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Fast Forward Stephen Ross Gives $50M More To U. Of Michigan
Billionaire developer Stephen Ross, chairman of Related Cos, on Wednesday increased to $378 million his lifetime giving to the University of Michigan with a $50 million donation that retains the alumnus as the school’s largest single donor. The majority of the new gift will support career development for students, action-based learning for student-run investment funds…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says ‘Seriousness’ Of Trump Raises Hopes For Peace
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said his meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday attested to the U.S. president’s seriousness about reaching a Middle East peace deal soon. Abbas thanked Trump for hosting him at the meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders in New York. “If this is any proof…
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Fast Forward Trump Has Decided About Iran Nuclear Deal — But Won’t Tell Us
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had made a decision on whether or not to pull the United States out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, but he declined to say what it was. Trump, when asked by reporters, said: “I have decided.” If Trump does not certify in…
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Fast Forward Trump Doesn’t Like Iran Nuclear Deal — But Not Scrapping It
President Trump is unhappy with the Iran nuclear deal but has not signaled he will abandon it, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday as she pressed Tehran to halt ballistic missile tests and stop supporting terrorism and arms smuggling. “It’s not a clear signal that he plans to withdraw. What it…
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Fast Forward Bibi Slams Iran Deal At UN: ‘Fix It Or Nix It’
The Iran nuclear deal should be changed to eliminate provisions removing restrictions on Tehran’s atomic program over time or it should be canceled, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. “Change it, or cancel it. Fix it, or nix it,” Netanyahu said in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly annual gathering of world…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Says Russia Probe Designed To ‘Discredit’ Trump
Trump’s lawyer on Tuesday denied that he or Trump colluded with Russia to interfere in last year’s presidential election, and said such charges were meant to discredit Trump’s presidency. “I emphatically state that I had nothing to do with any Russian involvement in our electoral process,” Michael Cohen said in a statement prepared for a…
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Fast Forward Israel Fires Patriot Missile To Shoot Down Drone From Syria
Israel shot down a pilotless aircraft that tried to enter its airspace at its Golan Heights frontier with Syria on Tuesday, the Israeli military said. Israeli media said a Patriot interceptor missile was used in the incident.
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Fast Forward Sebastian Gorka Joins Pro-Trump Political Group
Sebastian Gorka, the controversial former White House adviser who quit after top political strategist Steve Bannon was ousted, has joined a nationalist pro-Trump campaign organization, the group announced on Tuesday. The MAGA Coalition, dedicated to helping advance Trump’s “America First” principles, said it had hired Gorka as “Chief Strategist.” MAGA is headed by Adam Gingrich,…
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