That little blue check mark next to a Twitter handle means you’re legit. It means you are who you say you are – at least its supposed to. According to Twitter, Danney Williams is who he claims to be – former President Bill Clinton’s real son. Williams’ Twitter profile now carries the blue check mark […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Off to a caterpillar’s start in its first decade, the worldwide Butterfly Project, which began in 2006 at the San Diego Jewish Academy, today in its 11th year has taken wing and is gathering momentum and supporters. Cheryl Rattner Price, who cofounded the project with former SDJA
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International, Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you’re looking for American ingenuity and technological prowess to help resolve the climate issues that face the world, the Paris Climate Pact is not for you. The pact is a voluntary agreement among countries including the world’s worst polluters (this is axiomatic, since only Nicaragua and Syria are
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Shoshana Bryen, The World We Share, USABy the time Michael Flynn was fired as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser in February, he had made a lot of bad decisions. One was taking money from the Russians (and failing to disclose it); another was taking money under the table from the Turks. But an overlooked line in his financial disclosure form,
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International, Middle East, USATucked into a corner of physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed’s otherwise very cerebral-looking office is a computer with the ’90s TV show, “Twin Peaks,” paused midscene. The cult classic is constantly on in the background as Arkani-Hamed works on physics problems at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey. “I find watching it inspiring because, there,
Hawaii has become the first U.S. state to enact legislation to comply with the Paris agreement on fighting climate change, in direct contrast to the national line. The U.S. signed the agreement under former President Barack Obama, but his successor Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from it, calling it a “bad deal” and
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USATires slashed and the phrases ‘price tag’ and ‘Kahane was right’ are spray-painted in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa By Times of Israel staff ‘Kahane was right’ graffitied on a wall in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa overnight in a suspected price tag attack, June 9, 2017. (Police spokesperson) Cars were vandalized in
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Middle EastLondon (dpa) – British Prime Minister Theresa May was under pressure to resign on Friday, after snap elections ended in a hung parliament and her Conservative Party lost their majority. With results in 643 constituencies counted, no party was in a position to gain the 326 seats required to gain an absolute majority in the
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InternationalNew findings at Amarna, the capital of an eccentric ‘monotheistic’ king, indicate a disposable juvenile labor force. Could there be a connection to the Hebrews? By Amanda Borschel-Dan While the archaeological record may not shore up the biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt, in light of recent finds one could be forgiven for speculating
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Jewish History, Middle EastThe regional government of Catalonia has called a referendum on a split from Spain on 1 October. The decision sets up a renewed confrontation with Madrid, which maintains such a vote is illegal and against the constitution. Is this the first time this has happened? No. Pro-independence campaigners staged a symbolic ballot on splitting from
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InternationalSen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who identifies politically as a socialist, tore into President Donald Trump’s deputy budget director nominee Russell Vought for calling Islam, back in 2016, a “deficient theology,” and for maintaining steadfastness in his Christian faith in the face of the crossfire that ensued. Let’s cut to the chase here.
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USANearly 40 years after Bob Dylan stunned the music world with the release of his overtly Christian album, “Slow Train Coming,” followed quickly with the unambiguously gospel “Saved,” people still don’t know what to make of America’s most enigmatic troubadour. The conventional wisdom is that Dylan took an intense dive into evangelical Christianity for a
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsNORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby told police that he and Andrea Constand had a romantic relationship well before the January 2004 night when he is accused of assaulting her and that she was aware and conscious during their entire encounter that evening. The pair, Cosby told police, had kissed and petted “at least three times”
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAQatar on Thursday said that despite a move by fellow Arab states to isolate it in a row over alleged ties to terrorism it is not ready to change its foreign policy to settle the dispute and would never compromise or “surrender” to the pressure. Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani spoke as would-be
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