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U.S. Rep. Tlaib refuses Israel’s ‘oppressive conditions’ for West Bank visit
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected an offer by Israel to let her travel to the West Bank, saying she...
Ai Weiwei fears ‘Tiananmen’ crackdown in Hong Kong
Watching the Hong Kong protests from afar, Chinese dissident-artist Ai Weiwei fears the worst, warning of a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown...
After El Paso shooting, Mexican Americans can no longer be ambivalent minority
We think of ourselves as both an immigrant ethnic group and a racially oppressed minority. After El Paso, that is a luxury we can't afford.
17 missing in SW China landslide
More than a dozen workers remained missing Friday after a landslide in southwest China buried a section of railway that was under repair, according...
Cathay CEO resigns amid Hong Kong protest blowback as more rallies planned
The boss of Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific Airways quit on Friday, the highest-profile corporate casualty of unrest roiling the former British colony, after...
After Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, Ghislaine Maxwell may have taken his place as the ‘kingpin’...
"This is not a television show where you see a crime in the first minute and an arrest in the 10th," one former federal...
Tennessee executes Stephen Michael West by electric chair
Stephen Michael West was sentenced to death for the 1986 stabbing deaths of Wanda Romines, 51, and her 15-year-old daughter, Sheila Romines.
The Latest: US to revoke visas held by crew of Iranian ship
The State Department says it will revoke U.S. visas for crew members on an Iranian oil tanker that was seized by authorities in Gibraltar...
Google employees call for pledge not to work with ICE
Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won't work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs...
Senator Corey Lewandowski? Donald Trump likes the idea; many Republicans don’t
A Lewandowski candidacy would lead to a divisive Republican primary in a state Trump needs for re-election.
