International

Part-Sanders, part-Corbyn: how French socialist Hamon stepped out of the dark

A leftist dissident, Benoît Hamon has emerged as an unlikely frontrunner for the Socialist presidential nomination as the battered and fractured ruling party scrambles to stay alive in the shifting sands of French politics. “What would Benoît Hamon be without the Socialist Party?” pondered President François Hollande in March 2015, during one of his notoriously […]

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International

Trump now wants an investigation into unproven claims of voter fraud

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will ask for a “major investigation” into potential voter fraud in the election, a probe that he says could lead to new laws on voter access. In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said his investigation would focus on three areas: people registered to vote in multiple states, non-citizens

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USA

Injured skydiver aids man who falls from roof

CAESARIA, Israel (Press Release) — Golan Shalhov, a volunteer EMS responder with United Hatzalah’s ambucycle corps in Caesaria, recently injured himself during one of his favorite pastimes – skydiving. He landed off balance and injured his back when he crashed after a rather unfortunate jump. In spite of his injuries, Shalhov recently responded to a medical

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Aziz Ansari took to the ‘SNL’ stage and delivered some stand-up logic to Trump

“Saturday Night Live” couldn’t have planned a better guest host for its inaugural-weekend show than Aziz Ansari. Or at least that’s the conclusion many came to after the writer-actor-comedian delivered the opening monologue. Ansari, who made a name for himself as Tom Haverford on “Parks and Recreation,” is now co-creator and star of his own

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Queen, Trump May Hold Visit

Queen Elizabeth II, for whom President Donald Trump has expressed admiration, has reached out the newly inaugurated leader of the free world, according to a report this week in Woman and Home magazine. Citing a spokesman for Elizabeth, the article stated that the queen congratulated Trump after his inauguration last week, “but the official message

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International, USA

Obama official to PM: Make peace if you want funeral like Peres

Dore Gold, the former Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, related a story which shed new light on the contentious relationship between the Obama Administration and the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Speaking to the Hebrew Makor Rishon newspaper last Friday, Gold related that when the US delegation to the funeral of former Prime

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Middle East, USA

Brussels Bombings Were Deliberately Aimed At Americans, Jews

The terror attack at the Zaventem airport in Brussels last March was specifically targeted at Jewish passengers and people traveling to the U.S., according to new revelations. An investigation into the bombings at the airport – which killed 16 people – has found that a check-in counter for American passengers was one of the targets

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International, USA

4 Israeli teens charged for assaulting Palestinian farmers

Youths accused of throwing rocks and threatening locals tending their fields near illegal West Bank outpost of Geulat Tzion By Times of Israel staff Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish settler swinging a slingshot as he stands near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, on May 19, 2013 (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90) The Jerusalem District Court indicted

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Middle East