You may have seen one of Micah Bazant’s posters in the window of a local business or, more recently, at a protest somewhere in America. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting immigration and suspending the U.S. refugee resettlement program last week, you’re probably going to start seeing a lot more of them. […]
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International, Middle East, USAIt had to be a first in the annals of presidential diplomacy: a commander-in-chief getting so addled by a phone conversation with a counterpart that he barked at the other leader and then slammed down the phone, 25 minutes into what was intended to be a one-hour conversation. Why a first? Because the leader on
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International, USAA federal judge’s ruling temporarily lifting a ban on travel to the US from certain countries triggered confusion in airports worldwide as airlines began boarding American-bound flights and federal lawyers took steps to reinstate the ban. As the impact of the ruling took hold, President Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter early Saturday morning, referring
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International, Middle East, USACapital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political and social issues. In her home state of Michigan, Amway heiress Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, has been a fierce proponent of taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, arguing that “choice” would fix the state’s ailing public education system.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPHILADELPHIA �� Federal authorities have identified a Philadelphia journalist as the woman who infiltrated and might have secretly recorded a private discussion of congressional Republicans at their retreat last week, law enforcement sources familiar with the matter said. The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Emily Guendelsberger is unlikely to face federal
Jim Mattis not planning to boost troop numbers in the Middle East US imposes fresh sanctions Tehran denounces them as “illegal” Military exercises have got underway in Iran. The country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC):http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7064353.stm, a branch of the armed forces, say the exercises show Tehran is prepared to confront the threat posed by what
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Middle East, USASEATTLE—In one of the strongest blows yet to President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, a federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered an immediate nationwide halt to enforcement of the order that has caused havoc at airports and sown confusion among thousands of visa holders and refugees. The temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Robert Fulford is known in Canada as a distinguished journalist and public intellectual of note. He has warm personal ties to the Jewish community and is a great supporter of the State of Israel. His latest column in the National Post has the title, “Israel always seems to be
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International, Middle East, USAKnesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met yesterday with his counterpart, House of Representatives head Paul Ryan and afterwards with the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, Bob Corker. At the meeting with Ryan Edelstein expressed his support for transferring the American embassy to Jerusalem and said that he would be happy if the
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Middle East, USAHistory, border stances compared to Trump’s CORDOBA, Argentina | With President Trump’s travel ban dominating global headlines, another businessman-turned-president is using his executive powers to toughen immigration rules and speed the deportations of undesirable migrants. But unlike Mr. Trump, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri isn’t making good on a campaign promise but trying to boost his party’s
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International, USAThe House voted Thursday to cancel an Obama administration rule that would have had Social Security add names from its files to the list of people prohibited from buying guns in the national background check system. Under the rule, which got final approval as President Obama was heading out the door in December, the Social
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USAWASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, admitted Friday that she mistakenly cited a nonexistent “massacre” while defending the president’s order suspending entry to refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations. Conway’s backtrack came on Twitter, hours after she received widespread criticism for an MSNBC interview in which she cited “the
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Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump is being candid and firm with world leaders, just as he was with the U.S. public during the 2016 campaign, according to Vice President Mike Pence. “I think the American people have a president that is candid with them and candid with the world, and his conversations with world leaders reflect a
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International, USARex Tillerson, the newly confirmed secretary of state, gently told State Department employees Thursday to unite under the new president. Tillerson, sworn in on Wednesday, had to address the issue in his first speech to State employees because of the leaks of President Donald Trump’s transcripts made to the media, leaks ostensibly committed by federal
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