Eleven hostages held at gunpoint by a robbery suspect in a north Florida credit union were freed two hours after their ordeal began Thursday, authorities said. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office

President Barack Obama has nearly ruled out any major last-ditch effort to put pressure on Israel over stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians, U.S. officials said, indicating Obama will likely

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to take a victory lap on Thursday, appearing first in Indiana to salute workers at a factory that he made a campaign promise to save

The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years is set to begin Thursday in Wisconsin, a state that Donald Trump won by less than a percentage

Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey has arrived in Ankara as the two countries seek to mend relations that soured after a deadly Israeli naval raid on a Turkish ship headed

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times This week marked the tragic loss of a remarkable woman, Rebbitzen Gita Cohen A”H. Her’s was a life replete with

Pakistan’s Press Information Bureau on Wednesday released a readout of a phone call on Monday between Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump. The readout is

Air crash investigators in Colombia sought Wednesday to piece together the terrifying final moments aboard a charter jet that crashed while carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match

Several more mosques nationwide have reported receiving a hate-filled letter from California that warns Muslims to leave the country or face genocide. The identical letters postmarked from the Los Angeles

Senior dati leumi rabbonim shlita met on Tuesday 28 Cheshvan to discuss the recent troubling decision to expand the ranks of female combatants in the IDF, to the Tank Corps.

Officials in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon expressed disappointment Wednesday at Carrier Corp.’s announcement it will keep hundreds of jobs in the United States rather than send them south

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon on Wednesday, 29 Cheshvan, together with Deputy Finance Minister Yitzchak Cohen, met with representatives of insurance companies regarding compensatory payments to people

A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University might have been inspired by the Islamic State group and a former al-Qaida leader, investigators said Wednesday.

The annual Where Else convention hosted by the Tourism Ministry will open this year with a gala evening on Thursday, 1 Kislev in Tel Aviv, with the participation of the

Immigration inspectors in Israel’s southern district conducted an inspection on Wednesday morning 29 Cheshvan and detained 28 persons from the Ukraine who are in the country illegally. The group, 12