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Jul 3, 2018
How Trump is changing the face of legal immigration - The Washington Post
How Trump is changing the face of legal immigration - The Washington Post: With all eyes on the border, smaller changes to the intake of legal immigrants are going largely unnoticed.
Jul 2, 2018
Dim Your Browser With Deluminate for Google Chrome
Dim Your Browser With Deluminate for Google Chrome: Using a “dark mode” on your favorite website, app, or operating system feels great. It’s perfect for dark rooms or airplanes, when you need to conserve your battery a little, or you’re just tired of having sore eyes from staring at a screen for hours.
Anthony Kennedy retires: court-packing, Democrats’ nuclear option response, explained - Vox
Anthony Kennedy retires: court-packing, Democrats’ nuclear option response, explained - Vox: Why an FDR plan from the 1930s is suddenly popular again.
The top Democratic Senate recruit who’s ditching Chuck Schumer - POLITICO
The top Democratic Senate recruit who’s ditching Chuck Schumer - POLITICO: Arizona Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema so far is pulling off a high-wire act in a state experiencing a three-decade Democratic drought.
Sikhs and Hindus Bear Brunt of Latest Afghanistan Suicide Attack - The New York Times
Sikhs and Hindus Bear Brunt of Latest Afghanistan Suicide Attack - The New York Times: A bombing in Jalalabad left at least 19 people dead as President Ashraf Ghani was holding meetings in the city.
12 Boys, Missing in Flooded Thailand Cave, Are Found Alive - The New York Times
12 Boys, Missing in Flooded Thailand Cave, Are Found Alive - The New York Times: The boys and their soccer coach had been trapped for nine days by rising floodwaters. Their condition is unclear.
Emergency Rooms Run Out of Vital Drugs, and Patients Are Feeling It - The New York Times
Emergency Rooms Run Out of Vital Drugs, and Patients Are Feeling It - The New York Times: Summer is “trauma season,” when emergency rooms see a rise in injuries, but a drug supply crisis has doctors scrambling to find alternatives to needed medications.
Bulwark Against an Abortion Ban? Medical Advances - The New York Times
Bulwark Against an Abortion Ban? Medical Advances - The New York Times: Improved contraception and abortion pills mean the back-alley days are largely gone. But more restrictive abortion laws would especially affect poor and minority women.
Rupert Murdoch: The media mogul says goodbye to much of the company he built - The Washington Post
Rupert Murdoch: The media mogul says goodbye to much of the company he built - The Washington Post: Friends say his decision to sell part of his business empire is the end of an era.
The malaria fight stalls as children die by the hundreds of thousands - The Washington Post
The malaria fight stalls as children die by the hundreds of thousands - The Washington Post: Globally, tools that have brought progress are wearing out.
White House wants to cut this public health service corps by nearly 40 percent - The Washington Post
White House wants to cut this public health service corps by nearly 40 percent - The Washington Post: The administration wants to cut the size of the U.S. Public Health Service from 6,500 officers to "no more than 4,000."
States act on their own to fill holes Washington is knocking in Affordable Care Act - The Washington Post
States act on their own to fill holes Washington is knocking in Affordable Care Act - The Washington Post: New Jersey and D.C. create insurance mandates to replace the federal one that is vanishing.
Angela Merkel and her vision of Europe survive to fight another round - The Washington Post
Angela Merkel and her vision of Europe survive to fight another round - The Washington Post: A challenge over migration from the Bavarian party leader appeared to have been fended off.
AMLO wins sweeping mandate in Mexican presidential election - The Washington Post
AMLO wins sweeping mandate in Mexican presidential election - The Washington Post: The populist will have broad power to reshape public policy.
Mexico's AMLO has had a lot to say about Trump - The Washington Post
Mexico's AMLO has had a lot to say about Trump - The Washington Post: Mexico's next president wrote a book called “Oye, Trump,” or “Listen Up, Trump.”
