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Israel-American Council urges Ed Sheeran to toss Macklemore from tour after criticizing Israel onstage
(JTA) — The Israeli-American Council is calling for the rapper Macklemore to be dropped from the opening slot on pop star Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour for chanting “Free Palestine” and accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide during his performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Friday and Saturday nights.
Israel-American Council urges Ed Sheeran to toss Macklemore from tour after criticizing Israel onstage
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Israeli-American Council is calling for the rapper Macklemore to be dropped from the opening slot on pop star Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour for chanting “Free Palestine” and accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide during his performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Friday and Saturday nights.
Israel-American Council urges Ed Sheeran to toss Macklemore from tour after criticising Israel onstage
Macklemore performs at the Goldencoast Rap Festival in Corcelles-les-Monts, near Dijon, central-eastern France, on August 30, 2026. (Photo by Arnaud Finistre AFP) JTA – The Israeli-American Council (IAC) is calling for rapper Macklemore to be dropped from the opening slot on pop star Ed Sheeran’s US tour for chanting “Free Palestine” and accusing Israel of apartheid and “genocide” during his performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Friday and Saturday nights.
Israel-American Council urges Ed Sheeran to toss Macklemore from tour after criticizing Israel onstage Original
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Israeli-American Council is calling for the rapper Macklemore to be dropped from the opening slot on pop star Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour for chanting “Free Palestine” and accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide during his performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Friday and Saturday nights.
Markey projected to win Massachusetts Democratic primary in a landslide
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Massachusetts progressive Sen. Ed Markey, a sharp critic of Israel, is projected to beat the more moderate Rep. Seth Moulton in a landslide primary victory on Tuesday, securing the Democratic nomination for the upcoming U.S. Senate race. The Associated Press called the race just a half hour after polls closed, at 8:31pm, when Markey had secured 75.9% of votes to Moulton’s 24.1%, with 3% of ballots tallied.
"Call of Duty" has $400 million in sales on day 1
(Reuters) - Activision Blizzard’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” video game racked up more than $400 million in sales on its first day in stores in the United States and the United Kingdom. Activision said in a statement on Friday its biggest holiday title had sold 6.5 million units, which breaks last year’s record of 5.6 million units, or $360 million in sales. The version of the game released last year called “Call of Duty: Black Ops” went on to sell $1 billion in less than two months.
Thursday Morning Briefing: U.S. spooks say they have the goods on Russian hacking
U.S. intelligence agencies have what they call conclusive evidence Russia provided hacked material from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks through a third party, three sources said. U.S. officials had concluded months earlier that Russian intelligence agencies had directed the hacking. But until now, they had been less certain that they could prove Russia also had controlled the release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
These Monsters Are Real, by Heavens To Betsy
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Heavens To Betsy's "These Monsters Are Real" 7" re-mastered from the original tapes and pressed on red vinyl. LIMITED TO ONE PER CUSTOMER Ships September 2018. Includes unlimited streaming of These Monsters Are Real via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Friday Morning Briefing: 'The atmosphere has become toxic'
Computer system restrictions, checking aides’ cellphones and fears of phone and email monitoring. President Donald Trump is unhappy with the leaks to the media coming from his administration.
Thursday Morning Briefing: Sessions in the hot seat
Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice with the Russian ambassador last year while he was still a senator and he failed to disclose those meetings to Congress during his confirmation hearings, the Washington Post reported. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called for Sessions' resignation.Digits of the day: 0.09 percentSo that wall President Donald Trump is promising to build along the southern border?
Wednesday Morning Briefing: A more presidential president
Gone were the ad hominem attacks on his critics. The bellicose bravado was toned down. He shifted from his harsh rhetoric on immigration. At times, he even sounded like a Democrat (infrastructure, paid family leave, investment in women's health). He didn't even take pot shots at the media.But while the tone in President Donald Trump's address to Congress was more measured, most of the policies were old favorites from President Donald Trump's campaign. He still wants to repeal Obamacare.
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Trump gets meager applause from Democrats during his entrance, but they are standing.Reporting by Richard Cowen Mr. Speaker...the President of the United States. Trump says he wants to work to make childcare accessible, affordable, help new parents have paid family leave - excerpts Tillerson and Chinese State Councilor Yang discussed 'importance of improving and maintaining a mutually beneficial economic relationship' between U.S. and China.
