International

Katie Couric Talks Matt Lauer’s Sexual Misconduct Scandal

Katie Couric has finally broken her silence on Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct scandal. On Friday, the “CBS Evening News” host posted a photo of herself with her daughter, Carrie Couric, from several years ago. One of Couric’s followers threw shade at the host for not saying anything about Lauer’s recent firing and sexual abuse allegations […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Czech leader slams EU ‘cowards’ on Jerusalem stance

Czech President Milos Zeman on Saturday accused EU states of being “cowards” in their response to his US counterpart Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “The European Union, cowards, are doing all they can so a pro-Palestinian terrorist movement can have supremacy over a pro-Israeli movement,” said Zeman, presenting himself as a defender of

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International, Middle East, USA

On Jerusalem, let ’em rage

The hand-wringers at the United Nations, the European Union, the Catholic Church and within the political ranks of progressive, globalist, Islamic apologist minds worldwide are predicting nothing but gloom and doom, violence and mayhem, death and quite possibly destruction, from President Donald Trump’s announced intent to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv,

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Middle East, USA

To date, Palestinians’ Jerusalem protests are a case of ‘intifada lite’

By Avi Issacharoff Although Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh has enthusiastically described the Palestinians’ violent protests against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as a “blessed intifada,” what has actually been taking place on the ground in the territories is nothing like the outbreak of the first intifada 30 years ago. It

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Middle East

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against corruption; Likud slams ‘division’

By TOI staff and Alexander Fulbright Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night for an anti-corruption demonstration aimed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is being investigated in a pair of graft probes, and amid government efforts to push through the so-called police recommendations bill. Netanyahu’s close political ally and chairman of

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Middle East

Donald Trump slams CNN over incorrect report on timing of email to his son

President Trump blasted CNN Saturday for an erroneous report about his son Donald Trump Jr., saying the network made a “vicious and purposeful mistake.” “They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his “mistake”),” the president tweeted. “Watch to see if @CNN fires those

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Global tour of Auschwitz relics begins seven-year, 14-city journey

By Matt Lebovic An unprecedented world tour of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau premiered in Madrid on December 1, the first stop in a “roving exhibition” about the Nazi death camp where one million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. With the tagline, “Not long ago. Not far away,” the tour will appear in 14 cities during

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International, Jewish History, USA

Donald Trump pays tribute to civil-rights heroes in Mississippi as black leaders boycott his visit

With some black leaders boycotting the event, President Trump paid tribute Saturday to the heroes of the civil rights movement at the dedication of two museums in Mississippi. Speaking to a small invitation-only group of dignitaries indoors at the new civil-rights museum in Jackson, Mr. Trump called the facility honoring leaders of the movement “a

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USA

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza as Muslim World Protests Continue Against Trump’s Jerusalem Decision

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from Gaza killed two men Saturday, in the latest fallout from the announcement from U.S. President Donald Trump that Washington is recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and plans to move its Israeli embassy there. Hamas said two of its gunmen were killed in the

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Middle East, USA

N. Korea condemns ‘dotard’ Trump over Jerusalem

North Korea has lambasted US President Donald Trump for recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, renewing its description of him as a “dotard” in a statement released Saturday on state media. Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un have traded threats of war and personal insults in recent months as tensions remain high over the North’s

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International, Middle East, USA

European allies give Tillerson an earful about Trump’s decision on Jerusalem

WASHINGTON �� It was Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s bad luck that he was in Europe meeting with dozens of U.S. allies when President Donald Trump, on Wednesday, announced U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which angered much of the world. Tillerson, who wound up a five-day, four-city, three-country tour Friday, got

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International, Middle East, USA

Iraq announces victory over ISIL

Iraq has declared victory over ISIL militants. Three years after the group calling itself Islamic State overran about a third of Iraqi territory, the government says the last of ISIL fighters have been driven from the country. Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi Prime Minister, said in a televised address: “Honourable Iraqis: your land has been completely

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Middle East