International

Calls for Al Franken to resign intensify after second harassment charge

Sen. Al Franken showed no sign of giving up his Senate seat Monday, even as calls on the left for him to resign intensified following a second allegation of sexual harassment. Leading progressive groups Indivisible and CREDO Action joined Justice Democrats and UltraViolet in urging the Minnesota Democrat to resign after another woman, Lindsay Menz,

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USA

Woman alleges Franken inappropriately touched her at state fair; senator responds

MINNEAPOLIS — CNN on Monday reported that a second woman is accusing Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of unwanted sexual touching, with this alleged encounter occurring after he was elected. The national news network says it was contacted by 33-year-old Lindsay Menz, of Texas, and she is accusing Franken of grabbing her buttocks while posing together

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IsraAID helps set up science and tech center in South Sudan

By Shoshanna Solomon The University of Juba, in South Sudan, has joined IsraAID, an Israel-based humanitarian non-governmental organization, and other partners to set up a first center for the studies of science and technology in the East-Central African state. The Center for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will train South Sudanese youth to become

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International, Middle East

Trump: US to Redesignate North Korea as State Sponsor of Terror

South Korea and Japan have welcomed a move by the United States to redesignate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism in order to put additional financial and diplomatic pressure on the totalitarian government. South Korea’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it sees the decision “as part of the international community’s joint efforts to take North

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International, USA

Elizabeth II, Prince Philip mark 70th wedding anniversary

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip celebrate 70 years of marriage on Monday, becoming Britain’s first reigning couple to mark a platinum wedding anniversary. The decades-spanning marriage of the Queen — the nation’s longest serving sovereign — has outlasted those of all prior British monarchs. The royal couple will not hold any public events but

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International

The Women Accusing Charlie Rose of Sexual Misconduct

Eight women came forward with claims of sexual harassment against CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose, according to a report released on Monday by The Washington Post. The women—Reah Bravo, Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, Megan Creydt—and five others who only agreed to speak with The Washington Post on conditions of anonymity, recalled the 75-year-old making unwanted sexual

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Charlie Rose is suspended by CBS following sexual harassment claims by women who worked on his PBS talk show

Veteran broadcaster Charlie Rose was suspended by CBS News on Monday following a Washington Post report that he sexually harassed eight women who worked on his PBS talk show . Rose, 75, acknowledges and apologizes for the behavior recounted in the Post investigation, which details unwanted sexual advances towards the women, appearing nude in their

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘The smiles have been wiped off the Palestinians’ faces’

Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) responded on Monday to the Trump administration”s proposed peace plan, as reported on the weekend by Hahadashot (formerly Channel 2 News). Katz spoke at a conference hosted by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “Less than a

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Middle East, USA

Holocaust survivor opens art museum in hometown Vilnius

Painter and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak on Monday opened a museum of his allegorical work inspired by Jewish history in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, more than half a century after he held his first exhibition as a nine-year-old inside its wartime ghetto. As a boy he was sent to live in the ghetto after the

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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Jewish Tourists in Southeast Asia

By Oliver B. Pollak ‘Fellow Travelers’ used to have an awkward anti-communist McCarthyean ring; no longer. Now FT’s are strangers you meet on tours, who travel and dine with you; companions of convenience, from which camaraderie may develop. The New York Times supplements newspaper revenues by sponsoring tours accompanied by reporters to familiar, remote and

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International, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Humoring the headlines: November 20, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−First, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had lifted an Obama-era ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia.  President Trump initially agreed with the new policy but changed his mind because at first he thought the Obama policy banned the importation of trophy wives from Eastern

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA