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March 15, 2018 at 2:30 pm
The FIU pedestrian bridge across Southwest Eighth Street collapsed Thursday afternoon, trapping an unknown number of people and cars underneath.
The bridge was installed at Southwest 109th Avenue Saturday morning, intended eventually to provide pedestrian access across Tamiami Trail from FIU’s main campus to Sweetwater, where thousands of students live in off-campus housing or in FIU’s newer dorms.
Before Saturday’s installation, FIU said the method of overall installation significantly reduced the risk to workers, walkers, drivers and minimized traffic disruptions for construction.
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March 15, 2018 at 2:30 pm
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The sister of the man sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015 has been arrested at her school and charged with bringing pepper spray, a knife and marijuana onto the campus.
Morgan Roof, 18, was arrested Wednesday at A.C. Flora High School after a school administrator contacted the school resource officer, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a news release.
She is charged with two counts of carrying a weapon on school grounds and one count of simple possession of marijuana.
No one was hurt.
A judge set her bond at $5,000 and said she could not return to the school. She was screened for a public defender. It was not known if she has an attorney yet.
Investigators say Roof also posted a Snapchat about the National Scho...
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March 15, 2018 at 1:36 pm
You have been at your job for three months and you’re confused. During the interview, when your prospective manager asked how you would solve various workplace problems, she loved your solutions!
Now, with some time under your belt, you are eager to make the changes your prospective boss seemed so excited about.
Yet all you are getting is resistance. How can you help improve the operation without sound like a negative troublemaker?
The good news is you were probably hired because of your ideas. Your hiring manager might have thought, “Now that’s the kind of creative thinking I’m looking for. It’s going to be great to have some new blood in here.” You picked up on your manager’s excitement and can’t be faulted for assuming...
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March 15, 2018 at 1:07 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
Preparations for many mispallalim expected to visit Har HaZeisim today, Thursday, Yom Kippur Koton have been completed as the minhag is not to visit kevarim during Nissan, as many who have yahrzeit arriving today, as tomorrow is erev Shabbos.
Rabbi Hillel Horowitz, Director-General of the Council of Jerusalem Cemeteries is ready, as is the new Egged 84 line which runs directly to the cemetery. The new line leaves from the Ammunition Hill light rail depot on Sunday through Thursday, running between 8:30AM and 7:00PM, every 45 minutes.
Officials add that Baruch Hashem, the security situation on Har HaZeisim has improved significantly over the years due to herculean efforts and of course the new security reality that exists in the area, including a police sta...
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March 15, 2018 at 1:04 pm
BOSTON (AP) — Civil rights and indigent defense groups asked Massachusetts' highest court Thursday to stop federal agents from arresting immigrants targeted for deportation at courthouses, saying the practice is scaring victims, witnesses and others away from halls of justice.
The petition filed in the Supreme Judicial Court cites immigrants — including a woman who wants to renew a restraining order against her abusive ex-husband — who are too afraid to enter state and local courthouses out of fear of deportation.
The challenge, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, comes as advocates, attorneys and judges have complained about courtroom arrests under President Donald Trump. Courtroom arrests happened under President Barack Obama's administratio...
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March 15, 2018 at 1:01 pm
NEW YORK (AP) - David S. Wyman, a leading scholar of the U.S. response to the Holocaust whose "The Abandonment of the Jews" was a provocative, best-selling critique of everyone from religious leaders to President Franklin Roosevelt, died Wednesday at age 89
The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies announced that Wyman died at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts, after a lengthy illness. Wyman was a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The grandson of Protestant ministers, Wyman was in graduate school when he began a long-term quest to learn what was done on behalf of the millions of Jews rounded up and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II.
He was best known for "The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-4...
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March 15, 2018 at 12:42 pm
Deputy Min. Oren tells Arutz Sheva state overlooking Israeli lone soldiers, particularly haredim, calls to form new agency to address issue.
On Wednesday, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira released a report criticizing Israel’s treatment of demobilized lone soldiers. Shapira found that while the IDF is generally responsive to the needs of the estimated 6,000 soldiers who do not live with their parents, there were severe shortcomings with assisting lone soldiers upon their discharge.
“There does not exist a comprehensive, inter-agency program that defines the goals of the country regarding the integration of veteran lone soldiers, without family support, in Israeli society,” read the report. “After their release from the military service, Israeli society faces...
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March 15, 2018 at 12:36 pm
'If Iran builds atomic bomb, we will too,' says kingdom's Crown Prince, raising prospect of nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia vowed Thursday to pursue nuclear weapons if Iran is able to build an atomic bomb, raising the specter of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
The kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke with CBS Thursday, comparing the Tehran regime to Nazi Germany, and warning that Iran’s supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatens the entire Middle East.
“Because he wants to expand,” said the Crown Prince. “He wants to create his own project in the Middle East very much like Hitler who wanted to expand at the time. Many countries around the world and in Europe did not realize how...
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March 15, 2018 at 12:35 pm
President Trump could be making more changes to his Cabinet this week in the wake of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s firing, multiple sources told Fox News on Wednesday evening.
The potential changes include the departure of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and his replacement by John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Other departures from the administration would include Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Chief of Staff John Kelly.
The sources have cautioned that Trump will make the ultimate decision about all staff changes. However, the departure of McMaster has been described by multiple sources as “imminent.”
Kelly would be replaced as chief of staff by Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulv...
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March 15, 2018 at 12:33 pm
A professor of Moscow State University chased out film student Leo Boroda when he refused to remove his yarmulka before a geography exam, Moscow’s anti-racism Sova Center reported. The student was forced to look for another proctor to supervise his writing of the test.
