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Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said in an interview Sunday that the Russian ambassador who met with Trump campaign officials also met with “people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.” Hillary Rodham Clinton Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too Breitbart takes aim at GOP healthcare bill Tech’s SXSW festival takes on Trump MORE during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind,” Dmitry Peskov told CNN “GPS” host Fareed Zakaria.
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Mary Jennings Hegar’s first childhood memory was watching her father throw her mother through a plate-glass door. Hegar was 4 years old.
Mexico OKs Trump trademarks for hotels and tourism industry
In this Feb. 19, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in North Charleston, S.C. Then-candidate Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: “We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work,” he said. “We get nothing.”
GOP lawmaker: Obamacare replacement ‘not in a form that I approve of’
California Rep. Darrell Issa faced an often critical crowd at his town hall meeting Saturday over his position on repealing the Affordable Care Act. The California Republican declined to say how he’d vote on the Republican plan to repeal the law, unveiled earlier this week, but acknowledged that the plan needs fixing.
Navarrette: Spending an afternoon with a a bad hombrea
VALLEY CENTER, Calif. – The immigration debate isn’t about hysteria. It’s about human beings.
Mike Pence To Keynote AIPAC Conference
WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence and a bipartisan slate of top members of Congress are scheduled to address AIPAC’s upcoming annual conference. An American Israel Public Affairs Committee official confirmed to JTA that Pence will keynote the conference scheduled for March 26-28 in Washington, D.C. Pence, who enjoyed a long relationship with the pro-Israel lobby as a congressman and later as Indiana governor – but as a local congressman in 2009, told AIPAC that he didn’t know of the three synagogues in his district – spoke last month at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual confab and has taken a lead in condemning recent anti-Semitic incidents.
American Jews and the Trump Administration Aviel Sheyin-Stevens
After the election of perhaps the most pro-Israel U.S. administration in history, American Jews seem to have lost the plot. When Donald Trump was elected president of the U.S., many Jews sat shiva to mourn Hillary Clinton’s defeat as if it was a death in the family, making religion out of politics.
‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ – How Mexican cartels…
‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ – How Mexican cartels will subvert and avoid Trump’s border wall An agent from the San Diego Tunnel Task Force lowers himself into the passageway of a tunnel found under the US-Mexico border in San Diego, November 26, 2010. “We will build a great wall along the southern border,” President Donald Trump said this summer, months prior to his election.
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President Trump’s Twitter rants are rather like magical pixie dust – they obscure real controversies, like possible links between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government, and change the conversation. President Trump’s Twitter rants are rather like magical pixie dust – they obscure real controversies, like possible links between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government, and change the conversation.
United front needed on ESL funding
During his State of the City address at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday, Mayor Rick Chrest offered listeners in the business-friendly room an enlightened statement. While “nameless” countries are not being so friendly to immigrants right now, he said, the city of Brandon was a welcoming place, that would take those fleeing these locales with “open arms.”
Top Trump confidante admits to speaking privately with…
OCTOBER 08: Political consultant Roger Stone speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival 2016 – ‘President Trump: Life As We May Know It,’ featuring Max Boot, Amy Davidson, Roger Stone, and Sean Wilentz in conversation with Evan Osnos at MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre on October 8, 2016 in New York City.
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If his nomination is confirmed, Gottlieb, 44, will oversee America’s largest regulator of medical and consumer products. He served as an FDA deputy commissioner during the George W. Bush administration.
White House Suggests It Hired a National Security Adviser Without…
When Donald Trump named Michael Flynn as his national security adviser last November, liberals had good cause to raise their eyebrows. The retired general had established himself as a proud Islamophobe – one who believed that ” fear of Muslims is rational ,” and that Democrats had tried to impose Sharia law on the state of Florida.
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Sen. Tom Cotton , a leading GOP senator, is warning his friend House Speaker Paul Ryan to “take a pause” and slow down when it comes to healthcare reform. Cotton told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview when asked what he would say to Ryan were he speaking directly to the embattled Speaker: Take a pause, lower the stakes, we don’t need to meet arbitrary legislative deadlines.
