International

Preempting Knesset vote, Joint List MK forgoes immunity

Basel Ghattas paves way for likely arrest over accusation he smuggled phones to Palestinian security prisoners By Raoul Wootliff MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Lahav 433 police investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016. (Roy Alima/Flash90) Joint (Arab) List MK Basel Ghattas announced Thursday he would waive his parliamentary immunity, hours before a planned […]

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Middle East

Trump’s pick for the Office of Management and Budget questions why the government funds science

Holding the purse strings Gage Skidmore Mick Mulvaney Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) The Office of Managment and Budget might seem like a less prominent position than, for example, the head of the EPA or the Department of Energy, but it’s a vitally important job. From

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

An obnoxious passenger berated Ivanka Trump and her family on a flight, so JetBlue took action

Ivanka Trump, daughter of President-elect Donald Trump, faced verbal harassment on an airplane on Thursday morning, reports TMZ. While traveling with her family from John F. Kennedy International Airport, a fellow passenger sharing the future First Daughter’s JetBlue flight began to scream, “Your father is ruining the country.” In a fashion described as “jeering,” the

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USA

Jewish community brings Yazidis fleeing IS brutality to Canada

Winnipeg’s Operation Ezra privately sponsors refugee families who have been chased from their homes By Emily Rose Two Yazidi families being greeted by local volunteers after a privately sponsored mission called Operation Ezra brought them to Winnipeg, Manitoba on December 20, 2016 (Nafiya Naso) After suffering at the hands of Islamic State group militants and

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International, Middle East

Trump’s newest adviser wants to mine the moon

The addition of Charles Miller to the NASA “landing party” bodes well for private space companies Artist concept of a moon colony via NASA Will Donald Trump shift NASA’s sights from Mars to the moon? Every time America gets a new president, NASA undergoes an upheaval. The agency gets new leadership, and sometimes major programs

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International, The World We Share, USA

Obama on Political Correctness: ‘Don’t Go Around Just Looking For Insults’

Obama: ‘Don’t Go Around Just Looking For Insults’ The newest person to say that liberals should stop trying to be offended by everything under the sun is none other than President Obama himself. Obama was being interviewed by NPR last week when he was asked if he agreed with President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment that political

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USA

Marine Le Pen reportedly short of funds for 2017 French presidential run

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen lacks the resources needed to fund a presidential campaign in 2017 because French banks refuse to lend her National Front party money for political reasons, a senior party official said Monday. National Front party Secretary General Nicolas Bay told Europe 1 radio that he had asked for a loan

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International

Clarence Thomas Should Be Included in the African-American History Museum

On Sept. 24, 2016, after years of effort, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was finally opened to the public. The Smithsonian’s new museum has been rightly praised for its detailed, complex, and powerful portrayal of the African-American experience in the United States. As the Wall Street Journal and New York Times

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USA

What Trump, Friedman may auger for Israel, Palestine

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Trump’s choice of David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel appears to be an excellent decision. It has already brought howls of protest from people invested heavily in the Oslo and subsequent accords, the “peace process” and the concept of the United States as an “evenhanded” broker between Israelis

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

President-Elect Trump: Berlin Attack Proves I’m ‘100% Correct’ on Muslim Ban

Trump: Berlin Attack Proves Muslim Ban Would be ‘100% Correct’ (Image via Screenshot) President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday condemned the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin earlier this week as an “attack on humanity.” “It’s an attack on humanity — that’s what it is,” said Trump, speaking to reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago, Fla., residence.

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International, USA

Obama moves to block Trump, bans offshore drilling in federal waters

Vowing that his successor won’t be able to reverse his actions, President Obama on Tuesday used executive authority to permanently ban new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean. Mr. Obama used authority in a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to

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USA

California secession organizers say they’ve opened an embassy in Moscow

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California gained an embassy in Russia last weekend, at least in the eyes of those who have promised to seek a statewide vote on secession, nicknamed “Calexit,” in 2018. Louis Marinelli, a San Diego resident who is the leader of the group promoting an effort to turn the state into an independent

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