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PodcastsPodcasts, takeBetar US is one of many groups that support the Trump administration’s call for pro-Palestinian students to be deported. Betar US has argued for the responsibility to give the Trump administration the names of pro-Palestinian activists, including Mahmoud Khalil. We look at the roots of Better, reach, and the institutions surrounding it. Who is supporting this group and why are students the latest targets? In this episode: Jonah Valdez (@jonahmv), Reporter, Intercept Episode Credits: This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Sonia Bagat and Sari El Kalli and featured Philip Lanos, Spencer Klein, Marcos Bartlom, Melanie Marich, Lemas Alhawari,…
The Chinese leader will arrive in Vietnam on Monday amidst tensions in US-China trade.Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that the trade war “will not win” as he prepares to launch a tour of Southeast Asia, backed by rising trade tensions between China and the US. Prior to Monday’s visit to the country, XI, who wrote for Vietnam’s Nhan Dan newspaper, said the country should work to advance “inclusive and inclusive global economic globalization.” “Trade and tariff wars don’t bring winners. Protectionism doesn’t provide a solution,” Xi said. “We need to firmly protect our multilateral trading systems, maintain stability in global…
The group also claims they fired down a US MQ-9 drone in Governor Hajiha’s airspace.The US strike in Yemen’s Sanaa province killed six people and injured more than a dozen other injuries, Houthi Media said. Houthi-Afiliated Al Masirah News reported on Sunday that it also targeted the Al-Yatmah region of Khub and Al-Sha’af districts of Al-Jawf in northern Yemen. In another statement Sunday evening, the group said that a US MQ-9 drone had been shot down in Hajiha province airspace by locally-built ground-air-inter-air missiles. The US has not commented on this. The region owned by Houthi in Yemen has seen…
A private plane crashed in upstate New York over the weekend, carrying close family and well-known recent student-athletes, tied up on a trip to the Catskills for birthday celebrations and a Passover holiday.The twin engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down from noon on Saturday in a muddy field in New York State, leaving all six on board, according to the family who spoke to the authorities and the Associated Press. Among the victims was Karenna Groff, a former MIT soccer player named 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year. her father, neuroscientist Dr. Michael Groff; According to James’ father, John Santoro, her…
The US President has said there is no tariff exemption for electronic items, but they fall into a different category.President Donald Trump said no one would “get off the hook” after Beijing appeared to have slightly overturned pressure on China by listing tariff exemptions for electronic products, a major exporter to the United States. With the latest twist on the world trade war from the Trump administration, the president on Sunday insisted that there are “no tariffs “exceptions.” Smartphones, laptops and other products remained at a 20% rate of “different tariffs “buckets”. “We will not be held hostage by other…
The White House plans to welcome President El Salvador as Washington faces backlash against the removal of immigrants.US President Donald Trump will host El Salvador President Naive Buquere at the White House on Monday. The controversial deportation program, which faces several legal challenges, involves relocating suspects to El Salvador, including Venezuelans accused of belonging to the Tren de Lagua group. Trump praises Bukere’s government for accepting individuals who label the US as a threat. “President Bukel has politely embraced some of the world’s most violent alien enemies. Trump wrote on his true social platform. On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco…
Paramilitary groups say they “released” the camp from Army control after launching ground and air strikes on Friday.Sudan’s Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has announced that it has been controlled by a hunger-stricken Zamzam camp in the West Darfur region in a nearby area that killed at least 100 people, including children and aid workers, after two days of bold artillery fire and firefight. In a statement on Sunday, RSF said it had “deployed military forces to secure civilians and humanitarian medical workers in Zamzam,” after fully freeing the camp from the Sudanese Army (SAF) grips. Paramilitary groups on Friday…
The famous Israeli strike at Al Ali Hospital in Gaza, the last major hospital providing important health care in northern Gaza, has sparked condemnation in Palestine and around the world as Israel continues to attack health care facilities. Israel claimed on Sunday that it attacked Hamas Command and Control Center at the hospital without providing evidence, but Hamas denied the allegations. The Anglican parish in Jerusalem, which runs Al Ali Hospital, condemned the attack, saying it happened at “Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, the holiest week of the Christian year.” The twin strikes say they destroyed the hospital’s…
Gaza, Gaza City – Yousef Abu Sakran was dozing off next to his injured child and wife Iman as the sounds of people running and screaming wives woke up. He stepped into the hospital courtyard well before dawn on Sunday and asked what was going on, but no clear answer was found. It’s just vague news that Israeli forces have called people living around the hospital and demanded the expulsion of everyone in the medical facility. The 29-year-old father responded immediately. He scooped up his five-year-old son, Mohammad, and he and Iman ran towards the gate. Mohammad suffered serious injuries…
According to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, the tech industry may not be safe from new tariffs. The Trump administration announced Friday evening that home appliances such as laptops and smartphones will be exempt from tariffs announced earlier this month. (Trump delayed many of these tariffs this week, but he left a baseline tariff of 10% and also imposed a 125% tariff on Chinese products.) According to the exemption report, high-tech products may be subject to targeted tariffs, with semiconductors subject to specific scrutiny. Lutnick made it more clear Sunday morning in an interview with the ABC show “This…