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Kremlin hits back in Maria Sharapova scandal

Kremlin hits back in Maria Sharapova scandal

She’s the $195 million athlete at the center of a failed drugs test scandal but tennis star Maria Sharapova isn’t lacking for some heavy hitting… Read More ›

Pro-gun activist is accidentally shot by 4-year-old son

Pro-gun activist is accidentally shot by 4-year-old son

A Florida woman known for a strong pro-gun stance was shot, accidentally, by her 4-year-old son, authorities said. Jamie Gilt, 31, was taken to a… Read More ›

How Trump and Sanders tapped America’s economic rage

How Trump and Sanders tapped America’s economic rage

Finally, somebody is listening. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders might be poles apart in their politics and temperament, but they are voicing visceral feelings of… Read More ›

Rebuffing Biden, Abbas offers condolences but doesn’t condemn attack

Rebuffing Biden, Abbas offers condolences but doesn’t condemn attack

After US VP criticizes Ramallah for not speaking out against Palestinian terror, PA head says Israeli policies cause the violence, points to high Palestinian death… Read More ›

Hundreds of illegal Palestinian workers arrested in mass crackdown

Hundreds of illegal Palestinian workers arrested in mass crackdown

Following spate of attacks throughout Israel, IDF also arrests family of Jaffa terrorist, prepares homes for demolition   Police arrested hundreds of illegal Palestinian workers,… Read More ›

The Canaanites who loved Pharaoh, on display at the Israel Museum

The Canaanites who loved Pharaoh, on display at the Israel Museum

The latest grand-scale exhibit describes the unlikely exchange of rituals and objects in ancient times   It was Sunday morning, day two of “Pharaoh in… Read More ›

Major poll: About half of Israeli Jews want to expel Arabs

Major poll: About half of Israeli Jews want to expel Arabs

Major Pew Center poll highlights social divisions, with different attitudes towards religion’s role in the state, whether the Jewish or democratic nature of the state… Read More ›

Police investigating Jaffa terrorist’s death

Police investigating Jaffa terrorist’s death

A video taken after the Jaffa attacker’s stabbing spree on Tuesday shows him lying on the ground, with gunshots being heard. A voice, possibly of… Read More ›

Indyk: Two-state solution may be dying on Obama’s watch

Indyk: Two-state solution may be dying on Obama’s watch

Obama’s former special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Martin Indyk stated that the US President and the Secretary of State are seriously concerned that the… Read More ›

IDF chief cancels appointment of Buchris amid rape allegations

IDF chief cancels appointment of Buchris amid rape allegations

IDF sources say sensitive role of Operations Division chief, which Buchris was due to take up, can’t be left unfilled for lengthy period.   IDF… Read More ›

Disillusioned ISIS member turns over details of 22,000 supporters

Disillusioned ISIS member turns over details of 22,000 supporters

The man, who called himself Abu Hamed, handed over the memory stick during a meeting at an undisclosed location in Turkey, according to the Sky… Read More ›

Netanyahu’s government is failing in its war on terror, former Likud minister says

Netanyahu’s government is failing in its war on terror, former Likud minister says

Likud dismisses criticism from Gideon Sa’ar, saying he is a “talkbacker” spouting nonsense from the living room of his Tel Aviv home.   Former Likud… Read More ›

Austrian student groups reject BDS, slam US universities

Austrian student groups reject BDS, slam US universities

Rejection of BDS by continental student organizations is believed to the first major European opposition to the hubs of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic academic initiatives in… Read More ›

It’s all kosher at Jerusalem’s annual wine fest

It’s all kosher at Jerusalem’s annual wine fest

Two nights to taste varietals from 40 wineries across the land   When Wine Jerusalem 2016, Israel’s annual and only completely kosher wine fair, opens… Read More ›

The number of people who need to be laid off in China is staggering

The number of people who need to be laid off in China is staggering

  China has just started on the long, bumpy road to solving the problems of debt and overcapacity in its industrial sector. That means Wall… Read More ›

Italy isn’t Greece — it’s worse

Italy isn’t Greece — it’s worse

In the 14th century, the Medici family of Florence began its rise to prominence, investing profits from a thriving textile trade to fund what would… Read More ›

Donald Trump is suddenly sounding like a general-election candidate

Donald Trump is suddenly sounding like a general-election candidate

  Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is starting to sound a bit more presidential. At a Tuesday-night press conference celebrating two additional primary wins, Trump… Read More ›

New York – Review: The Samsung S7’s Camera Now Rivals The iPhone

New York – Review: The Samsung S7’s Camera Now Rivals The iPhone

  New York – It’s difficult to justify paying for a high-priced, top-end smartphone these days — unless, that is, you want to take good… Read More ›

Washington – Winter Warmer-land: US Breaks Record For Hottest Winter

Washington – Winter Warmer-land: US Breaks Record For Hottest Winter

  Washington – Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records, thanks to the combination of El Nino… Read More ›

New York – Judges Hear Challenge To NYPD Transparency In Spy Lawsuits

New York – Judges Hear Challenge To NYPD Transparency In Spy Lawsuits

  New York – A lawyer for two Muslim men told a panel of state appellate judges Tuesday that the New York Police Department wrongly… Read More ›