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Op-Ed Opinion

Biden Team’s Blind Spot on Terror

By: Moshe Phillips President-elect Joe Biden’s first major foreign policy appointments are being hailed as centrists and experts. None of them are known as radicals, ideologues or Israel-bashers. News outlets have made much of the fact that the stepson of a Holocaust survivor is one of the key appointments. But a closer look at their […]

News Politics

Obama: Hispanics Ignore Trump’s Racism Because They Oppose Gay Marriage And Abortion

Anders Hagstrom(DCNF) President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Hispanic evangelicals overlook President Donald Trump’s “racist” statements because they are opposed to gay marriage and abortion. Obama made the comments during an appearance on the Breakfast Club radio show, where he discussed the outcome of the 2020 election. Exit polls showed that Trump won a far […]

National News News

Trump Pardons Michael Flynn

Joel B. Pollak President Donald Trump pardoned his former National Security Advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), on Wednesday. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI. He later withdrew his plea as exculpatory evidence emerged. Flynn served in the U.S. Army for three decades. He also served as director of the […]

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News Politics

Joe Biden Pledges to ‘Root Out Systemic Racism’ in Thanksgiving Message

HARIS ALIC Former Vice President Joe Biden promised to “root out systemic racism,” while delivering his Thanksgiving address on Wednesday. Biden, who has been declared president-elect by multiple media outlets and is in the process of planning his White House transition, spoke about the need for America to come together and unify amid a resurgence […]

Jewish Features National News News Torah

Holocaust Center in Orlando Elicits Rage with New George Floyd Exhibit

By Atara Beck, Senior Editor, World Israel News The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida has launched a new exhibit, “Uprooting Prejudices: Faces of Change,” which includes, as described by the museum on its website, “stunning images and powerful words captured in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, at the scene, by […]

Sports

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60

By DEBORA REY (AP) — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his country to that year’s World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60. Maradona’s spokesman, Sebastián Sanchi, said he died Wednesday of a heart attack, […]

Local New York News

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to March On Despite Pandemic

(AP) Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he’s been yearning to do for months — sing and dance again with his Broadway cast. Jackson is one of the stars of “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of The Temptations” and he reunited with castmates for the first time since theaters shuttered […]

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Election 2020

5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms

By J.B. Shurk(Federalist) In all the excitement among objective journalists for Joe Biden’s declared victory, reporters are missing how extraordinary the Democrat’s performance was in the 2020 election. It’s not just that the former vice president is on track to become the oldest president in American history, it’s what he managed to accomplish at the […]

Local New York News

NYC’s First Black Mayor, David Dinkins, Has Died

(AP) — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93. Dinkins died Monday, the New York City Police Department confirmed. The department said […]

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