WASHINGTON — A group of Michiganders, including a Yemeni student and a Syrian seeking to become a permanent U.S. resident, are among those who Monday filed a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s order suspending the entry of refugees and others from several majority-Muslim nations. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Virginia, wants a
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., who argued against a proposed ban on Muslim immigration in December 2015, said Monday he supports President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. After a weekend of silence amid national turmoil and confusion, Toomey said in a statement Monday morning: “I
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International, Middle East, USAPresident George W. Bush stayed out of President Barack Obama’s business for the eight years Mr. Obama ruled the country. It took a little more than one week for Mr. Obama to criticize President Donald Trump. Through his spokesman, Mr. Obama said he was “heartened” by all of the anti-Trump protests that have erupted throughout
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International, Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump’s disapproval ratings spiked over the weekend, making him the first president to receive the highest disapproval ratings within the least amount of time, according to a recent Gallup survey. The presidential approval study, which has been conducted by Gallup since the Truman administration, concluded that more than half the nation was dissatisfied
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International, Middle East, USAMore than one million people in the United Kingdom have signed a petition asking the government to cancel President Donald Trump’s state visit, according to NBC News. Apparently, President Donald Trump’s reputation for “misogyny and vulgarity,” combined with last weekend’s executive order calling for a Muslim ban, has infuriated quite a number of people across
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International, USAThere are at least thousands of people who don’t believe President Donald Trump could really be behind the executive order that blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations and turns away Syrian refugees fleeing war and destruction. Instead, they’re pointing to a likelier suspect—Trump strategist Stephen Bannon—and want him stopped. RELATED: Trump aides say the immigration
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International, Middle East, USABend the Arc distressed by Bannon’s influence NEW YORK (Press Release) – In response to multiple news reports on the expanding role of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon within the Trump administration, Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, released the following statement: “We are deeply distressed by recent indications that Steve Bannon,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Neither the United States nor Israel should be intimidated by Palestinian predictions of violence if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Sam Gundwerg, Israel’s consul general in Los Angeles, said Monday during a San Diego
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, USAPBS map Diplomatic spat opens between Israel and Mexico after Netanyahu tweet on walls (JNS.org) The ongoing U.S.-Mexico tension over a border wall extended to Israel following a tweet by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that commented on Israel’s successful fence along its border with Egypt. “President Trump is right,” Netanyahu tweeted Saturday night. “I
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One of the most curious findings about the 2017 election is that 53 percent of White women voted for Trump. Traits associated with education were influential. Sixty-two percent of White women without a college degree voted for Trump. We may see changes in the data as more sophisticated analyses appear. However,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘He who tires of London has tired of life,’ wrote Samuel Johnson, and I dare say he had a point. Even in the dead of winter, when the bone-chilling cold really does chill every inch of bone in your body, the place has its pleasures provided you are suitably
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodPresident Donald Trump lashed out at Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham Sunday, accusing the two of “looking to start World War III.” McCain, R-Ariz., and Graham, R-S.C., warned Trump suspending arrivals of refugees and others from seven Muslim-majority countries would do more to help terrorist recruiting efforts than enhance U.S. security. “Ultimately, we fear
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Middle East, USAEliezer Lawrence “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?” Thus said Hillel the Elder in Ethics of our Fathers 1:14, and his words could not be more resonant. As my friends and I drove home from the
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Jewish Religion, USAATLANTA �� William H. Pryor Jr., who is on President Donald Trump’s short list to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, has left a trail of writings and statements that inflame liberal interest groups across the country. But unexpected resistance from social conservatives appears to have moved Pryor, who sits on the federal appeals court
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