LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Jerry Brown Sunday declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County as firefighters continued to battle a 5,900-acre brush fire in the Verdugo Mountains north of downtown Los Angeles that destroyed three homes and closed a stretch of the 210 Freeway. The governor’s declaration will ensure that state and […]
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USAFormer President Barack Obama urged then-incoming President Trump to uphold America’s leadership on the global stage, guard democratic institutions and build “ladders of success” for the needy in the secret letter he left for his successor at the Oval Office. The outgoing Democrat also urged Mr. Trump to lean on family and friends to get
Australia’s Northern Territory is to rename racist names on a number of landmarks that have long demeaned indigenous groups. It follows similar measures in the state of Queensland. The official Northern Territory place names register shows several entries with the pejorative term “blackgin.” This refers to a phrase used by white Australians to describe an
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InternationalJapan’s Princess Mako and her fiancé — a commoner — announced their engagement Sunday, a match which will cost the princess her royal status according to a law that highlights the male-dominated nature of Japan’s monarchy. Like all female imperial family members, Mako, who is Emperor Akihito’s eldest granddaughter, forfeits her status upon marriage to
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InternationalHOUSTON �� Storm-tossed Texans pressed ahead Sunday with door-to-door searches for frail and elderly survivors, and accelerated an exodus from evacuation centers where some had sheltered in the wake of the most powerful hurricane to strike the continental U.S. in more than a decade. As tens of thousands in Houston and its environs spent the
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USAA Minneapolis bar has closed down after employees and events hosts learnt that the owner donated $500 to the 2016 Senate campaign of David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Club Jäger shut down after several employees decided they no longer wanted to work for owner Julius DeRoma after learning of his
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USAWASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea Sunday against aggression against the United States or its allies, saying it would trigger a unified world response and what he termed the “total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea.” Speaking outside the White House after President Donald Trump met with his top national security
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International, USAPoland’s rightwing premier said Sunday that her country would not be “blackmailed” by its “largest” EU partners into accepting thousands of asylum seekers under a quota system for spreading them throughout the bloc. “We cannot be blackmailed by the threat that part of our EU funds will be cut off as punishment, because we don’t
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International, Middle EastPresident Trump said Sunday on Twitter that North Korea has “become a great threat and embarrassment to China,” after the secretive totalitarian nation announced it had detonated a hydrogen bomb and declared the test “a perfect success.” It was the sixth underground bomb tested since 2006, said North Korea’s state-run TV, and it was the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Victoria and The Crown (about Elizabeth II) are television dramas that portray the experiences of two young women who find themselves with the imperfectly defined power of the Monarch in a serious country having enough weight to affect the world. Both dramas appear reasonably true to prominent details of history,
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Editor’s Note: The following chapter of historical fiction is excerpted from Joseph Rotenberg’s Timeless Travels: Tales of Mystery, Intrigue, Humor and Enchantment, soon to be published by Redmont Tales LLC/Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 9789652-299154. The book contains over 60 short stories and sketches, some fiction some fact. This is just one of those short stories: By
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesTwo Jewish centenarians in Britain celebrated their 83rd wedding anniversary, becoming what is thought to be the country”s longest married couple. Helen and Maurice Kaye, aged 104 and 105, celebrated their anniversary last week surrounded by their family at home in Bournemouth, the Jewish Chronicle of London reported Thursday, noting the longevity milestone. The couple
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InternationalThe Palestinian Authority appoiiinted governor of the Hevron District, Kamal Hamid, disapproves of the Israeli government’s decision to grant the Hevron Jewish community authority to administer their own municipal affairs. Last Thursday, Central Command Chief Roni Numa signed an order regulating the municipal status of the Hevron Jewish community, the main result of which grants
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Middle EastPresident Donald Trump handed out box lunches and hugged children in a Houston emergency shelter on Saturday, as he witnessed the devastation wrought after Hurricane Harvey unleashed apocalyptic floods on America’s fourth-largest city. The sprawling Texas city was taking tentative steps back to normalcy after a week of flooding that damaged 40,000 to 50,000 homes
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