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To hear President Trump and some of his closest supporters tell it, South Africa is a terrible place for white people. They face discrimination, are sidelined from jobs and live under the constant threat of violence or having their land stolen by a corrupt, Black-led government that has left the country in disarray.The data tell a different story. Although white people make up 7 percent of the country’s population, they own at least half of South Africa’s land. Police statistics do not show that they are any more vulnerable to violent crime than other people. And white South Africans are…

An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, handing the Trump administration a win after a string of setbacks defending President Trump’s agenda from dozens of lawsuits.The decision from a three-judge panel allows the orders to be enforced as a lawsuit challenging them plays out. The appeals court judges halted a nationwide injunction from U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore.Two of the judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that Mr. Trump’s anti-DEI push could eventually raise concerns about First Amendment rights…

Five years later, the everyday has returned to the pleasant New Jersey town of Maplewood. About the only visible trace of what was endured is the urgent plea that still adorns the caution-yellow marquee of the old movie theater.There for the last five years, ever since the theater closed at the dawn of the dread, it says: STAY HEALTHY.The letter L is tipped slightly, like someone staggered by a blow. That letter L might as well be us, upright but still staggering from a pandemic that killed more than seven million people worldwide, including 1.2 million in the Maplewoods and…

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The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Boston-based expansion team announced Friday that it will be changing its name. The change comes after a wave of transgender backlash to a marketing campaign it abandoned back in October. The team was set to be named BOS Nation FC, which it announced in a branding event in the fall alongside a marketing campaign that featured the slogan “Too Many Balls.” The slogan prompted intense backlash from the transgender community, including an NWSL player. A transgender player who goes by the singular name Quinn, who plays for the Seattle Reign, spoke out against the team’s branding…

CNA had previously reported that the election on Sunday is a high-stakes one for DAP, which is a key component of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government. The election was originally pitched as a congress to elect a core leadership team that will pilot the party in the next general election that must be held before February 2028.  But it has since turned into a survival test for Lim – who is son of firebrand politician Lim Kit Siang – and his family’s political dynasty. The Lim family has long long dominated the DAP but is now challenged by a…

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President Trump’s administration has officially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, a spokesman for the South African president said on Saturday, calling the decision “regrettable.”The ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, received an expulsion letter from the State Department, said Vincent Magwenya, the spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. The move comes during a low point in the relationship between the two countries, with Mr. Trump having accused Mr. Ramaphosa’s government of discriminating against South Africa’s white minority and siding with one of America’s enemies, Iran.A statement from Mr. Ramaphosa’s office called for “the established diplomatic decorum” to be…

Louisiana’s attorney general has stepped in to seek a harsher sentence for past crimes committed by a woman who was arrested after the death of a Kansas City-based Telemundo reporter during Super Bowl week in New Orleans.Danette Colbert was arrested in Jefferson Parish in February and charged with fraud and theft for allegedly using debit and credit cards belonging to Adan Manzano, who was found dead in his hotel room outside New Orleans while covering the Super Bowl for Dallas’ local Telemundo affiliate KGKC.  The Orleans Parish Coroner reportedly found Xanax in Manzano’s system. He did not have a prescription for…