By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Six teen ambassadors from the Jerusalem Zoo – four Israeli Jews and two Arabs – are completing an intensive learning and fun visit to San Diego, where they have observed animals at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park, SeaWorld, Birch Aquarium, the San Diego Harbor and at […]
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, August 8, 2016 – Much is said about Donald Trump turning off voting blocks, but Hillary Clinton might take the cake as the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chose the endorsement of the militant Black Lives Matter group, and chose to not pursue the endorsement of the the Fraternal Order of Police. The Fraternal
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USASEATTLE — At least three business executives listed as co-hosts of an upcoming Seattle fundraiser for Donald Trump are now disavowing involvement with the event. Gordon Sondland and Bashar Wali, Portland, Ore.-based executives of Provenance Hotels, were named as co-hosts of Trump’s scheduled Aug. 30 fundraiser, according to an invitation circulated last week. But in
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USARACINE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s primary challenge is drawing national attention. But that wasn’t obvious Monday, less than 24 hours before voters head to the polls here, as Ryan met with manufacturing workers on the eastern edge of his district. Ryan never mentioned the election, rival Paul Nehlen or last week’s kerfuffle
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USAJust to explain where I’m from: I’m a registered Republican who served on the White House staffs of two Republican presidents, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon; was the editor-in-chief of the platform for a third Republican president, Gerald Ford; and was tasked by the Republican National Committee to write a transition plan for a fourth
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USABy Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — The San Diego parent of an American killed during the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, is suing Hillary Clinton over the incident. The conservative advocacy group Freedom Watch filed the suit Monday in Washington on behalf of Patricia Smith of San Diego, whose son Sean Smith was a State Department
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Chris Jennewein, Middle East, USABefore the Democratic convention in Philadelphia two weeks ago, some Democrats were concerned that whatever magic Hillary Clinton had managed to hang on to up until that point had vanished with the nomination of Donald Trump. Little under a week and a half since Clinton formally accepted her party’s nomination, however, projections show the party
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USATwo former Environmental Protection Agency administrators under Presidents Nixon and George H.W. Bush have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying Donald Trump has shown a “profound ignorance of science” and of public health issues in environmental law. “Republicans have a long history of support for the environment dating back to Theodore Roosevelt. Donald Trump threatens
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The World We Share, USALast week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused the United States of failing to honor pledges in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Citing “the futility of negotiations with the Americans,” he distanced himself from the nuclear deal he once supported. Coming just weeks after the one-year anniversary of the agreement, his charge is just
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Middle East, USADonald Trump says he had no interest in using the 50 national security officials from Republican administrations who saidMonday he’d put U.S. national security at risk, and that he won the GOP presidential primaries by fighting insiders. “I wasn’t using any of them and they would have loved to have been involved with the campaign,”
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USAKISSIMMEE, Fla. — Hillary Clinton presented this year’s presidential election as a stark difference in ideology and temperament between herself and Donald Trump at a rally in Kissimmee Monday. “I think as people really consider their choice in the next three months, I think it’s pretty clear which of us is actually going to help
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USACHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday lamented that a young man lost his life in the latest Chicago police shooting, which has set off protests in Chicago, but declined to offer ideas for preventing such incidents until an investigation is completed. “Look, any time there’s a loss of life, it’s a tragedy in the
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USAOptimism gives you disappointment. Cynicism gives you the world. By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — I’d heard that Steve Martin was a far more complicated man than the “wild and crazy guy” we’ve come to know on the screen. But I didn’t know how dark and cynical he was until I saw Meteor Shower
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, USAEditor’s Note: A copy of the letter, with signatures, may be found at the bottom of this article, below the advertisements.
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