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Fast Forward Ex-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Will Endorse Hillary Clinton
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to endorse Hillary Clinton in a prime time address at the Democratic convention, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Citing Bloomberg’s adviser Howard Wolfson, the newspaper said that he plans to make the case for Clinton from the “perspective of a business leader and an independent.”…
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Fast Forward David Duke, White Supremacist Who Backs Donald Trump, Will Run for Senate
David Duke, a former leader of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, announced his candidacy on Friday for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, saying while he believes in equal rights for all Americans he demands respect for “European Americans.” Duke, 66, is a former Louisiana state legislator and unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor who served…
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Fast Forward Israel Expects Turkey Reconciliation Despite Coup Attempt
Israel reacted tersely to a thwarted coup in Turkey, saying it expected a new reconciliation deal between the two regional powers following a six-year rift to be implemented as planned. Violence erupted in Turkey late on Friday after the start of the Jewish Sabbath, when most government business officially takes a break. This allowed Prime…
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News Turkish Prime Minister Says Attempted Coup Underway, Calls for Calm
A group within Turkey’s military has attempted to overthrow the government and security forces have been called in to “do what is necessary,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday. “Some people illegally undertook an illegal action outside of the chain of command,” Yildirim said in comments broadcast by private channel NTV. “The government elected…
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Fast Forward Hitler’s Birthplace Seized by Austria To Thwart Neo-Nazi Pilgrimage
Austria’s government moved on Tuesday to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it becoming a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, and the country’s Interior Minister said he wanted to tear it down. Hitler’s family lived in the house in Braunau on the Inn for only three years around his birth on…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Calls on Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Resign After Criticism
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump called on Wednesday for the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, describing her as mentally unfit after she lambasted him in a series of media interviews. “Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me,” Trump said in a…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton at Raucous Democratic Unity Rally
Democrat Bernie Sanders endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton for president in a show of party unity on Tuesday, saying she was the best candidate to fix the country’s problems and beat Republican Donald Trump in the Nov. 8 election. With Clinton nodding in agreement beside him, Sanders put their bitter primary campaign behind them and…
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Fast Forward Israeli Terror Victims Sue Facebook for $1B Over Hamas Attacks
A group of Israelis and Americans filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking $1 billion in damages from Facebook Inc. for allegedly facilitating deadly Palestinian militant attacks on their loved ones. The plaintiffs, relatives of four Israeli-U.S. dual nationals and one visiting U.S. citizen who died in attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or the occupied West…
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