“Gender-based policies, rules, and practices can have the effect of marginalizing, stigmatizing, stereotyping and excluding students, whether or not they are transgender or gender nonconforming,” read the guidelines from the New York City Department of Education. “For these reasons, schools should review such policies, rules and practices, and should eliminate any that do not serve a clear pedagogical purpose.

“Examples may include such practices as gender-based graduation gowns, lines, and/or attire for yearbook pictures.” Instead, the dance has been postponed until March, when people of all gender identities will be able to attend, according to CBS New York.

“We have clear guidelines in place that require schools to maintain welcoming and supportive environments at all events,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Education told Staten Island Live, “and (the principal) worked closely with the PTA to ensure the event was in the best interest of the entire school community.”

The former European Union president suffered a disastrous election, but Mrs Merkel's poor results ensured he would be a key part of the coaltion, which was finally agreed today. Referencing the Chancellor and Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian sister party of Mrs Merkel's conservatives, Mr Schulz said: "You'll forgive me for thanking Mrs Merkel and Mr Seehofer, especially regarding the European policy chapter of this deal, because what we wrote down in this coalition agreement about the European Union and its future will be a fundamental change of direction in Europe. With this coalition agreement, Germany will take an active and leading role in the European Union again."

The coalition deadlock prompted speculation the 63-year-old Chancellor could be forced to step down but, after long negotiations and a series of “painful comprises”, it now appears Mrs Merkel will continue as the German leader for another term. However, any deal still needs to be approved by by the SPD's 464,000 members, who could yet vote against another grand coalition with Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Mr Schulz yesterday called the coalition deal “a new dawn for Europe” and an “end to the diktat of austerity”.

Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the biggest opposition party, tweeted: "Things could not get worse for Germany," calling the coalition deal "insane" as it did not contain an upper limit for migration. Speaking in December, Mr Schulz called on EU member states to sign up to a “United States of Europe” by 2025 or risk being kicked out of the bloc.

Peter Altmaier, Merkel’s chancellery chief, admitted he was surprised by Schulz’s proposal and instead believes it would be more effective to tackle specific issues, such as unemployment and immigration. He told the Rheinische Post newspaper: "The discussion about whether Europe should be a federal state, confederation or a united states is one for academics and journalists - not for German foreign policy. A United States of Europe would transfer member states' sovereignty to Brussels and there would not be a majority for that in many EU states.”

However, any deal still needs to be approved by the SPD's 464,000 members, who could yet vote against another grand coalition with Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. According to German media, Mrs Merkel’s conservatives have been forced to cede major government positions to their coalition partners, with the SPD due to take the foreign, finance and labour ministries in a new government.

The SPD will also get the justice, family and environment ministries as part of the coalition deal, according to reports. The CDU will get the economy and defence portfolios and, in a move designed to stop more voters turning to the rightwing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Mrs Merkel's Bavarian ally Horst Seehofer - who takes a tough line on immigration - would become interior minister.

The Saudi government had banned flights headed to Israel from using its airspace for 70 years. While it is no secret that private jets can fly from Saudi and other Gulf airports to Israel, they could not use the direct route and had to make a stop-over in Amman airport first.

The move is seen as a nod to India's Prime Minister Nardendra Modi's influence in the region, who is expected to land in the occupied West Bank on February 10. Last year he became the first Indian premier to go to Israel on an official state visit. But the decision also signifies warmer ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, who have been linked to having increasingly covert relations over the last year.

This has been credited to the shakeup of Saudi domestic and foreign policy, spearheaded by the young and ambitious Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "The political changes in Saudi Arabia and the desire to consolidate power is the main reason why these relations with Israel were opened," Mahjoob Zweiri, an associate professor with the Gulf Studies Program department at Qatar University, previously told Al Jazeera.

“We have a moral responsibility to them,” Carper said about the roughly 690,000 ‘dreamer’ illegals, not about Americans. Carper added, “doing a deal with the dreamers is as much about —  as I said earlier — is about making sure we have the folks who can go to work tomorrow.” Carper continued:

“Today, when folks want to work in this country, there is still 2 to 3 million jobs unfilled. Unfilled! Nobody is there to do the jobs, they don’t have the education, the work skills, the work ethic, they can’t pass a drug test … are we going to send 700-800,000 [illegal immigrants] people back home to the countries where they were born? They are perfectly capable of doing these jobs, they can pass a drug test, why would we do that?”

Carper’s moment of frankness came three minutes into a February 5 MSNBC interview when he was asked about the Democrats’ effort to win an amnesty for the DACA illegals, whose population ranges up to 3.25 million. The left-wing host did not object to Carper’s suggestion that millions of Americans be discarded for the benefit of illegal immigrants and Wall Street investors.

