While both national parties argue in Congress over gun control bills, California had adopted sweeping legislation limiting semiautomatic rifles in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting massacre. Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of six bills Friday that expand background checks for ammunition purchases; ban the sale of semiautomatic rifles with “bullet buttons” that allow […]
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USAWASHINGTON — No matter how the FBI investigation into the handling of sensitive information on Hillary Clinton’s personal computer server ends, it is likely to hurt her campaign for president. If she is indicted, she will face further questions about her honesty and perhaps even calls for her to step aside. If she isn’t indicted,
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USAIslamist militants attacked an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Friday night (July 1), killing 20 foreign civilians and two police officers in a siege that ended Saturday, the Bangladeshi military said. Several Italians were killed at the scene, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said, declining to give any details of the victims
Massachusetts senator and rock star progressive Elizabeth Warren joined Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail this week, giving rousing speeches in support of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. But Warren was not always Clinton’s biggest fan. On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” Wednesday, host Trevor Noah listed off the reasons why Warren could be
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAWASHINGTON—After escalating one of the most lethal covert operations in U.S. history, President Barack Obama finally made a public estimate of the civilian cost of the nation’s secret drone program, which has targeted Islamic militants in remote corners of the globe. Human rights groups immediately challenged the estimate and the amount of transparency from the
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You don’t trust Bibi? Few do. No reason to. He’s a politician. He isn’t any different from a long line of others, including Barack Obama, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, JFK, the Clintons, FDR, and Abe Lincoln. They all promised a lot more than they delivered. It’s inherent in the occupation. The reputations
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paid a condolence call on Hallel-Yaffa Ariel’s family in Kiryat Arba on Friday morning. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) joined Netanyahu, along with Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) and Kiryat Arba-Hevron council head Malachi Levinger. Netanyahu spoke with Hallel’s parents and listened to stories about their 13-year-old daughter who
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Middle EastNetanel Epstein, born and raised in Jerusalem by British Olim, has a natural talent for drawing comics. As a child, he dreamt of creating an internationally popular comic book series on the scope of Tintin and Astrix. Netanel’s goals and very life perspective changed when his close friend, Yoni, was murdered in a terror attack.
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastMINNEAPOLIS — Dismay and distress gripped the residents of Pleasant Street in the quiet little town of Lauderdale, Minn., this week when one of their neighbors hoisted a red flag bearing a swastika. Ben Holsen first spotted the Nazi emblem flying on Wednesday night after another neighbor alerted him to its presence. The flag was
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USADENVER – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin unloaded Friday on conservatives who refuse to support presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, dubbing them “Republicans Against Trump, or RAT for short.” “They want to take their [Denver] Nuggets ball home and stay home instead of vote, because their guy didn’t win this time around?” asked Mrs.
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USAThe “Red Alert” rocket siren was heard on Friday night in the Sderot and the Shaar Hanegev area of southern Israel. A rocket fired by Gaza terrorists exploded a short time later in an empty kindergarten in the city of Sderot. There were no injuries, but the building sustained damage. Rocket and mortar fire from
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Middle EastTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal court decision blocking parts of an abortion-regulation law hours before it was set to take effect is far from the end of Florida’s legal battle over the issue, advocates on both sides said Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle issued an injunction against the law late Thursday night. It
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA week is a long time in politics. Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) has been, above all, a failure of political leadership—one that has left the country effectively without a government or opposition, at a time when fundamental decisions need to be made about the U.K.’s place in the world. Once the
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InternationalPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke the US embassy’s Independence Day celebration on Thursday. “This night of celebration comes after a day of tragedy. In Kiryat Arba, near Hevron the city of our forefathers, the young Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13-year-old, was murdered lying in her bunk bed. What makes someones slit the throat of a child?
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