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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Surgery For Lung Cancer
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung, a court spokeswoman said on Friday. There is no evidence of any further disease and the 85-year-old jurist, one of the court’s nine justices, is “resting comfortably,” spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a news release. Ginsburg, who broke three…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinians Killed By Israeli Troops In Gaza
Israeli forces shot and killed three Palestinians, including a teenager, in the Gaza Strip during the latest of weekly protests along the border with Israel on Friday, Palestinian health officials said. About 8,000 Palestinians gathered near the border fence, the Israeli military said. Most kept their distance, while some burned tires and tried to throw…
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Fast Forward Disgraced Movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein Loses Bid To Dismiss Criminal Case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state judge on Thursday denied Harvey Weinstein’s motion to dismiss criminal charges that he sexually assaulted two women, rejecting the movie producer’s argument that the case was tainted by police and prosecutorial misconduct. Supreme Court Justice James Burke in Manhattan announced his decision at a hearing in a…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Faces ‘Substantial Prison Time’ In Trump Hush Money Scheme
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday asked a judge to sentence Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, to a “substantial term of imprisonment” for paying an adult film star hush money on Trump’s behalf and evading taxes. Cohen, who has been cooperating with U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Condemns Jailing Of Palestinian For Selling East Jerusalem Property To Jews
The U.S. ambassador to Israel called on Palestinians on Wednesday to free an American-Palestinian who, the envoy said, was detained for “selling land to a Jew,” apparently violating a long-standing Palestinian ban on selling land to Israelis. Through its official Wafa news agency, the Palestinian Authority has accused property dealer Issam Akel, a U.S. citizen,…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump: ‘No Equivalency’ Between Her Private Email Use And Clinton’s
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ivanka Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter and a White House adviser, dismissed comparisons of her use of private email for government work and that of Hillary Clinton, her father’s Democratic rival in the 2016 election. “All of my emails are stored and preserved. There were no deletions. There is no…
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘Up And Working’ After Breaking Ribs, Nephew Says
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is “up and working” and making jokes after being hospitalized with rib fractures, her nephew said on Thursday at the premiere of a new movie about her early career fighting for women’s equality. Daniel Stiepleman, who wrote the script for the film “On the…
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Fast Forward Trudeau Apologizes For Canada’s Turning Back Jewish Refugees Fleeing Nazis
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on Wednesday for the country’s 1939 refusal to take in a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, adding that the country would do more to protect Canadian Jews from violence. The St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 in a desperate search for a safe haven from…
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