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New Jersey town urges people to self-quarantine as US coronavirus cases top 2,800

New Jersey town urges people to self-quarantine as US coronavirus cases top 2,800

As the number of US coronavirus cases passed 2,800 on Saturday, authorities in Teaneck, New Jersey, concerned with a rapid increase of cases, are urging… Read More ›

Economic Remedies Abound In Crisis, But Can They Deliver?

Economic Remedies Abound In Crisis, But Can They Deliver?

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has a palette of options it can use to shore up an economy imperiled by anxiety over the coronavirus… Read More ›

Arabic Paper In Canada Says Israelis Bury Palestinians Alive And Steal Their Organs

Arabic Paper In Canada Says Israelis Bury Palestinians Alive And Steal Their Organs

TORONTO (JTA) – An Arabic-language newspaper in the greater Toronto area published an article falsely accusing Israel of burying Palestinians alive and stealing their organs,… Read More ›

Oil plummets 31% in biggest drop since Gulf War as Saudi cuts spark all-out price war

Oil plummets 31% in biggest drop since Gulf War as Saudi cuts spark all-out price war

  Oil markets tumbled the most in decades overnight on Sunday. The sell-off was fueled by sinking demand due to coronavirus concerns. This was the… Read More ›

Liberman gives majority to anti-Netanyahu bill

Liberman gives majority to anti-Netanyahu bill

The Yisrael Beytenu leader’s endorsement gave the bill a majority, now with the support of all 62 MKs who are not in Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc.… Read More ›

Chicago Mayor: Police Shooting Video ‘Extremely Disturbing’

Chicago Mayor: Police Shooting Video ‘Extremely Disturbing’

  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor said video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing”… Read More ›

Israel Taxi App Sued For Alleged Discrimination Against Arab Drivers

Israel Taxi App Sued For Alleged Discrimination Against Arab Drivers

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli taxi service app is being sued by human rights lawyers in Jerusalem over its feature that allows riders to… Read More ›

Israel’s Gaza delusion

Israel’s Gaza delusion

Analysis: Jerusalem is trying desperately to broker some kind of long-term agreement with Hamas, but the terror group is making minimal concessions and all the… Read More ›

IDF chief warns Gaza clash may not be over, could spiral into greater conflict

IDF chief warns Gaza clash may not be over, could spiral into greater conflict

Amid reports of ceasefire in Strip, Kohavi says ‘unclear if the incident is at its peak or its end,’ states that situation is fragile  … Read More ›

Terror groups slam Israel after IDF bulldozer collects body from Gaza border

Terror groups slam Israel after IDF bulldozer collects body from Gaza border

Bennett backs IDF, calls left-wing critics ‘bleeding hearts,’ after Hamas accuses Israel of ‘heinous crime’; army accuses Islamic Jihad of placing bomb next to border… Read More ›

Many Accused Jewish Pedophiles In US Flee To Israel, CBS Report Finds

Many Accused Jewish Pedophiles In US Flee To Israel, CBS Report Finds

  NEW YORK (JTA) – Many Americans accused of sexually abusing children flee to Israel to escape justice — and bringing them back can be… Read More ›

Gaza-area mayors to Benjamin Netanyahu: Fight Hamas terrorism

Gaza-area mayors to Benjamin Netanyahu: Fight Hamas terrorism

“The reality in which our residents live is not moral and cannot continue,” said the mayors.   The government must do more to fight terrorism… Read More ›

Iran: Trump Wrong If He Thinks Tehran Regime Will Collapse

Iran: Trump Wrong If He Thinks Tehran Regime Will Collapse

  MUNICH (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump is receiving bad advice if he believes an American “maximum pressure”… Read More ›

The US is finally evacuating Americans from the Diamond Princess. Here’s why that’s made them mad

The US is finally evacuating Americans from the Diamond Princess. Here’s why that’s made them mad

The US plan to evacuate Americans and their families from the Diamond Princess cruise ship appears, on its face, to be the case of a… Read More ›

Relatives of Israelis on ‘coronavirus ship’: Let our family come home

Relatives of Israelis on ‘coronavirus ship’: Let our family come home

‘We are not prepared to take part in this experiment,’ say 152 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the quarantined Israelis in joint open letter; Israel… Read More ›

Gaza groups said to call halt to incendiary balloon attacks on Israel

Gaza groups said to call halt to incendiary balloon attacks on Israel

Report comes a day after Egyptian security delegation visited Strip, where it reportedly conveyed an Israeli threat of military action to Hamas   Factions in… Read More ›

Biden Tells NH Democrats That Buttigieg ‘Not a Barack Obama’

Biden Tells NH Democrats That Buttigieg ‘Not a Barack Obama’

  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Scrambling to salvage his presidential campaign, Joe Biden escalated his criticism of Pete Buttigieg on Saturday, mocking Buttigieg’s experience as… Read More ›

A Thai soldier has killed at least 20 people in a shooting spree, authorities say. He may be at a mall

A Thai soldier has killed at least 20 people in a shooting spree, authorities say. He may be at a mall

Bangkok, Thailand – A manhunt is underway for a Thai soldier accused of killing at least 20 people in a shooting spree that began at… Read More ›

Trump snubbed Pelosi as she tried to shake his hand before his State of the Union address — nearly 2 months after the House impeached him

Trump snubbed Pelosi as she tried to shake his hand before his State of the Union address — nearly 2 months after the House impeached him

  President Donald Trump snubbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she went to shake his hand at the Start of the State of the Union… Read More ›

Iran uses Friday prayers to bash Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’

Iran uses Friday prayers to bash Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’

Movahedi-Kermani’s sermon enumerated the ways that Iran dislikes Trump and the proposal. He called it a unilateral decision by Israel, the US and several Arab… Read More ›