Texas Gov. Greg Abbott escaped injury from a mailed improvised explosive because he didn’t open the package the way it was designed, according to records filed in federal court. Julia Poff, 46, allegedly mailed the package because she was upset her ex-husband had not paid her child support. Abbott oversaw child support when he was […]
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USAThe international community has pledged over $2 billion, almost half in loans and debt relief, to help rebuild the Caribbean islands decimated by this year’s string of hurricanes. The pledges came from some familiar donors and some surprising new ones. They included The Netherlands’ $700 million pledge, the European Union’s $352 million, quake-recovering Mexico’s $27
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International, USABy Sarah L. Cook, Professor & Associate Dean, Georgia State University. Hollywood women who have spoken out against sexual harassment Reporter Paula Froelich claims she once observed Harvey Weinstein assault a woman at a book party. Her editor responded with, “Maybe it’s not really a story.” As it turns out, Weinstein and others are becoming
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWhile for most Americans, Thanksgiving Day is for feasting, football and giving thanks, for Native Americans, it is a reminder of dead ancestors, racial slurs still being worn on football jerseys and families around the nation feasting on food from colonized agricultural land. Native Americans say the day is not a holiday but rather a
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USADemocracySpring/Twitter The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade got a taste of politics on Thursday as a group of people broke through barriers and sat in the middle of the parade route. The protesters wore shirts that showed they were protesting in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The “Dreamers” — named after
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USAThe president of Rutgers University in New Jersey has come under fire after he publicly defended several professors accused of anti-Semitism, and appeared to disparage a Jewish media outlet which helped publicized the professors” behavior. Over the past few weeks, an American-Jewish media outlet, The Algemeiner, published a series of articles publicizing blatant examples of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, refused a call from President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, this week, after the U.S. threatened to close the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington, D.C., according to Israeli media reports. Kushner had been working to broker peace talks between Palestine and Israel. Abbas’s move comes after he
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Middle East, USAIsrael’s deputy foreign minister, Tzipi Hotovely, said that Jews living in the United States live a “quite convenient life.” For that reason, that they would never “send their kids to fight for their country.” In an interview with Israeli news channel i24 this week, the minister tackled issues that have increased tensions between the U.S.
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Middle East, USAThe Hebrew Charter School in Harlem is a public school accepting both Jewish and non-Jewish students from the neighborhood and its environs. The school was founded by the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life, and students are taught only in Hebrew. Students of all ages learn to speak, think, and sing in Hebrew, regardless of where
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USAPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is aware of the heavy pressure from US Jewry, has responded swiftly to the storm stirred up by Deputy Prime Minister Tzipi Hovotely. During an interview in English on the i24news program, Hovotely spoke extensively about Israel’s relations with US Jewry. She mentioned the event in which she had been
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Middle East, USAJones Ad Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones is using the words of “conservative voices,” including Ivanka Trump and Jeff Sessions, in a new ad against embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Jones’s new ad features quotes attributed to first daughter Ivanka Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Senator Richard Shelby, R-AL, talking about the
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USAEight people were rescued and three are missing after a U.S. Navy transport plane crashed Wednesday into the western Pacific Ocean. The Navy said the twin-propeller C2-A Greyhound aircraft plummeted into the sea about 925 kilometers southeast of Okinawa while it was on a routine mission taking passengers and cargo from a U.S. base in
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International, USARep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, issued an apology Wednesday after a nude photo of him and illicit texts he sent circulated online. “While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women,” said Barton. “Each was consensual. Those relationships have ended. I am sorry I
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USAThe wife of Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore has been her husband’s biggest defender amid a storm of allegations concerning relationships with teenage girls. Yet it has emerged that Kayla Moore was also a minor, and he very much an adult, when her future husband first took an interest in her. Related: What Is
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