Fresh controversy over Kushner (surname Kushner is an English-based transliteration of the Yiddish name קושנער, a variant of קושניר (Kushnir), an occupational name stemming from the Ukrainian word кушнір (kushnir), meaning furrier) laid bare the ramifications of Trump (most commonly refers to: Donald Trump (born 1946), President of the United States, businessman, and...
- Read more -Bernie Sanders’ son running for Congress in New Hampshire
3 0 210Levi Sanders (sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces by abrasion with sandpaper) is joining seven other Democrats and three Republicans (can refer to: An advocate of a republic, a form of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law Republicanism, the ideology in support of) in the race for the 1st congressional districtBernie...
- Read more -Free speech matters, and the people worried about it aren’t all bigots | Tom Clark
4 0 146It’s far more effective to expose the flaw in someone’s argument than it is to ‘no-platform’ themWhat an irony that free speech (is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon) should have become a difficult thing to discuss. But it has. For parts of the left, the very slogan...
- Read more -Mexican president’s US visit called off after border wall row with Trump
5 0 129Enrique Peña Nieto visit (may refer to: State visit, a formal visit by a head of state to a foreign country Conjugal visit, in which a prisoner is permitted to spend several hours or days in private with a visitor, usually) delayed after phone spat with US president over Mexico’s refusal to pay for wallDonald Trump and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto postponed plans for the...
- Read more -Winter Olympics day 15 – in pictures
4 0 280Ester Ledecka wins the snowboard parallel giant slalom, Billy Morgan takes bronze in big air, mass start speed skating and Ivanka Trump: all the latest pictures from the Winter Olympics (modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the) in...
- Read more -David Mamet writes play about Harvey Weinstein
3 0 338Playwright’s producer urged him to write Bitter Wheat about the Hollywood mogul facing allegations of sexual harassmentDavid Mamet has revealed that he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. In an interview to promote his new novel, Chicago (), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States), a prohibition-era murder mystery, the Pulitzer-winning...
- Read more -Giving guns to teachers? That’s an army we don’t need – or want | Ross Barkan
4 0 151Trump wants to arm 20% of teachers to address school (school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or “pupils”) under the direction of teachers) shootings. But why should teachers (teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge,...
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US: St Louis morning radio presenter gives birth on air
3 0 262Cassiday Proctor, a morning radio presenter, gave birth by Caesarean section (may refer to) live on air. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43148873
- Read more -Marion Maréchal-Le Pen to share stage with US conservatives
4 0 174Niece of far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen to address conference after vice-president Mike Pence (penny is a coin (pl. pennies) or a unit of currency (pl. pence) in various countries) on ThursdayMarion Maréchal-Le Pen, the former young star of France’s far-right (-right politics is a term used to describe politics further on the right of the left-right spectrum than the...
- Read more -Mikaela Shiffrin withdraws from women’s downhill at Olympics
3 0 232Shiffrin pulls out of downhill after rescheduling of alpine (refers to the Alps, a European mountain range, or to the Alpine states associated with the mountain range) combinedAmerican star won gold in giant slalom (slalom is to zigzag between obstacles) and finished fourth in slalomThe weather continued to toy with Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympics on Monday evening as the latest change to the...
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