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Get ready for a crummy Q4 earnings season

Get ready for a crummy Q4 earnings season

As 2015 comes to an end, so does Q4. And that means corporate America will announce the financial results of their fourth quarter in a… Read More ›

STOCKS FALL AND THE YEAR’S OVER: Here’s what you need to know

STOCKS FALL AND THE YEAR’S OVER: Here’s what you need to know

  The year’s over. First, the scoreboard: Dow: 17,425.0, -178.8, (-1.0%) S&P 500: 2,043.9, -19.4, (-0.9%) Nasdaq: 5,007.4, -58.4, (-1.1%) And now, the top stories… Read More ›

Washington – U.S. Chief Justice Urges Judges, Lawyers To Cooperate For Speedier Litigation

Washington – U.S. Chief Justice Urges Judges, Lawyers To Cooperate For Speedier Litigation

  Washington – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts urged trial judges on Thursday to manage cases more efficiently and advised lawyers to avoid “antagonistic tactics,”… Read More ›

San Francisco – Facebook Glitch Celebrates 46 Years Of Online Friendship

San Francisco – Facebook Glitch Celebrates 46 Years Of Online Friendship

  San Francisco – Facebook’s making some of its users feel a lot older than they really are. The social network sent automated messages Thursday… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Two Charged In Avenue M Beating And Robbery Share Tweet Share Mail

Brooklyn, NY – Two Charged In Avenue M Beating And Robbery Share Tweet Share Mail

Brooklyn, NY – Two Flatbush teens were arrested tonight in connection with the beating and robbery of a 55 year old Midwood man early Monday morning.… Read More ›

Google comes up with a new Android plan as its epic legal battle with Oracle continues

Google comes up with a new Android plan as its epic legal battle with Oracle continues

  Oracle and Google have been duking it out for years in a lawsuit that could have a big impact on the whole software industry.… Read More ›

The guy made famous by ‘The Big Short’ for predicting the housing crash has a dark warning

The guy made famous by ‘The Big Short’ for predicting the housing crash has a dark warning

  Michael Burry thinks the “risk-pricing mechanism” of the global economy is broken and we’re “building up terrific stresses in the system.” Burry is the… Read More ›

Chip Kelly fired by the Philadelphia Eagles

Chip Kelly fired by the Philadelphia Eagles

  Chip Kelly has been fired by the Philadelphia Eagles, the team announced this evening. “We appreciate all the contributions that Chip Kelly made and wish… Read More ›

Haredim skip swear-in of first openly-gay Likud MK

Haredim skip swear-in of first openly-gay Likud MK

Amir Ohana, replacing retiring minister Silvan Shalom, became a member of Knesset while United Torah Judaism chose to ignore the swear-in ceremony. Likud’s first openly-gay… Read More ›

Duma arson suspect could be released to house arrest

Duma arson suspect could be released to house arrest

State Attorney files prosecutor’s statement against one of the Jewish terror suspects, but not in the Duma case, leading the court to order his release;… Read More ›

The two faces of fascism in Israel

The two faces of fascism in Israel

Op-ed: Those who believe in democracy try to convince; those who have lost faith in democracy try to impose. That’s exactly what far right-wing activists… Read More ›

Israel to grant stipends to North African Jews who survived Nazi occupation

Israel to grant stipends to North African Jews who survived Nazi occupation

The government will dole out annual payments of NIS 3,600 to Jews who immigrated to Israel from Morocco, Iraq, and Algeria.   The Finance Ministry… Read More ›

Gold stresses common Israeli-Arab interests in unprecedented interview to Saudi paper

Gold stresses common Israeli-Arab interests in unprecedented interview to Saudi paper

Gold stresses common Israeli-Arab interests in unprecedented interview to Saudi paper   In the Foreign Ministry’s first interview granted to a Saudi news outlet, director-general… Read More ›

Wiesenthal Center: EU settlement labeling worse than Iranian threats

Wiesenthal Center: EU settlement labeling worse than Iranian threats

Leading the list at No. 1 was the hatred that inspired Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife to murder 14 people in a shooting rampage… Read More ›

Russia, Taliban share intelligence in fight against ISIS

Russia, Taliban share intelligence in fight against ISIS

  Washington – With the number of ISIS fighters growing in regional neighbor Afghanistan, Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning to an old enemy — the… Read More ›

Lapid: Jewish terror enjoys ‘political’ support

Lapid: Jewish terror enjoys ‘political’ support

Opposition MK calls on police and security services to broaden operations against violent extremists   Opposition Knesset member Yair Lapid said Thursday that Jewish terrorism… Read More ›

Groom says ‘didn’t even see’ extremists’ behavior at wedding

Groom says ‘didn’t even see’ extremists’ behavior at wedding

Yakir Ashbal, said to be friends with Duma suspects, insists he was unaware of revelers celebrating with weapons, photo of murdered Palestinian baby   The… Read More ›

How a US-born amputee fought his way back into the Israeli army

How a US-born amputee fought his way back into the Israeli army

Floridian Izzy Ezagui, gravely injured in Gaza in 2008, wasn’t going to let the loss of his left arm stop him from heading back to… Read More ›

Egyptian lecturer heckled at University of Haifa, called a Zionist collaborator

Egyptian lecturer heckled at University of Haifa, called a Zionist collaborator

Dr. Omer Salem, an Egyptian researcher of religions, came to speak in front of psychology students about coexistence. Two Arab students verbally attacked the lecturer:… Read More ›

Council of Europe comes out against Ukrainian ban on Nazi and Communist symbols

Council of Europe comes out against Ukrainian ban on Nazi and Communist symbols

Law is ‘attempt to re-write country’s history,’ and is a ‘violation of freedom of expression,’ according to Holocaust museum, rights groups.   The Council of… Read More ›