Jessica Cruz slept in a crowded Mexico City gym this week, flanked by exercise equipment, a baby carriage, a large pile of stuffed animals and a small bag of diapers for her baby boy. The workout room, laden with blue foam mats, was far from comfortable. But for Cruz, it was way better than returning […]
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InternationalUS senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders called for Washington to adopt a friendlier approach to Iran, and said he would consider supporting slashing US aid to Israel over the Jewish state’s policies towards the Palestinians. In an interview Thursday with The Intercept, the Jewish senator said the US was “complicit” in what he
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has picked fights with two of the nation’s most popular professional sports leagues, setting off a Twitter war with top athletes who were quick to fight back in an extraordinary display of political trash-talking with thinly veiled racial undertones. Even National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell jumped into the fray
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Sports & Competitions, USAUS bombers flew off the east coast of North Korea Saturday in a show of force designed to project American military power in the face of Pyongyang’s weapons programs, escalating already sky-high tensions. The flight came after days of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s regime, as
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International, USAAn Iraqi cleric recently praised the Jewish people for having emerged from the Holocaust following World War II and managed to win the “respect of the world through science,” while Muslims are seen as having become “the world’s headache.” In a sermon posted to YouTube last month titled “Don’t Be Mad. Strong Words. Imitate the
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Jewish History, Middle EastAn Israeli rescue delegation was greeted with spontaneous applause in the streets of a Mexican town Friday, in a show of gratitude for the team’s efforts to aid in the search for survivors following a devastating earthquake Tuesday. In a video published by Channel 2, dozens of individuals, some waving Mexican flags, can be seen
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International, Middle EastSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Hurricane Maria continued to cross the Caribbean on Friday, officials in Puerto Rico took stock of the deadly toll the historic storm left in its wake: nearly half of the storm’s total death toll of 32. At least 15 people were killed in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo
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USACartoonist and satirist Eli Valley. (Loubna Mrie) NEW YORK — Virtually no person or subject is safe from cartoonist and satirist Eli Valley’s knifelike nib. Throughout his career he’s skewered Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. He’s taken umbrage at the notion that intermarriage will erode one’s
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USAMEXICO CITY — It’s been a tough year for U.S.-Mexico relations. The countries are locked in tense talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, and Mexican public opinion of the U.S. has plummeted as President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Mexico and vowed to make it pay for construction of a border wall.
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International, USAVandals ransacked a monastery west of Jerusalem this week, the Latin Patriarchate in the city said in a Friday statement. It said the unknown perpetrators smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary, damaged furniture and broke a number of the stained-glass windows inside the sanctuary of the Beit Jamal Monastery. Get The Times of Israel’s
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Middle EastNorth Korea indicated it may soon test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un warned he would match U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatening words and new sanctions with equally provocative action. The North Korean leader responded Friday to Trump’s United Nations address this week, when the U.S. leader
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International, USAMany White House staffers are reportedly contacting job recruiters, headhunters and seemingly anyone who can get them out of the Trump administration. Normally, West Wing staffers remain with an administration for at least a year or two not only to adorn the top of their resumes but also to avoid the bad optics that leaving
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USAWASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., dealt a critical blow to Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act on Friday, announcing he will not vote for sweeping repeal legislation that GOP leaders plan to bring to the Senate floor for a vote next week. “We should not be content to pass health
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USASocial media is subjecting Norway’s ultra-strict attitude with asylum seekers to public trial after an Iranian woman was deported and given 80 lashes for allegedly consuming alcohol. Thirty-six-year-old Leila Bayat had lived in Norway for eight years, but was expelled in March this year, separating her from her 13-year-old son. Her punishment in Iran was
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