The Supreme Court on Tuesday scrapped one of the legal challenges to President Trump’s travel ban, saying the new policy the White House announced late last month supersedes the older policy. The justices ordered the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its previous ruling that the ban was unconstitutional and to dismiss the […]
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USAThe US has flown two supersonic heavy bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force against Pyongyang, staging the first night-time joint aviation exercises with Japan and South Korea. Two B-1B Lancers based in Guam flew a mission in the vicinity of the Sea of Japan late Tuesday, the US Pacific Air Forces
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International, USAJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two Planned Parenthood groups sued the state of Missouri on Tuesday, arguing the state’s newest law restricting abortions is unconstitutional. The GOP-controlled Legislature approved law in question — Senate Bill 5 — this summer during a special session on abortion called by Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican. Planned Parenthood Great Plains
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USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Segregationist Napoleon Bonaparte Broward — the man the Florida county is named after — is no longer welcome in the Broward County Courthouse. A statue of Broward will be removed from the courthouse soon, county leaders said Tuesday, the latest casualty of a nationwide debate about whether it’s proper to commemorate
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USADuchess Catherine made her first public appearance since announcing her third pregnancy in honor of World Mental Health Day alongside Prince Harry and Prince William on Tuesday. The Duchess looked beautiful in a blue frock and black heels as she attended a reception at St. James Palace, her tiny baby bump on display. The reception
As President Donald Trump talks trash, former President Jimmy Carter wants to take a different approach with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un: He wants to talk peace. Carter wants to revise a role he played in 1994, when he visited North Korea and helped reduce tensions between then-President Bill Clinton and the rogue state, said
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International, USAUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to the death penalty Tuesday, insisting it has “no place in the 21st century.” He urged member states that still execute convicts to join the 170 countries that have halted or abolished the practice, warning that the risk of a miscarriage of justice is an “unacceptably high
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InternationalA woman from the African Hebrew Israelites group in Dimona reacted Tuesday to a video in which she was seen being showered with racial slurs while riding the bus. “This kind of racism I have never experienced,” Hasedia Bat Israel told Channel 2 news. “I was born in this land. This kind of racism I
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Middle EastThe Ku Klux Klan hopes to recruit future white supremacists at high school football games. The racist group distributed propaganda fliers at a Friday night football game at Gray’s Creek High School in North Carolina. The fliers showcased racist comments about Jews, Mexicans and Muslims written atop the Confederate flag, also attacking Black Lives Matter,
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USABollywood superstar Jacqueline Fernandez was in Israel this week with a crew of 80 to shoot scenes for an action-comedy film opposite Indian heartthrob Sushant Singh Rajput, in the first Bollywood movie to be filmed in the Jewish state. “Drive,” described as an Indian version of Hollywood’s “The Fast and the Furious” franchise and likely
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastA kosher Shabbat dinner at a backpacker”s lodge in Dalat, Vietnam a 9,000 women-strong challah-baking event in Buenos Aires a glow-in-the-dark challah event in Costa Rica a binational gathering on the Mexican-US border a dinner for 1,000 Israelis in a shipping hanger in Tel Aviv and a Shabbat kept in full on the slopes of
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAFormer Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted on Tuesday that he is seeking to forge political partnerships to kickstart the movement he heads. In an interview with Army Radio, Ya’alon said that he is currently holding talks with “anyone willing to talk about the future of the State of Israel, I am talking, among others, to
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Middle EastDefense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday said the next war in Israel will see the Israel Defense Forces facing both a unified Syrian and Lebanese foe and another front in the Gaza Strip. He also declared Tuesday that the Lebanese army has been fully integrated with Hezbollah and now operates under the terror group’s command.
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Middle EastA judge has subpoenaed the former Argentinian president and former foreign minister to appear before the commission investigating the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the attack. Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio also barred Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former foreign minister Héctor Timerman
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