Updated | The White House Facebook page failed to acknowledge First Gentleman of Luxembourg Gauthier Destenay, married to Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, in a post featuring the spouses of world leaders attending this week’s G7 summit in Sicily. The photo caption included the names of every other spouse, all of them wives, beginning with: “First […]
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International, USAGregg Allman, the gravel-voiced singer who helped lift the Allman Brothers Band to prominence with a hard-churning brand of soulful rock that became part of the soundtrack of the 1960s and ’70s and set the coordinates for a musical genre known as Southern rock, died Saturday at 69. According to a statement posted on his
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsIs H.R. McMaster, the White House national security adviser, on the way out? By some signs, he is: President Donald Trump not only excluded him from a key meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his national security adviser Monday night in Jerusalem, he was kept “outside the King David [Hotel] room during the
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International, USAThe unrelenting Republican assault on the free press continued on Friday when Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, joked about shooting journalists. The joke was made not two days after a Montana congressional candidate, Greg Gianforte, assaulted a reporter instead of answering a question on health care. Abbott made his joke at a gun
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USABritain has arrested a “large part” of the network behind Manchester’s suicide bomb attack, police said Friday, while the government came under fire for cutting police budgets as election campaigning resumed. The arrests of two more men on Saturday, aged 20 and 22, bring to 11 the number of suspects currently held in detention on
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InternationalPresident Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is under fire for a series of new allegations involving his past interactions with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak. Mr. Kushner spoke with Moscow’s envoy last year about creating a covert channel that would let Mr. Trump’s transition team communicate privately with the Kremlin
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International, USAFrom the moment Air Force One touched down on the runway at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, as well as their hosts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, provided Israelis with seemingly endless opportunities for giggles, laughs and snark. For most leaders, and in most countries, red
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Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will donate 100 million dollars to a World Bank fund for women entrepreneurs inspired by Ivanka Trump. In return Ivanka’s company has unveiled a line of high-fashion hijabs for ambitious Saudi women who hope someday they will be permitted to drive taxis as long
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California – “God’s work on earth must truly be our own,” he declared in those thick Bostonian tones at the close of his renowned Inaugural Address on the bitter cold morning of January 20, 1961. A flawed man with impeccable charm and poise, a legend larger than himself, he remains the
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Obituaries & memorials, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr
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VideosFirst daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are apparently major art fans. But if you looked at financial disclosure forms provided to the government, you’d never know. Kushner, who is a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, did not report the couple’s extensive collection when he submitted documents earlier this year listing his
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAANNAPOLIS, Md. — Vowing that the Trump administration would “rebuild the military,” Vice President Mike Pence told the Naval Academy’s graduating class on Friday that they should be confident their commander-in-chief would have their support as they begin a career of service. “President Donald Trump is the best friend the armed forces of the United
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USAU.S. President Donald Trump is in Sicily for his first G7 meeting with world leaders. Fresh from a NATO summit where he accused member states of not contributing enough to the bloc, he might face a cold reception from German President Angela Merkel, whose country is both a G7 and NATO member. According to Der
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International, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — Almost every day, we hear and read news about verbal and even physical attacks of Jewish students on college campuses. In many instances, it makes their lives on campuses very difficult and even dangerous. Some Jewish leaders and organizations have reacted in the following ways: appealing to authorities; appealing
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