WASHINGTON — House Democrats are introducing a formal resolution to denounce President Donald Trump for saying that “both sides” are to blame for a violent encounter between white supremacists and neo-Nazis and the activists who showed up to protest them. While the censure is unlikely to see traction in the GOP-led House, it serves as […]
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USAWASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not name President Donald Trump in a statement on Wednesday, but clearly sought to distance the Republican Party from the White House’s position on white supremacists. “We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred,” McConnell said in statement. “There are no good neo-Nazis, and
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the White House’s economic advisory council and manufacturing council have been dissolved — panels that consisted of business leaders from firms such as BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, IBM and PepsiCo. The decision came as a wave of the manufacturing council’s members chose to resign. “Rather than putting pressure
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USAWASHINGTON — The last two Republican presidents — George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush — issued an implicit rebuke of the current president Wednesday, as party elders scrambled to limit the fallout from Donald Trump’s stance on neo-Nazis. “America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms,” read the
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USAThe Durham, N.C., woman who said she climbed a ladder to the top of a Confederate statue and put a rope around its neck so the gathered crowd could pull it down it has been arrested. Takiyah Thompson, 22, who admitted she was the one who climbed the ladder — and she said she’d do
In a surprise move, the web services company Cloudflare appears to have ended its relationship with The Daily Stormer, taking the leading neo-Nazi site off the internet for the second time this week. Cloudflare protects websites against common forms of attack, including denial of service, which is known as DDOS. “I have effectively been banned
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USABALTIMORE — Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials. The action comes after Mayor Catherine Pugh pledged to remove four statues
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USAPresident Trump’s question to reporters on Tuesday about the possibility of tearing down historical monuments has been answered by a Chicago pastor: “It’s time.” Bishop James E. Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center made headlines in the Windy City on Wednesday for calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rename Washington Park and remove a statue
The Jewish community in Charlottesville hired armed security to protect its synagogue for the first time after local police declined to provide a guard for the site despite hundreds of white supremacists congregating on the town over the weekend for a rally that resulted in the murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer. Alan Zimmerman, president of
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USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK –Much has been written about Syria’s civil war which has engulfed the country for the past six years, but sadly the mounting death and destruction in Syria has long since become mere statistics. The international community grew comfortably numb to the horror, the likes of which we haven’t seen since
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) –– Gavy Friedson, a former Jerusalemite and a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT, saved a young boy in Jackson Hole, Wyoming while he was on tour explaining how the organization works to local EMS teams. During the lecture to the Jackson Hole ambulance department and EMS teams, the local teams received a call
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Elsinore Castle, Denmark: A giant suit of armor fit for Goliath stands in silent sentry when a dashing Hamlet slips a note into the gauntlet like a prayer at the Western Wall. I’d seen Hamlet before, but Grantham Coleman’s portrayal is now my favorite. He charms with his
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned “neo-Nazism and racism” on Tuesday, following a white supremacist rally in the United States that ended in bloodshed. “Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred,” Netanyahu posted in English on his official Twitter account. US President Donald Trump, who had been under pressure
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Middle East, USAA new film explores the forgotten history of when the Caribbean island became a temporary gem hub after opening its doors to thousands of European Jews fleeing the Nazis By Larry Luxner HAVANA, Cuba — On a hot and steamy Shabbat afternoon in early July, 50 or so Jews gathered in the social hall of
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