An official delegation from the United States Congress will arrive in Israel for a 24-hour visit on Saturday, in order to discuss the potential move of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The delegation is on behalf of the Subcommittee on National Security of the House of Representatives, and it is expected to […]
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Middle East, USAA man arrested for issuing threats against Jewish establishments has been identified as an anti-Trump journalist previously fired for falsifying news stories. ABC News reported that the 31-year-old Juan Thompson, a St. Louis resident, allegedly made a minimum of eight threats across the country targeting Jewish community centers, schools, a Jewish civil rights organization, and
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USASome pilots just aren’t getting the message: They can’t come and go as they please across South Florida’s sky this weekend or any other time the president is in town. Since last month, at least 27 aircraft have violated a temporary restriction on the airspace near Donald Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, federal officials say.
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USADonald Trump could become the first U.S. president in decades who doesn’t have a pet dog – or any pets for that matter – in the White House. Other presidents in the past have had a least one dog, while many had several. The last U.S. president who did not own a dog in office
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The World We Share, USAMESA, Ariz. — John Lackey “didn’t come here for a haircut.” He came here for jewelry, he said. The Cubs right-hander, who spoke those words last season when asked why he joined the team, will receive his ring in early April for the last year’s World Series victory. But he’s still on haircut hiatus. Lackey
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USAIn an apparent bid to deflect attention from the mounting controversy over whether his administration has ties to Russia, the commander-in-chief deployed his favorite weapon in the early hours of Saturday morning: dropping a Twitter bomb on the world that accuses President Obama of a conspiracy on the scale of Watergate. The president, whose administration
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USAThe man behind the bomb threats to various Jewish community centers made repeated statements about hating President Donald Trump. The FBI arrested Juan Thompson for making about eight bomb threats to various Jewish community centers, schools and organizations in the country. Thompson, a former journalist at The Intercept and potential communist, has a Twitter page
Two University of Missouri students were arrested for alleged anti-Semitic intimidation of a Jewish student. Campus police arrested Erich Eastman 18, and Noah Rogers, 19, both of Columbia, Missouri, earlier this week. They were released after each posting $1,500 bail. According to the alleged victim, Eastman and Rogers have been harassing him for six months,
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALeaders of the American Jewish community on Friday morning met with FBI Director James Comey and the senior leadership team of the FBI to discuss the range of threats that have been directed against Jewish institutions in the past two months. The leaders said in a statement that the conversation “encompassed the current situation and
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USAThe history of music is rich with sounds spurred by suffering. During the Holocaust, songs of defiance and belief helped captive Jews confront and temporarily alleviate their misery. Now, a long-lost recording from 1946 is providing a poignant new soundtrack for understanding life in the Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos. Just after World War
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAIt’s a party at this large banquet hall in Columbus, Ohio, with at least a thousand people packed in. Women wear dresses and headscarves in light blue and white, the colors of the Somali flag, and everyone is dancing to a hit song honoring Somalia’s new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. For many Somali Americans in
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International, USACarter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump’s campaign, says he doesn’t deny speaking with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak last year, after saying last month he had “no meetings” with any Russian officials. “I’m not going to deny that I talked with him,” Mr. Page said on MSNBC Thursday evening. “I will say
As most of the world knows by now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not tell the truth when he was asked during his confirmation hearings about contacts with Russian officials. But Sessions isn’t the only one. At least four other cabinet members made statements during their nomination hearings that are contradicted by actual facts: EPA
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USABOGOTA, Colombia — WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange may be able to keep a diplomatic safe haven after all. Guillermo Lasso, the front-runner in Ecuador’s presidential election, says he intends to evict Assange from that country’s London embassy if he wins the April 2 runoff against ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno. But he also said he
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