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Trump’s Businesses Have A History Of Money-Laundering Charges

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller, appointed to lead the probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, is reportedly examining whether or not President Donald Trump’s associates violated money laundering laws. That scrutiny is hardly unfamiliar to Trump, as his business empire has been repeatedly sanctioned for violating those statutes. He even at one

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Major US academic body ratifies anti-boycott resolution

Israeli minister says Modern Language Association’s vote is a ‘major blow’ to divestment efforts against Israel By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot) The Modern Language Association ratified a resolution opposing academic boycotts of Israel in a vote by its members, drawing praise from

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Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government

For decades, the Department of Justice has used court-enforced agreements to protect civil rights, successfully desegregating school systems, reforming police departments, ensuring access for the disabled and defending the religious. Now, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ appears to be turning away from this storied tool, called consent decrees. Top officials in the DOJ

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Danger in treating cardiac patients with stem cells

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Patients with severe and end-stage heart failure have few treatment options available to them apart from transplants and “miraculous” stem cell therapy. But a new Tel Aviv University study finds that stem cell therapy may, in fact, harm heart disease patients. The research, led by Prof. Jonathan Leor of TAU’s Sackler

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Singer Noa lashes Tel Aviv official for bid to nix gig

Songstress tells Arnon Giladi to mind his own business, after council member says event should be canceled over views he calls anti-Zionist By Jessica Steinberg Singer Achinoam Nini performs during a memorial ceremony for the late Yossi Sarid, on January 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Singer Achinoam Nini, known for her outspoken support for a two-state

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Shooter had long history of run-ins with police around Belleville, Ill.

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — An Illinois man who shot a GOP congressman Wednesday morning in Virginia was described as “an angry little man” with “a chip on his shoulder” by a lawyer who represented him in past legal trouble. The man identified as the gunman in Virginia, James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, was killed in

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Proposed Israeli ethics code angers university faculties

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The slippery subject of academic freedom has moved into our headlines with a draft code of ethics for universities and their personnel. It is the work of Professor Asa Kasher, a philosophy professor at Tel Aviv University, and the author of the IDF’s code of ethics. He prepared this code at

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel rejects US claim Palestinians stopping payouts to terrorists

After US Secretary of State Tillerson said Ramallah intends to stop paying inmates and families, Jerusalem says it has seen no change By Raphael Ahren Security prisoners in the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90) Jerusalem on Wednesday said the Palestinians were continuing to pay salaries to incarcerated terrorists, rejecting US

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Republican leader in critical condition after shooter attacks GOP baseball practice

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, the third-ranking Republican in House leadership, was in critical condition Wednesday afternoon after being shot during a baseball practice, according to the hospital treating him. Two Capitol Hill police officers and at least two others were also shot and injured in a melee that triggered heightened security in and

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