to Mrs. Clinton provides his upcoming

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Sportsmanship be damned – this gold medal was personal for Michael Phelps

RIO DE JANEIRO – Michael Phelps continues to define greatness in ways other swimmers or other athletes can only dream of. His own greatness. He came back to these Olympics because he couldn’t get defeat out of his mind. That rare defeat. A defeat that so consumed him he couldn’t live with it. He came

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Donald Trump under fire for suggesting ‘Second Amendment people’ can stop Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump warned voters at a North Carolina rally Tuesday that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would appoint Supreme Court justices who would revoke gun rights, and then he pondered whether “Second Amendment people” could do something about it. “Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick

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Wadi Gaitan, Florida GOP spokesman, quits over Trump

The chief spokesman for the Florida Republican Party is quitting his job because of his refusal to support the party’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Wadi Gaitan, a former senior House Republican aide who focused on Hispanic affairs, will be joining the LIBRE Initiative, a grass-roots conservative organization backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, The

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Woodrow Wilson Center, D.C. think tank, rejects charges of helping spur Turkish coup

The Woodrow Wilson Center, one of Washington’s best-known think tanks, is defending itself against charges that it played a role in the failed military coup against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month. The charges, played up prominently on Turkish newspapers in recent days, are a sign of a sharp deterioration in

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Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 13 points nationally: poll

Hillary Clinton has jumped out to a 13-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters nationwide, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday that showed Mr. Trump has some ground to make up in unifying Republicans around his presidential candidacy. Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic nominee, had a 50 percent to 37 percent lead over

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Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, former top intel official: Obama’s ‘incompetence’ on ISIS endangers U.S.

President Obama’s former top intelligence official said Tuesday that “political incompetence” when it comes to the Islamic State group is putting Americans in danger. Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who now advises Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon that the White House downplays the extent to which ISIS has infiltrated the homeland. “There

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David Clarke: Hillary Clinton ‘a straight-up cop hater’

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Monday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “a straight-up cop hater” who sympathizes with the “criminal element” of the Black Lives Matter movement. Sheriff Clarke, an outspoken black conservative, appeared on “Fox & Friends” to address Mrs. Clinton’s decision not to seek the endorsement of the biggest police

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