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We could do the entire newsletter on the twists and turns of the White House-Russia controversy. Let's recap developments from yesterday alone: -- Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn apparently has a "story to tell," but he wants immunity before he spills the beans to feds.
President Donald Trump accompanied by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, left, calls on a member of the media during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 18, 2017, in Washington. less President Donald Trump accompanied by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, left, calls on a member of the media during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 18, 2017, in ... more WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump 's maiden international trip, a five-stop marathon across the Middle East and Europe, has long loomed as a crucial first test abroad for the chaos-courting president.
President Donald Trump's supporters see his overseas trip as a chance to escape the non-stop revelations related to Russia, but more likely he'll drag the controversy with him overseas - adding another dimension to an already tricky travel schedule. That has left foreign policy analysts wondering which Donald Trump is going to show up for his first foreign trip, which has him visiting five countries in the Middle East and Europe over nine days.
Bill Clinton consulted with folks who came up with him in Arkansas, George W. Bush preferred Texan veterans of his family's hard-fought political battles and Barack Obama had his Chicago peeps. Much has been made of how President Donald Trump has stacked his Cabinet with billionaires, and how he takes off-campus advice from investor Carl Icahn, fellow real estate developer Tom Barrack and media moguls Christopher Ruddy and Rupert Murdoch.
A top House Republican is criticizing President Trump's national security adviser for declining to clarify the White House position on the location of the Western Wall. H.R. McMaster, in a press briefing Tuesday previewing Trump's first foreign trip, declined to elaborate on the location of Judaism's holiest site after reports that a U.S. official told Israeli counterparts the wall was located in the West Bank.
Trump also announced the trip in a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday, timed to coincide with the National Day of Prayer, in which he signed executive orders that he said would protect Americans' religious liberty. He said they will seek new cooperation to "combat extremism, terrorism and violence" and promote a more hopeful future for young Muslims.
The writer served for seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli Defense establishment, was ministerial adviser to Yitzhak Shamir's government and lectured for 20 years at Tel Aviv University in Political Science, International Relations and Strategic Studies. He has a B.Sc.
Foreign Ministry workers plan to go ahead with a labor strike aimed at disrupting the expected visit of US President Donald Trump, despite obtaining a further assurance from the Finance Ministry that a wage agreement will be implemented, Channel 2 television reported Thursday. Although a meeting the night before between representatives from the Foreign Ministry, the treasury and the Prime Minister's Office produced a commitment to apply a previously formulated deal, the diplomats said they will not relent until they see the agreement not only signed but also put into practice.
Rep. Elijah Cummings just released three damning new documents on former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn's lawyer, Robert K. Kelner, has argued that the retired general briefed the Defense Intelligence Agency, from which he retired in 2014 , before and after his 2015 Russian Federation trip.
White House aide Sebastian Gorka- caught sporting the medal of a Nazi-tied fraternal organization-told a conference of th Jerusalem Post that the media has attacked him and President Donald Trump because of their unwavering support for the Jewish State. In an onstage interview with editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan, the Hungarian-American deputy assistant to the president admitted he had often worn the badge that the Vitezi Rend , an ultra-nationalist anti-Semitic order known to have collaborated with the German occupiers during World War II, had bestowed upon his father in 1979.
Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal advancing... Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal advancing in the Republican-controlled Legislature. Paris Hilton's younger brother, Conrad Hilton, has been arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly stealing a car and violating an ex-girlfriend's restraining order.
This week, in a joint appearance at the White House with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, Trump talked in general terms about working together to reach an agreement to live in peace, and in more specific terms about defeating ISIS and security cooperation with Israel , but said nothing at all about Palestinian self-determination or a Palestinian state. In a joint news conference with Abbas, Trump said that attaining peace in the bitter conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians may not be "as hard as people have thought".
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Despite bleak prospects for success, President Donald Trump promised on Wednesday "to do whatever is necessary" to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. At a White House meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, Trump pledged to reinvigorate the stalled Mideast peace process that has bedeviled his predecessors and said he would serve as "a mediator, an arbitrator or a facilitator" between the two sides.
Donald Trump's national security adviser described his boss's foreign policy approach as "disruptive" on the eve of the U.S. president's first White House meeting with the Palestinian leader, saying his unconventional ways could create an opportunity to ultimately help stabilise the Middle East. WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's national security adviser described his boss's foreign policy approach as "disruptive" on the eve of the U.S. president's first White House meeting with the Palestinian leader, saying his unconventional ways could create an opportunity to ultimately help stabilise the Middle East.
Israeli officials said Thursday they did not believe President Donald Trump would move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and he is expected to sign a waiver on a congressional mandate on the action next month, according to news reported. A law mandating a move of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was passed in Congress in the mid-1990s, Haaretz reported, and Trump is expected to follow all U.S. presidents since and sign the waiver because of national security reasons.
Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies. Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies.
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, reaches out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, Feb. 15, 2017. Israel and the White House are in preliminary discussions about a visit to Israel by U.S. President Donald Trump as early as next month, an Israeli government official said on Wednesday.
While in Israel Friday, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis accused the Syrian government of violating an agreement it made in 2013 to hand over all its chemical weapons. This month, Russian Federation vetoed a Western-backed United Nations resolution that would have condemned the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria and demanded a speedy investigation into the attack.
For Senator Tom Cotton, a leading voice in the conservative wing of the Republican Party, it took until college to meet his first Jewish friend. He grew up in rural Arkansas and only at Harvard did he encounter fellow Jewish students.