Friday Morning Briefing: Yes nukes
No country will surpass the nuclear weapons capacity of the United States, said President Donald Trump, casting doubt on whether he would honor the New START arms limitation treaty with Russia.Quote of the day"It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack." – TrumpNew START requires the United States and Russia to limit their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons to equal levels for...
Thursday Morning Briefing: Red Red Meat
- "Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda"- "When Did WWIII Begin?"- "Armed and Fabulous: The New Normal"- "If Heaven Has a Gate, A Wall, and Extreme Vetting, Why Can't America?"Yes, it must be CPAC time again – when Republicans gather to tout their conservative bona fides, rising stars are anointed and panel discussions, like the ones listed above, ensue. This year, Republicans have a lot to celebrate.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: Dreamer or gang member?
It would seem that Daniel Ramirez Medina is a textbook "dreamer" – a 23-year-old man who came to this country as child and received a work permit under the Obama administration.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Out like Flynn
Digits of the day: 24 That's the number of days into the Trump administration before the first top-level resignation. The person was Michael Flynn. The post was national security adviser. And the reason was that he discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office – this after promising otherwise to Vice President Mike Pence. Such contacts could run afoul of the Logan Act, which bans private citizens from engaging in foreign policy.
Data Dive: Who says romance is dead?
As you stop off on your way home tonight for your dozen doghouse roses or your cheap box of chocolates, bear this in mind: 88 percent of Americans believe that love is an important reason to get married, according to the Pew Research Center. That's ahead of "making a lifelong commitment" (81 percent) and "financial stability" (28 percent).On the other hand, the share of Americans who are married is at its lowest point since 1920, Pew said. Only half of Americans over age 18 are married.
Thursday Morning Briefing: 'Demoralizing' and 'disheartening'
Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, described the president's attacks on the judiciary as "demoralizing" and "disheartening." Trump has been relentless in his criticism of the appellate court that blocked his ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: Spirited debate on Trump travel ban in court
The Justice Department took a beating from appellate judges reviewing President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Trump's travel ban faces its next hurdle
The next round in the fight over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries occurs at 6 p.m. ET.
Data Dive: Super Bowl LI by the numbers
You know the headline numbers already. The New England Patriots overcame the biggest deficit in Super Bowl history – 25 points – to win 34-28 against the Atlanta Falcons in overtime. They scored 31 unanswered points. And their quarterback Tom Brady became the first quarterback to win five Super Bowl rings. Here are five numbers behind their victory.Airing it out: Tom Brady simply put on a clinic, particularly in the second half. Overall he completed 43 out of 62 attempts for 466 yards.
Friday Morning Briefing: Trump unsettled on Israel settlements
The White House statement could disappoint Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right support, which had hoped that Trump would give an unqualified green light on settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Netanyahu visits the United States in two weeks. Meanwhile top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway justified the ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries using what she called the "Bowling Green Massacre," which never actually happened.
Thursday Morning Briefing: Trump takes on Islam, Iran and Australia
The Trump administration wants to rename a government program designed to counter all violent ideologies to focus solely on Islamist extremism. The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States. Trump is also continuing his pugnacious campaign style into diplomacy.
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White House says confident DeVos will ultimately be approved by Senate to lead education department. JUST IN: Republican Senator Murkowski says she will not support DeVos to be education secretary. White House says issued update so legal permanent residents no longer need waiver to enter U.S. amid travel curbs. JUST IN: Republican Senator Collins say she will vote against confirming DeVos for education secretary. White House adviser Flynn says U.S. is officially putting Iran on notice today.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: Immigrant Song
If Day 1 was devoted to trade policy and Day 2 was devoted to oil pipelines and, by extension, environmental policy, then Day 3 is expected to be about immigration, or national security, as President Donald Trump would prefer to categorize it. Trump is expected to sign executive orders that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other countries until more aggressive vetting is in place.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Can China replace the U.S. in TPP?
President Donald Trump's aides promised a busy Monday, the first working day of the new administration. Promise kept. There were the executive orders: Trump formally pulled the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Barack Obama tried to establish the trading bloc with Asian nations as a counterbalance to China's growing influence in the region. Trump campaigned against TPP, saying such trading blocs move jobs and companies out of the United States.
