International

UC Berkeley fires professor for sexually harassing 4 students

BERKELEY, Calif. — University of California, Berkeley has fired an assistant professor for sexually harassing four students. Blake Wentworth, who taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, was found to have violated the school’s faculty code of conduct and its sexual harassment policy, the school said. The firing, effective immediately, apparently ends

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Trump talks terrorism while Europe shouts, ‘Climate!’

TAORMINA, Italy — While terrorism may top President Donald Trump’s agenda, European leaders keep pressing him on climate change and the environment. French President Emmanuel Macron worked on Trump during lunch Thursday, urging the U.S. president not to ditch the 196-nation Paris Agreement on climate change before getting on a plane to Sicily, Italy. “My

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International, USA

How the GOP’s Gianforte Won Montana’s Special Election

Normally the words “Montana Special Election” don’t set the political class refreshing their browsers into the middle of the night. But Thursday’s Republican victory for an open House of Representatives seat turned out to be a hyper-interpreted microcosm of America’s crazy national moment, complete with a “body slam” that sent a reporter to the hospital.

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Ground broken for major medical center in Samaria

SHA’AR BINYAMIN, Israel (Press Release) – This Thursday, the One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Binyamin Medical Center (BMC), the first major medical facility in Samaria.  The BMC will address an unmet need for medical care for the more 75,000 Israelis living in 45 communities in the Binyamin region, and for tens of

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

As Trump wavers over Paris climate accord, European leaders give him an earful

WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump balking on his vow to shred the Obama-negotiated Paris agreement on climate change, the last place the pact’s staunch opponents wanted to see the president is where he will be this weekend — meeting other world leaders unanimous in their warnings that withdrawal from the accord would seriously damage

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International, The World We Share, USA

Delayed by Nazis, bar mitzvah to now be celebrated by 89-year-old Holocaust survivor

CHICAGO — Harold Katz didn’t require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette, Ill. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty. Katz, 89, who lives in a North Side retirement home, was to have celebrated the occasion in Czechoslovakia back in 1941. But that

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Jewish History, USA

Trump stuns NATO leaders and reverts to scolding message of his campaign

BRUSSELS — President Donald Trump likely crushed anxious NATO allies’ hopes for an uplifting message and full-throated endorsement of NATO’s core missions Thursday. Instead, Trump lectured the group for failing to live up to its financial obligations and leaving it to U.S. taxpayers to shoulder the organization’s defense burden. During a ceremony opening the new

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International, USA

Muslims and The Queen Step Up After Manchester Bombing

In the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing on Monday night, several groups and celebrities have stepped up to help and encourage the city in their own special ways. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> Queen Elizabeth II, a vision of grace and elegance, visited the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital to chat with the bombing victims and their

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