AUGUSTA, Ga. — To get to the tiny Texas town where Reality Winner grew up, start out in San Antonio, point the car toward Mexico and, for about the next two hours, take in an expansive landscape of cattle, crops and oil derricks. Her now-deleted social media accounts are full of images you might see […]
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USAPoster in Bristol of PM with Jewish symbol and the word ‘Balfour’ upsets local Jews, removed by organizers By Times of Israel staff A pro-Labour poster in Bristol portraying Theresa May with Star of David earrings, June 6, 2017. (Screenshot/Bristol Post) A banner portraying incumbent British Prime Minister Theresa May sporting Star of David earrings,
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InternationalLOS ANGELES — A neo-Nazi blogger has been promised donations of more than $150,000 for his legal defense after the Southern Poverty Law Center sued him for organizing a “troll storm” against a Jewish woman in Montana. The donations to Andrew Anglin and the website he founded, the Daily Stormer, came in over the course
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USAWhen this 31-year-old ballet dancer saw that no one was moving to rescue a homeless man who had fallen onto the New York City subway tracks, he knew that he had to be the one to act. Gray Davis was returning from watching his wife perform with the American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera
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USAHillary Clinton on Monday praised London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s leadership following Saturday’s terrorist attack, telling a crowd in Baltimore that now is not the time to use terror “for political gain.” The failed Democratic presidential nominee issued the thinly veiled attack against President Trump, without naming him or his policies directly, while speaking in Fells
The promised wall between the Trump Organization and the Trump presidency is no more—if it ever existed to begin with. On Tuesday evening, Eric Trump, one of the Trump children supposedly managing the family business while their father manages the nation, went on Fox News to complain about the Democratic Party in an astonishingly vitriolic
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Penni Rubin spotted this grandmother’s plate in Laguna Hills, California.
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Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Jewish Calendar: History and Inner Workings by Dr. Fred Reiss; (c) 2017; ISBN 9781544-72382. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The study of the Jewish calendar is not one of the easiest topics to research. It is an area that most rabbis have at best a general knowledge of the history.
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The July 29 “Striking A Chord” Benefit Concert was conceived by local Carmel Valley resident Megan Spector after her Aunt Marjie Block was diagnosed with ALS. Currently there is no cure for this disease, and the life expectancy of patients is tragically short, typically 2-5 years from diagnosis. Megan’s
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump has challenged London Mayor Sadiq Khan to an IQ test after he said Trump was ignorant about Islam. Khan tweeted back that Trump’s hashtag should be Sad IQ Con, but Trump bragged he will win because the test consists of one question and only he knows the answer: What
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAPresident Donald Trump has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to authorize his ban on travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim countries. The president and his administration have insisted his executive order limiting travel to the United States was not a travel ban, but he called it that Monday on Twitter. “People, the
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International, USAIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been on the phone to regional leaders following the crisis between Qatar and several Arab Gulf nations, in the hope that the sudden breakdown in relations can be resolved, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Tuesday. Turkey is seen as having a close relationship with Qatar,
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Middle EastAfter violent Kafr Kassem protest, furious Arab lawmakers call for strike, say police neglecting to fight crime in Arab towns; Cops minister blames locals who ‘terrorize anyone’ trying to work with law enforcement By Times of Israel staff Police forces in Qafr Kassem on June 6, 2017 (Courtesy) Arab leaders on Tuesday announced a state
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Middle EastMEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities moved Monday to extradite an ex-governor on corruption charges, making him the eighth former Mexican governor facing criminal charges or already convicted. Roberto Borge, who served from 2011 to 2016 as governor of the state of Quintana Roo, which includes Cancun, the country’s major tourist destination, was arrested Sunday in
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