CHICAGO — Violence in Chicago remains stubbornly high as the city recorded about the same amount of homicides and shootings in January as the year-earlier period, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Police Department. Much of the violence remains centered in three police districts — Englewood on the South Side and Harrison and Austin […]
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USAWASHINGTON — The White House put Iran “on notice” Wednesday over what it said were a series of provocations, giving Americans — and the world — a chance to see how President Donald Trump handles a foreign crisis. Top aides would not rule out military action. In a toughly worded warning, national security adviser Michael
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International, Middle East, USALeo Goldberger escaped Nazi-occupied Denmark at the last possible moment: in the dead of night, on a fishing boat to Sweden. He remembers his time in Sweden with fear and uncertainty, but the Swedes made a home for him for the duration of the war. When the war ended, his family was welcomed back to
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International, Jewish History, USAIt has been just 12 days since Donald Trump has assumed the U.S. presidency, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has already had all its grants and contracts frozen and its employees have been banned from talking to the press. If history is any indication, though, things could get a whole lot worse for the
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USAThe Trump travel ban could have far wider effects than previously understood for foreigners who waited years as State Department officials reviewed their immigrant visa applications. The new policy, disclosed yesterday, means that immigrants hoping to join their families in the United States from the affected countries may have to start the lengthy process all
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International, Middle East, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In 1978, I was a trainer for a graduate student professional development program (GSPDP) sponsored by the National Training Laboratory (NTL) in Bethel, Maine. The participants were in a week-long sensitivity training group (known as a T group). Our theme for that week was “Management of Similarities and
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International, USANEW YORK (Press Release)– Stephen M. Greenberg, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, CEO, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, expressed deep concern about growing expressions of hostility and divisiveness. The leaders condemned the brutal attack on Muslim worshipers at a mosque in Quebec which killed six people and wounded several others during
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International, USA(c) By Edwin Black For years, foreign policy critics, politicians, and outraged members of the general public have been militating to defund and quit the United Nations. Some have advocated that a rival or successor organization be established. Now, the empty sheet of bitter discontent with the UN has been filled in with a new
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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO, February 1, 2017 – We may be immersed in the most unusual political transition in American history, but there is one constant that we can always count on: Tired, predictable comparisons to Nazis. The Nazi card has been played by both sides of the table. President Trump himself described a recent, problematic intelligence
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International, Jewish History, USAEnding illegal immigration, building a border wall and preventing terrorists from coming into the U.S. are a handful of the points on Klu Klux Klan leader Will Quigg’s checklist for “making America great again.” And Quigg, who says the nation was “founded to be free, white and Christian,” feels confident that President Donald Trump’s promises
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USAOn his first official trip to South Korea and Japan this week, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to reassure allies made nervous by President Donald Trump’s criticisms of “free rider” nations that do not pay their fair share of mutual defense costs. “I think that uncertainty is viewed as destabilizing or potentially destabilizing.
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International, USADOVER, Del. — President Donald Trump headed Wednesday to partake for the first time in one of the most solemn rituals of the office, witnessing the return of the body of a Navy SEAL killed this week in the first known counterterrorism operation of Trump’s presidency. Trump made an unannounced trip to Dover Air Force
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Middle East, USACHARLOTTE, N.C. — The conservative North Carolina Values Coalition, which championed North Carolina’s anti-gay House Bill 2, is now taking a stand against the Boy Scouts of America for announcing this week that it will begin admitting transgender boys to its ranks. Churches that host Boy Scout troops are being asked to abandon them for
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USAThe number of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim incidents in 2016 has fallen sharply against previous years. According to French interior ministry figures, there were 58.5 percent fewer Islamophobic incidents in 2016 compared with the previous year, and 57.6 percent fewer anti-Semitic incidents. However, crimes committed against Christian places of worship were up by 17.5 percent
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