She struck during the night, trailing devastation in her wake: Hurricane Irma, the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, showed no mercy to the leeward islands as she barrelled through the Antilles. Officials from the French-controlled half of St Martin say the island has been 95% destroyed. Buildings were torn apart, trees uprooted,
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InternationalAnd what comes next in sorting these giant storms. An image of Irma captured by the Suomi NPP satellite. UWM/SSEC/CIMSS, William Straka III Before Harvey, or Irma, or Katrina, there was Camille. With winds so powerful that they knocked out wind gauges in Mississippi, the epic strength of Hurricane Camille was monstrous. But before it
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USADonald Trump’s dalliance with Democrats continued Thursday, as the Republican president sent out a tweet at the request of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. During a phone conversation initiated by Trump, Pelosi asked the president to send a tweet making clear that Dreamers would not be subject to deportation during a six-month window Congress has
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USAHurricane Irma has decimated the small Caribbean island of Barbuda, ripping apart buildings, uprooting trees and killing at least one person as its 185-mph winds swept across the two-island nation best known for its pristine sandy beaches. “Barbuda is totally destroyed,” Roderick Faustin, first secretary for the Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda in Washington told
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InternationalDALLAS — Dallas officials can move forward with removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from an Oak Lawn park, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dissolved the temporary restraining order that he had issued Wednesday, halting the removal that was already underway. The motion for the restraining order was filed
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USACHARLOTTE, N.C. — If Hurricane Irma moves up the east coast, it’s entirely likely North Carolina’s newly formed Shelly Island will be wiped out, but that isn’t stopping a quick-thinking Virginia businessman from claiming he owns it. Yes, someone has filed a Quit Claim Deed to the 10-month-old island, despite expert opinions that it’s owned
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USAThe prominence of Moroccan expatriates among the perpetrators of high-profile attacks contrasts with the kingdom’s relative success in containing its own domestic jihadism threat. The recent terrorist attacks in Spain and Finland have been linked almost exclusively to young men of Moroccan origin, sparking concern that the kingdom has become a breeding ground for jihadists.
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International, Middle EastThe Department of Education is abandoning guidance it issued under former President Barack Obama regarding Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. That guidance helped push forward a movement against campus sexual assault, but advocates for accused students have claimed it violated due process rights. “The era of
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe head of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday blasted Fresno Republicans for inviting controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona to headline a party fundraiser. “It is shameful that the Fresno County Republican Party is fundraising off one of the nation’s most notorious agents of racism and bigotry,” said DNC chairman Tom
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USAJERUSALEM (Press Release)- On Thursday at 9:30 a.m. the directorship of the Israel Rescue Coalition (IRC) met in order to make plans for deployment to Florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Members of Israel’s Search and Rescue Units, as well as medical and psychological first aid responder from United Hatzalah (UH), discussed plans for
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Middle East, USANEW YORK (Press Release) … As college students are returning to a new academic school year, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released a new, multi-platform resource to equip them with essential information and tools to deal with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. ‘THINK. PLAN. ACT.’ (click here) is a comprehensive resource that prepares students for
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAEdwin Black’s latest 5–part investigative series, Hillel at the Crossroads, is based on more than 100 interviews in 4 countries, and the acquisition of many documents and internal emails. Click on a part number to read a previous installment in this series: I, II, III Accusations of Intimidation in Boston By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Edwin Black, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky BERNKASTEL, Germany — My wife Varda’s deep German roots brought us once again to the streets that her family knew, and to look for the graves of those who passed on before there were no graves for Jews killed by other Germans. This trip is to the village of Bernkastel alongside the
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish HistoryIsraeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday participated in the Foreign Ministry’s traditional pre-Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) toast in Jerusalem. Speaking to those gathered, Netanyahu said, “We are holding the toast early due to success, since we are going to make an historic visit: It seems that this will be the first time that
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