WASHINGTON — Hours after President Donald Trump tweeted that “talking is not the answer” in regard to the increasingly tense situation with North Korea, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis emphasized diplomacy as the path forward. “We’re never out of diplomatic solutions,” he told reporters Wednesday while greeting South Korea’s defense minister, Song Young-moo, at the […]
President Donald Trump visited Texas to offer his support after Hurricane Harvey, but he didn’t meet with a single victim of the storm, according to Politico. The president did, however, remark on the size of the crowd he spoke in front of—in typical Trump fashion: “What a crowd, what a turnout,” Trump said. Some are
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USALebanon has called for a UN peacekeeping force’s mandate to be renewed without changes after Washington accused its commander of being “blind” to the flow of weapons to Iran-backed Hezbollah. The peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL, which patrols Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, is up for renewal when its mandate expires on August 31. Israel
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International, Middle East, USAHOUSTON — Rescuers who spotted a child’s bag floating in East Texas floodwaters near Interstate 10 Tuesday afternoon soon made a grim discovery: a 3-year-old girl clinging to the lifeless body of her mother. “They saw the little pink backpack sticking out of the water,” Beaumont Police Officer Hailey Morrow said. The pair were floating
There is a disturbing silence from leaders of the Democratic Party over those gangs of black-masked leftist thugs shutting down free speech and beating people to the ground with clubs. We’ve seen such leftist violence before, and we saw it again just the other day at a protest in Berkeley, when the city police backed
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USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — The 22-year-old man suspected of shooting five middle-aged white men since last year — including four on south Kansas City walking trails — threatened in 2014 to shoot up a school and “kill all white people,” according to court records. Fredrick Demond Scott, who was charged Tuesday in two killings and
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USADemocratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein reportedly stunned a San Francisco crowd Tuesday evening after she called for “patience” with President Trump, saying the president can do good for the country if he learns from his mistakes. Ms. Feinstein made the comments during an hourlong conversation with former Rep. Ellen Tauscher at a sold-out Commonwealth Club event
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USAEL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday the state is accepting Mexico’s offer to provide assistance in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, including vehicles, boats and food. Mexico, in a diplomatic note Tuesday, provided a long list of items to help Texas get back on its feet following devastating historic flooding. Carlos
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International, USAThe Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a futuristic new approach to treating cancer, clearing a Novartis therapy that has produced unprecedented results in patients with a rare and deadly cancer. The price tag: $475,000 for a course of treatment. That sounds staggering to many patients – but it’s far less for the treatment
The White House, with the backing of Ivanka Trump, will end an Obama-era policy that would have required business owners to document how much they pay their workers alongside their gender, race and ethnicity. The Trump administration is scrapping the scheme, which was due to come into force in the spring this year, on the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I’m not an expert on Iran. I don’t speak the language, and my visit there was long ago. However, one cannot live here for more than 40 years without being exposed to a great deal of media reports and commentary, as well as a number of individuals with Persian backgrounds and
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release) –Rob Eshman, longtime editor-in-chief and publisher of the Jewish Journal, has announced he will be leaving his position on September 26. Eshman, who has written and sold two movie projects while at the Journal, said that after 23 years at the paper, he wants to switch the focus of his career
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USAEdwin Black’s latest 5–part investigative series, Hillel at the Crossroads, is based on more than 70 interviews in 4 countries, and the acquisition of many documents and internal emails. This is Part 2. Click here to read Part 1: How Things Broke Down in Boston By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Northeastern University Hillel
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Edwin Black, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Buoyed by his power to override the judicial system when he pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Donald Trump is considering pardons and actions he can take to help people who merit his intervention. Here’s the list he has compiled. * Bernie Madoff: He was just doing his job maximizing profits. Investors must
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