Sadiq Khan, London’s newly elected mayor and the first Muslim to hold the office, slammed Donald Trump as “ignorant” after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Mr. Khan could be an “exception” to his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. The mayor told BuzzFeed that Mr. Trump’s “ignorant view of Islam” could […]
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, May 10, called on Donald Trump to renounce the support of William Johnson, one of the country’s most well-known white supremacists, who recently applied to and was accepted by the Trump campaign as a state delegate to the Republican presidential primary in California. Johnson’s name was reportedly
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — Are you an “adherence-to-the-law” person? Do you believe that law and order is to be respected and followed always and in all circumstances? Or are you a “respond to different needs” person? You believe that there are circumstances that permit needs to be considered on an individual basis—not
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAAlmost a year into his surreal campaign for president, the American political class still doesn’t know what to make of Donald Trump. The billionaire mogul’s defiance of all the standard rules of American politics, not to mention the orthodoxy of his own party, has left pundits scrambling to explain his takeover of the Republican Party.
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Representative Peter J. Roskam is warning American and European companies not to sell airplanes and other products to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today, he took to the House floor to continue sounding the alarm bells over The Boeing Company’s ongoing negotiations with government-run airlines in Iran. Last week, he joined
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Middle East, USABernie Sanders surprised Stephen Colbert Monday, a day before the West Virginia Democratic primary, with a simple message: He is not giving up. During the cold open of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Colbert had just gotten his hand stuck in a vending machine trying to retrieve a 100 Grand bar, when in
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWhen I met Françoise Gilot in London in 1968, she seemed impressively confident and highly articulate. Two things she said stick in my memory. One of her regular chores while living with Picasso, she recalled, was to get him out of bed every day around noon. Each time he was reluctant to begin a new
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationFrance is gearing up security for the Cannes film festival set to kick off this week with bomb sweeps, hundreds of extra police and the help of a former Israeli general, as the country faces its highest-ever terror threat. The 69th Cannes Film Festival comes six months after Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated attacks in
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTwo elderly women were stabbed and moderately injured in a suspected terror attack at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in southern Jerusalem, police said Tuesday morning. Both women were rushed to a local hospital in moderate condition, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. An MDA spokesperson said the two were in their 80s,…
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Middle EastUS Secretary of State John Kerry waffled over whether the US would attend a conference May 30 in Paris to force talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) Monday, shortly before a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. “Well, it depends on timing and when we do it,” he began. “We”re going to
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International, Middle East, USAOne of the most prominent leaders of the so-called Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) against Israel – who ironically has been studying at Tel Aviv University for the past several years – has been denied travel documents by the Israeli interior ministry. Palestinian Arab Omar Barghouti was informed last month that the interior ministry
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationStories about Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau The fate of nearly 900 men held in an Australian detention center in Papua New Guinea is unlikely to be determined for several months, Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Monday. That timetable could put the politically sensitive decision beyond a
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International
Over 20 feet wide, the mural hanging from the ceiling of Burlington, Vermont’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue is a survivor in multiple senses. Painted by a Lithuanian immigrant in 1910, it is a rare example of the wall paintings that once adorned the wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe that were destroyed in the Holocaust. “There is
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
A Scottish man was arrested after a video of him teaching his dog to make a Nazi salute and respond to the phrase “gas the Jews” sparked outrage among Jewish groups. Markus Meechan, 28, was detained on suspicion of committing a hate crime and spent a night in jail, the Daily Mail said Monday. The
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