WASHINGTON, August 26, 2016 – With the hacking of his organization’s activities, George Soros has made the news again, this time proving that greed and power can bring about a dangerous outcome. Years of documents have come to surface, shining light on the usually hidden arena where Soros lives. While his organization “Open Society Foundations,” […]
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International, USATRENTON, N.J. — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has hired Bill Stepien, a former close adviser to Gov. Chris Christie who was cut off from his inner circle in the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal, according to reports. Christie cut ties with Stepien on the morning of Jan. 9, 2014, after The Record revealed
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USAWASHINGTON, August 25, 2016 – Three sentences in rape and sexual assault cases have drawn intense scrutiny and criticism in the last six months. They have been condemned as evidence that the criminal justice system devalues women and sexual assault and that the system is broken. They are, in fact, evidence that the system is
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USAThe U.N. Security Council has asked its member countries to review a draft version of a press statement condemning North Korea’s latest missile provocation, diplomatic sources said Friday. The UNSC held an emergency behind-closed-doors meeting on Wednesday (local time) at the request of South Korea, the United States and Japan to discuss counteractions against the
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InternationalBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Often, when I am booked for lectures or radio and television interviews, I am provided questions in advance to help me prepare. Some of the questions are provocative, the kind that make me stop and think. So much so, I am sharing a few here with my replies.
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Natasha Josefowitz, USAThe White House said Friday that President Obama’s top advisers conducted an “even-handed” transition meeting with representatives of presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, even though Mr. Obama is rooting for Mrs. Clinton. “The president and his team are determined to being even-handed in planning for a presidential transition,” said White House press secretary
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USAPALO ALTO, Calif. — The Santa Clara County judge who faces a recall threat for giving a light sentence to a Stanford student convicted of sexual assault will no longer handle criminal cases — at his own request. Judge Aaron Persky asked to be reassigned from hearing criminal cases at the Palo Alto courthouse, where
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USAFrance’s top administrative court on Friday overturned a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits in a southern French town amid shock and anger worldwide after some Muslim women were ordered to remove body-concealing garments on French Riviera beaches. The State Council (Conseil d’État) gave the ruling following a request from the Human Rights League to overturn
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InternationalNorth Korea’s in a good mood these days. The nation is celebrating its first successful test of a submarine-launched missile. The country’s leader — Kim Jong Un — says the US mainland is now within striking range of his nuclear weapons. That sounds like a threat. Joel Wit, a former US nuclear negotiator with North
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USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — In my book Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism I detail the discovery of a new strain of anti-Semitism that I noticed in Europe, namely the urge by haters to drive a wedge between the local Jew and the Jewish State. I wrote of several examples of the modern form of
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By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, two Syrian government Su-24 airplanes bombed the Kurdish-held areas of the city of Hasakah. The attack was unexpected. The Kurds have operated semi-autonomously in Syria because their pressure on ISIS has been helpful to Damascus, and because the Kurdish agenda has been primarily regional
By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States was humiliated this week when the USS Nitze came under simulated attack by four Iranian missile and torpedo-equipped speedboats in international waters. Despite American warnings, radio calls, flares and foghorns, two of the boats came within a few hundred yards of the Nitze.
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen D. Bryen, USAReport: Egypt blocked UN endorsement of Quartet report (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The American and European effort to have the U.N. adopt the recent Quartet report on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was derailed by Egypt, the Walla news website reported Friday. Quoting Western diplomats, the report said the EU and the United States wanted the
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Middle EastThe heads of the haredi parties, Ministers Arye Deri (Shas), Yaakov Litzman (UTJ), and MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, bearing an ultimatum: gives us our Shabbat, or we take your coalition. Haredi MKs have been in an uproar these past few days over the
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