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Rally for Israel in Palm Desert

StandWithUs is an international organization that educates facts about Israel. They partnered with the Jewish Federation to host a peaceful rally for Israel at the Palm Desert City Hall. The organization’s Desert chair, Marcia Stein, also a Federation member, says she plans to provide booklets on the Hamas charter. Hence, people understand as she says,

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Michigan State suspends employee involved with allowing Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller said he has suspended an employee involved in allowing Adolf Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards before playing No. 2 Michigan. The employee, who was not named, will be paid pending an investigation that will help to determine potential action in the future.

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Mother of 6-year-old killed in alleged anti-Muslim attack near Chicago released from hospital after being stabbed over a dozen times

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A Chicago-area woman who was stabbed multiple times in an alleged anti-Muslim attack that left her 6-year-old son dead last week has been released from the hospital, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago office. Hanaan Shahin, 32, lived with her son, Wadea Al Fayoume, in a rented

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No evidence of hate crime, police say as slain Detroit synagogue president mourned as devoted leader

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press Family, friends and some of Michigan’s top elected officials paid respects Sunday to a Detroit synagogue president who was found fatally stabbed at her home. Police are investigating but say no evidence has been found to show antisemitism was a motive. Samantha Woll is being remembered as a generous leader

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Dispute between Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga turns deadly, killing 3

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s military spokesperson says the Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have briefly clashed in a dispute over the control of a strategic military post, killing three. The dispute Sunday was over who controls three vacated posts previously in the hands of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.

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Neither rain nor shine stop ebullient Venezuelans from voting in opposition’s presidential primary

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans are choosing the candidate they think can end the decade-long, crisis-ridden presidency of Nicolás Maduro. They are voting in a primary election on Sunday that the country’s opposition organized independently despite government repression and other obstacles. It’s the first presidential primary held in Venezuela

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