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Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Brandon Wolf, vice president of the Dru Project, commended host Joy Reid for her apology for the controversy over past homophobic blog posts attributed to her. Wolf then bashed the “homophobic psychopaths” in the White House, saying it Vice President Pence ended up as president, he would put gay people in “concentration camps.” “I just want to cut through it all and keep it very real with people about what we’re up against,” said Wolf. “We have homophobic psychopaths running the United States government today. That’s the reality.” “We have a secretary of state, as...

WASHINGTON—Turkey moved closer to severing its relations with Israel, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly apologize for his government's high-seas military action against a pro-Palestinian flotilla this week in order to avert a formal diplomatic rupture. Senior Israeli officials responded Friday that their government would never apologize for an act of "self defense" and acknowledged that Israel could be on the verge of losing its closest military and economic ally in the Middle East. Such a development, these officials said, would raise new strategic and diplomatic challenges for Israel if Ankara reorients itself away from its historically pro-Israel and...