For the first time in its 20-year history, Latina magazine has endorsed a political candidate, reports The Huffington Post. The magazine announced Friday, October 14, that it is officially endorsing Hillary Clinton and taking a stand against the candidacy of Donald Trump. The magazine further explained its stance in a statement on the website. “After […]
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USATwin baby boys conjoined at the head were successfully separated Friday following a 16 hour surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. The 13-month-old brothers, Jadon and Anias McDonald, now have a chance at a more independent future. Jadon was the first to exit the operating room after more than 16 hours of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABangkok (dpa) – Former Thai prime minister and Head of Privy Council Prem Tinsulanonda has assumed the role of regent for the country’s vacant throne in accordance with the constitution, the Thai government confirmed. In a televised interview from government house late Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Visanu Krua-ngam said that according to the country’s 1991
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InternationalIn a major international step towards battling climate change, 197 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on the greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners. The deal – which includes the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China – divides countries into three groups with different deadlines for
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International, The World We ShareNewly appointed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told FRANCE 24 Saturday that resolving Syria’s five-and-a-half-year civil war would be his top priority. This war “became not only a tragedy for the Syrian people, but a big threat for the stability of the region, and a threat to the security of everybody everywhere”, the former UN high
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International, Middle EastTo understand how Donald Trump’s comments and alleged mistreatment of women are stoking the anxiety of other Republicans, look no further than the private appeal sent Wednesday to a billionaire from a super PAC backing Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey. Without a last-minute infusion of money, Republicans could lose the Senate, the Prosperity for Pennsylvania PAC
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USAThe Islamic State group has crushed a rebellion plot in its stronghold city of Mosul in Iraq, Reuters reported Friday. The conspiracy was reportedly lead by one of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s own aides, who along with 57 others, were executed for treason. The accused were drowned and their bodies dumped in a
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — At 10 o’clock in the morning on April 16, 2007 sirens sounded all over Israel and the country came to a standstill, people stopped what they were doing, pulled over in their cars and stood in remembrance. It was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day to remember
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — In Becoming a Soulful Educator, by Rabbi Aryeh Ben David, every chapter has “aha” moments and statements that you will want to frame and hang on your wall, and he is liberal in attributing ideas to those who have inspired him – Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook, Peter Palmer,
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Toby Klein GreenwaldBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted on 13th October against the very principles that it was created. UNESCO was founded in 1945 after World War Two to establish humanity’s moral and intellectual solidarity. It says it strives to build networks among nations to enable this
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAWhen Noah Leavitt and Helen Kim first met and started dating in graduate school in 1997, they didn’t know many other couples that looked like them. Fast forward a decade, and the Jewish-American Leavitt and the Korean-American Kim, by then married and soon to become parents to the first of their two children, started to
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International, USAAnother woman murdered in Lod leaves campaigners arguing over how to classify such deaths, to prevent dismissing them as an ‘Arab problem’ By Melanie Lidman Dua’a Abu Sharkh had been looking forward to September 23, 2016, for months. After an ugly separation from her husband, Abu Sharkh had lost custody of her four children, aged
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Middle EastLas Vegas (dpa) – If Bob Dylan was impressed by his recent Nobel literature prize win, he certainly did not let it show onstage in Las Vegas on Thursday. The 75-year-old rock legend took the stage for a previously planned show at the Cosmopolitan casino’s Chelsea music hall with not a word to the crowd
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAThis story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. Few things are more awesome than listening to kids playing on the playground. There’s magic in that mix of laughter and exhausted breaths — giggle, pant, giggle. Just the other Saturday at Maplewood’s Memorial Park, I was watching my 5-year-old playing with his friends
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