SIMSBURY, Connecticut — Ben Harris knelt in the dirt under the mid-morning sun and pulled weeds. If left unchecked the thin blades would quickly overtake the nine rows of newly emerging potato plants. Covering two-and-a-half acres, the Root Down Farm is one of several Jewish farms dotting this small New England state — a concentration […]
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USAAt a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, Donald Trump delivered a message to evangelicals that if he wins the White House in November, he will fiercely defend religious freedom. Addressing evangelical leaders from across the country in New York City, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee did not specify whether he would back some form of the
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USAThe for-profit college industry may be unpopular with the Obama administration, but it still has many friends in high places. Celebrities like talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and government officials like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., have ties to the increasingly controversial education system, according to a report out Tuesday by David Halperin, a lawyer and
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USATel Aviv (dpa) – Israel supports the global pact that bans nuclear weapons tests, but the country is not yet ready to formally join it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear on Monday. Israel signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996, but has yet to turn it into law by ratifying it. Netanyahu told Lassina
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Middle EastOrlando Police Chief John Mina (L), answers question during a news conference with Ronald Hopper, FBI assistant special agent in charge (M), and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer (R), as he gives updates about the recent mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Monday, June 20, 2016, in Orlando,Florida.[Photo/IC] ORLANDO – The Florida nightclub killer called himself
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USAStuttgart, Germany (dpa) – A lawmaker with the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party whose membership was under dispute said Tuesday that he will no longer be active in the group. Wolfgang Gedeon, a physician-turned-AfD-lawmaker in the wealthy southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, made the announcement after a party meeting that was originally supposed to decide
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International, Jewish HistoryCairo (dpa) – Egypt’s plan to hand two Red Sea islands over to Saudi Arabia has been struck down by an administrative court, in a major blow to President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on one of the most controversial issues he’s faced since taking office. The courtroom erupted in cheers as judge Yahya al-Dakrouri ruled that the
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Middle EastA car bomb killed several Jordanian soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the Syrian border on Tuesday, the army said. “At 5:30 a.m. a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district opposite the Syrian refugee camp, killing or wounding several Jordanian soldiers,” a short statement said. The army said that it had
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Middle EastThe President of the European Council has said the European Union will offer an “unprecedented package” to induce Israel and the Palestinian Authority to reach a two-state solution, in a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Brussels. The European Council is essentially the policy-making body of the EU. In his first official visit to
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International, Middle EastA new poll shows Donald Trump trailing Hillary Clinton in Florida, a major battleground state that has played kingmaker in the past, by 8 percentage points. And it appears the businessman’s comments about a judge of Mexican heritage that have been widely condemned may be at least part of the reason he’s being pulled down:
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USABernie Sanders may have lost the Democratic primary contest for president (yes, it’s over, even if he hasn’t formally conceded), but his campaign looks to be a win-win for his career in the Senate, where he returned Monday night. Voting for the first time since January—on a series of gun regulation proposals—the Vermont Independent attracted
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USADonald Trump has faced many a foe in his long career, from New York journalists who made fun of his finger size, to real estate sharks and labor union officials, to stiffed lenders and angry corporate board members. But heading into the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, he’s coming up against the unlikeliest of formidable
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USAIsrael is advancing a plan to build a billion-dollar artificial island off the coast of Gaza to connect the coastal enclave to the rest of the world, the country’s Intelligence and Transport Minister said on Monday. Yisrael Katz said that the project would cost some $5 billion and would see a five kilometer bridge stretching
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The world’s youngest Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, has often been compared to Anne Frank. Both kept diaries in times when rulers subjugated those whom they believed to be racially or religiously inferior. Both Anne and Malala suffered through warfare, their lives constantly threatened, respectively by the
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