[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Here is the complete text of Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s remarks as prepared for delivery on Tuesday. Rubio gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s
[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union – to improve it is the […]
The toll of gun violence and the widespread disgust it has generated makes it time for new federal gun curbs that balance public safety with gun rights, Democrats said Tuesday
The extraordinary manhunt for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of three murders converged Tuesday on a mountain cabin where he was believed to have barricaded himself inside, engaged
Perhaps the most noticeable change in coalition talks since Shabbos 29 Shevat 5773 is the silence from the chareidi parties. Last week Shas’ Eli Yishai and Yahadut Hatorah’s Moshe Gafne did not pass an opportunity to express an opinion, feeding political spin master. Now, as coalition talks enter a second week it appears the veteran […]
U.S. airlines were less likely in 2012 to lose your suitcase than at any other point in the last two decades, the government announced Tuesday. There were only 3.09 reports
MK (Likud) Moshe Feiglin told Galei Yisrael that if Israel really pressed for his release, Jonathan Pollard would have already been a free man. MK )Bayit Yehudi) Avi Wortzman has begun circulating a petition, hoping to have elected officials sign demanding Pollard’s release. An internet petition has already received 16,400 signatures. When asked what has […]
His words did not as a surprise to anyone, perhaps just serving to strengthen the bond that now exists between Yesh Atid and Bayit HaYehudi as Naftali Bennett made his first-ever Knesset address on Tuesday, 2 Adar 5773. Bennett spoke of the absolute necessity to change today’s current reality regarding the sharing the burden issue. […]
Passengers onboard a disabled cruise ship being towed to shore in the Gulf of Mexico told relatives they are using plastic bags to do “their business” and are otherwise trying to make the best of a bad situation by sleeping under the stars instead of in their stuffy, hot cabins. Jimmy Mowlam, 63, said his […]
Minister of Industry & Trade Shalom Simchon in his Knesset address on Monday, 1 Adar 5773 recapped his term in office over the past two years. “During the past two years I met a man wishing to earn a decent living and find his place in the workplace. I saw small business owners trying to […]
22:30 IL: Despite earlier reports, police and other agencies in Yerushalayim remain on high alert at this time in light of intelligence reports of a planned terror attack. Israel news reported on Tuesday evening 2 Adar 5773 the intelligence information that sparked the terror alert in the capital “was general, not specific” surrounding reports that […]
In his latest assault against Torah Jewry, Haaretz columnist Nechemia Shtrasler on Monday 2 Adar 5773 published his latest piece, “The Nasty Ways of the White Tribe” in which he rips into the chareidi tzibur in Eretz Yisrael. “The latest derogatory term is ‘white tribe,’ which refers to an amorphous group comprising Jews of Ashkenazi […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hoped his coalition talks would have made more progress, now in week two. After two rounds of meetings with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid it appears
A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday voted to approve President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation’s defense secretary at a time of turmoil for the
President Obama will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term Tuesday night, calling for Republicans and Democrats to work together on the economy, immigration and
Syrian opposition fighters captured a military airport near the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday in another military setback for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces which have come under intensifying attack
Giving is a virtue under the U.S. tax code, but concern is growing among philanthropic leaders about the charitable contributions deduction, a key fund-raising tool for charities. Worried that federal
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America — the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization — called upon the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 592 — the “Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act.” The legislation will be voted on by the House of Representatives tomorrow — February 13. The bipartisan legislation — sponsored […]
Justice Minister Prof. Yaakov Ne’eman explained he cannot address a clemency request on behalf of former President Moshe Katsav for the senior minister feels there is a conflict of interests. Ne’eman passed the ball to Minister Dr. Binyamin Begin. He consulted with a number of people and announced that he too is unwilling to address […]
Tehran denied on Tuesday it had agreed to allow international investigators to question Iranian officials over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires as part of a plan to form a truth commission. Following the bombing which killed 85 people, Argentinian authorities in 2007 secured Interpol arrest warrants for five Iranians and a […]
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