International

Michelle Obama slams Trump administration’s school lunch change

Washington (dpa) – Former first lady Michelle Obama on Friday slammed a move by the Trump administration to loosen rules for nutrition in school lunches, in a rare comment on the policies of her husband Barack’s successor. “Why don’t you want our kids to have good food at school?” Obama asked at a health summit […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA

Alberto Fujimori Is Hospitalized For Heart Problems

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence, has been admitted to a hospital after suffering cardiac problems. According to AP, his personal physician informed the various ailments that Fujimori suffers. “Here is a heart problem that has to be well diagnosed and resolved,” he said. The now inmate could remain hospitalized

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

The world is held to ransom

Europol is investigating an “unprecedented” global cyber attack that tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails. Computers in almost 100 countries have been infected by the attack. See here where has been affected. The UK health system is among the organisations thrown into chaos. French carmaker Renault says it has halted production

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International

Rebel troops resume revolt in Ivory Coast a day after public apology

Disgruntled soldiers sealed off access to Ivory Coast’s second largest city Bouake on Saturday, soldiers and residents said, as protests over a pay dispute stretched into a second day despite government warnings of harsh punishments. The revolt began in Bouake early on Friday before spreading quickly, following a pattern similar to a mutiny in January

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International

Massachusetts School Suspends Black Girls With Braids

Two black female students attending a charter school in Massachusetts were recently kicked off their sports teams and prohibited from attending prom all because they wore their hair in braids. The Mystic Valley Charter School in Malden, about nine miles away from Boston, enforces a strict dress code preventing students from wearing their hair in

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Rand Paul slams Jeff Sessions’ new drug sentencing policy as an “injustice” to minority communities

Sen. Rand Paul has been one of the leading voices for criminal justice reform throughout his entire senate career, particularly of eliminating what he sees as draconian mandatory minimum sentencing laws. When Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it public on Friday that he would direct federal prosecutors to seek the harshest sentences for non-violent drug

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USA

Donald Trump tells Liberty University graduates ‘We don’t worship government, we worship God’

President Trump on Saturday told the class of 2017 at Liberty University to stay true to their ideals and remember that the United States was built on religious principles. “In America we don’t worship government, we worship God,” Mr. Trump said, delivering a commencement address in Lynchburg, Virginia, at what is considered the largest Christian

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USA

CAARI director to tell of older adult tours to Israel

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Susan Horowitz, director of the Canadian American Active Retirees in Israel (CAARI), will brief the public at 6:45 p.m., June 15, at Ohr Shalom Synagogue on plans for CAARI’s 2018 mission to Israel. Under the auspices of the Jewish National Fund, retirees or semi-retirees (age 50 plus) sponsor tours of

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar

A book in time for 6-day war’s 50th anniversary

The 28th of Iyar – The Dramatic, Day-by-Day Journal of an American Family in Israel During the Six Day War By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-68025-294-1, p. 171, plus glossary, $14.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  If you’re old enough, you know where you were on December 7,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East