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November 24, 2020 at 9:04 pm
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced selections for his national security team Tuesday, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on foreign policy and national security experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers.
Biden’s Washington veterans all have ties to former President Barack Obama’s administration as the president-elect has sought to deliver a clear message about his desire to reestablish a more predictable engagement from the United States on the global stage.
“It’s a team that reflects the fact that America is back, ready to lead the world, not retreat from it,” s...
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November 24, 2020 at 8:56 pm
Dodin is a volunteer for Biden's transition team and currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff for Sen. Dick Durbin
President-elect Joe Biden's pick for Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs referred to Palestinian suicide bombings as "the last resort of a desperate people" in 2002.
"The suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people," Reema Dodin said while speaking at a church in Lodi, Calif., according to the Lodi News-Sentinel.
She was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, at the time.
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November 24, 2020 at 8:45 pm
Russia says it caught a U.S. Navy ship illegally operating in Russian waters in the Sea of Japan and “chased off” the offending ship on Tuesday.
The area in question has been claimed by Russia as part of its territorial waters since 1984, but the U.S. does not recognize that claim.Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more
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The Admiral Vinogradov, a Russian destroyer, verbally warned the USS John S. McCain that it would be rammed if it didn’t leave the area after it violated the boundary by more than a mile, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry. The McCain, an Arleigh...
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November 24, 2020 at 8:34 pm
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib expressed concern Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Secretary of State might try to silence her criticism of Israeli government policy. Biden tapped longtime diplomat Tony Blinken for the role.
“Just make sure he doesn’t try to silence me and suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane policies,” Tlaib wrote on Twitter, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Tlaib wrote a similar message immediately after. Both were i...
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November 24, 2020 at 8:30 pm
President-elect Joe Biden promised a shift from President Trump‘s “America First” policy while unveiling nominees for his foreign policy and national security team on Tuesday, vowing that America would return to working with its international partners.
Biden, speaking the day after the General Services Administration (GSA) certified the election results to officially begin the presidential transition, spotlighted the deep experience of his appointees while also highlighting their diversity. He emphasized the need for an administration that reflects the U.S. population.
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November 24, 2020 at 8:30 pm
What was Joe Biden thinking for his choice of climate-change ambassador extraordinaire? John Kerry is one of the biggest gasbags in American politics, singlehandedly responsible for massive amounts of terrible emissions.
People have been laughing at him since Yale, when “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau was zinging his pretentious, vacuous self-promotion.Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more
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We look forward to the anti-carbon lectures from a guy who travels the globe on private jets and luxury yachts.
Set aside his deer-in-the-headlights loss as the Democrats’ presidential...
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November 24, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Many years ago I attended a chess match at a local tennis club. We were watching two grandmasters play for a big money prize. I, along with all the other observers, were mere chess buffs and were nowhere near the level of the players we were observing. Suddenly, In the middle of the match, one of the players made a surprising move that elicited groans and looks of bewilderment from the crowd. Even the analyst who was explaining the moves seemed to be at a loss. It was incomprehensible and seemed to be an egregious error that could cost him the match. However, to our surprise, a mere three moves later his opponent abruptly stood up, shook his hand and left!
We were all dumbfounded! After studying the board for a few minutes our analyst suddenly broke into a broad smile. He then explained t...
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November 24, 2020 at 3:05 pm
A coronavirus vaccine will begin to become available in the United States "probably by the end of the second week in December," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield told Fox News Tuesday.
Redfield told "The Daily Briefing" that a vaccine would initially be made available "in a hierarchical way" with priority going to "nursing home residents and then some combination of health care providers and individuals at high risk for a poor outcome."
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled a Dec. 10 meeting of its Vaccines...
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November 24, 2020 at 3:04 pm
Tesla boss Elon Musk surpassed Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person as the electric-car maker continued its staggering stock-market surge.
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A 6.5 percent jump in Tesla’s share price added about $7.2 billion to Musk’s fortune on Monday, putting his total net worth at $127.9 billion — slightly eclipsing Microsoft co-founder Gates’ $127.7 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
Musk, 49, took the No. 2 spot on the ranking of the world’s 500 richest people less than a week after cl...
