Students at an all-girl Kentucky Catholic school will not face expulsion after playing a game of “Swastika beer pong,” the latest in a string of “Jews v. Nazis” drinking games in the U.S. The teenagers involved in the drinking game at St. Teresa’s Academy were pictured on social media app Snapchat playing the game, but […]
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USAJournalist Amir Tibon and his book, ‘The Last Palestinian.’ (Courtesy) The murder of two Israeli police by a Palestinian gunman on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in July led to an escalation of violence that caused Israeli security to place metal detectors at entrances to the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In retaliation, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
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Middle East, USAOne of North Korea’s top officials further escalated tensions and threats with the United States. Due to President Donald Trump calling the North’s leader Kim Jong Un “rocket man,” the country’s foreign minister told the United Nations Saturday Trump made an attack by the North on the U.S. mainland “inevitable,” according to Reuters. “Through such
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International, USAIran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that it was ready to ditch a landmark nuclear deal over the issue. State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high-profile military parade in Tehran on
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Middle East, USAUS senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called for Washington to adopt a friendlier approach to Iran, and said he would consider supporting slashing US aid to Israel over the Jewish state’s policies towards the Palestinians. In an interview Thursday with The Intercept, the Jewish senator said the US was “complicit” in what he
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has picked fights with two of the nation’s most popular professional sports leagues, setting off a Twitter war with top athletes who were quick to fight back in an extraordinary display of political trash-talking with thinly veiled racial undertones. Even National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell jumped into the fray
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Sports & Competitions, USAUS bombers flew off the east coast of North Korea Saturday in a show of force designed to project American military power in the face of Pyongyang’s weapons programs, escalating already sky-high tensions. The flight came after days of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s regime, as
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International, USASAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Hurricane Maria continued to cross the Caribbean on Friday, officials in Puerto Rico took stock of the deadly toll the historic storm left in its wake: nearly half of the storm’s total death toll of 32. At least 15 people were killed in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo
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USACartoonist and satirist Eli Valley. (Loubna Mrie) NEW YORK — Virtually no person or subject is safe from cartoonist and satirist Eli Valley’s knifelike nib. Throughout his career he’s skewered Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. He’s taken umbrage at the notion that intermarriage will erode one’s
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USAMEXICO CITY — It’s been a tough year for U.S.-Mexico relations. The countries are locked in tense talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, and Mexican public opinion of the U.S. has plummeted as President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Mexico and vowed to make it pay for construction of a border wall.
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International, USANorth Korea indicated it may soon test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un warned he would match U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatening words and new sanctions with equally provocative action. The North Korean leader responded Friday to Trump’s United Nations address this week, when the U.S. leader
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International, USAMany White House staffers are reportedly contacting job recruiters, headhunters and seemingly anyone who can get them out of the Trump administration. Normally, West Wing staffers remain with an administration for at least a year or two not only to adorn the top of their resumes but also to avoid the bad optics that leaving
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USAWASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., dealt a critical blow to Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act on Friday, announcing he will not vote for sweeping repeal legislation that GOP leaders plan to bring to the Senate floor for a vote next week. “We should not be content to pass health
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USAThe Chargers have been the Los Angeles Chargers for only two weeks now, and the 0-2 start isn’t the only thing worrying the organization. Don Banks of The Athletic recently joined the Darren Smith Show in San Diego and he painted a picture that’s quite troublesome for the NFL. Apparently, according to Banks, the league
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