International

Thomas Homan calls for Kate’s Law, immigration crackdown on sanctuary cities

The head of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement teared up at a White House press briefing Wednesday describing how he found a dead five-year-old boy in the back of a tractor trailer smuggling illegal immigrants – one of the often overlooked victims of lax immigration laws, he said. The little boy who died of

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International, USA

Top Vatican Official Charged with Child Sexual Assault

Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic and the third-highest-ranking official at the Vatican, was charged by Victoria Police on Thursday with multiple counts of sexual assault. Pell, who is responsible for the Vatican’s finances and is a close adviser to Pope Francis, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to face charges in the Catholic Church’s long-running

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International

Planned coup in Montenegro shows Russian efforts to hinder elections, Senate panel hears

WASHINGTON — By the time Montenegro’s police got wind of the plans, the 2016 election-day coup plot was about to launch. Disguised as police, the plotters would storm the Parliament in Podgorica, firing at citizens awaiting election results and generally creating chaos. They would declare their favored candidates the real winners of the elections, and

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International, USA

High Court to hold hearing on Western Wall agreement in July

Women of the Wall head says cabinet decision to freeze 2016 deal shows state has no legal arguments for delaying its implementation By Alexander Fulbright Conservative Jews at the section prepared for prayer for the Women of the Wall at Robinson’s Arch in Jerusalem’s Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90) The High Court

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Destruction of Arkansas’ Ten Commandments monument places spotlight on separation of church and state

The 6-foot-tall stone monument engraved with the Ten Commandments — a capstone of sorts to years of debate in Arkansas over the separation of church and state — was erected with little pomp on the lush grounds of the state Capitol. Less than 24 hours later, the monument came crumbling down after a Dodge Dart

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Jewish Religion, USA

Hispanic Man Says He’s Trump’s Illegitimate Son, Changed His Surname

Ernesto Trump, 34, was born in Houston, Texas and is the son of Mexican immigrants, but according to him, his true father is Donald Trump. In an interview for “Primer Impacto” he explained that he legally changed his Spanish surnames Baeza Acosta, to the surname of the president of the United States. “I want President

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USA

Now a Knesset leader, former prisoner of Zion returns to his Moscow cell

Returning to Butyrka prison, where he awaited a show trial 33 years ago for teaching Hebrew, Yuli Edelstein recalls the ‘gates of hell’ where his phylacteries, but not his zeal for Israel, were crushed By Marissa Newman MOSCOW — To an outsider, the decrepit hallways of Moscow’s Butyrka Prison feel like a gateway into the

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International, Middle East

Chuck Schumer uses Senate rule to delay intel meeting; unmasking controversy sure to come up

A national security briefing for Senate Judiciary Committee members was scuttled Wednesday after a top Democrat invoked a procedural rule to delay the closed-door meeting. Committee members had expected to use the briefing to press for further details about the Obama White House’s steps to “unmask” of members of the Trump campaign and transition officials.

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USA

Trump ‘Stands for Our Values,’ Says Condoleezza Rice

Say what you will about President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, but the man still stands for American values just like all the others who served as president before him—at least, that’s what Condoleezza Rice says she believes. Advocating for Trump while appearing at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship and KPMG Women’s Leadership Summit recently, the former

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Middle East, USA

Brazil’s president charged with bribery

Brazil’s top federal prosecutor has charged President Michel Temer with taking multimillion-dollar bribes. Rodrigo Janot submitted the charge to the country’s Supreme Court, alleging Temer had “fooled Brazilian citizens” and owed the nation millions in compensation for accepting bribes. What do the charges relate to? Temer was charged in connection with a graft scheme involving

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International

Jewish Agency takes out ad slamming Western Wall decision

Organization says freezing pluralistic prayer pavilion and granting ultra-Orthodox conversion monopoly ‘endangers the unity of the Jewish people’ By Times of Israel staff Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during a mixed men and women prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City,

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA