By Jessica Steinberg When Jerry Seinfeld arrives in Israel at the end of December, he’ll be traveling with one of his oldest friends, comedian Mark Schiff. Schiff has been lucky enough to travel with Seinfeld for the last 15 years — on Seinfeld’s private jet, no less — opening for Seinfeld in arenas and theaters. […]
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Middle East, Trivia, Humor & SatireFlorida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan to aid corporations and the wealthy will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it. Rubio told reporters this week that in order to address the federal deficit, which will grow by at least $1 trillion if the tax plan passes,
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USAArab media is reporting that Egypt and Russia are on the verge of signing a military cooperation agreement that would allow each side to use the other’s air space and air bases for a period of five years. Russian media reported that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has endorsed the draft agreement crafted by the defense
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International, Middle EastBy TOI staff Israeli fighter jets launched air-to-surface missiles at a military base near the Syrian city of al-Qiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to a report in Sky News. The report claimed that the missiles were fired from within Lebanese airspace. Media outlets affiliated with the Assad regime and Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah reported that
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Middle EastSen. Bob Corker of Tennessee on Friday announced he can’t support the Senate GOP’s $1.4 trillion-plus tax cut bill, citing concerns about looming federal deficits and the ballooning debt. “This is yet another tough vote. I am disappointed. I wanted to get to yes,” Mr. Corker said in a statement. “But at the end of
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USAFormer President Barack Obama and Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, met in New Delhi Friday to discuss promoting peace in the world, according to the Dalai Lama’s office. Obama, who is on a three nation tour, also met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, where he arrived after visiting China. “It was very
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International, USAPresident Donald Trump has pushed at least seven officials to put an end to investigations at various levels of government into whether his campaign helped Russia meddle in the 2016 presidential election. On Thursday The New York Times revealed that over the summer Trump urged members of the Senate—including those leading the Senate Intelligence Committee’s
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International, USABy TOI staff A court in Thailand Thursday sentenced to death an Israeli former police informant who admitted to murdering another Israeli man in a fit of jealousy. Shimon Biton, 50, who has served time in both Israeli and Thai jails, admitted to killing 62-year-old Eliyahu Cohen and burying parts of his body in freshly
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International, Middle EastThe Trump administration on Friday took aim at San Francisco’s so-called sanctuary city policies, saying they were to blame for the slaying of Kate Steinle, a young woman who was fatally shot by a man in the United States illegally. “Had San Francisco enforced our nation’s immigration laws, the Steinle family would be celebrating this
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USAThe odds of Donald Trump becoming just the third president in U.S. history to be impeached have soared following news Friday that Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. In Flynn’s plea, he is reported to have said that Trump transition officials directed
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USAGarrison Keillor’s performance Tuesday in New Jersey was extra memorable for at least one audience member — and not only because it might end up being the humorist’s last public appearance for a while. Keillor was in the midst of his “Prairie Home Love & Comedy Tour” earlier this week when he was dropped by
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASouth Korea’s defense ministry on Friday characterized North Korea’s projectile, fired earlier this week, as a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can fly more than 13,000 kilometers. In a report to the National Assembly, the ministry said the North is believed to have conducted a successful missile test on Wednesday. The Hwasong-15 missile, launched
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InternationalBy TOI staff The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed six resolutions described by a watchdog group as “anti-Israel,” marking 70 years since the world body’s partition plan carved Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state than never came to be. The measures were nearly identical to a yearly slate voted
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International, Middle EastThe first birth as a result of a womb transplant in the United States has occurred in Texas, a milestone for the U.S. but one achieved several years ago in Sweden. A woman who had been born without a uterus gave birth to the baby at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Hospital spokesman Craig
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