Michael Cohen must be making Donald Trump very nervous right about now - CNNPolitics
Michael Cohen must be making Donald Trump very nervous right about now - CNNPolitics: On Saturday night, Michael Cohen broke his silence -- in a way that has to make President Donald Trump very, very nervous.
Jul 1, 2018
Amnesty Intl urges trials for Myanmar military over Rohingya
Amnesty Intl urges trials for Myanmar military over Rohingya: UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Amnesty International released a report Wednesday that details new evidence of atrocities inflicted on Myanmar's Rohingya population and names 13 top militar
In Bangladesh, Hindu Rohingya refugees also wait for a home - The Hindu
In Bangladesh, Hindu Rohingya refugees also wait for a home - The Hindu: Their camp is outside world’s largest refugee settlement
Myanmar transit camps sit empty as Rohingya fear return
Myanmar transit camps sit empty as Rohingya fear return: The transit camp in Myanmar's Rakhine state stands ready to welcome back 150 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh every day. The result is a stand-off, as Myanmar immigration officials wait in empty offices shuffling papers and arranging biometric equipment but with little to no work to do except greet
Kit Siang: We should expose all the previous administration’s misdeeds - Nation | The Star Online
Kit Siang: We should expose all the previous administration’s misdeeds - Nation | The Star Online: PETALING JAYA: It is not wrong for newly-minted ministers to expose the wrongdoings of the previous administration, says DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang.
Veteran Malaysian politician Syed Hamid Albar leaves Umno, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
Veteran Malaysian politician Syed Hamid Albar leaves Umno, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Veteran politician Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar has left Umno, saying that it is no longer the party he once knew and accused it of "caring little or none for the people".. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Zahid: UiTM should only be for Malays
Zahid: UiTM should only be for Malays: BAGAN DATUK, June 30 — Umno presidential candidate Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi criticised the government’s possible move to open the Matriculation programme in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiITM)...
Ismail Sabri, Mahdzir Khalid new Umno vice-presidents
Ismail Sabri, Mahdzir Khalid new Umno vice-presidents: KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 ― Umno vice-president candidates Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid have been confirmed as Umno vice-presidents. Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan...
Pakatan to kick out corrupt govt leaders - Nation | The Star Online
Pakatan to kick out corrupt govt leaders - Nation | The Star Online: PRIME Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has warned that government leaders found to be corrupt and abusing their power will be shown the door.
Singapore shouldn't over-react to 'every articulation' by Mahathir's government: Ng Eng Hen
Singapore shouldn't over-react to 'every articulation' by Mahathir's government: Ng Eng Hen: Singapore should deal with the new Malaysian government with “respect, maturity and understanding”, said Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen, amid recent comments by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad about its water agreement with the Republic. Speaking to reporters on Friday (29 June) ahead of Singapore
Malaysia's former ruling party picks old hand as new president | Reuters
Malaysia's former ruling party picks old hand as new president | Reuters: Malaysia's former ruling party picked a familiar face as its new leader on Saturday, as they grapple with a spectacular defeat in a May general election that pushed them from power after more than 60 years.
Malaysia to amend, repeal laws that restrict people's freedom: PM Mahathir Mohamad, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
Malaysia to amend, repeal laws that restrict people's freedom: PM Mahathir Mohamad, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: LANGKAWI (BERNAMA) - The National Security Council Act (NSC) 2016 is among the laws currently being reviewed for possible amendment or repeal, says Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
'I am driven by people's aspirations' | New Straits Times | Malaysia General Business Sports and Lifestyle News
'I am driven by people's aspirations' | New Straits Times | Malaysia General Business Sports and Lifestyle News: She was the first woman to assume the role of an opposition leader when Malaysia was under the Barisan Nasional regime.
'Anwar is DPM?...Give me some credit' | New Straits Times | Malaysia General Business Sports and Lifestyle News
'Anwar is DPM?...Give me some credit' | New Straits Times | Malaysia General Business Sports and Lifestyle News: PUTRAJAYA: Talk around town has been malicious against the country’s first female deputy prime minister, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. Some quarters claim that it is her husband, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is the deputy prime minister and not her.
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