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2019 campaign: Trump vs. the world
Axios | Mike Allen | 05/15/19

President Trump is running a 2019 campaign against the world, picking fights on four continents and putting his pugilistic "America First" to a grand international test.

Why it matters: Trump has been buoyed for two years by a strong economy and relative global stability. Now, he may confront a hot war or a self-inflicted economic shock as he heads into the heat of his re-election campaign.

'Hatred doesn't build overnight': behind the powerful Auschwitz exhibition
TheGuardian | Julianne McShane | 05/15/17

At the newly opened, largest-ever Auschwitz exhibition in North America, an extensive collection of objects and photograph paint a devastating picture

Ruth Grunberger was 16 years old when she stepped off a cattle car at Auschwitz in the dead of night in May 1944. She disembarked with nearly 100 other Jewish people, including her parents and her seven siblings, who had made the three-day, 250-mile trip from their hometown of Munkács -- in then Czechoslovakia, where they had spent weeks imprisoned in the basement of a brick factory -- to the concentration and extermination camp, located in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim, in the southern part of German-occupied Poland.

At the entrance to Auschwitz, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was one of the physicians who -- with "a flick of the cane clasped in a gloved hand", according to his biographer Gerald Posner -- granted life or death to the estimated 1.3 million people who arrived from across Europe. Mengele directed Grunberger's five siblings and her mother, Emma, to the left, where the gas chambers waited for the estimated 900,000 people who would die inside. He sent Grunberger, her 18-year-old sister, Manci, and their 16-year-old cousin, Edith, to the right, towards a future where forced labor was the only certainty. Mengele also sent Grunberger's 20-year-old brother, Asher, and her father, David, to work, but Grunberger never saw them again.

Officers from the Schutzstaffel -- the Nazi paramilitary organization also known as the SS -- ordered the women who Mengele spared to strip naked so they could shave and shear their head and body hair. Grunberger watched the tufts of her brown braids fall to the ground, the last remnants of her girlhood settling on the floor to be swept away. "I didn't think we were human anymore," she said. ... Read more

U.S. Pulls Nonessential Staff From Iraq Amid Rising Tensions With Iran
HP | AP/John Gambrell | 05/15/19

BAGHDAD (AP) -- The U.S. on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, and Germany and the Netherlands both suspended their military assistance programs in the country in the latest sign of tensions sweeping the Persian Gulf region over still-unspecified threats that the Trump administration says are linked to Iran.

Recent days have seen allegations of sabotage targeting oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a drone attack by Yemen's Iranian-allied Houthi rebels, and the dispatch of U.S. warships and bombers to the region.

At the root of this appears to be President Donald Trump's decision a year ago to pull the U.S. from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, embarking on a maximalist sanctions campaign against Tehran. In response, Iran's supreme leader issued a veiled threat Tuesday, saying it wouldn't be difficult for the Islamic Republic to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels. ... Read more