Donald H. Harrison

California will soon provide ethnic studies classes for all high schoolers. Here’s why.

In a second-floor classroom at San Francisco’s Washington High School, David Ko is leading freshmen in a discussion about bullying. But it’s not the typical conversation about treating others nicely. “We’re learning about power — political, economic, social — our race, ethnicity, culture, nationality,” says 14-year-old freshman James Liu. That’s because ethnic studies is not […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Netanyahu family affairs and politics are closely watched

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s interests, not personalities that is likely to determine what happens.. There may be no better demonstration than the persona and family of Benyamin Netanyahu and the political career of Israel’s Prime Minister. Just last week Sara spent 12 hours being questioned by the police about the management of the

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Mike Pence on Donald Trump’s 35 percent tariff: I’m for ‘putting everything on the table’

Vice President-elect Mike Pence on Tuesday said he’s for putting “everything on the table” in negotiations when asked about President-elect Donald Trump’s call for a 35 percent tariff on companies that move overseas and try to sell goods back to the United States. “I’m for us putting everything on the table in negotiations, in renegotiating

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Netanyahu to Discuss ‘Bad’ Iran Deal With Trump

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the country’s government is acting as it wishes in its settlement policy in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, and that any pressure from the U.S. administration does not change this. Addressing a Washington conference via videolink from Jerusalem, Netanyahu, when asked if the U.S. election

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Middle East, USA

Obama pledges the ‘unwavering support’ of the nation for Oakland fire victims

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama mourned the deaths in the weekend’s warehouse fire in Oakland that killed at least 36, saying in a statement Monday that his administration was in close contact with local and state officials to monitor the response. “While we still don’t know the full toll of this disaster, we do know

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Warning about plot to blow up Universal City station prompts heightened security across LA

LOS ANGELES — An overseas tip about an imminent bombing of the Metro Red Line’s Universal City station has forced federal and local law enforcement in Los Angeles to swiftly ramp up security across its sprawling transit system, authorities said Monday. An anonymous man warned of a potential attack to take place Tuesday and provided

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Absentee Dylan has written thank-you speech for Nobel banquet

Stockholm (dpa) – Although rock legend Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel Literature Laureate, will not attend the upcoming award ceremony his words will ring out there, organizers said Monday. US singer Patti Smith was to perform Dylan’s song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at Saturday’s award ceremony in Stockholm’s Concert Hall, the Nobel Foundation said.

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA