The Philadelphia Police Department cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators off the campus of the University of Pennsylvania early Friday morning, making arrests and bringing an end to a two-week …
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Hillary Clinton Accuses Protesters of Ignorance of Mideast History
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesHillary Clinton on Thursday criticized campus protesters, saying young people “don’t know very much” about the history of the Middle East. “I have had many conversations, as you have had, …
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U.S. Judge Backs U.K. Request to Extradite ‘Irish Heiress’ Who Swindled Producer
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThose charges date to between March 2008 and October 2010, when Ms. Smyth was living in Northern Ireland and working there as a mortgage adviser, according to a complaint filed …
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Maggie Goodlander, Former White House Adviser, to Run for Congress in New Hampshire
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMaggie Goodlander, a lawyer who has worked in the White House and the Justice Department under President Biden, announced on Thursday her candidacy for a congressional seat in New Hampshire’s …
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Barron Trump Is Picked to Be Florida Delegate at the Republican Convention
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAfter years in which his privacy has been fiercely guarded and he has been kept out of the political arena, former President Donald J. Trump’s youngest son, Barron, was chosen …
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The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being …
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Speaker Mike Johnson Survives Marjorie Taylor Greene Move to Oust Him
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesSpeaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday easily batted down an attempt by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to oust him from his post, after Democrats linked arms with most Republicans …
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Georgia Appeals Court to Hear Trump’s Bid to Disqualify Fani Willis in Election Case
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Georgia Court of Appeals will hear an appeal of a ruling that allowed Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, to continue leading the prosecution of former …
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USC Tries to Save Its Graduation After Campus Protests and Arrests
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFew West Coast universities rival the pomp of the University of Southern California’s commencements. Flags fly. Trumpets blare. Tens of thousands of relatives from around the world fill the Los …
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Using Cartoonish Accents, J.F.K.’s Grandson Insults and Mocks Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe grandson of President John F. Kennedy this week savaged his presidential-candidate cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a series of mocking, meant-to-be-funny videos that were, inarguably, uncharacteristically un-Kennedyesque, escalating …