Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Keith Ellison Defensively Denies Farrakhan Ties After Jake Tapper Confronts Him
An interview between CNN’s Jake Tapper and Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban grew test after Tapper confronted the congressman over his past support for the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. “You’ve been decrying President Trump’s bigotry,” Tapper began. “Obviously you used to follow…
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid: Trump Could Become Most Popular President In Israeli History
Israelis are big fans of President Trump — and even local opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu are admitting it. Yair Lapid, chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid party, told the political news site Axios that Trump was on his way to being the most popular American president in Israeli history. Israelis across the political spectrum have…
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Fast Forward Trump Event Endorses Website That Calls Immigration An ‘American Holocaust’
A website projecting white-nationalist claims of “genocide” and a “Holocaust” being perpetrated against white Americans is circulating the internet — more so after being mentioned at an official White House event, hosted by the president. At an event Friday, President Donald Trump tried to flip the conversation from the treatment of migrant children at the…
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Fast Forward Denying Your Wife A Divorce Can Get You Arrested In Israel
Updated, June 29 Non-Israeli Jewish women can seek a divorce in the Israeli rabbinical courts, including in cases where the husband refuses to grant one, under a new law passed by the Knesset. The new government-sponsored law, which will extend the reach of the state-run religious legal bodies beyond the borders of the Jewish state,…
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Fast Forward Bidding Starts At $25,000 For Albert Einstein’s Letters About Nazi Germany
A four-page letter written by Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa, on the day Einstein renounced his German citizenship, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on Thursday. Einstein wrote the letter to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein on March 28, 1933, aboard the S.S. Belgenland, ignoring pleas from friends and colleagues not to return…
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Fast Forward Mark Cuban Praises Restaurant Owner For Booting Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Texas billionaire Mark Cuban praised the restaurant owners who kicked press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of a restaurant for taking a moral stand, TMZ reported Monday. In a tweet Saturday, Sanders wrote that she was told to leave the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, because she works for President Trump. TMZ stopped Cuban on…
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Fast Forward Shakira Pulled Nazi-Like Necklace From ‘El Dorado’ Tour Merchandise
Shakira is under fire for selling a tour merchandise necklace resembling a Nazi symbol, according to Hollywood Reporter. German publication Bento first called out the necklace, a featured product for the singer’s El Dorado tour, for bearing similarities to the Nazi Black Sun symbol, which encompasses swastikas. The Black Sun was first used in a…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller’s Third Grade Seat Mate Recalls A Little Boy With Problems
Stephen Miller’s third grade classmate vividly remembers sitting next to him in school — divided by a piece of tape Miller put down to separate them. In an essay for Politico, John Muller recalls how it was hard to get through to young Miller, now a senior White House adviser known widely as the harsh…
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