| As shutdown’s impact grows, pressure rises to end it Posted: 08 Jan 2019 02:23 PM PST ![As shutdown's impact grows, pressure rises to end it]( "As shutdown's impact grows, pressure rises to end it") With a government shutdown now 18 days old and coming into sharper focus with the end of holiday season, its impacts on Americans are spreading. An estimated 800,000 federal workers across the nation are on furlough or working without pay, uncertain when they'll get their next paycheck and sometimes turning to side gigs to cope. It means that pandas and other animals at the National Zoo in Washington are being fed, but the public isn't getting to see them.
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| To bring refugees west, Americans look north – to Canada Posted: 08 Jan 2019 01:22 PM PST ![To bring refugees west, Americans look north – to Canada]( "To bring refugees west, Americans look north – to Canada") When Ed Wethli, a Pittsburgh coffee company owner, learned of a Syrian family in Saudi Arabia facing deportation back to their war-torn homeland, he says he simply had to help. Then came the day that the photo of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who drowned when his family tried to reach Europe, circulated in September 2015. Twenty did, and they founded Ananias Mission, a nonprofit aimed at doing what they did for the first Syrian family for the rest of it still in harm's way.
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| In Middle East, Pompeo and Bolton hash out US policy shifts in real time Posted: 08 Jan 2019 01:06 PM PST ![In Middle East, Pompeo and Bolton hash out US policy shifts in real time]( "In Middle East, Pompeo and Bolton hash out US policy shifts in real time") For months the State Department has been consumed by debate over whether presidential tweets constitute US foreign policy. Now the consternation and uncertainty that lie behind that debate have taken hold among America's friends and allies in the Middle East, after a series of tweets and White House pronouncements from President Trump over the last two weeks that suggested a new low in US interest in and commitment to the region. Mr. Trump walked back some of those statements Monday.
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| A light of moral legitimacy in Congo, Venezuela Posted: 08 Jan 2019 12:26 PM PST ![A light of moral legitimacy in Congo, Venezuela]( "A light of moral legitimacy in Congo, Venezuela") In a globalized world, the methods of measuring the moral legitimacy of today's rulers are changing fast. A good case can be found in Venezuela. On Jan. 10, President Nicolás Maduro is set to begin a second term.
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