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Fast Forward Barack Obama Calls Mike Huckabee Iran Criticism ‘Sad’
President Barack Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump on Monday for their blunt rhetoric about the Iran nuclear agreement and other issues, saying it was damaging to political debate. Huckabee, one of more than a dozen candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, denounced a deal with world powers over Iran’s…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Killed in West Bank Raid — Third in Week
A Palestinian wanted on suspicion of planning a militant attack fell to his death from a rooftop on Monday as he fled from police in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police said, an account disputed by a witness. Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians in the West Bank in the past week in raids that…
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Fast Forward U.S. Denies Report Jonathan Pollard May Be Freed Soon
U.S. officials on Friday denied a Wall Street Journal report that the Obama administration was considering early release for Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel. The Justice Department said Pollard must serve his full 30-year sentence. It stressed that he has long been eligible for consideration for parole…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Says Israel Strike on Iran Would Be ‘Huge Mistake’
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it would be a huge mistake if Israel decided to take unilateral military action against Iran over its nuclear program in the future. Kerry was asked in an NBC “Today” show interview if the nuclear deal reached last week between would make it more likely that Israel…
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Fast Forward ADL Blasts Controversial Pennsylvania Professor for ‘Sluts’ Facebook Post
A tenured professor at a Pennsylvania university drew strong criticism on Thursday from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which issued a statement condemning his social media posts as “deeply offensive and outrageous.” Kaukab Siddique, a literature professor at Lincoln University, made derogatory comments toward women regarding rape in a Facebook post earlier this month. “Many women…
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Fast Forward Ben Cardin Says Negotiators ‘Got an Awful Lot’ in Iran Nuclear Talks
Senator Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Thursday he has not yet decided how he would vote on the nuclear agreement with Iran but said he felt U.S. negotiators had made significant progress. “Our negotiators got an awful lot, particularly on the nuclear front,” Cardin said at a…
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Fast Forward 52-Year-Old Palestinian Killed by Israeli Troops
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian and wounded two others during a raid on a house in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian medical officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers were attacked by a mob while trying to arrest a suspect in the village of Beit Ummar and opened fire on the main…
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Fast Forward E.L. Doctorow, ‘Ragtime’ Author, Dies at 84
E.L. Doctorow, the author of popular novels grounded in American history including “Ragtime” and “Billy Bathgate,” has died at age 84, his publisher said on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Random House Publishing Group gave no further details but the New York Times, citing the writer’s son Richard, said Doctorow died in New York on…
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