International

Mexican president rejects Trump’s border wall — and says he won’t pay for it

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said he rejects and condemns U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately begin construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a televised address Wednesday night, Pena Nieto said Mexico “does not believe in walls.” His voice rising, Pena Nieto repeated his promise that Mexico “will […]

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International, USA

Trump’s hiring freeze already hurting some of his most loyal supporters: Veterans

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s temporary hiring freeze on federal jobs is disproportionately affecting a group of his most loyal supporters: veterans, who receive preference in federal hiring. Some already have had job interviews canceled or postponed, advocacy groups say. The hiring freeze also applies to the Department of Veterans Affairs, something that deeply troubles

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USA

47 groups ask UC to implement anti-hate policy

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)–At a time when hate and intolerance is rising at an alarming rate, AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on Thursday, Jan. 26, delivered a letter from 47 education, Jewish and civil rights groups to the University of California Board of Regents calling on UC to implement the Regents’ Principles Against Intolerance as a “relevant,

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Israel said readying to take in 100 orphaned Syrian refugees

Children will receive temporary residency, becoming permanent residents after 4 years; will be integrated into Arab Israeli families By Times of Israel staff Syrian children gather around a fire as the Syrian government starts to clean up areas formerly held by opposition forces in the northern city of Aleppo on December 27, 2016, in the

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Middle East

South Carolina Governor Urged To Quit ‘Segregated’ Country Club

One day after the Senate confirmed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump, her replacement, former Lieutenant Gov. Henry McMaster, came under renewed public scrutiny for his affiliation with a country club accused of racial segregation. At least 840 people have signed a petition demanding

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USA

How an escape from the Nazis colored the career of Harvard’s longest-serving dean

Now retired, Michael Shinagel reflects on his family’s flight from Vienna and how he, a boy who didn’t know English until age 7, earned a PhD in literature By Rich Tenorio CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Seventy-five years ago, a young Austrian-Jewish refugee fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents and older brother. That 7-year-old boy named Michael

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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Shas moves ahead with anti-Reform Western Wall bill

Proposal could face ministerial vote next week; Chief Rabbinate claims High Court does not have jurisdiction over holy sites By Raoul Wootliff Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men yell and protest Liberal Jewish men and women as they hold a prayer service in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City, on June 16, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

A female Secret Service agent who reviles Trump has reversed her radical stance about protecting the president

The election of President Donald Trump is causing extreme reactions of support and dissent. The latter now includes a senior U.S. Secret Service agent who wrote in a Facebook post that she would not feel compelled to protect the nation’s new leader. Kerry O’Grady, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver district,

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USA

All bodies recovered from Italian hotel struck by avalanche

Rome (dpa) – Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of all of those missing after an avalanche struck a mountainside hotel in central Italy, the fire service said early Thursday, bringing the death toll to 29. The four-star Rigopiano Hotel was struck by a massive avalanche last week, after a powerful magnitude-5 earthquake shook the

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International

Latin American leaders blast Trump border wall

Latin American and Caribbean leaders, meeting in the Dominican Republic, have slammed Donald Trump’s tough immigration policies and border wall project. Most of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States are from Latin America. The CELAC summit heard calls for the US President to respect migrants’ human rights. “The solution to stopping

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International, USA

Displaced Gambians return home

Thousands of Gambians who fled following the recent political impasse are gradually returning home. The Banjul ferry terminal has been a hive of activity with both the internally displaced and those from exile seeking transport to their respective homes. The head of the Banjul Red Cross, Mr Omar Tafsir Demba Ndow, said they were offering

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