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Fast Forward Jerry Lewis Died From Heart Disease
Comedian Jerry Lewis died of end-stage heart disease when he passed away at his home at age 91 in Las Vegas on Sunday, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said on Monday. The determination was made by a hospice care doctor and given to the Coroner’s Office, and no further inquiry is required, Fudenberg told Reuters…
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Fast Forward Website Host Dumps Canadian Site With Alt-Right Ties
TORONTO (Reuters) – Conservative Canadian website The Rebel said its domain provider cut its internet registration, making the site inaccessible to some users around the world on Monday as the company scrambled to get back online using a second provider. The move comes after GoDaddy, Google and other technology firms last week pushed the neo-Nazi…
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Fast Forward Jerry Lewis, Iconic Jewish King Of Lowbrow Comedy, Dies At 91
Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in movies, died on Sunday at the age of 91, his family said. “Famed comedian, actor and legendary entertainer Jerry Lewis passed away peacefully today of natural causes at 91 at his home in Las Vegas with his family by his side,” a statement…
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Fast Forward Is Trump Mentally Unfit To Be President? Some Jewish Lawmakers Say So.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that it was premature to try to remove President Trump by claiming he is physically or mentally impaired. Schiff told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” program that it did not make sense for Trump’s opponents to focus on the…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says Israel Refuses To Resume Security Cooperation
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli opposition lawmakers on Sunday that he had proposed rolling back his month-old suspension of security coordination with Israel, but that it did not respond to the overture, the delegation said. Abbas suspended ties on July 21, demanding that Israel remove metal detectors it had installed outside a Jerusalem compound…
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Fast Forward Knife-Wielding Palestinian Teen Shot Dead By Israeli Troops
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen wielding a knife on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, police said. A 17-year-old Palestinian approached a group of Israeli paramilitary policemen stationed at a West Bank junction, holding what appeared to be a bag, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, and the troops then called on him…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Mayor Demands Special Session On Pulling Down Confederate Statues
The mayor of Charlottesville called on Friday for a special session of Virginia’s legislature to let localities decide the fate of Confederate monuments like the statue that was the focus of a far-right rally last week that turned deadly. Mayor Mike Signer issued his appeal amid an increasingly contentious debate over what to do with…
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Fast Forward Steve Bannon Fired By Trump
President Trump has reportedly fired White House strategist Steve Bannon. The New York Times said Trump had decided to jettison the controversial top White House strategist. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Friday would be Bannon’s last day. Bannon is considered a champion of the far right wing and had feuded with Trump’s…
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