Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who was accused of having an affair with a former top aide and of using campaign funds for personal reasons, resigned Monday. Bentley, 72, pleaded guilty to those misdemeanors. “I can no longer allow my family, my dear friends, my dedicated staff and cabinet to be subjected to consequences that my […]
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USAAs Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders takes on a more public profile with numerous appearances and a scathing critique of President Donald Trump’s administration, he retained his position as the United States’ most popular senator, according to a new poll released Tuesday. Sanders lost out the Democratic nomination for president to former Secretary of State Hillary
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USABATH, ENGLAND (SDJW) — Students at the University of Bath in England and at the University of British Columbia in Canada have rejected anti- Israel resolutions calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Jewish State. StandWithUs UK, reacting to a Bath Student Union vote of 249 in favor and 343 opposed, commented: “This BDS
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education“Concentration camps” for LGBT people have been allegedly opened up in Chechnya where men have been tortured and killed because of their sexuality, Novaya Gazeta reported. The allegations came after a few eyewitnesses and survivors said in interviews with the Russian publication that they were arrested and detained at one of the secret prisons in
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InternationalNorth Korea is “ready for war” the foreign ministry said the day after the U.S. redeployed an aircraft carrier from the Western Pacific toward the Korean Peninsula. According to a statement reported by state media channel the North Korean Central News Agency ( KCNA), the government has promised “catastrophic consequences” to any further “reckless moves
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International, USAThe internet erupted Monday following a viral video in which a passenger was seen being forcibly removed from an overbooked United Airlines flight. The man, screaming and bloodied, was dragged by his arms down the aisle of the plane by aviation security officers. To make matters worse, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz issued a statement
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Travel and Food, USAThough he publicly apologized for the situation today, United Airlines CEO took a different tone in an internal email circulated to United Airlines employees and acquired by CNBC. Munoz’s public apology, also reported earlier today by NBC News, read: Watch the video “This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I
It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based on suspected sexual orientation, according to an inspector general report. Staffers were abruptly reassigned from Washington, D.C., to a new office 500 miles away in Detroit in
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USASAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A 9-year-old girl in a gray zip-up sweater ran to her mother in tears. “Mommy, I still have blood on my sweater,” she cried. Elisabeth Barajaz had reunited with her daughter Marissa after hearing there had been a shooting at her San Bernardino school. “The boy just walked in with the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAJuan Thompson, the former journalist whom authorities believe is behind several of the recent bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and other Jewish sites, has pleaded not guilty. On March 3, police in Missouri arrested Thompson, 32, for allegedly making the threats as a way of harassing an ex-girlfriend. He allegedly made some of
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USANew York will became the first state in the nation to guarantee free tuition for the middle class at public four-year college Sunday. The budget put aside $163 million dollars to pay for tuition at the state’s public universities for all families earning less than $125,000 a year. “New York is well-positioned to benefit from
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A teacher and an 8-year-old boy were shot and killed Monday morning at an elementary school in San Bernardino after the teacher’s husband opened fire inside a special needs classroom before turning the gun on himself, police said. Cedric Anderson, 53, of Riverside, entered a classroom at North Park Elementary School
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USAIn event at Holot detention facility, participants draw parallels between Jews’ escape from bondage in Egypt and modern day asylum-seekers By Luke Tress In a barren corner of the Negev desert, near the Egyptian border, dozens of young Israelis and African asylum-seekers danced to a drum beat, shielding their eyes from the blinding dust whipping
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastThe Trump administration will continue the tradition set by President Barack Obama of hosting a Seder at the White House on Monday night, the Jewish Insider website reported. A White House staffer told the website the Seder will be an opportunity for observant White House staff who cannot be with their families to celebrate the
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