Demonstrators marched out to singing and drums as their six-month protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota drew to an end. Despite last-minute calls for the public to support their cause, their departure was, for the most part, peaceful. We need all your prayers. Tomorrow they will come for us. Regardless, we rise. Keep […]
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USASara Beltran-Hernandez, an undocumented immigrant suffering from a potentially deadly brain tumor, remained in an immigrant detention center Thursday after being “forcibly removed” from a Texas hospital, her law offices told International Business Times. Beltran-Hernandez, a 26-year-old who reportedly fled to the U.S. from domestic violence and other life-threatening issues in El Salvador, was detained
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International, USAShe withstood criticism and sang for him at the inauguration, but now, 16-year-old singer Jackie Evancho is speaking out against President Donald Trump over his decision Wednesday to rescind Barack Obama’s progressive legislation that gave transgender students the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identities. Evancho has a transgender sister, Juliet.
In August of 2002, interrogators at a secret CIA-run prison in Thailand set out to break a Palestinian man they believed was one of al-Qaida’s top leaders. As the CIA’s video cameras rolled, security guards shackled Abu Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate.
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International, Middle East, USAMeeting with two dozen manufacturing CEOs, President Trump said Thursday he’s determined to bring back thousands more “real jobs” to the U.S. and to cut trade deficits with countries such as Mexico and China. “Everything’s going to be based on bringing our jobs back, the good jobs, the real jobs,” the president said at a
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USAWASHINGTON — After nationwide immigration raids this month in which more than 680 people were arrested, the Department of Homeland Security issued a nothing-to-see-here statement downplaying the sweeps as anything out of the ordinary. “ICE conducts these kind of targeted enforcement operations regularly and has for many years,” the agency said last week. But President
President Trump is not an anti-Semite, at least in the strict sense of the word. But you have to be living on another planet — or exclusively watching Fox News — to not realize that his words and actions have led to the worst outburst of anti-Semitic hate crimes in recent U.S. memory. It’s no
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International, USAMEXICO CITY — During a visit to Guatemala, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly contradicted deportation plans made public by the Trump administration just a day earlier. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday after meeting with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Kelly said his agency would return deportees “to their home country as quickly as possible,”
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International, USACHICAGO — Records from former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s divorce case show how he has been able to collect hefty benefit checks from the federal government after serving time in prison for looting hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign fund. Jackson, 51, receives about $138,400 a year — more than he made
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USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) on Thursday endorsed a bill introduced in the South Carolina Legislature which will help combat the growing threat of anti-Semitism on state college campuses. The South Carolina bill follows similar efforts at the federal level and in Virginia and Tennessee. In January, Virginia
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAFrench President Francois Hollande reiterated on Wednesday night that his country is committed to a “two-state solution” for the Middle East conflict. The French leader, addressing an event hosted by the CRIF umbrella grouping of Jewish organizations, said a two-state solution was the only guarantee for Israel to remain a “pluralist and democratic society”, reported
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International, Middle East, USAOn Wednesday, the Trump administration decided to rescind protections offered to transgender youth by President Obama. The move was expected, yet painful. Obama’s interpretation of Title IX, the 1972 equity law, would have allowed trans students to use bathrooms and locker rooms “consistent with their gender identity,” as the May 2016 guidance said. Eleven states
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USAIn the interest of maintaining “balance in the employment of faculty,” Iowa Republican lawmakers are now considering a bill that would make political affiliation a condition of hiring new professors at state universities and require universities to maintain current records of faculty political party affiliation. Under SF288, it would be illegal for the faculty of
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants to overhaul the tax code by August, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday, laying out an aggressive timetable in his first significant public comments since taking office last week. “Our economic agenda, the No. 1 issue is growth, and the first most important thing that will impact growth is
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