Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman have approved 2,500 new housing units throughout Yehuda and Shomron. They announced “getting back to normal” following the Obama administration. The two senior ministers made the announcement this week during a meeting of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet, adding restrictions will be lifted to permit a resumption of […]

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations by a decisive margin Tuesday as Republican-led committees paved the way for three more of his

Mayors, city council members and other local officials from around New York state are urging lawmakers not to overrule New York City’s fee on plastic bags. In a letter Wednesday, more than 50 local leaders wrote to top lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to oppose legislation that would block the fee. The officials argue that […]

U.S. equities rose to all-time highs on Wednesday after a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump increased bullish sentiment on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average broke

[PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Customs agents at the Allenby Crossing to Jordan intercepted a smuggling attempt involving a half ton of tobacco. The cargo was labeled bags of plaster imported

The Trump administration has instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants, part of a broader communications clampdown within

Rescue crews have located an 18th body in the rubble of a hotel crushed by an avalanche even as they mourn colleagues who were killed in a nearby helicopter crash.

MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Uri Maklev feels the recently-passed law permitting municipalities to charge double arnona property tax on ghost apartments should be repealed. Jerusalem began doubling property tax for ghost

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer took the first question at his briefing Tuesday from a reporter who works for LifeZette, a website founded by Donald Trump supporter Laura Ingraham

The first session of the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal under President Donald Trump may have hit a snag. A pretrial hearing in the Sept. 11 terrorism case scheduled to

President Donald Trump tweeted early Wednesday that he is ordering a “major investigation” into voter fraud, revisiting unsubstantiated claims he’s made repeatedly about a rigged voting system. The investigation, he

President Donald Trump will begin rolling out executive actions on immigration Wednesday, beginning with steps to build his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to two administration officials. He’s

Yeshiva Ateret Mordechai headed by HaGaon HaRav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi Shlita, is working to finalize building permits for a plot it purchased in the Har Nof neighborhood of Yerushalayim after

Two Los Angeles police officers acted in self-defense and will not face criminal charges after fatally shooting a mentally ill black man during a struggle over an officer’s gun in

With his rejection of an Asian trade pact, U.S. President Donald Trump has tackled the first in a promised series of far-reaching policy changes that could inadvertently give China room

[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday morning 26 Teves, in Jerusalem, met with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who is on his first visit to Israel

Notable events in the dispute over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which is slated to run from Canada to U.S. refineries in the Gulf Coast. ——— March 2008 — The U.S. State Department issues a presidential permit for a $5.2 billion Keystone pipeline to transport crude oil. September 2008 — TransCanada files paperwork to expand […]

President Donald Trump’s selection to become health secretary told a Senate committee Tuesday that the new administration believes people with existing illnesses should not be denied health insurance, but committed