Vandals targeted the family of New York State”s Assistant Attorney General, spray painting the word “Jew” on the front door of the family”s Bronx home. According to Assistant AG Jenny Michael, her father, former New York City Budget Director Philip Michael found the graffiti on his front door Sunday. Jenny Michael told the New York
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USAPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrived in Argentina Monday, following a 20 hour flight from Ben Gurion airport. Netanyahu will begin his four day visit to Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico with a visit to the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which was destroyed in a terrorist bombing in 1992. The Prime Minister will participate in a
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International, Middle EastHurricane Irma has put a temporarily halt to operations at Florida’s usually bustling cruise ports, forcing cruise companies to cancel several trips and shorten others. When the monster storm ripped through the Caribbean and Florida, it struck the world’s three busiest cruise ports — Port Miami, Port Canaveral and Port Everglades — as well as
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Travel and Food, USAPeretz Chein Meet Richie Malone, his wife Misty, and his two boys, Brady and Liam. I met Richie outside his home in Houston, while he was removing debris from his now stripped bare first floor. All the homes on his block were deserted, the street silent, with piles of torn out sheet-rock, deformed furniture, and
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USAWASHINGTON — The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear weapons buildup but the proposed penalties were weaker than the Trump administration had sought. The 15-0 vote marks the second unanimous decision against North Korea in the weeks since it unexpectedly tested intercontinental
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International, USAATLANTA — Irma slogged through Georgia on Monday, leaving a trail of flooding, power outages and downed trees in its wake. The storm weakened substantially after unleashing hurricane-strength winds in Florida and the Caribbean. But even as a tropical storm, Irma packed a powerful punch. Three Georgia deaths were blamed on the storm — a
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USANorth Korea is suspected of working with Syria on its chemical weapons and ballistic missile programs in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, a U.N. panel of experts has said. The eight-member panel tasked with monitoring sanctions implementation against Pyongyang made the observation in a 111-page report published online on Saturday, two days before the
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy granted a request from Trump administration lawyers Monday and temporarily blocked a 9th Circuit Court order that would have allowed more refugees to enter the United States from six majority-Muslim nations. The government had asked for a “temporary administrative stay” to give the justices time to consider the issue.
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USAThe end is nigh for the monarch butterfly. Image credits Billings Brett / USFWS. Tradition dictates that every year, the American West Coast dons a fluttery, black-and-orange coat with the migration of the monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). But in recent decades, that coat has become thinner and frailer, an indication that something isn’t quite right
Miss Texas Margana Wood didn’t use vague language Sunday night when answering a question about President Donald Trump’s reaction to Charlottesville. Now, she’s winning praise on social media for it, though she didn’t win the Miss America title. “Last month, a demonstration of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the KKK in Charlottesville turned violent and a
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USAThis 2-year-old pup does not care how small an animal is – she is determined to save every single one of them. Whenever Holliday the German shepherd/border collie mix goes on a walk with her owner Caitlyn Beebe, she makes sure to rescue all of the earthworms that are stranded on the hot dry pavement.
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The World We Share, USAWASHINGTON — The White House said Monday it will take “weeks” to fully restore electricity to Florida after Hurricane Irma, which left more than half of Floridians without power according to some estimates. “I would caution people to be very patient here,” said Tom Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. “We
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USAANNAPOLIS – A Maryland judge ordered the state bar to open an investigation Monday into the three lawyers who helped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to delete her private emails. Circuit Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. said the complaints lodged against David E. Kendall, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were “egregious” and said the
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The Internet provides insight into the range of opinions expressed by overseas Jews about Israel. It also raises the question about the nature of Israel’s relations with the Jewish Diaspora. Do overseas Irish, Germans, Italians, Indians, Sri Lankans et al demonstrate the same concern for a “homeland” as do Jews
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