President Donald Trump hired hundreds of undocumented Polish immigrants to demolish a New York City building in 1980 and paid them as little as $4 an hour without providing proper safety equipment to do the job, court documents show. The workers and their contractor, William Kaszycki of Kaszycki & Sons, sued Trump for unfair labor
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USAAlabama voters are increasingly skeptical of the accusations against GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore, according to new polling released this week that also shows Mr. Moore has recovered his lead in the race. In the middle of November Mr. Moore had lost his lead in the Change Research survey of voters, but is once again
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USAPope Francis is meeting Tuesday with Myanmar’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after the country’s military chief said he told the pontiff that there is “no religious discrimination” in Myanmar. The United Nations and the United States have accused Myanmar’s military of “ethnic cleansing” in violence against Rohingya Muslims, and Aung San
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InternationalWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a “serial congenital liar” who buries the American people “in an avalanche of horse shit” and must know in her soul that what she’s doing is wrong, a GOP strategist and media consultant said Monday night. Rick Wilson piled on Sanders after the White House mouthpiece defended
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USANorth Korea fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, South Korean military officials said, the first such launch in two months and just a week after the US slapped fresh sanctions on the hermit state and declared it a state sponsor of terrorism. The North has stoked international alarm over its banned nuclear missile program but before
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International, USAThe Palestinian Authority (PA), it appears, has decided to cut off communication with the American government as a result of a series of American actions the Palestinians believe disqualify Washington from acting as an honest broker in what passes for a “peace process” with Israel. This includes the Taylor Force Act, but most specifically it
Iran’s government has paid tribute to one of the country’s wrestlers who threw an international bout when he was ahead because winning would have meant fighting an opponent from Israel. The Islamic republic does not recognise the Jewish state, placing it in the same “Great Satan” category as the United States, and forbids its sportsmen
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsA trip-provider affiliated with the Reform Movement has been dropped from Birthright Israel”s list of authorized tour agencies, Haaretz reported. Taglit-Birthright Israel, which has brought over 600,000 young Jews to visit Israel since 1999 and is best known for its free 10-day trips to the Jewish state, outsources the trips to a variety of independent
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Middle East, USAA moving event took place Monday at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, when to the sound of excited singing, a young man accepted the yoke of Torah and mitzvot, becoming a Jewish man. Not an eye remained dry among the family members and the Yad L’Achim anti-assimilation activists present as the Bar Mitzvah boy
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Middle EastVice President Mike Pence declared Tuesday that President Trump and his administration will “always stand with Israel,” adding that the president was considering when to follow up on his campaign promise to relocate the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The Vice President”s comments were made during the keynote address at an event in the
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Middle East, USAThe World Jewish Congress and Israel”s Mission to the United Nations will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the November 29, 1947 United Nations vote that called for the establishment of a Jewish state, with a reconstruction of events in the very structure that served as the UN headquarters at that time. U.S. Vice President Mike
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International, Middle East, USAArchaeologists are finally uncovering the purpose of a massive cellar in Marseille, France, more than 20 years after its discovery. Following two weeks of intensive analysis, the local research team from the National Institute for Preventative Archeological Studies told a French news channel it’s likely a mikve, a ritual Jewish bath. “Every time I went
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International, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionDaniel Kosky The Freshers Fair, one of the key events in one’s first week at university. Putting aside all the clubbing and induction lectures, the Freshers Fair gives new university students the chance to see the sports clubs, societies and events available at the university. For many, it is their first real impression of university
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Since it’s the Holiday season, I’m willing to give President Trump a second chance to honor the Navajo Code Talkers rather than offend them by calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas,” but when I imagine what he’d probably say, I fear he’d bungle it again. * President Trump: “Though I make a point
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