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Catholic students in Philippines appeal for help Undergraduates at Ateneo de Manila University want urgent talks with administrators over online learning woes Students at Ateneo de Manila University say they want talks with administrators to iron out problems arising from online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Ateneo de Manila University) Student organizations at a Jesuit-run university in the Philippines have demanded an open discussion with its administrators regarding students’ struggles brought about by online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. One Bi...

Martin Luther King Jr., union man The Conversation 1/16/2021 Peter Cole, Professor of History, Western Illinois University © AP Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the picket line at the Scripto plant in Atlanta, Ga., December, 1964. If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Those disadvantages have persisted. Today, for instance, the wealth of the average white f...

Getting out and where i think most of the international community including secretary mattis and others would want him to be. he is saying we will stay there. we will continue the fight. but we want our regional allies to come in and eventually one day be able to do this on their own. what was your take away? >> i'm not as critical richard was. i think this was a classic option b speech where option a is go big, really destabilize the regime, rock them, big strike, option c is do very little. this was a version of b and c in the middle. i had a couple take aways. first, secretary of defense ji...

Daughter in the wake of all this. martha: the pentagon says that a u.s. drone strike killed a key al qaeda leader in syria. he was a high up in an al qaeda offshoot group. how important was this strike for our fight? >> reporter: senior defense officials called this a big strike. he was a key figure in a terror group that's known to have the most advanced non-metallic bombs in the world. al qaeda says he was killed in an airstrike while traveling in a vehicle in northwest syria. he was falsely reported has having been killed last fall. but the pentagon says they are sure they got him. yesterda...