The study, published in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, describes the detection of hundreds of millions of viruses and bacteria raining down from the sky on a daily basis. “Every day, more than 800 million viruses are deposited per square metre above the planetary boundary layer – that’s 25 viruses for each person in Canada,” study co-author and University of British Columbia virologist Curtis Suttle said in a statement.

Bacteria and viruses are swept up into the atmosphere in small particles from soil-dust and sea spray. The pathogens can be carried thousands of kilometers overhead before being dropped back onto the Earth’s surface. The phenomenon helps explain how the same virus ends up in notably different environments.

Statins do more harm than good. Fungi make statins, as a “secondary metabolite,” to kill predatory microbes. They also kill human cells. Many practicing physicians have a healthy understanding of the current level of corruption and collusion among big pharmaceutical companies, governmental agencies such as the NIH and FDA, and major medical associations [and non-profits] such as the American Heart Association, but the reader of this book will come away with the disturbing conclusion that it is even worse than imagined.

Statins may be the perfect and most insidious human toxin in that adverse effects are often delayed by years and come about gradually. Further, statins frequently impair mental function to such a degree that by the time patients are in real trouble, they may lack the mental faculties to recognize the cause.

This toxin targets brain cells and skeletal muscle. A broad spectrum of adverse cognitive reactions occur from taking statins. They include confusion, forgetfulness, disorientation, memory impairment, transient global amnesia, and dementia. It is becoming increasingly clear that the cholesterol-heart hypothesis is a fallacy of modern medicine. In the future, medical historians may liken the prescribing of statins to lower blood cholesterol with the old medical practice of bloodletting.

In plain English: s--- is everywhere.  People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water.  He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water.  Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country.  Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism. Senegal was not a hellhole.  Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their own cultures' terms.  But they are not our terms.  The excrement is the least of it.  

Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible. As a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal.  In fact, I was euphoric.  I quickly made friends and had an adopted family.  I relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man.  People were open, willing to share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts.

The Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown.  The value system was the exact opposite.  You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to your own relatives.  There are some Westernized Africans who try to rebel against the system.  They fail. In Senegal, corruption ruled, from top to bottom.  Go to the post office, and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp.  After paying the bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown out.  That was normal.

The longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that the Senegalese are not the same as us.  The truths we hold to be self-evident are not evident to the Senegalese.  How could they be?  Their reality is totally different.  You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms.

A secret FISA warrant application that gained approval for the spying operation was fraudulently engineered, relying largely on a fictional “dossier” of salacious lies that was largely funded by the Clinton campaign.

Furthermore, false stories were planted in left-wing media outlets to lend “credence” to the fake dossier, and publishers such as Mother Jones, CNN, NYT and the Washington Post gladly played along as propaganda puppets in this dangerous charade. In effect, the left-wing media, FBI, DOJ, Clinton operatives and Obama administration all conspired to roll out “a coup against America,” warns Daniel Greenfield.

To the alarm of many observers, there isn’t a single prominent Democrat or left-wing media organization that has denounced the gross abuse of power detailed in the FISA memo. Without exception, every left-wing media outlet and Democrat lawmaker remains complicit in the treason, even sometimes endorsing the tactics as “necessary” to remove a President that was elected by the will of the People through a lawful democratic process.

This realization proves just how dangerous the Left Cult has become, demonstrating that they are totalitarians through and through, believing that the “proper” role of government is to be deployed as a weapon to destroy political opponents. In effect, as I’ve stated numerous times, these revelations prove that Democrats are not qualified to participate in any democracy. They do not honor the rule of law, and they reject the outcomes of any elections they don’t fully control. It’s clear from these events that Democrats are a clear and present danger to this Republic (and all its citizens).

The president made his remarks during a speech in Ohio on Monday. He did not specifically mention the memo but hinted strongly at its success. On Saturday, Trump said that he was “vindicated” by the release of the memo, describing the ongoing investigation as a “Russian witch hunt.”

He also shared the text of a Wall Street Journal editorial that was critical of the FBI. “No matter its motives, the FBI became a tool of anti-Trump political actors,” the editorial read. “This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law.”

“This country is headed for bankruptcy,” Jones said, pointing out that President Donald Trump ran on a platform of withdrawing from Afghanistan, but has since changed his mind and decided to send more troops.

“No one has ever conquered Afghanistan, and many have tried. We will join the list of nations that have tried and failed,” Jones warned. Mattis countered that the US was not trying to conquer Afghanistan, but “ensure another 9/11 hatched out there does not happen during our watch.”

Another 3,000 US troops were ordered to Afghanistan in September 2017. Many US troops stationed in Iraq have also begun transferring to Afghanistan this week.