WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sit down face to face with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday — and it’s likely to be awkward. The White House meeting comes a week after Trump signed off on a plan vehemently opposed by Turkey, which authorizes directly arming Syrian Kurds in the fight to […]
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International, Middle East, USAA flight attendant mistakenly posted information on a public website including security codes used to access the cockpit on United Airlines planes, according to the Wall Street Journal. United emailed employees a safety alert on Saturday that told them the company’s security procedures “may have been compromised,” CBS News reported. They were told that “the
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON — The Trump administration hunkered down Monday evening following a report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information about the Islamic State during an already controversial Oval Office visit by Russia’s foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States. Top Cabinet-level officials tried to contain the damage caused by the report, but
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International, USAParadise lost Henderson Island has long been regarded as one of the most remote and pristine islands in the world, but trash washing up on shore is turning it into a landfill. J. Lavers 2015 Traveling by ship, it takes about 13 days to reach Henderson Island from New Zealand. Hidden in the South Pacific,
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International, The World We ShareWASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Syria’s government on Monday of hanging hundreds of political opponents and other prisoners and burning their bodies at a military prison near Damascus, part of what the State Department called an egregious pattern of atrocities by Syrian President Bashar Assad. The State Department said the Syrian authorities may be
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — Brad Grey, who ran Paramount Pictures for more than a decade after a long and successful career as a TV producer, died of cancer Sunday at his home in Holmby Hills, his family said through a spokeswoman. He was 59. A former talent manager, Grey led the Paramount Pictures movie and television
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SAN DIEGO — In Hebrew, the name ‘Ileana’ is the feminine version of ‘Elijah.’ Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets the credit for spotting this license plate.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Stan Weston, a licensing agent who was Jewish, passed away last week. Besides representing such people as Soupy Sales and the Kingston Trio, as well as the Dr. Kildare television show, Weston was the creator of G. I. Joe. Elliott Handler, a founder of Mattel (and also Jewish) taught Weston
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satirehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Winkler
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VideosAmerican Jewish casino mogul and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly furious over the Trump administration”s delays in fulfilling the president”s campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Adelson, a prominent GOP donor who backed President Trump”s 2016 campaign to the tune of $25 million, was angered by Secretary of State
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Middle East, USAInspectors open probe into fire at landmark shul in Lower East Side, once home of oldest Russian Jewish Orthodox congregation in US By Times of Israel staff A fire broke out at the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol synagogue in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, May 14, 2017. (Screenshot) New York City firefighters put out a massive blaze
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Jewish Religion, USAIn first in 109 years, new group of fritillary found hovering over slopes at Hermon ski resort By Times of Israel staff The Acentria’s fritillary (Melitaea acentria) is a new butterfly species discovered in Israel on the Hermon ski resort. (Dr. Vladimir Lukhtanov/Pensoft Publishers for Press Release Use Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) For
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Middle East, The World We ShareParis (dpa) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday continued his shake-up of French politics, naming centre-right politician Edouard Philippe as his prime minister. The appointment of Philippe, the 46-year-old mayor of the northern port city of Le Havre, is Macron’s latest gesture to the centre-right. Philippe is a member of the Les Republicains (The
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InternationalPlastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean. It may not sound like much, but it’s a surprising amount given the area’s sparse population. The researchers who measured the plastic debris in the waters near the North Pole described it as “widespread and
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