Dr. Ben Carson has spoken out about his neighbors displaying Confederate flags and his home being targeted by vandals in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The secretary of Housing and Urban Development wrote a Facebook post in response to the weekend’s events in which clashes broke out at a white supremacist rally, […]
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USAWASHINGTON — The commander and executive officer of a U.S. Navy destroyer were relieved from command as punishment for a collision with a container ship off Japan that killed seven sailors in June, one of the worst naval accidents in years, the Navy said Thursday. Cmdr. Bryce Benson, commander of the Fitzgerald, and Cmdr. Sean
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International, USAAn Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from politicians by wearing a burqa in parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on the Islamic face veil. Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation party, sat wearing the black head-to-ankle garment for more than 10 minutes before taking it
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InternationalIt’s no small feat for a French Muslim woman from a disenfranchised suburb of Paris to make it on stage, let alone as a stand-up comedian. Enter Samia Orosemane. At the start of her Paris one-woman show “Femme de Couleurs” (“Woman of Colors”), the 37-year-old comedian of Tunisian descent walks on stage to a mashup
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON — Are tensions cooling in the Korean Peninsula? The United States and South Korea will find out Monday, when the two allies are scheduled to start joint military exercises that are known to anger North Korea, sometimes triggering a show of force. This year’s war games come at a particularly delicate moment. There have
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International, USAThe children of country music titan Johnny Cash issued a strong and unequivocal statement about their father’s legacy Wednesday after a video captured a protester wearing a T-shirt with Cash’s name on it at the violent racial clash in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. The rally resulted in the death of one counter-protester and injured
A neo-Nazi who said he was “ready for violence” at the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has released footage of himself weeping after learning there is allegedly a warrant out for his arrest. Christopher Cantwell, who was followed during the gathering of neo-Nazis, KKK, white supremacists and alt-right for a 22-minute documentary for VICE, showed
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USASuspect turns himself in to police after footage shows him flipping off camera, relieving himself on Jewish house of prayer By Times of Israel staff Security footage of a man in Philadelphia urinating on a wall next to the entrance of Congregation Beth Solomon on August 13, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube) A man in Philadelphia
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USALOS ANGELES—Dina Chernick had just arrived for breakfast Thursday at a Jewish deli in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, but she already had a bad case of indigestion. She could thank President Donald Trump for that. “Here’s this guy and he’s talking about uniting the country and then he makes these terribly divisive statements,” said Chernick, an
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Middle East, USAThe guy who helped President Donald Trump write his seminal book “The Art of the Deal” said the former reality TV star will soon leave the White House on his own accord. In a series of tweets Wednesday, Tony Schwartz—who co-authored the 1987 book that helped define the real estate magnate’s public image—said he thought
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USAWASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday denounced white nationalists involved in violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., calling them “racial bigots” and saying their views are “totally abhorrent to the American ideal.” DeVos, a former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and longtime school-choice advocate from west Michigan, made the statement in an email
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USAWashington (dpa) – White House advisor Steve Bannon took a swing at rivals in the Trump administration, telling a liberal magazine in a rare interview that officials who do not want to take a hard line on China are “wetting themselves.” Bannon told The American Prospect that the US is at “economic war with China.”
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USAJewish Home leader says he won’t discriminate based on sexual orientation after rabbi quits party over spokeswoman’s employment By Alexander Fulbright Education Minister Naftali Bennett seen at the Knesset on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett came to the defense of his spokeswoman Thursday after a leading rabbi left the
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Middle EastWASHINGTON — A New York Democrat is drafting legislation to require the Pentagon rename any military installations named for Confederate generals, part of an urgent effort by black lawmakers to force public institutions to stop celebrating historical figures who defended slavery. “Naming military property after armed insurrectionists with American blood on their hands is an
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