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Millions Stick To Thanksgiving Travel Plans Despite Warnings

Millions Stick To Thanksgiving Travel Plans Despite Warnings

  WASHINGTON (AP)- About 1 million Americans a day packed airports and planes over the weekend even as coronavirus deaths surged across the U.S. and… Read More ›

READ: GSA letter to Biden stating that transition can formally begin

READ: GSA letter to Biden stating that transition can formally begin

The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden that the Trump administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter… Read More ›

Could a panicked Gantz and Bibi unwittingly take Israel back to the polls?

Could a panicked Gantz and Bibi unwittingly take Israel back to the polls?

Warring armies have learned the hard way through history that merely deploying troops was seen as an act of belligerency that led to unwanted war.… Read More ›

Israel’s COVID vaccine ethical challenges

Israel’s COVID vaccine ethical challenges

Opinion: The public must have all the pertinent information about the immunization since the combination of big money, political interests and crisis is a slippery… Read More ›

Fully free, Pollard to head ‘home’ to Israel when wife’s health allows — lawyer

Fully free, Pollard to head ‘home’ to Israel when wife’s health allows — lawyer

Esther Pollard undergoing chemotherapy for aggressive cancer, attorney says, adding his client was not told ahead of time that his parole would be terminated Friday… Read More ›

Rules About Police Wearing Masks Vary Widely Across US

Rules About Police Wearing Masks Vary Widely Across US

  LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Although authorities have been encouraging people to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many police departments leave… Read More ›

Analysis: Donald Trump has left the world stage. Few will miss him

Analysis: Donald Trump has left the world stage. Few will miss him

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – As stage exits go Donald Trump’s departure was something of a whimper, the US President leaving the top table of global… Read More ›

Anti-Netanyahu activist leader arrested on week 22 of nationwide protests

Anti-Netanyahu activist leader arrested on week 22 of nationwide protests

The Crime Minister movement responded in a statement, saying “Business as usual in the Jerusalem police who continue to abuse protesters and hunt down protest… Read More ›

Biden, the Mideast and future U.S challenges

Biden, the Mideast and future U.S challenges

Opinion: Many significant changes in the region will demand attention of new president; perhaps most important is Iran, and new administration will have to decide… Read More ›

Israeli jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire at Ashkelon

Israeli jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire at Ashkelon

IDF says predawn raids hit terror group’s training facility, rocket manufacturing sites, underground infrastructure   Israeli jets and helicopters carried out airstrikes in the Gaza… Read More ›

Biden To Work To End Executions As Government Sets 3 More

Biden To Work To End Executions As Government Sets 3 More

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the… Read More ›

Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign Pennsylvania lawsuit

Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign Pennsylvania lawsuit

A federal judge dealt a death blow to the Trump campaign’s effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win of the presidency on Saturday, by dismissing… Read More ›

Fearing false positives, hospitals scrap Sofia COVID-19 testing kits

Fearing false positives, hospitals scrap Sofia COVID-19 testing kits

“This goes against the most basic of medicals tenets – do no harm,” said one of the hospital directors.   Clalit hospitals will stop using… Read More ›

Israel and the West must change their dated outlook on Lebanon

Israel and the West must change their dated outlook on Lebanon

Analysis: The social and financial crisis gripping the Levantine nation and a new administration in Washington is the perfect time to push for a diplomatic… Read More ›

Top health officials warn of possible 3rd lockdown if morbidity rises further

Top health officials warn of possible 3rd lockdown if morbidity rises further

Director-general of Health Ministry says return of restrictions likely if infection rate climbs, as malls threaten to reopen despite prohibition   Deputy Health Minister Yoav… Read More ›

JFK Conspiracy Theory Is Debunked In Mexico After 57 Years

JFK Conspiracy Theory Is Debunked In Mexico After 57 Years

MEXICO (AP/THE CONVERSATION) — Most conspiracy theories surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination have been disproven. Kennedy was not killed by a gas-powered device triggered… Read More ›

Judges toss Republican lawsuits in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia

Judges toss Republican lawsuits in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia

State judges in Arizona and Pennsylvania and a federal judge in Georgia rejected election-related lawsuits Thursday from Republicans and the Trump campaign. The hat trick… Read More ›

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine deliveries could start ‘before Christmas’

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine deliveries could start ‘before Christmas’

The Moderna vaccine is likely to be authorized within seven to 10 days of Pfizer receiving its EUA, US officials said, with states ready to… Read More ›

Timeline of Trump’s major pro-Israel decisions

Timeline of Trump’s major pro-Israel decisions

In-depth: Pompeo’s upcoming visit to the Israeli-run Psagot winery in the West Bank on Thursday would be another dramatic break by the Trump administration with… Read More ›

US coronavirus deaths pass 250,000 as hospitals overwhelmed with cases

US coronavirus deaths pass 250,000 as hospitals overwhelmed with cases

Amid surge, number of hospitalized has doubled in past month, many hospitals converting chapels, cafeterias into patient treatment areas, warning patients will be turned away… Read More ›