2017年12月22日星期五

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News


For employers and communities, much at stake in decision on 'temporary' immigrants

Posted: 22 Dec 2017 01:17 PM PST

For employers and communities, much at stake in decision on 'temporary' immigrantsCancelling their TPS "would just be tearing families up," he says. Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to temporarily shield immigrants already in the US from deportation if they can't return home because of natural disasters, health crises, or civil unrest. The "temporary" nature of the designation has become anything but in recent years, however.


An orbiting message of peace

Posted: 22 Dec 2017 12:47 PM PST

An orbiting message of peaceRight now a man-made object the size of a football field is orbiting some 250 miles above Earth. It's so large it can be seen from the ground with the naked eye.


In overwhelming UN vote on Jerusalem, a reality test for Trump's tough talk

Posted: 22 Dec 2017 10:50 AM PST

In overwhelming UN vote on Jerusalem, a reality test for Trump's tough talkWhen President Trump threatened this week to cut off foreign aid to any country voting against the United States in the United Nations General Assembly, it conjured up engrained public frustration over what some Americans – including Mr. Trump – perceive to be a world of freeloaders. "All these nations that take our money and then vote against us at the [UN], they take hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars and they vote against us," Trump said Wednesday at his last cabinet meeting of the year.


In LGBT-welcoming Britain, Church of England tries to find its path

Posted: 22 Dec 2017 07:56 AM PST

In LGBT-welcoming Britain, Church of England tries to find its pathBritain's transgender community recently got an unlikely new ally: the Church of England. Last month the church released guidelines for its 4,700 schools, which aim to tackle transgender bullying. From the appointment of the first female bishop, to welcoming refugees and supporting food banks, the guidelines are just the latest in the church's efforts to modernize and become inclusive.


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