Monday Morning Briefing: From American carnage to alternative facts
President Donald Trump began his inaugural weekend with a speech that painted bleak images of impoverished inner cities, burned-out factories and a failed education system. "The American carnage stops right here and stops right now," came the rallying cry. But the most evident carnage came in the relationship between the Trump administration and the media.
Friday Morning Briefing: An era ends. An era begins.
Thursday Morning Briefing: The man who compiled the dirt on Trump The dossier that included unverified claims that could compromise President-elect Donald Trump was compiled by Christopher Steele, a former officer in Britain's Secret Service. After he left M-I6, he supplied the FBI with information about corruption at FIFA. It was this information that lent credibility to his info about Trump.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: The soft sensuality of the Trump inauguration
Low-key. Understated. Not terms you usually associate with Donald Trump. But that's how his inauguration is shaping up, largely because most people in the entertainment business would prefer to be elsewhere. "We're fortunate in that we have the greatest celebrity in the world, which is the president-elect," Tom Barrack, inaugural committee chairman, said last week.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: May lays out Brexit plans
Britain will leave the European Union's single market when it exits the trading block, Prime Minister Theresa May said, putting an end to speculation that London may seek a "soft Brexit." She added that the final exit deal would be put to parliament for a vote, which sparked a rally in the British pound.President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the promise to protect American workers from the ravages of global trade.
Friday Morning Briefing: Trump and his nominees are singing different tunes
Secretary of Defense nominee James Mattis believes Russia is the biggest threat to U.S. interests. President-elect Donald Trump praises President Vladimir Putin and seeks cozier relations. Prospective CIA director Mike Pompeo pledged to defend intelligence agencies against accusations that they are being politicized. Trump accused the agencies of leaking unverified, salacious allegations about his contacts in Russia to the media.
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The dossier that included unverified claims that could compromise President-elect Donald Trump was compiled by Christopher Steele, a former officer in Britain's Secret Service. After he left M-I6, he supplied the FBI with information about corruption at FIFA. It was this information that lent credibility to his info about Trump. But when he started submitting information to the FBI on Trump, the top U.S. law enforcement agency backed off for fear of influencing the election.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: It's like a John le Carre novel
The intelligence report that President-elect Donald Trump received last week on the Russian hacking of 2016 political campaigns included unverified claims that Russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him. One of the most explosive claims is that Trump knew and supported the hacking and leaking of emails damaging to Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported. The accusation has been one of many floating around Beltway circles for months.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Immigration takes center stage at confirmation hearings
Leading off today's confirmation hearings will be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general appointee, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. Sessions was one of Trump's earliest backers and helped shape his pro-enforcement, anti-amnesty policy on illegal immigration. On deck will be John Kelly, the retired four-star Marine general tapped to head the Department of Homeland Security.
Friday Morning Briefing: Look out, Nissan. You may be Trump's next target
President-elect Donald Trump may have threatened Toyota over its Mexican-built cars, but the biggest risk from a punitive tariff would be for rival Nissan, the largest automaker operating in the country. Nissan built its first overseas plant in Mexico in 50 years ago and now produces more than 800,000 cars there, mainly its entry-level Versa and Sentra sedans. And it exports roughly half of its output to the United States, where it also has production plants.
Thursday Morning Briefing: U.S. spooks say they have the goods on Russian hacking
U.S. intelligence agencies have what they call conclusive evidence Russia provided hacked material from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks through a third party, three sources said.U.S. officials had concluded months earlier that Russian intelligence agencies had directed the hacking. But until now, they had been less certain that they could prove Russia also had controlled the release of information damaging to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: Chaos in the House; venom in the Senate
It was supposed to be a day of pomp and pageantry on Capitol Hill. The Republicans were supposed to celebrate their Election Day victories and lay out a vision for America that would dismantle Obamacare and implement a new conservative vision. Instead, the House Republicans descended into disarray, doubling back on their secret effort to end the independence of an ethics panel after President-elect Donald Trump blasted the timing of that effort.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Whither independence in ethics? Or is that wither?
