Up to 19 students from an exclusive private school in Vancouver, British Columbia, faced strong disciplinary action — including expulsion — after they were recently discovered making Nazi salutes on campus and mocking the Holocaust on a private online messaging channel, among other racist and antisemitic offenses.
The students attending the $45,000-per-year St. George’s School in the Canadian city were reported to school staff by another student who discovered their antisemitic posts on a direct message group earlier this month.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Thursday that Turkey and its proxies broke the ceasefire and launched a heavy assault on three villages outside the area covered by the truce deal.
The assault uprooted thousands, Syrian Kurds said, urging the United States to intervene after most of its troops were withdrawn from northeast Syria on President Trump’s orders.
A senior SDF official said on his Twitter account that the Kurdish-led forces would not shy away from using their right to self-defense.
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Authorities said Thursday that the 39 people found dead inside a tractor-trailer at an industrial park in southeastern England are Chinese nationals, probably the victims of gangs who smuggle human cargo into Britain via shipping containers from European sea ports.
It is one of Britain’s biggest ever homicide cases, with investigations extending to Belgium, Ireland, Bulgaria and China.
Experts who follow human trafficking trends suggested those who were found dead could have been compelled into forced labor. Or they could have been migrants who paid their way for the dangerous journey gone wrong.
Police detained the 25-year-old driver of the refrigerated truck on suspicion of murder and on Thursday searched three properties in Northern Ireland, where he is from.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to attend Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park on Sunday if the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros are still playing, though he did not confirm if he had been asked to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
“I don’t know. They’ve got to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor – I’ll look too heavy,” he responded when a reporter asked him about whether he would take the mound. He appeared to be making a reference to a bulletproof vest that presidents sometimes are required to wear by Secret Service when they are amid large crowds.

Joe Biden is apparently dropping his long-held opposition to the creation of an outside group that would supply an infusion of money to benefit his campaign, a recognition that financial struggles are becoming a major problem for his presidential prospects.
Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying that Biden would reform campaign finance if he is president, but in the meantime, he would open the door to outside money.

The House Transportation committee issued a subpoena to the General Services Administration on Thursday, seeking financial records and other information regarding President Donald Trump’s District of Columbia hotel.
The hotel operates in the federally-owned Old Post Office Pavilion under a lease that Trump signed in 2013, when he was still with his company, and which has become the center of lawsuits and conflict-of-interest concerns since he took office.

The Trump administration plans to cancel subscriptions to The Washington Post and the New York Times held by federal agencies, the latest sign of presidential displeasure with news coverage he deems unfair.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the Wall Street Journal that the White House would instruct agencies not to renew their subscriptions to the papers when they come up.
She characterized the decision as a cost-saving measure, telling the Journal that “hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars will be saved” by the cancellations.
Trump has made no secret of his dislike for both newspapers, dubbing the Times “the failing New York Times” and The Post “the Amazon Washington Post” in his frequent broadsides against the two news organizations.

The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Trump administration separated 1,556 more immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border than has previously been disclosed to the public.
The majority of the children are ages 12 and under, including more than 200 considered “tender age” because they are under 5 years old.
The ACLU said the Justice Department disclosed the final tally – which is in addition to the more than 2,700 children known to have been separated last year – hours before a federal court deadline to identify all children separated since mid-2017, the year President Donald Trump took office.

U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer said on Wednesday that the U.S. Navy is “completely defensible” against the Iranian threat, including in the Persian Gulf.
Spencer’s talk consisted of how the U.S. Navy has prepared its uniformed and non-uniformed men and women during their career, such as providing a quality education in the Navy’s higher-education institutions, and how it is advancing and maintaining its line of fleets.

 
Arthur Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to a top post in the federal government’s trillion-dollar financial aid operations, resigned Thursday, calling the student loan system “fundamentally broken” and urging the elimination of millions of Americans’ student debt.