One of the last people to know members of Germany’s Nazi leadership in person has died in Munich at the age of 106. Brunhilde Pomsel was a former secretary to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister. In a documentary produced last year she talked about the three years she spent working for one of the 20th
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International, Jewish HistoryAccused of borderline anti-Semitism, former British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge lobs inflammatory statements in tennis-like conversation on J-TV By Jenni Frazer LONDON — Baroness Jenny Tonge, one of Israel’s fiercest critics in the UK, has claimed on Facebook that she was “interrogated” on the Jewish current affairs channel, J-TV, and that she had been “caught
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International, Middle EastLOS ANGELES — The travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump has had a minor impact on U.S.-based airlines but has forced foreign airlines to scramble, even prompting one carrier to switch out a flight crew to comply with the action. Trump’s executive order to temporarily bar travelers from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food, USAWASHINGTON — The lawmaker who spurred Donald Trump’s sweeping temporary halt on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries says he told the soon-to-president last year that a so-called Muslim ban would be “borderline unconstitutional.” Rep. Mike McCaul, the Texas Republican who heads the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of Trump’s national security advisory
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Middle East, USACatalyst behind Muhammad Shinawi’s attacks was girlfriend calling him ‘Jew lover,’ Shin Bet says; 2 indicted as accessories By Judah Ari Gross Muhammad Shinawi, Khaled bin Atef Abu Kleib and Ihab bin Ayoub Yusef enter a Haifa court on January 30, 2017. Shinawi is accused of murder and attempted murder for shooting attacks in the
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Middle EastA number of company chief executives, ranging from Starbucks Corp.’s Howard Schultz to Google’s Sundar Pichai, have spoken out about or taken action after President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on refugees. Trump signed a controversial executive order Friday that blocks all refugee entry for 120 days, with an indefinite block on Syrian refugee entry.
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The legal morass created by President Donald Trump’s immigration order deepened Monday, with the government’s top lawyer instructing Justice Department attorneys not to defend the policy in court. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama administration holdover serving until Trump’s nominee is installed, said in a letter released to reporters late Monday that
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International, Middle East, USASEATTLE — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to invalidate key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring all refugees and immigration by citizens of seven majority Muslim countries. The lawsuit — the first challenge of Trump’s order to be brought by a state — is backed
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — The Pentagon is compiling a list of Iraqi citizens who have worked with the U.S. military and recommending that they be exempt from President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on visitors from Iraq and six other predominantly Muslim countries, according to the U.S. military. The move could potentially shield tens of thousands of Iraqi
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Middle East, USAWELLINGTON – New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English on Monday said he disagrees with the United States’ entry restrictions on citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries. However, English said he had not made his views known to US President Donald Trump, Radio New Zealand reported. Trump has issued an executive order preventing people from Iran,
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International, Middle East, USAHACKENSACK, N.J. — An 8-year-old North Jersey transgender boy who was kicked out of the Cub Scouts was asked to rejoin in what amounts to a major shift in policy for the Boy Scout of America, which issued a statement on Monday night indicating that it’s opening its membership to transgender children. “Starting today, we
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USAThe Somalia presidential electoral committee has cleared 24 candidates to vie for the top seat. The committee, composed of members of the Lower and Upper houses, also announced that the election will take place in Mogadishu on February 8. The candidates include incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, former transitional president
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InternationalFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Iraq War veteran charged with killing five people and injuring six others in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale’s international airport pleaded not guilty to the allegations against him on Monday. Esteban Santiago, 26, leaned over the wooden lectern in court and appeared to read along as U.S. Magistrate Judge
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USALOS ANGELES — Anyone tuning in to the SAG Awards on Sunday thinking they might be escaping news headlines for a couple of hours was quickly disabused of that notion as winner after winner used the platform to speak out against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. “This immigrant ban is a blemish and is un-American,”
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