The student told Sova that on an earlier occasion, a teacher advised him to baptize when he asked permission to skip physical education classes on Yom Kippur.
The deputy dean of the university’s film department, Natalia Trushakova, said the incident was unrelated to the faculty’s policies.
But Sergei Dobrolyubov, dean of the geography department, said the professor was following the rules and that he also ordered female Muslim students to remove headscarves before exams.
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March 15, 2018 at 12:12 pm
The United States and two major European allies formally backed Britain’s claims of likely Russian links to a chemical toxin attack against a former spy, calling it the “first offensive use of a nerve agent” in Europe since World War II.
The joint statement from the leaders of France, Germany, the United States and Britain signaled another step in mounting international pressure on Russia over apparent ties to the assault.
The statement said the nations shared the view of British investigators of Russian ties to last week’s attack against a former double agent and his daughter
There was no “plausible alternative explanation,” the statement added, noting that Russia’s “failure to address the legitimate request by the U.K. government further...
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March 15, 2018 at 12:10 pm
President Trump reportedly said late Wednesday that Democratic congressional candidate Conor Lamb performed well in a deep-red Pennsylvania district because he is “like Trump.”
Trump told GOP donors at a private fundraiser that Lamb ran “a pretty smart race, actually” against Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone, The Atlantic reported.
“The young man last night that ran, he said, ‘Oh, I’m like Trump. Second Amendment, everything. I love the tax cuts, everything.’ He ran on that basis,” the president said of Lamb, according to the news outlet. “He ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me. I said, ‘Is he a Republican? He sounds like a Republican to me.’”
Read more at The Hill.
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March 15, 2018 at 12:09 pm
The number of Americans over retirement age will be greater than those under 18 by 2035, for the first time in American history.
New projections from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 17 years from now, 78 million Americans will have reached the age of 65, while just 76.4 million Americans will be under the age of 18.
The surge in retirement-age Americans is fueled by an aging Baby Boom generation, which is living longer than ever. All Baby Boomers will be older than 65 by 2030.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 15, 2018 at 12:07 pm
The Trump administration is pushing China to reduce its trade deficit with the U.S. by $100 billion, a White House spokesperson told Reuters.
President Trump tweeted last week that his administration had asked China to develop a plan to reduce the its trade surplus with the U.S. by $1 billion. The spokesperson told Reuters, however, that Trump meant “$100 billion.”
“China has been asked to develop a plan for the year of a One Billion Dollar reduction in their massive Trade Deficit with the United States,” Trump tweeted. “Our relationship with China has been a very good one, and we look forward to seeing what ideas they come back with. We must act soon!”
The U.S. trade deficit with China reached $375 billion in 2017, a record high.
Read more at ...
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March 15, 2018 at 12:06 pm
Columnist Ben Shapiro says on ‘The Story’ that he has received letters from students who feel they’ve been bullied for not joining school walkouts.
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March 15, 2018 at 9:26 am
ROME (AP) — The United Nations received pledges Thursday of nearly $100 million in new funding for the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after the U.S. slashed its aid, but it is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year.
U.N. officials said the countries providing the new financing included Qatar, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, New Zealand, Norway, Korea, Mexico, Slovakia, India and France.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "an important first step was reached" at an emergency donor conference in Rome with the new pledges. But he said "a long way is in front of us" to fully fund the agency, which went into the conference facing a $446 million gap in financing this year — the worst funding crisis in its 68-year history.
"If UNRWA would not exist, if t...
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March 15, 2018 at 9:21 am
They bowed their heads in honor of the dead. They carried signs with messages like "Never again" and "Am I next?" They railed against the National Rifle Association and the politicians who support it.
And over and over, they repeated the message: Enough is enough.
In a wave of protests one historian called the largest of its kind in American history, tens of thousands of students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday to demand action on gun violence and school safety.
The demonstrations extended from Maine to Hawaii as students joined the youth-led surge of activism set off by the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
"We're sick of it," said Maxwell Nardi, a senior at Douglas S. Freeman High School in Henrico, Virginia, just outside Ric...
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March 15, 2018 at 9:18 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The demise of Toys R Us will have a ripple effect on everything from toy makers to consumers to landlords.
The 70-year-old retailer is headed toward shuttering its U.S. operations, jeopardizing the jobs of some 30,000 employees while spelling the end for a chain known to generations of children and parents for its sprawling stores and Geoffrey the giraffe mascot.
The closing of the company's 740 U.S. stores over the coming months will finalize the downfall of the chain that succumbed to heavy debt and relentless trends that undercut its business, from online shopping to mobile games.
And it will force toy makers and landlords who depended on the chain to scramble for alternatives.
CEO David Brandon told employees Wednesday the company's plan is to liquid...
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March 15, 2018 at 9:17 am
After a comprehensive investigation of e-cigarettes based on 800 studies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that their use may lead youth to start smoking and adults to stop smoking.
While exposure to nicotine from e-cigarettes is variable, there was substantial evidence that nicotine intake from e-cigarettes among experienced adult users can be comparable to that from cigarettes. There was also conclusive evidence that in addition to nicotine, most e-cigarettes contain and emit numerous potentially toxic substances. But except for nicotine, exposure to potentially toxic substances from e-cigarettes seemed significantly lower compared with cigarettes.
Substituting e-cigarettes for conventional cigarettes reduces users’ exposure to many toxicant...
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March 15, 2018 at 9:17 am
Tucker: Whether you agree with what the kids are saying or not, kids shouldn’t be exploited and used to advance political agendas. This is what happened with national school walkouts one month after the Parkland massacre.
