NEW YORK — A fifth woman has come forward to accuse former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore of inappropriate sexual conduct. Beverly Young Nelson, 55, said Moore, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old high school student working as a waitress in Gadsden, Ala. Nelson said Moore had […]
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USANEWARK, N.J. — Jurors considering criminal corruption charges against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday told the judge overseeing the case they were deadlocked and asked for help on what to do next. The note sent to the courtroom said: “As of 2pm, on behalf of all jurors, we cannot reach a unanimous decision on
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USAU.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly praised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, virtually ignoring discussion of Duterte’s human rights record in carrying out thousands of extrajudicial killings in his war against drug suspects. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said human rights “briefly came up in the context of the Philippines’ fight against illegal drugs”
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International, USATEHRAN, Iran — Wailing survivors crowded hospital emergency rooms as rescue teams and sniffer dogs combed through rubble for bodies Monday following a powerful earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border that killed more than 400 people and left thousands injured, Iranian officials said. Behnam Saeedi, a spokesman for Iran’s crisis management headquarters, told state-run Channel 6
By Raphael Ahren Israel offered sympathy but no immediate assistance to Iran and Iraq to help the countries deal with the aftermath of a destructive earthquake Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon said Monday he was unaware of any aid offered to the two countries, neither of which have diplomatic ties with Israel. In fact,
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Middle EastLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–Israeli Pres. Reuven Rivlin urged cooperation and mutual understanding in a speech Monday night to the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Los Angeles. Rivlin addressed major issues confronting Jews and Israel, including prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, regional security in the Middle East, and divisions in Israeli society. Rivlin took on
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Middle East, USABy Jacob Magid The leader of a Jewish extremist group will be indicted, pending a hearing, on charges of incitement to violence, racism and terrorism, the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. The allegations against Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein relate to a number of inflammatory public statements he made between 2012 and 2017. Gopstein’s far-right
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Middle EastSexual assault charges targeting a prominent Islamic scholar have left many European Muslims stunned, and triggered sharply disparate reactions within the multi-faceted community, even as many fear a broader backlash. Swiss-born theologian Tariq Ramadan took a leave of absence from teaching at Oxford University last week, following complaints of rape and assault filed by two
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InternationalBy Marissa Newman and Alexander Fulbright Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay on Monday urged the government to call new elections for the sake of political stability. “In the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing about a conflict in the coalition: On the one hand the prime minister wants to call elections as soon as possible,
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Middle EastPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu signaled Monday that Israel would take military action in Syria when it sees fit as it seeks to ensure Iran-backed forces stay away from its territory. Israel has long accused Iran, its main enemy, of taking advantage of Syria’s civil war to send its Revolutionary Guard and its Lebanese Shiite ally,
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Middle EastPoland’s right-wing leaders on Monday spoke out against xenophobia after a controversial Independence Day march organised by far-right groups. Having started small in 2009, the annual event attracted a large following this year, with police estimating the crowd on Saturday in Warsaw at around 60,000. While many marchers denied membership of or sympathy for extreme
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InternationalHate crimes in the United States rose moderately last year, with hate-motivated incidents against several target groups, including Arabs, Muslims and transgender people, showing sharper increases, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, released Monday, showed there were 6,121 hate crime incidents in 2016, up 4.6 percent from 5,850
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USAZionist Organization of America chief Morton Klein ridiculed claims that Israel has “occupied” Judea and Samaria, telling supporters at the ZOA annual gala Sunday night in New York that no Palestinian Arab nation ever existed. “This was never their sovereign land,” said Klein. “And if it was their sovereign land, how could it be that
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Middle East, USASteve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News and former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, has called upon American Jewish conservatives to join his effort to oust Republican leaders and upend what he has called the “GOP establishment”. On Sunday, Bannon delivered an address to the Zionist Organization of America”s annual awards dinner, urging
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