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November 24, 2020 at 3:04 pm
The skyrocketing number of new coronavirus infections in the United States is likely to climb further over the next several weeks, even in the hardest-hit areas where soaring case loads are starting to overwhelm hospitals and medical facilities.
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New cases appear to be reaching a peak in the Dakotas and Iowa, where infections are at their highest levels since the pandemic began. But most states experiencing a COVID-19 surge are weeks behind those epicenters as tens of thousands of people test positive every week.
“It’s starting to plateau in relati...
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November 24, 2020 at 3:04 pm
DALLAS (AP) — As nurse Teri Wheat made her rounds at a Texas maternity ward, she began to realize she was having a hard time understanding the new mothers who were wearing masks due to the coronavirus pandemic.
So she got her hearing tested and now wears hearing aids.
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Her hearing loss “became more noticeable the more barriers that we had to have,” said Wheat, 52, who wears a mask and a face shield at work to protect herself and others against the virus.
Hearing specialists across the U.S. say they have seen an uptick in visits from people l...
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November 24, 2020 at 2:46 pm
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November 24, 2020 at 2:39 pm
In 11 months, OU's “All Daf” app logs record 40,000 participants from 130 countries learning Gemara
NEW YORK – A record 40,000 participants from more than 130 countries have participated in Daf Yomi through All Daf, the Orthodox Union’s (OU) innovative free digital app that has made Gemara learning accessible to every Jew whenever it is convenient for them to learn. The international learning program finished the tractate of Eruvin during the last week of November.
The app’s shiurim have been accessed by Jews in more than 130 countries on six continents. Daf learners in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, France, Gibraltar, Jordan, Kuwait, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Ko...
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November 24, 2020 at 1:49 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - Nov. 24, 2020 - United Hatzalah medical personnel were dispatched to an apartment building on Sorotzkin Street in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem early on Tuesday morning in response to a large structure fire that took place in a residential building. The first responders who arrived treated nearly 30 people who were injured as a result of the blaze.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Nachum Eisenbach who was the first medical responder to arrive at the scene relayed: "When I arrived at the scene the fire was already spreading to the building where dozens of residents were waiting to be rescued by firefighters as the blaze had spread to the parking area at the bottom of the building and prevented the residents from exiting. After firefighters evacuated the residents, t...
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November 24, 2020 at 1:02 pm
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - El Al Israel Airlines will operate 14 weekly flights from Tel Aviv to Dubai from Dec. 13, it said on Monday, joining a handful of carriers launching routes between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Israel and the UAE agreed in September to establish diplomatic relations, breaking a longstanding taboo and paving the way for economic cooperation.
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Subject to regulatory approvals, Israeli flag carrier El Al plans to operate three flights a day on Sundays and Thursdays and two flights on other days of the week. Flights will be on Boe...
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November 24, 2020 at 12:59 pm
Former Democratic strategist and White House adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Monday that Democratic presidential voter turnout was disproportionately larger than the population gains from 2012 to 2020 in key cities where President Donald Trump is disputing election tallies.
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Appearing on “Greg Kelly Reports,” Morris pointed out that the vote for Joe Biden in Phoenix was 48% more than Barack Obama received in 2012, when the city only witnessed a 14% gain in population. Similarly, he said, Atlanta saw a 30% larger ...
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November 24, 2020 at 12:58 pm
President Donald Trump is vowing to “never concede,” the “most corrupt election in American political history”— despite the General Services Administration giving the go-ahead to Joe Biden to begin a transition to the White House.
Trump’s remarks came in a late Monday night tweet. He wrote: “What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history? We are moving full speed ahead. Will never concede to fake ballots & “Dominion.”
A spokesman for Dominion Voting Systems has called fraud claims by Trump’s legal team “crazy” and denied voting machin...
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November 24, 2020 at 12:36 pm
David Norman Dinkins, the former mayor of New York City, has died. He was 93 years old.
Born July 10, 1927, Dinkins served as the 106th Mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, only African American to hold that office.
During his tenure, New York City dealt with the infamous Crown Heights riots in 1991.
Before entering politics, Dinkins was among the more than 20,000 Montford Point Marines (trained 1942–1949; Dinkins’ service was 1945–1946); he graduated cum laude from Howard University; and he received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School (1956).
Dinkins began his political career by serving in the State Assembly (1966), eventually advancing to Manhattan borough president before becoming mayor.
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