Talia Friedman, a nurse in her 20s, to keep her American citizenship; ‘Our entire family is bursting with pride,’ envoy says By Raphael Ahren From left to right: Tammy, David and Talia Friedman (screen shot Twitter) The daughter of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is immigrating to Israel this week, The Times of Israel […]
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Middle East, USAATLANTA — The head of the VA’s national health care enrollment office in Atlanta exchanged a series of unprofessional and racially charged instant messages with another VA employee — raising new doubts about the leadership of the enrollment system that serves millions of veterans nationwide. The exchanges between Angel Lawrence, the director of the VA’s
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USARALEIGH, N.C.—The Raleigh man behind the Twitter account @YesYoureRacist said Monday that since publishing photos of torch-carrying white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville Saturday, he has received remarkable support �� but also death threats. Logan Smith, who is communications director for Progress NC Action, says the account had about 65,000 followers Saturday morning. On Monday afternoon,
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USAANNAPOLIS, Md. — In the wake of a violent white supremacist rally in neighboring Virginia, Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Monday it’s time to take down his state’s most prominent Confederate-era monument. Busch said the statue of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott
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USASAN DIEGO (SDJW)– In reaction to the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Jewish Federation of San Diego County joins with the Anti-Defamation League, San Diego Rabbinical Association, Liechtag Foundation, and other Jewish communal organizations to sponsor an anti-hate rally at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15 at the Lawrence Family JCC. Flyers sent by email
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San Diego County, USAThe son of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro threatened to attack the White House with rifles if U.S. President Donald Trump sends his army. Nicolás Maduro Guerra responded to the messages of Trump, where he affirmed that he will not rule out a “military option” for Venezuela. “Venezuela is not far away and people are suffering,
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International, USAPresident Trump belatedly denounced violence specifically by white supremacist groups Monday, singling out the KKK and neo-Nazis by name after a weekend of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Racism is evil,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and
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USACHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Virginia judge on Monday declined to set bail for James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old Ohio man accused of second-degree murder and other charges after authorities said he plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters near the scene of a white supremacist rally that erupted into violence. That means Fields,
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USAHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the race-based clashes in Virginia this weekend should lead to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s firing, blaming the former media executive for what she said was President Trump’s weak initial response. Mr. Trump delivered a forceful denunciation of racists on Monday, but his critics continued to
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USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Columbia University recently sent out a letter asking their alumni to write about the impact of the classes at Columbia on their lives after graduation. I wrote the following as a response to their request and thought it might also be interesting as a column: At my graduation
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON — Cast once again in the role of interpreter of President Trump’s comments, Vice President Mike Pence is touring Latin America and attempting to dispel his boss’ threat of military action against Venezuela. Trump on Friday said he would not “rule out” a “military option” to confront the crisis in Venezuela, where the increasingly
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International, USAOn the frontline of the North Korea crisis, residents of Guam staged a peace rally on Monday. Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington surged last week after the North said it was finalising plans to launch four intermediate range missiles toward waters off the US Pacific territory. “This is a friendly gathering,” said one man taking
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International, USAThe white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white supremacy movement. Old-guard groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and the Nazi skinheads, which had long stood at the center of
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USAWASHINGTON — The chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. publicly resigned from a White House manufacturing council on Monday, declaring he felt “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” The move by Kenneth Frazier, one of corporate America’s leading African American executives, came after President Donald Trump was criticized for