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Arthur Sulzberger Jr. sends personal letter to subscribers who canceled over new hire By JTA Bret Stephens at alumni weekend at the University of Chicago, June 7, 2014. (Jason Smith via JTA) The publisher of The New York Times sent a personal letter to subscribers who canceled over the newspaper’s hiring of conservative columnist Bret

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Syria’s government on Monday of hanging hundreds of political opponents and other prisoners and burning their bodies at a military prison near Damascus, part of what the State Department called an egregious pattern of atrocities by Syrian President Bashar Assad. The State Department said the Syrian authorities may be

American Jewish casino mogul and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly furious over the Trump administration”s delays in fulfilling the president”s campaign pledge to relocate the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Adelson, a prominent GOP donor who backed President Trump”s 2016 campaign to the tune of $25 million, was angered by Secretary of State

As candidates, many US politicians stop by the Jerusalem holy site, but once in the White House, they’ve all stayed away By Raphael Ahren Donald Trump is slated to become the first incumbent US president to visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weighed in Sunday evening on the issue of the US embassy in Israel, after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said President Trump was still considering whether to move the embassy to Jerusalem, and was “listening to input from all interested parties in the region.” The Prime Minister”s Office released a statement