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UK government bans goods from Israeli settlements

LONDON — The United Kingdom on Tuesday banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says “settler terrorists” are carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, in a significant toughening of Britain’s stance toward a longtime ally. France and Canada announced they would take similar action in an attempt to prevent expanding settlements and growing violence from making it impossible to establish a future Palestinian state. Israel responded angrily and said it would close the British consulate in Jerusalem. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband ...

US military destroys more Iranian tankers

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday in response to the latest attacks on its warships and Tehran hit back at American targets in Jordan, the latest burst of back-and-forth strikes that have lurched the sides back toward open hostilities in a ...

Families’ interest in their kids’ education falling

Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores, according to newly released results from a standardized test taken by 15-year-olds around the world. Over 760,000 teenagers in dozens of countries ...

Like it or not, we need data centers

With the level of concern over data centers rising to near-hysteria, you'd think people were suddenly rushing to build nuclear waste dumps next to elementary schools throughout the country and that radioactive sludge was threatening to engulf children across America. At this point, data centers are rapidly becoming the latest target of America's rage, even though everyone who is enjoying the benefits of modern technology is simultaneously trying to destroy the infrastructure required for that modern technology to exist. Every photo uploaded to Instagram, every show streamed on ...

As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 nears, the biggest disgrace is that the attack's evil mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has not been tried and sentenced to death. Blame the American Civil Liberties Union, in large part, for this injustice. The ACLU intervened at the start, insisting that the two military lawyers assigned to defend Mohammed and his codefendants "might not have death penalty experience" and were insufficient to battle "the full force of the U.S. government." What a pity. The ACLU sent in its own team of expert capital defense lawyers, at a cost of millions of ...

Measles deaths cost of poor leadership

The two recent measles-related deaths in Lancaster County, including that of a newborn, were the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years. Sadly, as vaccination rates decline across the commonwealth and the country, they will likely not be the last. The deaths occurred amid a major measles outbreak in Lancaster that has sickened nearly 400 people. Nationwide, the number of cases grew to a 35-year high. In normal times, federal and state government officials would work together to contain the outbreak, protect the public, and use the incident to urge residents to get vaccinated. But under ...