(ANALYSIS) Since we spend so much of our lives at our jobs, it’s only natural that conversations with colleagues go beyond the work in front of us. People share interests and hobbies, family struggles, health concerns, and hopes or goals, from the silly to the serious. The topic of religion, however, can provoke anxiety. Many […]
Members of the small Jewish community in Amsterdam confronted the city’s deputy mayor Friday morning, demanding answers for its failure to prevent violent attacks on Israeli soccer fans the night before that international Jewish organizations and leaders condemned as a pogrom. “My parents are terrified, I am terrified,” one man shouted in Dutch during the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military said North Korea disrupted GPS signals from border areas for the second-straight day on Saturday, affecting an unspecified number of flights and vessel operations. Tensions between the rival Koreas have escalated as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his advancing nuclear and missile program and engages […]
Share Copy Link ✓ Link copied to clipboard! The Los Angeles Lakers are back in action Friday night at crypto.com Arena, where they’ll look to shake off a recent slump when they host the Philadelphia 76ers. LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers drives against Jaren Jackson Jr. #13 of the Memphis Grizzlies during […]
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at anti-Jewish violence in the Netherlands, global concerns ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and China’s new stimulus measures. ‘Hit-and-Run Squads’ Overnight antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam left at least five people hospitalized on Friday. According to the Israeli Embassy in the […]
A woman shot to death in Southeast D.C. Thursday afternoon was taking her nephew home from school at the time, according to her mother. Olivia Graves, 24, and her 12-year-old nephew were getting a ride home with Graves’ friends when they made a stop in the area of Atlantic Street and 8th Street. “She was […]
Posts have even surfaced on social media showing the phrase being chanted by boys at girls in schools. It’s no surprise that a Trump victory would lead to an increase in online harassment and hate speech against women. Trump has attacked women’s reproductive rights and access to abortion (which was on the ballot in 10 […]
Democrats are in a state of shock. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisive defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the Electoral College and the popular vote has been disillusioning. The fact that Trump has grown his coalition feels like a rebuke of what Democrats have stood for since the 1960s. In the months ahead, […]
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A teacher’s aide at a school in suburban Matteson was arrested Friday after allegedly grabbing and dragging an 8-year-old student at Marya Yates Elementary School, according to officials. According to police, a 8-year-old male student was running in the hall way shortly before the end of the school day when a teacher’s aide, a 26-year-old […]