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Fast Forward German Cartoonist Fired For ‘Anti-Semitic’ Netanyahu Caricature
German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung said it had ended its decades-long collaboration with cartoonist Dieter Hanitzsch after he depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using “anti-Semitic cliches.” Editor-in-chief Wolfgang Krach said publishing the cartoon, carried in the May 15 issue of the daily, was a mistake and he apologized to readers. Krach later said the cartoon…
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Fast Forward Trump Admits Repaying Michael Cohen Up To $250K — Was It For Stormy Hush Money?
President Trump has admitted repaying lawyer Michael Cohen up to $250,000 last year in an ethics filing — a payment that may be for the $130,000 deal to keep porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about their alleged affair. Trump detailed a payment to Cohen of more than $100,001 and less than $250,000 that was incurred…
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Fast Forward 1 Palestinian Protester Killed On Day After Gaza Bloodbath
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian near the Gaza border on Tuesday, local health officials said, as Palestinian protesters turned out in smaller numbers than on Monday, when dozens were killed by Israeli gunfire. The 51-year-old man was fatally shot along the frontier in the central Gaza Strip after thousands of Palestinians took part in funerals…
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Fast Forward American Embassy Officially Opens In Jerusalem
The United States officially opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Monday, fulfilling a pledge by President Donald Trump who has recognized the holy city as the Israeli capital. “Today we open the United States embassy in Jerusalem, Israel,” U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman said at the beginning of the inaugural ceremony, attended…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Found Guilty Again
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty of corruption charges on Friday by a jury in Manhattan federal court after an appeals court threw out an earlier conviction. Silver, 74, was charged with directing state money to a prominent cancer researcher and supporting a real estate developer’s interests on rent legislation in…
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Fast Forward Harvey Weinstein’s Wife Opens Up: ‘I Cry For My Children’
The estranged wife of producer Harvey Weinstein, designer Georgina Chapman, on Thursday broke her silence on accusations of sexual misconduct against him, saying they sickened her. Chapman, co-founder of the Marchesa fashion label, told Vogue magazine in her first interview since the scandal broke last October, “I lost ten pounds in five days. I couldn’t…
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Fast Forward Did Michael Cohen Get $500K Payoff From Jewish Oligarch?
The lawyer for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who says she was paid $130,000 by Cohen to stay quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump, on Tuesday claimed that the longtime attorney for President Trump, Michael Cohen, received $500,000 from a Russian billionaire in the months after the 2016 election. In a tweet and report released…
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Fast Forward ‘Transparent’ To End After Coming Season
“Transparent,” the television series that put Amazon Studios original programming on the map, will end after its upcoming fifth season, its creator, Jill Soloway, said in an interview published on Monday. The ending of the series follows the firing in February of its award-winning star, Jeffrey Tambor, following accusations of sexual misconduct by two people…
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