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Trump at heart is a creative, aggressive salesman who sees little value in restraining the message he delivers. Sometimes he plays the role of carnival barker, sometimes attack dog. Either way, he'd rather be forceful than accurate. Yet one of his pet boasts is also a true assessment of his unlikely political rise: Donald Trump will be a president like you've never seen before. That is not an invitation to panic. It is a reminder to keep perspective after Ian. 20, when he takes office as the nation's -chief. Trump arrival to the White House with no  previous experience in government, military or national security affairs. He ran on the Republican ticket but values his own business judgment above party particulars. He is bombastic, intemperate, vain, mercurial and hyperbolic. He is also savvy, confident and instinctual. For millions of Americans, he embodies liberation from a suffocating era of insider governance. To these optimistic voters, his presidency brims with p...

North Bay   Jan.15/2017 The city has started clearing banks nearly a month earlier than usual due to the whack of snow that's already fallen so far this winter. Nick Schiavone, the city's director of public works, said Friday that snow removal on some streets has already taken place during the day, including Fisher and Sixth and Fourth avenues. And, he said, night crews will be doing a full blitz of the downtown starting Sunday, hitting areas including Oak, Main and McIntyre streets, along with Cassells and John streets. “We're definitely starting early,” said Schiavone, noting full street removal doesn't typically get underway until early February. He said the public works department started to receive calls from residents about snowbanks. But Schiavone said calls in recent days have been more about road conditions. He said rain, snow and a change in temperature this week have created icy and snow-packed conditions. But Schiavone said the city is hoping to...

The Palestinian people (Arabic) comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses (such as that in 1948), roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine, the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel. In this combined area, as of 2005, Palestinians constituted 49% of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus close to 500,000 Jewish Israeli citizens which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), and 20.8% of the population of Israel proper as Arab citizens of Israel. Many are Palestinian refugees or internally displaced Palestinians, including more than a million in the Gaza Strip, three-quarters of a million in the ...