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Albany, NY – Convicted Former Majority Leaders Skelos, Sillver Tapped Campaign Funds For Lawyer Fees

Albany, NY – Convicted Former Majority Leaders Skelos, Sillver Tapped Campaign Funds For Lawyer Fees

  Albany, NY – The two ex-leaders of New York’s Legislature tapped their campaign funds for a combined $3.6 million last year in an unsuccessful… Read More ›

Washington – State Department Wants More Time To Process Clinton Emails

Washington – State Department Wants More Time To Process Clinton Emails

  Washington – The State Department is asking a federal court for a one-month extension to publish the last of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her… Read More ›

Des Moines, IA – GOP Establishment Moving A Little Closer To Accepting Trump

Des Moines, IA – GOP Establishment Moving A Little Closer To Accepting Trump

  Des Moines, IA –  Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation. Both sides are coming to the realization that… Read More ›

Australian Open 2016: After his shorts, Stan Wawrinka’s shirt making waves

Australian Open 2016: After his shorts, Stan Wawrinka’s shirt making waves

  Melbourne – At the French Open last year, Stan Wawrinka’s plaid shorts drew almost as much attention as his glittering play. The red, white and… Read More ›

Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’

Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’

Sioux Center, Iowa – Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of… Read More ›

‘Hezbollah is getting the most sophisticated Russian weapons’

‘Hezbollah is getting the most sophisticated Russian weapons’

Advanced weapons are going from Russia to Syria and then into Hezbollah’s hands, according to an IDF reserve officer. These deliveries likely include Onyx missiles,… Read More ›

Goodbye Iran, hello Israel? Sudan changes its approach

Goodbye Iran, hello Israel? Sudan changes its approach

While Jerusalem and Khartoum are a long way from normalized relations, the last few months have seen Sudan edge closer to the moderate Sunni camp… Read More ›

Explaining a non-existent policy

Explaining a non-existent policy

Op-ed: Something that is often conspicuously absent from the discussions of Israeli PR problems is the country’s clear lack of a consistent and clear policy… Read More ›

Reform may allow physicians to prescribe medical marijuana

Reform may allow physicians to prescribe medical marijuana

At present, only a small number of doctors authorized by the ministry can prescribe it, and the drug is obtainable only from a limited number… Read More ›

Rivlin: ISIS already present in Israel with support growing

Rivlin: ISIS already present in Israel with support growing

According to the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority, there are currently close to a dozen Israeli citizens who are fighting with ISIS, with growing concerns… Read More ›

Iranian Kurds persecuted, benefiting from Kurdish gains next door, they say

Iranian Kurds persecuted, benefiting from Kurdish gains next door, they say

Iranian Kurd tells Post: “The Kurdish people will become independent in the near future with the help of the Israeli Government.”   Iranian Kurds told The… Read More ›

Palestinians, Israelis block Route 60 to protest ‘occupation’

Palestinians, Israelis block Route 60 to protest ‘occupation’

A rally and speeches near the checkpoint marked the culmination of what was an impassioned and peaceful march.   Amid a cacophony of car horns,… Read More ›

Multinationals ready to jump into Iran market

Multinationals ready to jump into Iran market

After nuclear accord implementation, an economy desperate to modernize is seeing global businesses eager to help   PARIS, France – With global growth moribund, multinational… Read More ›

Daniel Dion, Celine Dion’s brother, dies of cancer

Daniel Dion, Celine Dion’s brother, dies of cancer

Daniel Dion, the brother of entertainer Celine Dion, died on Saturday after a battle with cancer, his family said. He was 59. The eighth of… Read More ›

Burkina Faso attack: At least 28 dead, scores freed after hotel siege

Burkina Faso attack: At least 28 dead, scores freed after hotel siege

Attackers raided a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso overnight, shooting some and taking others hostage in a siege that lasted hours and ended with 28… Read More ›

Taiwan elects its first female president; China warns of ‘grave challenges’

Taiwan elects its first female president; China warns of ‘grave challenges’

Taipei – Taiwan has elected its first female president in a landmark election that could unsettle relations with Beijing. Tsai Ing-wen, leader of the opposition… Read More ›

Ex-US envoy wanted NGOs in Israel to spur non-violent protests for peace

Ex-US envoy wanted NGOs in Israel to spur non-violent protests for peace

Official in Jerusalem says this shows need for proposed NGO transparency law.   Jerusalem push back Tuesday against US “displeasure” with the proposed NGO Transparency… Read More ›

In poor Paris suburb, crime and extremism spur internal Jewish exodus

In poor Paris suburb, crime and extremism spur internal Jewish exodus

You have to respond immediately here…or they will eat you alive’   LA COURNEUVE, France (JTA) — At this Paris suburb’s only Jewish facility, Rabbi… Read More ›

Here’s the full text of President Obama’s final State of the Union address

Here’s the full text of President Obama’s final State of the Union address

  US President Barack Obama is delivering his final State of the Union address. Here’s the full text, from the White House: Mr. Speaker, Mr.… Read More ›

This stealth startup is trying to beat Microsoft and be the dashboard for all your documents

This stealth startup is trying to beat Microsoft and be the dashboard for all your documents

  In late 2014, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Delve, a Facebook news-feed-like tool for Microsoft Office that lets you see what your colleagues are working on. Microsoft… Read More ›