Thomas Lopez-Pierre, running on platform against ‘greedy Jewish landlords,’ sets up crowdfunding campaign against himself By Times of Israel staff Thomas Lopez-Pierre, a candidate for council in upper Manhattan, New York, speaks against ‘greedy Jewish landlords’ on March 29, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube) A controversial candidate for New York City Council, who is running on […]

CHICAGO — A man with a long prison stint in his background for attempted murder fatally shot a Cook County judge and wounded his girlfriend outside the judge’s residence earlier this month, Chicago police said Thursday in announcing the first-degree murder charges. At a news conference Thursday evening at police headquarters, Cmdr. Rodney Blisset, who

President Donald Trump may not have many legislative accomplishments under his belt after nearly 100 days in the Oval Office, but his often-disputed series of executive orders stands to fundamentally transform the domestic policies of the United States—and its landscape—for years to come. His latest executive order throws the country’s largest national monuments into a

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former first lady Michelle Obama made no mention of the man who replaced her husband as president during her first post-White House speaking engagement Thursday in Orlando and appeared to rule out seeking office in the future. “It’s all well and good until you start running, and then the knives come out,”

President Donald Trump on Friday is expected to sign an executive order that could open large parts of the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans to new oil and gas drilling, a prospect that elicited a fierce backlash in California and elsewhere even before details of the order were clear. The move, which is certain to