Robinson teaches five drama classes a day, offering an average of 95-100 students a three-year sequence of 45-minute parts. “My thing is ‘Go explore and find yourself in this thing called theater,’” he says.
Weeks later, bombs started falling again. They tried to hold out, but the Abu Jarads eventually abandoned their home a second time.“Each time you take this decision to leave, it’s like you’re executing yourself by your own hand,” Ne’man said. He spoke in Gaza City, where he and his brothers had set up tents for their families in the rubble-strewn yard of a destroyed apartment building.
Ne’man Abu Jarad sets up a new tent for his family after they were displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip in Gaza City, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Ne’man Abu Jarad sets up a new tent for his family after they were displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip in Gaza City, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)The Associated Press has tracked
where nearly the entire population of some 2.3 million Palestinians has been driven from their homes by the war. Like the Abu Jarads, most have moved multiple times.The latest wave of forced displacement across the territory accelerated after Israel broke the two-month ceasefire on March 18 and
At least 430,000 people have been on the move since then, and more are certain to follow as the Israeli military issues evacuation orders covering greater territory in an accelerating assault. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last Wednesday that Israel intends to force the population
This time, the displacement is unfurling under the threat of famine. Israel blocked all food, fuel, medicine and other aid from entering Gaza starting March 2, pushing hundreds of thousandsTHE FACTS: This is false. According to the White House, the number is based on the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and higher military spending by the U.S., including expenditures associated with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. An exact total is difficult to discern because there is no publicly available data on NORAD spending. But even the most generous estimates do not put the total costs anywhere close to what Trump claims.
A trade deficit occurs when the cost of a country’s imports are higher than its exports. Using seasonally adjusted data, the U.S. deficit with Canada for both goods and services wasin 2024. It was higher for just goods, ranging from
The White House put the goods and services deficit with Canada at $53.5 billion. This is closer to the figure from 2022 —Either way, economists agree that describing a trade deficit as a subsidy is wrong.