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California history teacher on leave for comparing Trump to Hitler

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A history teacher at Mountain View High School has been placed on paid leave after drawing parallels between Republican President-elect Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in his lesson plan. Frank Navarro, who has taught at the school for 40 years, was asked to leave midday Thursday after a parent sent an […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

In neighbourhood targeted by Paris attacks, “something has changed forever”

To mark the first anniversary of a series of coordinated Islamic State group attacks on the French capital, commemorations were held at each of the sites targeted. France 24 visited Paris’s 11th district to see how life has changed for residents. On the morning of Saturday, November 12, residents in Paris’s 11th arrondissement (district) woke

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International

Priebus named White House chief of staff

President-elect Donald Trump named Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff Sunday, suggesting an increased willingness by Trump to work within Washington’s system to accomplish his agenda. At the same time, however, Trump announced that Stephen K. Bannon, his campaign CEO who helped amplify some of Trump’s most incendiary

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Uncovered letters shed light on Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig

The Jewish Austrian author Stefan Zweig corresponded with an aspiring writer for years before the Nazis rose to power in Germany. These previously unknown letters have now emerged decades after his death. Tel Aviv (dpa) – The letters from one of the most important writers of the 1920s and 1930s had sat in a bank

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle East

Arab taxi driver recognized as ‘victim of enemy hostilties’

After he was beaten up by five Jewish youths in downtown Jerusalem, Ishaq abu-Jibne, a Palestinian-Arab taxi driver, has been recognized by the police as a “victim of enemy hostilities.” The incident, which happened in August, involved the Jewish youths saying, “This is our country, go work in Gaza.” Though abu-Jibne tried to leave, the

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Middle East

China commemorates 150th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen’s birth

BEIJING — Officials and residents in many parts of China gathered Saturday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen’s birth. Born in 1866, Sun is the forerunner of China’s democratic revolution and an instrumental player in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and ending feudalism in China. In Zhongshan City in south China’s Guangdong Province, his

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International

‘The emergency number was out of action’ New Zealand hit by major earth tremor

New Zealand’s South Island has been hit by a powerful tremor. The quake struck in the middle of the night with a magnitude of around 7.8. Severe 6.6 earthquake hits Hanmer Springs, felt widely across New Zealand https://t.co/8NXkRLDnlL pic.twitter.com/3GfstxnMXG— Stuff.co.nz News (@NZStuff) November 13, 2016 Euronews correspondent Seamus Kerney is in Auckland, this is what

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International

Law Shields Trump From Possible Business Conflicts

This article originally appeared on the International Business Times. Congressman, senators and high-level executive appointees are all required to disclose their financial interests, and recuse themselves from government business that could have an impact on their own bottom line. But no such restrictions exist for presidents—even those like President-elect Donald Trump, whose massive investments and

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