AP Explains: What’s behind ouster of South Korean leader
In a historic rulin… . Protesters react after hearing the Constitutional Court’s verdict during a rally calling for impeachment of President Park Geun-hye near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 10, 2017.
Japan, US conduct navy drill in East China Sea as – warning’ to North Korea
The Japanese and US navies are conducting joint exercises in the East China Sea as tension intensifies in the region following North Korea’s missile tests , local media reported on Friday. The two sides launched the drill earlier this week, involving Japanese destroyers and a US Navy carrier strike group, the Sankei Shimbun daily and Kyodo News said, quoting unnamed Japanese and US government sources.
Trump vs. Trump: President’s credibility gap like Grand Canyon
The contradictions in both the president’s rhetoric and his approach to governing were there from the beginning of the speech. He started, somewhat oddly, by conflating the last day of Black History Month with the attacks on Jewish cemeteries and community centers across the country and saying that bigotry had no place in American life.
Sean Spicer, barred from Air Force One, avoids the cameras
He is the US president’s most prominent political spokesman but his high profile didn’t protect Sean Spicer from being temporarily banished from Air Force One. Spicer was among a group of Donald Trump’s senior aides who were banned from the presidential aircraft a week ago after Trump erupted in frustration at his staff during an Oval Office meeting.
Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page at center of Russia storm
In this Friday, July 8, 2016, file photo, Carter Page, then adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. Page, once a little-known investment banker-turned-adviser in the outer circle of the improbable Trump campaign, is emerging as a central figure in the controversy surrounding campaign connections to Russia.
GOP-run committee backs Trump’s pick for US envoy to Israel
A Republican-led Senate committee on Thursday narrowly approved the nomination of the combative lawyer selected by President Donald Trump to be ambassador to Israel, setting aside concerns that David Friedman lacked the temperament for such a critical diplomatic post. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted largely along party lines, 12-9, to recommend that the full Senate consider Friedman’s nomination.
The West Bank settlement with close ties to Trump’s Israel envoy
Nearly 6,000 miles separate Washington D.C. from Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and yet the two have never been closer. A direct connection runs between the White House and this small religious community perched on a windswept hill, near Palestinian communities.
ISIS Trading in Antiquities and People
With the Jewish holiday of Purim approaching, it is incumbent upon all decent people — whatever their religious persuasion — to fully understand that ISIS jihadists are the lineal descendents of the cruel and ancient Amalekites with their bestial destruction of people. In fact, “[i]n rabbinic literature , the reasons for the unusual eternal remembrance of Amalek are the following: Amalek is the irreconcilable enemy and it is forbidden to show mercy foolishly to one wholly dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
Former Trump aide Flynn says lobbying may have helped Turkey
In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000.
Former Trump aide Flynn says lobbying may have helped Turkey
In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, who was fired from the White House last month, has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department for work that may have aided the Turkish government in exchange for $530,000.
Fidel Castro? or Conrad Birdie? (How American “Feminists” …
Fidel Castro? or Conrad Birdie? over the jailer and torturer of the longest-suffering women political prisoners in modern history!-“We love you Fidel-oh YES we DO!” I’m guessing Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer and Andrea Mitchell all bill themselves as top-flight feminists. Well, please behold their reaction to the jailer and torturer of the most and longest-suffering women political prisoners in modern history .
Facing test of resolve, Trump pushes ahead with North Korea review
Faced with a growing test of resolve for a new U.S. president who vowed while campaigning to get tough on North Korea, Donald Trump’s aides are pressing to complete a strategy review on how to counter Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear threats. Pyongyang’s latest missile launches and the assassination in Malaysia of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother have added urgency, driving home the need for Washington to confront the security challenge.
Acid victims redefine beauty in Bangladesh fashion show
Organizers said they hoped to highlight the fact that acid victims, too often over… . In this March 7, 2017 photo, a Bangladeshi acid attack survivor walk down the catwalk during the event ‘Beauty Redefined’ in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Facing test of resolve, Trump pushes ahead with North Korea review
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervises a ballistic rocket launching drill of Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the KPA in an undated photo. KCNA/via A view of the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 guided by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, February 2017.
