Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she has “no intention of taking any action” regarding any possible use of federal funds to arm teachers or provide them with firearms training. DeVos’ comments came Friday after a top official in her department, asked about arming teachers, said states and local jurisdictions always “had the flexibility” to decide […]
President Donald Trump “nodded with approval” at the suggestion of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a court filing that seeks leniency for a former campaign aide who lied to the FBI. Lawyers for George Papadopoulos are seeking probation, saying the foreign policy adviser misled agents during a January 2017 interview not […]
The Village Voice, the Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly known for its muckraking investigations, brash political reporting, exhaustive arts criticism and anxiety-laden cartoons, is going out of business after 63 years.
According to the daily HaMevaser on Sunday, 22 Elul, Degel Hatorah has decided to commission a poll and this will assist in determining which candidate it will back in the
A group of Neturi Karta staged a midnight protest in Monsey, on Motzei Shabbos. Their problem? A Selichos event that has music. The group of 5 extremists stood outside the
President Donald Trump says he’ll ride to the rescue of one-time bitter rival Sen. Ted Cruz this fall, the strongest indication yet that the Texas conservative firebrand is getting nervous
A prosecutor says Poland has asked the U.S. to share all the documents gathered on a deported former Nazi concentration camp guard in the hope they may provide grounds for
The United States is ending its decades of funding for the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees, the State Department announced Friday, a week after slashing $200 million in bilateral
Nearly a year after Russian government hackers meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro zeroed in on a new sign of trouble: a group of
A New Jersey town plans to seek to reverse a judge’s ruling striking down its ordinance that banned nonresident drivers from using some of its streets as shortcuts to a
Talks to keep Canada in a North American trade bloc broke up Friday and will resume next week with the two longtime allies divided over such issues as Canada’s dairy
John McCain’s daughter and two former presidents led a public rebuke of President Donald Trump’s divisive politics at the late senator’s memorial service Saturday in a call for a return to civility among the nation’s leaders. The nearly three-hour service at the Washington National Cathedral was a remarkable show of defiance against a president McCain […]
MK (Yesh Atid) on Wednesday, 18 Elul, addressed the storm surrounding the IDF’s decision to remove 30 religious soldiers who turned their backs to a female parachuting instructor. During an interview with 103FM radio, Stern said, “I cannot imagine a situation in which thirty young men turn their backs on the instructor. There is no […]
A string of powerful blasts from the direction of a military airport in Damascus lit up the skies and shook the capital city in the early morning hours on Suay,
Leon Malmed’s childhood fear came flooding back when he read about President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy in the newspapers. He still remembers the day his parents were taken from him. “That is the only memory that I have from my childhood,” Malmed, now 80, said as he sat on his living room couch […]
Lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against his charitable foundation by New York’s attorney general, arguing that it was politically motivated. In the
New York City’s mayor, who once promised to ban horse-drawn carriages “on Day One” of his administration, announced a more modest plan Thursday to move the boarding area for the carriages from the southern edge of Central Park to designated spots inside the park. Democrat Bill de Blasio ran for mayor in 2013 vowing to […]
Maine state officials are rejecting a proposal by an animal rights group to build a “roadside memorial” in Maine near the site of a truck crash that spilled 7,000 pounds of live lobster. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked the Maine Department of Transportation for permission to build a tombstone on Route 1 […]
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