Stocks wobbled lower on Wall Street Thursday afternoon as investors gauged the latest data on inflation and company earnings. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% as of 12:18 p.m. Eastern. The
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog on Thursday to express his condolences on the loss of his mother. Aura Herzog, z’l, who was also the almanah of Israel’s sixth president, Chaim Herzog, passed away earlier this week at the age of 97. Erdogan’s phone call is the latest in several conversations he had […]
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since mid-November, but still low by historic standards. U.S. jobless claims climbed by 23,000 last
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The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years, The Associated Press has learned, as
A “perfect storm” is brewing in the Democratic Party which could provide an opening for failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to mount another bid for the White House, two
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Police in Lauderhill, a city in the Miami metropolitan area, launched an arson investigation after one of their cars was set on fire outside a Chabad shul late Wednesday night.
The European Union is none-too-pleased about the recent publication of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual “Global Anti-Semitism Top Ten” list, with officials saying that the group is tarnishing Holocaust survivor
Mossad head Dovid Barnea and Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Mohammed Al-Dabaiba met recently in Jordan for talks on normalization, Libyan and Saudi media outlets reported on Wednesday. Al Dabaiba’s office denied that a meeting took place. It’s unlikely that Libya could reach an official normalization agreement with Israel in the near future as the country has […]
The presence of a senior Iranian official at the investiture of Nicaragua’s president has angered Argentina, which alleges the official was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that the appearance of Mohsen Rezaei, the Iranian vice president for economic affairs, […]
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s fragile coalition is being rocked by a crisis over tree planting in the Negev by the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael (KKL-JNF), a yearly tradition that this year sparked violent riots by Bedouins and Ra’am’s boycott of the coalition. Bedouins falsely claim that the land is privately owned by Arabs, prompting […]
New York City’s subways and commuter rails are getting a $6 billion chunk of federal COVID-19 relief funds. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has received the money as part of more than $14.5 billion in overall federal relief aid. The aid, contained in COVID-19 relief bills during both the Trump and […]
In an especially tragic incident, two IDF officers from a commando unit were killed at an army base in the Jordan Valley late Wednesday night, the IDF stated on Thursday
A Washington man was sentenced today to 84 months, or seven years, in prison for his role in a plot to threaten and intimidate journalists and advocates who worked to
The United States and NATO rejected key Russian security demands for easing tensions over Ukraine but left open Wednesday the possibility of future talks with Moscow on arms control, missile
The Catholic Church in Rome on Tuesday strongly condemned as “offensive and unacceptable” a funeral procession outside a local church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag and mourners gave the fascist salute. Photos and video of the scene outside St. Lucia church following the Monday funeral service were published by the […]
Israel has donated $500,000 to the United Nations for food, medical aid and other assistance for Afghan refugees in Tajikistan, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Alon Ushpiz, director-general of the
A 2-year-old boy was among the 17 people killed in a Bronx high-rise apartment building fire, police confirmed Wednesday. New York City police released the names and ages of final three victims identified after Sunday’s deadly blaze: Isatou Jabbie, 31 and her husband Hagi Jawara, 47, and 2-year-old Ousmane Konteh, who is the youngest victim. […]
The U.S. last month posted its smallest monthly budget deficit in two years thanks to a rebounding economy that helped boost tax receipts, coupled with slower spending as some COVID
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