International

Dreadful attendance reportedly making NFL consider forcing franchise to move

The Chargers have been the Los Angeles Chargers for only two weeks now, and the 0-2 start isn’t the only thing worrying the organization. Don Banks of The Athletic recently joined the Darren Smith Show in San Diego and he painted a picture that’s quite troublesome for the NFL. Apparently, according to Banks, the league […]

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Israeli jets reportedly strike weapons convoy outside Damascus

Israeli warplanes early on Friday morning struck a Hezbollah weapons convoy outside Damascus, Arabic-language media outlets reported. According to reports, the three separate strikes were carried out near the Damascus International Airport, an area known to be a stronghold of the Iranian-backed terrorist group. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never

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Middle East

Aides warned Trump not to attack North Korea’s leader personally before his fiery UN address

WASHINGTON — Senior aides to President Donald Trump repeatedly warned him not to deliver a personal attack on North Korea’s leader at the United Nations this week, saying insulting the young despot in such a prominent venue could irreparably escalate tensions and shut off any chance for negotiations to defuse the nuclear crisis. Trump’s derisive

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International, USA

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes off the Northern California coast

A shallow magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck beneath the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. No tsunami warnings were issued for the coast, according to the National Weather Service. The temblor occurred at 12:50 p.m. at a depth of 2.5 miles, according to the USGS. Its epicenter

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USA

‘Flaming Liberal’ Ginsburg: Court ‘Will be Momentous’

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hailed herself as “a flaming feminist litigator” as she vowed to take on the majority conservative Supreme Court as it returns next month to tackle controversial issues such as gay civil rights, President Trump’s travel ban and partisan gerrymandering. “There is only one prediction that is entirely safe about the upcoming

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USA

Shimon Peres’s memoir reveals lifelong optimism for peace

In many parts of the world, Jewish custom holds that a tombstone be placed on the one-year anniversary of one’s death. For the late Israeli politician Shimon Peres, that anniversary is being marked by the release of his autobiography. In many parts of the world, Jewish custom holds that a tombstone be placed on the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle East, USA

The Soviet officer who averted a nuclear war died, but few people noticed

That a Russian hero of the Cold War could die in May, but his death go unmarked until this month, perhaps tells us everything we need to know about how Stanislav Petrov’s home country remembered his internationally famous actions. Petrov, 77, was largely unheralded in his own country, despite an act of bravery that likely

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International, USA

Starving cells of oxygen can help them kill cancers, Israeli researchers find

Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a method to reinforce the power of cells that kill cancerous tumors by starving them of oxygen, allowing immunotherapy treatments to be used in targeting previously immune solid tumors. The research was published in the journal Cell Reports. In the article, the researchers liken the new,

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Facebook agrees to give Congress Russian ads and pledges to dig further

WASHINGTON — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg bowed to mounting public pressure Thursday and announced that the social media giant would turn over to congressional investigators about 3,000 ads purchased during the 2016 presidential campaign by a mystery-shrouded Russian company with links to the Kremlin. Zuckerberg also announced that his company would take new steps

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International, USA

Irving Berlin: The Story of the Man Behind ‘God Bless America’

Irving Berlin created music without formal training. And by himself. In 1918, while serving in the U.S. Army, he wrote the one and only “God Bless America.” When at first he couldn’t sell the song, he did what many songwriters do when such things happen: He stuck it in a drawer. Berlin dusted the tune

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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA