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Fast Forward Columnist For Adelson-Owned Newspaper Blamed ‘Muslim Terror’ For Vegas Shooting
A columnist for a newspaper owned by billionaire mega-donor Sheldon Adelson repeatedly alleged on Sunday and Monday that the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas was perpetrated by Muslims—even after the police denied any connection to international terrorist organizations. Wayne Allyn Root, a self-proclaimed “Jew turned evangelical Christian” who was the…
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Fast Forward Sheryl Sandberg Creates College Scholarships In Memory Of Late Husband
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced the creation of a scholarship program named after her late husband that would give low-income college students the ability to focus on school rather than working to pay for tuition. Sandberg made the announcement on her Facebook page Monday on what would have been the 50th birthday of her husband,…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Goes Shopping For A Lulav And Etrog In New Jersey
Presidential advisor and First Daughter Ivanka Trump was spotted shopping for Sukkot supplies in Deal, New Jersey on Sunday along with her four-year-old son Joseph and two Secret Service agents in tow. The harvest holiday of Sukkot is traditionally celebrated using a lulav—a set of palm, willow and myrtle branches—and an etrog, a yellow citron…
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Fast Forward VA Secretary’s Wife Went To Wimbledon On Taxpayer-Funded Flight
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and his wife attended the Wimbledon tennis tournament and took a Thames River cruise during a 10-day work trip to Europe in July on a taxpayer-funded trip, The Washington Post reported Friday. Shulkin flew to Europe to meet with British and Danish officials about veterans’ issues, but his tourism during…
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Fast Forward S.I. Newhouse Jr., Magazine Mogul, Dies At 89
S.I. Newhouse Jr., the billionaire owner of the publishing company that owns some of America’s most important magazines, died Sunday at the age of 89. Newhouse inherited the Conde Nast publishing company in 1975 and grew it into a multi-billion dollar business. Among the magazines in that umbrella include The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,…
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Fast Forward Oscar Frontrunner Apologizes For Signing Petition To Cancel Israeli Play
A director who has been tipped as a potential Oscar nominee for her new movie has apologized for signing a statement this summer calling for a play to be cancelled because its production received Israeli government funding. Greta Gerwig, director of the upcoming film “Lady Bird,” had signed an open letter in July along with…
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Fast Forward Gary Cohn Says $1,000 Tax Cut Can Let Americans ‘Buy A New Car’
In a press conference Thursday promoting President Trump’s tax reform push, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn — a former president of the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs — seemed to say that a new car costs only $1,000. “If we allow a family to keep another $1,000 of their income, what does that mean?”…
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson’s Website Just Published A Bizarre Anti-Semitic Video
The Daily Caller, a right-wing news website founded by Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, published a bizarre video Thursday mocking the use of Yiddish by a Jewish reporter. Titled “New York Times’ Glenn Thrush Has KHOUTSPA,” the video shows Thrush being interviewed on MSNBC, before continually repeating Thrush’s use of the word “chutzpah” —…
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