PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Santa Clara County judge who faces a recall threat for giving a light sentence to a Stanford student convicted of sexual assault will no longer handle criminal cases — at his own request. Judge Aaron Persky asked to be reassigned from hearing criminal cases at the Palo Alto courthouse, where […]
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USAFrance’s top administrative court on Friday overturned a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits in a southern French town amid shock and anger worldwide after some Muslim women were ordered to remove body-concealing garments on French Riviera beaches. The State Council (Conseil d’État) gave the ruling following a request from the Human Rights League to overturn
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InternationalNorth Korea’s in a good mood these days. The nation is celebrating its first successful test of a submarine-launched missile. The country’s leader — Kim Jong Un — says the US mainland is now within striking range of his nuclear weapons. That sounds like a threat. Joel Wit, a former US nuclear negotiator with North
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — In my book Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism I detail the discovery of a new strain of anti-Semitism that I noticed in Europe, namely the urge by haters to drive a wedge between the local Jew and the Jewish State. I wrote of several examples of the modern form of
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By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, two Syrian government Su-24 airplanes bombed the Kurdish-held areas of the city of Hasakah. The attack was unexpected. The Kurds have operated semi-autonomously in Syria because their pressure on ISIS has been helpful to Damascus, and because the Kurdish agenda has been primarily regional
By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States was humiliated this week when the USS Nitze came under simulated attack by four Iranian missile and torpedo-equipped speedboats in international waters. Despite American warnings, radio calls, flares and foghorns, two of the boats came within a few hundred yards of the Nitze.
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAReport: Egypt blocked UN endorsement of Quartet report (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The American and European effort to have the U.N. adopt the recent Quartet report on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was derailed by Egypt, the Walla news website reported Friday. Quoting Western diplomats, the report said the EU and the United States wanted the
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Middle EastThe heads of the haredi parties, Ministers Arye Deri (Shas), Yaakov Litzman (UTJ), and MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, bearing an ultimatum: gives us our Shabbat, or we take your coalition. Haredi MKs have been in an uproar these past few days over the
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHillary Clinton is pushing back on a report this week that she took many meetings with Clinton Foundation donors as secretary of state, saying there’s “a lot of smoke” but “no fire.” “My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces,” Mrs. Clinton said in a telephone interview with CNN Wednesday
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USAWashington (dpa) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday accused Republican rival Donald Trump of “prejudice and paranoia” and said he has embraced the racist fringe of the United States. “A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the
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USAAuthorities in Brazil have filed charges accusing U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte of making a false police report and want him in Brazil to respond to them. According to a police statement, Mr. Lochte, who has publicly acknowledged exaggerating his account of the gas-station confrontation, will be informed of the charges in the U.S. and asked
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAUkraine’s President Petro Poroshenko believes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin wants to return to Ukraine to the “Russian Empire,” he told CNN in an interview on Wednesday. Poroshenko, who was due to meet Putin along with the leaders of France and Germany next month, before Putin decided he did not want to, spoke on the
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InternationalAnn Coulter, the author of “In Trump We Trust,” is publicly lambasting Donald Trump’s “softening” on immigration policy. Ms. Coulter found herself in the odd position Wednesday of trying to promote a book on the Republican Party’s presidential candidate while criticizing his new rhetoric on illegal immigration. “No citizenship. Let me go a step further
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International, USAKabul (dpa) – The American University of Afghanistan has closed after attackers stormed it late Wednesday when a suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-packed vehicle into the wall of the facility, officials said on Thursday. “The University’s Kabul campuses will be closed until further notice,” a statement on the university’s Facebook page said. Sixteen people, including
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