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YELLEN SPEAKS: Your complete preview of this week’s big economic events

YELLEN SPEAKS: Your complete preview of this week’s big economic events

  What a week! The first full week of February saw the release of the January jobs report — a mixed report that “confused” some… Read More ›

JPMORGAN: US recession risk is growing

JPMORGAN: US recession risk is growing

  Last Friday the US labor market continued to deliver the goods, despite a smaller-than-expected rise in payrolls growth. Unemployment fell to just 4.9%, the… Read More ›

Michael Kors has identified a huge weakness in its business — and it should terrify Macy’s

Michael Kors has identified a huge weakness in its business — and it should terrify Macy’s

  Michael Kors’ just identified a huge weakness in its business — American malls. Despite strong gains in the overall business, the handbag retailer says… Read More ›

Washington – Trump: No White House Run If He’d Bought The Buffalo Bills

Washington – Trump: No White House Run If He’d Bought The Buffalo Bills

  Washington –  Donald Trump’s flirtation with professional football lasted for three decades. He never ended up with an NFL franchise despite repeated demonstrations of… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Firefighter Reunited With Chabad Rabbi He Rescued As Teen In 2002 Blaze

Brooklyn, NY – Firefighter Reunited With Chabad Rabbi He Rescued As Teen In 2002 Blaze

  Brooklyn, NY – 14 years after a devastating fire ripped through a Crown Heights home, a Chasidic man and the firefighter who saved his… Read More ›

New York, NY – NYC Mayor Wants Increased Enforcement, New Measures On Crane Safety

New York, NY – NYC Mayor Wants Increased Enforcement, New Measures On Crane Safety

  New York, NY – NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced a four-point plan to increase safety when large cranes are operating. Those steps… Read More ›

Rescuers scour rubble for survivors after earthquake kills 37 in Taiwan

Rescuers scour rubble for survivors after earthquake kills 37 in Taiwan

Rescuers scrambled to find survivors Sunday night after an earthquake toppled buildings in Taiwan, killing at least 37 people, authorities said. Of the fatalities, at… Read More ›

Aleppo siege marks dramatic upheaval on Syrian battlefield

Aleppo siege marks dramatic upheaval on Syrian battlefield

The images from Aleppo, Idlib and Syria’s border with Turkey can be described in one word: despair. Tens of thousands of people have fled the… Read More ›

Airport workers seen with laptop used in Somalia in-flight jet blast

Airport workers seen with laptop used in Somalia in-flight jet blast

Somali intelligence officials say two airport workers handled a laptop that concealed a bomb that later exploded in a passenger plane. In a video made… Read More ›

Rubio springs back from Republican debate glitch

Rubio springs back from Republican debate glitch

After lackluster TV showing, charismatic senator takes his message to packed New Hampshire events ahead of vote   LONDONDERRY, New Hampshire (AFP) – Marco Rubio,… Read More ›

Poll: Support for third intifada waning among Palestinians

Poll: Support for third intifada waning among Palestinians

Survey shows 42% back armed uprising, down from over 60% in December; majority would support Abbas over Hamas candidate   A new poll of Palestinians… Read More ›

The man who seeks to police the Iran sanctions regime

The man who seeks to police the Iran sanctions regime

As House-approved bill targeting Iran nuclear deal goes to Senate, Rep. Steve Russell says it holds Obama to commitments he already made   WASHINGTON —… Read More ›

Steinitz’s outburst breaks the dam of silence

Steinitz’s outburst breaks the dam of silence

Israel and Egypt have moved closer in recent months thanks to a mutual interest in fighting Hamas’s military buildup, but both countries have remained vague… Read More ›

Hamas executes member who may have betrayed Deif’s location

Hamas executes member who may have betrayed Deif’s location

Gaza terror group kills one of own for alleged ethical offenses, was likely suspected of cooperating with Israel and revealing the location of leader of… Read More ›

MK Tibi meets with senior White House and State Dept. officials

MK Tibi meets with senior White House and State Dept. officials

Joint List MK meets with Robert Malley, President Obama’s ‘point man’ on the Middle East and Frank Lowenstein, the State Department’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian… Read More ›

Does pro-Israel crowd ‘feel the Bern’? Sanders cites J Street, Zogby as advisers

Does pro-Israel crowd ‘feel the Bern’? Sanders cites J Street, Zogby as advisers

As his campaign has gained momentum by focusing largely on domestic issues, the Brooklyn-born son of Jewish immigrants from Poland has been coy about his… Read More ›

Labor Party votes to freeze two-state solution; Yacimovich boycotts vote

Labor Party votes to freeze two-state solution; Yacimovich boycotts vote

“The two-state vision did not die, but it will not happen tomorrow,” Herzog told the crowd.   Hundreds of Labor Party activists voted Sunday to… Read More ›

‘Briton who became ISIS beheader traveled to Gaza with Galloway convoy’

‘Briton who became ISIS beheader traveled to Gaza with Galloway convoy’

Allexanda Kotey, a former west London resident of Greek Cypriot and Ghanaian extraction, is one of four Brits who have been dubbed with the moniker… Read More ›

For Kiev’s Jewish refugees, little thought about tomorrow

For Kiev’s Jewish refugees, little thought about tomorrow

Around 11,000 Jews lived in Donetsk, the center of the current insurgency, prior to the outbreak of hostilities two years ago, but after two years… Read More ›

Jewish group condemns Hungary far-right’s WWII remembrance

Jewish group condemns Hungary far-right’s WWII remembrance

Event in which speakers lauded pro-Nazi wartime leader a ‘blatant attempt to glorify the perpetrators of the Holocaust’   DAPEST, Hungary — The Simon Wiesenthal… Read More ›