Report by Channel 10 news could undermine PM’s claim he did not intend to make a deal with the Yedioth Ahronoth publisher By Times of Israel staff US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson with Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90) In his recent testimony to Israeli police, US billionaire Sheldon Adelson recounted a conversation […]
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Middle East, USACairo (dpa) – An Egyptian accused of killing two German tourists in a knife attack the day before at the resort town of Hurghada has no criminal record, private newspaper al-Masry al-Youm reported on Saturday. The alleged assailant, identified as Abdel-Rahman Shaaban, is a 27-year-old student from the Nile Delta province of Kafr al-Sheikh, the
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International, USAIt all started with a sticky note. When the Washington Post published an article back in May about President Donald Trump’s body guard, they failed to notice that one of the photos included a sticky note with the personal phone number of the US secretary of defense. Teddy Fischer, a student at Mercer Island High
Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics, has died in the U.S. The 40-year-old reportedly had breast cancer that spread to her bones. “A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart… gone far too soon,” her friend, NASA scientist Firouz Naderi, posted on Instagram. The Fields
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAOn Friday, the United States Marines released the names of the 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman who were tragically killed in this week’s military plane crash. In a procession on Friday, 16 white hearses carried the fallen Maj. Caine M. Goyette, Capt. Sean E. Elliott, Gunnery Sgt. Mark A. Hopkins, Gunnery Sgt. Brendan C.
Mississippi authorities have arrested and charged three teenagers for kidnapping and sexual assault after they broadcast their attack on a 23-year-old woman on Facebook Live on Tuesday night. Haleigh Alexis Hudson, 19, Ezzie Johnson, 17, and Kadari Fabien Booker, 17, are accused of participating in a 15-minute live stream that portrayed a pants-less man standing
A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to vastly expand the number of people exempt from a controversial travel ban to include those who have grandparents and other non-immediate family in the U.S., as well as refugees without family ties to the country. In his order, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson
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International, USAWASHINGTON — A Russian sanctions bill has stalled in Congress amid partisan finger-pointing, leaving lawmakers worried the inaction could limit their legislative check on the Trump administration. Top Democratic senators warned President Donald Trump’s officials ahead of bilateral talks next week not to give back Russia’s diplomatic compounds in New York and Maryland that were
WINNIPEG, Canada — Well, that didn’t take long. Proving you can’t keep a good man — or a dehydrated one — down for long, former President Jimmy Carter returned to a Habitat for Humanity building site in Winnipeg Friday morning, one day after being hospitalized for dehydration. Habitat for Humanity broke the news with a
WASHINGTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign died in New Hampshire in February 2016, but the political account that paid for it has lived on until this week because of lingering debts. A report filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission shows that Christie collected $33,500 from contributors in June and used $23,000
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USAPresident Trump attended the Bastille Day parade Friday in Paris, where U.S. and French troops marched together to mark the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I. Mr. Trump and first lady Melania Trump joined French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte in bright sunshine on the reviewing platform to watch the parade
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International, USANASHVILLE, Tenn. – The doctor pulls up a chair next to his patient, a 74-year-old woman with lung cancer. He tells her she doesn’t need more chemotherapy. Her eyes perk up; has she beaten her cancer? As it turns out, no. Her cancer has metastasized. She only has six months to live, at most. But
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWilliam Sachs Goldman, 38, was the grandson of San Francisco philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman By Times of Israel staff William Goldman. (Courtesy University of San Francisco website) The grandson of a well-known Jewish philanthropist was killed in a plane crash near a small airport in San Francisco on Thursday. William Sachs Goldman, 38, was
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the Jewish community in some quarters has lately been divided on Israel issues, some 5,000 evangelical Christians will gather in Washington, DC July 17-18 as a granite-like block of support to defend the Jewish State. They will be attending the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) policy conference held
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