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For $250,”friends” — or $1000 for a “champion” (photo included) — you too can attend a fundraiser with Chelsea Clinton for her mother at the home of Michael and Sholeh Chegini in Newport Coast, California, according to an invitation to the event obtained by Right Turn. Michael Chegini served on the board of directors and thereafter the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a notorious group with links to the Iranian regime that opposed, among other things, any sanctions on Iran. “The Clintons never miss an opportunity to put money ahead of principle,” a spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition...

JERUSALEM - A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has been cracked — by a 63-year-old immigrant who once had to work as a security guard. Avraham Trahtman, a mathematician who also toiled as a laborer after moving to Israel from Russia, succeeded where dozens failed, solving the elusive "Road Coloring Problem." The conjecture essentially assumed it's possible to create a "universal map" that can direct people to arrive at a certain destination, at the same time, regardless of starting point. Experts say the proposition could have real-life...

The late President Reagan was renowned for espousing Republican unity, so much so that he all but convinced the party faithful that Thou Shall Not Speak Ill of Another Republican was the 11th Commandment. But as officials made nice at the weekend state Republican Party convention and invoked Reagan's name to persuade delegates to rally around Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Gipper would have been shocked by the mysterious buttons left around the Fairmont Hotel and the fliers slipped under delegates' doors in the dead of night. "Where's he taking us? Why are we following?" read one button. Leaflets matched a...