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• Xinjiang: Beijing’s chilling attempt to erase and replace Uyghur identity
• Arab-Israeli ‘pragmatist’ was a big hit. Elections loom as daunting Act II.
• Gangstas to Growers uses hot sauce to keep young people out of hot water
• With no deal in sight, shutdown reveals depth of ‘trust deficit’

Xinjiang: Beijing’s chilling attempt to erase and replace Uyghur identity Posted: 07 Jan 2019 01:16 PM PST The sky is pitch black in this town in China's far western region of Xinjiang. Suddenly, the predawn stillness is shattered as "Ode to the Motherland," a classic Communist propaganda song, blasts from loudspeakers, issuing a shrill wake-up call for miles around. It is only 5:40 am local time in Hotan, an oasis town that was once a junction along the historic Silk Road and is closer to Kabul than Beijing.

Arab-Israeli ‘pragmatist’ was a big hit. Elections loom as daunting Act II. Posted: 07 Jan 2019 01:10 PM PST In his trademark dark suit and no tie, Ayman Odeh enters a cafe here in his hometown, on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. Soon after, a father approaches, hands Mr. Odeh his infant daughter, and takes their picture. When Odeh eventually gets up to leave the cafe, which serves both apple strudel and kanafeh, traditionally Jewish and Arab desserts, he is swarmed by smiling well-wishers, most of them Arab, but some Jewish.

Gangstas to Growers uses hot sauce to keep young people out of hot water Posted: 07 Jan 2019 12:36 PM PST As soon as the backpack appeared, Abiodun "Abbey" Henderson knew she had a problem. In a room of formerly incarcerated youth at the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center, the first day of a pioneering criminal justice reform program called Gangstas to Growers had been marked not with greetings but aggression. "It could have all started off very badly," says Henderson, who founded the nonprofit for 18- to 24-year-olds in 2016.

With no deal in sight, shutdown reveals depth of ‘trust deficit’ Posted: 07 Jan 2019 12:14 PM PST In December 2013, when lead House and Senate negotiators struck a bipartisan budget deal to avert a government shutdown, relations between the parties were in a deep freeze. Weeks later, Democrats exercised the "nuclear option" to muscle through confirmation of President Barack Obama's federal judges.

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