House Republicans voted to end the independence of an ethics watchdog because they believe it had grown too intrusive. The Office of Congressional Ethics was created in 2008 following several corruption scandals. But some lawmakers have charged in recent years that it has been too quick to investigate complaints lodged by outside partisan groups. The body will now have to deliver its reports to the House Ethics Committee, rather than releasing them directly to the public.
Friday Morning Briefing: Putin rules out retaliation
President Vladimir Putin ruled out an expulsion of anyone in retaliation to President Barack Obama's orders to throw out 35 suspected Russian spies. Hours earlier Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov floated the proposal that 35 U.S. diplomats would be expelled. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump thinks the hacking is no big deal. Quote of the day: “It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things.
Thursday Morning Briefing: A new Syrian ceasefire
Syrian opposition groups and the Syrian government signed a new ceasefire deal that is supposed to take effect at midnight on Dec. 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. He also said that Russia had agreed to reduce its military deployment in Syria.The Obama administration plans to announce a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for alleged cyber espionage in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Syrian peace talks, fighting in the malls, and China's toilet revolution
Peace talks between the Syrian government and the rebel opposition are underway ahead of a possible wider meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Interfax. The Syrian opposition's High Negotiations Committee says it has no connection to any talks that are taking place with the government. Stay tuned for Reuters.com for more updates. Youth carry weapons along a road in al-Rai town, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria Dec. 25, 2016.
Friday Morning Briefing: Berlin, banks and bombs
The suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot-out in a suburb of Milan, Italy's interior minister said. The suspect Anis Amri was stopped by a routine police patrol when he opened fire wounding one of the officers. Twelve people were killed when a truck barreled into the Berlin market on Monday. Digits of the day: $12 billion The Justice Department won $12 billion in penalties from Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank over the sale of toxic debt.
Thursday Morning Briefing: Ukraine's technology woes
The same malware that the Russian government used to allegedly hack the Democratic Party during the presidential election was used to track and target Ukrainian artillery from late 2014 through 2016, according to a report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: Searching for answers in Berlin
German authorities don't know who rammed a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, and they fear the attacker may be at large. They are now looking for a Tunisian man, according to German media outlets. They've arrested and released two people so far. They don't know if the attacker acted alone. We do know that some politicians are blaming the attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door migrant policy.
Data Dive: If there is a war on Christmas, Christmas is winning
The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, New York City, Nov. 30, 2016. REUTERS/Alex Wroblewski Christmas: Not just for Christians anymore. Some 81 percent of non-Christians in the United States celebrate the holiday, according to the Pew Research Group. That includes 76 percent of Asian-American Buddhists and 73 percent of Hindus. About 32 percent of U.S. Jews have a Christmas tree in their home. Source: Pew Research So what about nativity scenes on government property?
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Terror in Berlin and Ankara
German authorities believe that the truck that barreled into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, was a terrorist attack. Police arrested a 23-year-old man from Pakistan. But German newspaper Die Welt is reporting they may have the wrong man.
Tuesday Morning Briefing: Terror in Berlin and Ankara
German authorities believe that the truck that barreled into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, was a terrorist attack. Police arrested a 23-year-old man from Pakistan. But German newspaper Die Welt is reporting they may have the wrong man.
Monday Morning Briefing: No faith in the faithless
Those opponents of President-elect Donald Trump putting their faith in "faithless electors" will probably be disappointed by the end of today, when the final electoral votes are tallied. For those needing to brush up on American civics, when voters cast a ballot in presidential elections, they are actually voting for electors. The majority of these electors pledge to vote in accordance with the popular vote of their precincts.
Friday Morning Briefing: Election hack: What did Putin know, and when did he know it?
Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said. Show us the evidence, the Kremlin responded. NBC broke the news that U.S. intelligence officials were confident that Putin was personally involved in the cyber campaign against the United States.
Wednesday Morning Briefing: The trouble with evacuation while being bombed
With Syrian rebels all but defeated in their last stronghold of Aleppo, the task now turns to getting 15,000 civilians and remaining rebels out of the city. It's not going smoothly. The evacuations were supposed to begin this morning but have since been delayed until tomorrow. Rebels blamed Iran's shi'ite militias. Turkey blamed the Syrian government. The army blamed the rebels. Meanwhile, 20 empty buses sat outside rebel districts with their engines running.
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