NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on MONDAY expressed deep concern over the closing of a Jewish community center in Umea, Sweden after series of troubling anti-Semitic incidents and threats to members of the community. According to reports, the community center was vandalized with swastikas and the message, “We know where you live,” […]
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InternationalDarcus Howe, one of Britain’s most prominent anti-racism campaigners, has died in London aged 74. An uncompromising champion for racial justice and fierce opponent of police brutality, Howe was born in British-ruled Trinidad in 1943 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1961. He intended to study law at London’s Middle Temple, but abandoned his
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International, Obituaries & memorialsRussian President Vladimir Putin says all possible causes, including terrorism, are being considered in the investigation into a blast that killed at least nine people and left more than 50 injured, according to Russian media. Members of the Emergency services stand next to a helicopter outside Tekhnologicheskiy institut metro station in St. Petersburg, Russia April
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InternationalMelania Trump has had her photo taken hundreds of time as a model and the wife of a prominent real-estate magnate. Now the White House has released the most important picture ever of President Donald Trump’s wife—her first portrait as first lady of the United States. The photograph shows Melania Trump in an all black
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump held private meetings Monday with one of the United States’ most important Arab allies, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, kicking off a week of high-stakes international diplomacy. El-Sissi arrived at the White House just before noon EDT. Trump emerged from the West Wing to greet the Egyptian leader — the first
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — On the eve of his inauguration, President Donald Trump turned to his daughter Ivanka and joked that he “sort of stole” her husband, Jared Kushner. With a trip to Iraq, announced on Monday following his arrival in Baghdad, it became clear that Kushner’s role in the Trump administration has only grown bigger since
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Middle East, USAJustus Rosenberg worked for the American Rescue Committee, the French resistance, the US Army, and the UN, to clandestinely save thousands from the Nazis By Cathryn J. Prince Professor Justus Rosenberg receiving the French Legion of Honor from the French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud on Thursday, March 30, 2017. (Emily Stern) Justus
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International, Jewish HistoryWASHINGTON — Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, won approval Monday on a party-line vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, setting the stage for a filibuster showdown on the Senate floor later this week. At the same meeting, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware announced he would provide the crucial 41st vote
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USAFox News was hit with another sexual harassment claim Monday, as on-air contributor Julie Roginsky filed a lawsuit against the network’s former chief executive Roger Ailes and its current co-president Bill Shine. The suit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court is the latest legal salvo in what has become a spiraling crisis for
CUENCA, Ecuador — Ecuador’s ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno on Monday extended his lead over former banker Guillermo Lasso even as the opposition vowed to challenge the results. And while the National Electoral Council has not declared a winner yet, across the Atlantic there was one man who seemed to be gloating. WikiLeaks founder Julian
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International, USASerbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has scored a convincing win in the country’s presidential election, taking around 55% of the vote. It means he is well over the 50% threshold avoiding a second round run-off. Vucic will take on the largely ceremonial post at the end of May, but is expected to retain de facto
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InternationalOne of the most high profile North Korean defectors in modern history warned the United States that the reclusive regime’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was maintaining power through the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of long-range attacks – and would use a nuclear bomb against the nation if he felt threatened. Thae Yong
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International, USASusan Rice, who Newsweek once described as former President Barack Obama’s “right-hand woman,” was at the center of unmasking Trump administration officials, a new report concludes. Eli Lake, who broke the story for Bloomberg View, wrote on Monday morning: “White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the
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International, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) has rejected efforts by the American Studies Association (ASA) to suppress a lawsuit filed against the Association by its own members challenging the ASA’s adoption of a boycott of all Israeli academic institutions. The judge ruled in favor of the
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