ZTE reaches settlement with U.S. authorities over export violation charges
Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp. said on Tuesday that it has reached settlements with U.S. authorities over U.S. export controls and sanctions charges. The Chinese company has agreed to pay a criminal and civil penalty of about 892 million U.S. dollars and an additional penalty of 300 million dollars which will be suspended during a seven-year probationary period to deter future violations, the ZTE said in a statement posted on its website.
Religious leaders from India, Nepal and US come together to celebrate Gyalwang Drukpa’s birthday
New Delhi , Mar 7 : 500 guest were invited from across India, Nepal and US to celebrate Gyalwang Drukpa’s birth anniversary in Kathmandu on March 5, 2017. The occasion witnessed honoring of the compassionate leadership of Gyalwang Drukpa.
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Donald Trump is not one to mince words: He says he doesn’t care if the European Union breaks up, since it is “basically a vehicle for Germany” and calls the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Europe’s main defense arrangement, “obsolete.” With these statements, the next U.S. president drew sharp battle lines: He, U.K. Brexiteers and other euroskeptics on one side and the rest of Europe on the other.
Hungary’s leader calls migration ‘Trojan horse’ of terrorism
21, 2016 file photo a Hungarian soldier patrols at the transit zone at Hungary’s southern border with Serbia near Tompa, 169 km southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban… .
Iraqi Troops Capture Mosul Government Complex
A senior Iraqi military commander says troops have captured the government complex in western Mosul from the Islamic State group. The advance comes more than two weeks since the new push started to clear the city’s western side of IS.
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U.S. officials said work is underway to make the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system operational as quickly as possible. The Defense Department stressed that the THAAD system is aimed solely at defending South Korea against North Korean missiles.
Uncertainty Over UK Ambassador’s Post; Interim Envoy Was Caught Up…
Lewis Lukens, currently interim charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in London, worked closely with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department from 2008-2011. London With a proposed state visit to the United Kingdom by President Donald Trump reportedly pushed back until the fall, there is also a hint of uncertainty about when Britain will see its next American ambassador.
ZOA Praises FBI for Arresting Islamist, Anti-Israel, Anti-Trump Bomb Threatener
The ZOA praises the FBI for its investigation and arrest of Juan M. Thompson, a fired former reporter for a left-wing online newspaper and hate-filled, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, anti-white, anti-Trump, pro-Bernie Sanders, anti-western society, anti-American, Communist, anti-police radical Islamist, for allegedly perpetrating at least eight of the recent bomb threats against Jewish institutions. The ZOA also appreciates federal and local authorities’ continuing investigation of other recent anti-Semitic threats and vandalism.
Trump Signs New Order Blocking Arrivals From 6 Majority-Muslim Countries
President Trump has signed a new executive order blocking visas from being issued to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries to replace a controversial, now-suspended executive order known as the travel ban. Like the initial order signed Jan. 27, the new executive order blocks arrivals from specific majority-Muslim countries and suspends the entire refugee program for 120 days.
Daily Caller: Trump Quietly Allows Work Permit Extensions to Illegal Immigrants
Despite President Donald Trump’s assertion that undocumented foreign workers take away jobs from American citizens, the administration is extending work permits for six months for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from El Salvador who receive Temporary Protected Status , The Daily Caller reported on Monday. TPS, which is a designation for countries whose situation is considered too dangerous for its residents to return to, lasts for 18 months, but can be renewed by the secretary of Homeland Security.
Family Pushes Trump to Bring Back Ex-FBI Agent From Iran
The family of a man who went missing in Iran 10 years ago is calling on President Donald Trump to provide answers, The New York Times reports. Robert A. Levinson, private investigator, part-time CIA consultant and former FBI agent, went to Iran in March 2007 on a secret, unauthorized attempt to meet a possible informant on an island of the Iranian coast.