The New York Times is putting a spotlight on the "broken relationship" between President Biden and Muslim leaders in America, even as he embraces a tougher stance against Israel in its war on Hamas. "Seven months into Israel’s war in Gaza, Muslim and Arab American leaders say their channels of communication with President Biden’s White House have largely broken down, leaving the administration without a politically valuable chorus of support for his significant shift on the conflict this week,"...
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Elisabeth Moss recently appeared on Kelly Ripa’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast while promoting her new FX series “The Veil” and reflected on the “intimidating” but exhilarating set of James Mangold’s 1999 drama “Girl, Interrupted.” Moss was around 15 years old when she shot the movie and starred as Polly “Torch” Clark, a burn victim […]
A day after Joe Biden warned that a major attack by Israel on Rafah would cross a "red line" for U.S. supporting Israel in the Gaza War, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his war cabinet and went off on Biden,
The study of light has led to promising alternative energy sources and lifesaving medical advances in diagnostics technology and treatments. These transformative technologies were developed through centuries of fundamental research on the properties of light, including pioneering work such as Ibn Al-Haytham’s seminal Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics), published in 1015. As the world celebrates the International Day of Light on 16 May, various Arab physicists have left an indelible mark on the...
The Today Show's annual Best of Broadway week began today, spotlighting new musicals. First up is the musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders which received 12 Tony nominations two weeks ago. Tony nominee Adam Rapp wrote the book for this musical. The show is directed by Danya Taymor, niece of Tony award winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King).Producer Angelina Jolie joined Tony nominees Brody Grant, Sky Lakota-Lynch (the first Native American actor nominated for a Tony), and Joshua Boone...
Egypt announced on Sunday it would back South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, in a sign of Cairo's frustration over an Israeli military operation in Gaza's southern city of Rafah that borders Egypt. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the move comes "in view of aggravating intensity and scale" of Israeli attacks against civilians in Gaza and the "continued perpetration of systematic practices" against Palestinians, including direct...
United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will be canceling its daily flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, through June 5. The airline made the decision after closely monitoring the situation and will continue to assess upcoming flights with the safety of its customers and crew members in mind. According to the airline’s statement, the cancellation […]
Jews should be “annihilate[d],” according to a Florida Islamic cleric, who also accused Israel’s army of being “worse than the Nazis.”
Financial adviser WH Ireland Group Plc is in talks to sell its capital markets division to British investment bank Zeus Capital, the latest shake-up among struggling UK stockbrokers.
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President Biden isn't the only one frustrated by the inability of Israel to strike a cease-fire deal with Hamas to stop -- at least for a little while -- the carnage in Gaza.