Here at The World, both host Marco Werman and I listen to a lot of music. And we often have the honor to speak with the musicians who make it. Recently I had the pleasure to speak with one talented artist — Moken. Moken is the stage name for artist Kenneth Nunga. He’s originally from […]
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAThe men Donald Trump has been warning us about are sitting in a classroom in Baltimore. “When you look at that migration, you see so many young, strong men,” the Republican presidential nominee said a campaign rally in April, lamenting the waves of refugees pouring into Europe. “You don’t see that many women and children.”
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International, USAThursday is the 100th anniversary of the law that created the US National Park Service. The vast system includes parks featuring spectacular scenery and sites that are historically and culturally famous all over the world. Seattle (dpa) – The US system of US national parks is one of extremes. There is a park where the
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The World We Share, USALos Angeles (dpa) – Two Renaissance paintings seized by the Nazis during World War II will remain the property of a California museum after a US court Monday ruled against a claim by the family of the Jewish art dealer from whom they were taken. Judge John F Walter of the US District Court in
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAIn an appearance on late-night television, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tried to laugh off recent questions over her health, saying such attacks are part of Republicans’ “wacky” strategy against her. “This has become one of their themes,” Mrs. Clinton said, asking host Jimmy Kimmel to take her pulse and make sure she’s alive during
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USAEmails just released by the State Department appear to show Clinton Foundation officials brokering a meeting between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a top military leader of Bahrain — a Middle Eastern country that is a major foundation donor. Soon after the correspondence about a meeting, Clinton’s State Department significantly increased arms export authorizations
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – In advance of the first presidential election in 50 years without a fully operable Voting Rights Act (VRA), an American civil rights group is urging the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to expand its election monitoring mission in the United States and to target resources to states
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International, USACHICAGO, Illinois (Press Release)– A handful of African-American leaders who are top advisors to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), and who represent more than 9 million people, today rejected the anti-Israel stance of the Movement for Black Lives, an offshoot of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Fellowship advisers representing three African-American
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Middle East, USAVirginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that he has individually restored the voting rights of 13,000 felons, a move undertaken after the state Supreme Court rescinded a prior executive action that restored the right to vote en masse to more than 200,000 former inmates. The Democratic governor said individual restoration orders were mailed out to
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USAWashington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama returned to Washington from his final summer vacation as president late Sunday to an agenda that will feature battles with a Republican-controlled Congress and regular campaigning for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton. Along with First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama spent just over two weeks
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USAORLANDO, Fla. — Lane Graves bent over to scoop wet sand into his small plastic bucket when the alligator struck. The 2-year-old wanted to build a sandcastle on the beach at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa after stormy weather canceled a scheduled outdoor movie. His father, who was standing nearby with his wife and
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The World We Share, USAHey, Republican Party. African-American voter here. I hear you’ve been looking for me, but you’re sending out such wildly mixed messages that I’m not sure if I should be flattered or furious. Hat No. 2 fits me pretty snugly right now. Here’s why. Your national standard-bearer, Donald Trump, is making an explicit appeal for my
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USAI call foul on the naked Donald Trump statues. I’m not the first person to register my discontent, but I’m chiming in because we have about 2 { more months until the presidential election, and we can all do better. Anarchist art collective Indecline placed life-size sculptures of the Republican presidential candidate in New York,
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