Friday, August 31, 2018

Friday's Headlines: U.S. to end funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees

 
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U.S. to end funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees
The announcement, to be made in the next few weeks, will include a call to reduce the number of Palestinians recognized as refugees, an effort to eliminate the "right of return" to land contested with Israel.
'Totally dishonest': Trump asserts only he can be trusted over opponents and 'fake news'
President Trump's assertions on Twitter — some false, some without clear evidence — are bound by one theme: All of his perceived opponents are peddling false facts and only Trump can be trusted. The president and his supporters are under siege, the tweets imply, from pernicious forces conspiring against them.
 
Homeland Security staffer with white nationalist ties attended White House policy meetings
Ian M. Smith, who resigned this week after he was confronted about his ties to white nationalist groups, attended multiple immigration policy meetings at the White House, according to government officials familiar with his work.
 
Trump-era politics creates turmoil, firings and, sometimes, great ratings for entertainers
Whether in regard to explicitly political entertainment or the rapidly multiplying number of entertainers who talk about politics, Americans appear to be increasingly figuring ideology into their Hollywood ­choices.
 
Perspective
This museum doesn't want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist?
In an art world where attendance has become the key metric, one new facility has been designed to slow down visitors and give them space to contemplate the art.
 
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Thousands of Vietnamese, including offspring of U.S. troops, could be deported under tough Trump policy
Critics accuse the administration of reneging on a 2008 agreement that said Vietnamese citizens would not be "subject to return" if they arrived in United States before it established relations with Vietnam in 1995.
 
 
Fleeing Venezuelans are changing Latin America — and they're not always welcome
Some Brazilians are lashing out as migrants flood their hospitals and schools — and trigger concerns about crime and questions about identity in a country that has long been culturally walled off by its distinctive language and habits.
 
Analysis
Former Vatican ambassador's explosive letter reveals influence of conservative Catholic media network
Similar to how Breitbart News and Drudge Report have served as conduits for a brand of conservative American populism, conservative Catholic media outlets have become power players by conveying the anti-Francis point of view
 
Joe Biden, Larry Fitzgerald deliver tributes to John McCain in Phoenix
The service marked the second of five days of events celebrating the life of the late senator. McCain's body will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.
 
Man threatened to shoot Boston Globe staff, calling them the 'enemy of the people,' FBI says
Federal law enforcement officers arrested a man in California, saying he had threatened to shoot employees in the head after the Globe organized a set of editorials denouncing President Trump's rhetoric against news media.
 
'No one talks about that. No, no no!' Gathering of presidents' descendants steers clear of talk about Trump
At a gathering of nearly 50 descendants of presidents — including a grandson of the 10th occupant of the Oval Office, John Tyler Jr. — the storied past of the White House outshined the unsettled present.
 
Perspective
Urban Meyer is still coach at Ohio State. New documents show what he deserves.
The batch of memos, police reports and emails that Ohio State quietly dropped on its website Tuesday night are incomplete, with more to come, but they fully illustrate how weak-handed Meyer was with a louse and delinquent.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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