President Trump on Tuesday said that any Jewish people who vote for Democrats are showing either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty, prompting an outcry from critics who said the presidents remarks were promoting anti-Semitic stereotypes.
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Hate crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted.
The hatred that day couldn't have been clearer to Ashly Taylor.
Ashly Taylor shows her scars. She was shot in the chest last year at a D.C. construction site by a man who derided her for being a lesbian. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
She had endu…
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Opinion | Trump just nixed his Denmark trip. Does he fear Obama will humiliate him?
President Trump has now canceled his planned trip to Denmark, claiming hes doing so because Denmarks prime minister has shot down his proposal to buy Greenland. But is that the real reason he has nixed the trip?
Some observers have offered another possible e…
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Trump says that Jewish people who vote for Democrats are ‘very disloyal to Israel,’ denies his remarks are anti-Semitic
President Trump said Wednesday that Jewish Americans who vote for Democratic candidates are very disloyal to Israel, expanding on his remarks from the previous day and dismissing criticism that his remarks were anti-Semitic.
I think if you vote for a Democra…
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President Trump, in reversal, says he is no longer looking at a payroll tax cut
President Trump said Wednesday he is no longer looking to cut payroll taxes, pivoting away from an option hed confirmed was under consideration a day earlier.
Hours after taking to Twitter to needle the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome H. Powell, to…
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Opinion | New York Times lawyer on Palin editorial: ‘It was an honest mistake’
Sarah Palin has launched countless bogus attacks against what she calls the lamestream media. Virtually all of them disintegrate upon articulation, but one of them is lingering: On Aug. 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit restored a 2017 defamati…
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Backstop hopes downplayed as Johnson meets Macron
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On Wednesday, Mr Macron (left) said reopening talks on the Irish border was "not an option"
Boris Johnson is to meet Emmanuel Macron later, hours after the French president seemed to downplay hopes of solving the Irish b…
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Qantas to run test flights on world’s longest route
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Qantas will run test services of its planned 19-hour flights to determine whether passengers and crew can withstand the marathon journeys.
The airline wants to operate non-stop services from Sydney to London and New York by as so…
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Huge beehive discovered inside ceiling
Huge beehive discovered inside ceiling
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Vegan parents of malnourished baby avoid jail
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The baby girl was fed a diet including oats, potatoes and rice
An Australian couple who put their baby daughter on a strict vegan diet that left her severely malnourished have avoided serving a jail senten…
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