In a unanimous vote on the morning of March 23, the University of California Board of Regents adopted a new “Principles Against Intolerance,” condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry on UC college campuses.
Belgium\’s chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Islamic State suicide bombers who killed at least 31 people in the most deadly attacks in Brussels\’ history but said another key suspect was on the run.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, a news agency affiliated to the group said.
Some people sat silently. A small group walked out silently. And most stood and applauded as Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took the stage on the evening of March 21 at a packed Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., one of two venues for this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s Policy Conference.
Hillary Clinton derided Donald Trump as a feckless negotiator and told AIPAC that “walking away” from the Middle East was not an option for the United States, a broadside against the Republican front-runner that signaled her general election strategy.
Three Israelis were among the five people killed in a suicide bombing at a main shopping center in Istanbul, Turkish officials said.
Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the sudden death last month of Justice Antonin Scalia, is a renowned jurist on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., Circuit, a Harvard Law graduate and a Jew.
A surrogate for Donald Trump said Bernie Sanders was an atheist who needed a “come to Jesus” meeting.
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