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People keep emailing Apple to say the Apple Watch saved their life

People keep emailing Apple to say the Apple Watch saved their life

  The general consensus in the tech world is that the Apple Watch has not yet become a blockbuster hit for Apple. Revenue is so small… Read More ›

This could be the next CEO of Morgan Stanley

This could be the next CEO of Morgan Stanley

  The path has been cleared for Morgan Stanley executive Colm Kelleher. Currently president of the firm’s institutional-banking and trading division, he has been named sole… Read More ›

New Hampshire – Christie Under Attack As Rivals Sense Him Rising Share Tweet Share Mail

New Hampshire – Christie Under Attack As Rivals Sense Him Rising Share Tweet Share Mail

  New Hampshire – Chris Christie is the Republican presidential candidate to beat in second-to-vote New Hampshire — so say the super PACs helping the… Read More ›

West Bank – Palestinians Ponder Succession After 11 Years Of Abbas Share Tweet Share Mail

West Bank – Palestinians Ponder Succession After 11 Years Of Abbas Share Tweet Share Mail

  West Bank – Unpopular after 11 years in power, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is starting to face some open machinations from would-be successors, as… Read More ›

Washington – Trump Says South Korea Pays ‘Peanuts’ For U.S. Troop Presence

Washington – Trump Says South Korea Pays ‘Peanuts’ For U.S. Troop Presence

  Washington – South Korea should pay the United States “very substantially” for maintaining 28,000 troops there to help defend it from the North, Republican… Read More ›

Alleged drug lord ‘La Barbie’ pleads guilty to U.S. charges

Alleged drug lord ‘La Barbie’ pleads guilty to U.S. charges

  Atlanta – A one-time Texas high school football player who achieved notoriety as an alleged cartel kingpin in Mexico pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug traffickingcharges… Read More ›

Cologne mayor’s ‘arm’s length’ advice to avoid sex attacks draws ridicule

Cologne mayor’s ‘arm’s length’ advice to avoid sex attacks draws ridicule

Berlin – Cologne’s mayor has come under fire for advising women to stay “an arm’s length” from male strangers after alleged sexual assaults and muggings during… Read More ›

Trump: North Korea is China’s problem to fix

Trump: North Korea is China’s problem to fix

New York – Donald Trump says he’s sick and tired of the United States acting as the world’s policeman. The day after North Korea claimed that… Read More ›

Hundreds pay last respects to IDF officer killed in accident

Hundreds pay last respects to IDF officer killed in accident

Over 1,000 mourners attend funeral of Cpt. Yishai Rosales at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem   Several hundred people attended the funeral of an… Read More ›

Suspected Tel Aviv gunman thought hiding in West Bank

Suspected Tel Aviv gunman thought hiding in West Bank

Mother of Nashat Milhem says security forces threatening to demolish their home; police officially accuse him of killing Lod cabbie   A manhunt for a… Read More ›

Chicago college moves to fire Christian hijab-wearing professor

Chicago college moves to fire Christian hijab-wearing professor

Larycia Hawkins disputes university administration’s account of discussions with officials about views they deemed contrary to school’s ‘doctrinal convictions’   CHICAGO (AP) — The professor… Read More ›

US, experts cast doubt on North Korea’s H-bomb claim

US, experts cast doubt on North Korea’s H-bomb claim

White House says initial analysis ‘is not consistent with the claim Pyongyang has made of a successful hydrogen bomb test,’ but it would take days… Read More ›

Abbas denies concern of Palestinian Authority collapse

Abbas denies concern of Palestinian Authority collapse

‘Don’t even dream of the PA collapsing,’ Palestinian leader says, adding the Authority would exist until a Palestinian state is formed to replace it. Palestinian… Read More ›

When the left turns into a radical right

When the left turns into a radical right

Op-ed: When it comes to hate crimes committed by Jewish individuals, everything the radical right says about Arabs is said by part of the left… Read More ›

Jewish politician on trial in Ukraine invokes blood libel

Jewish politician on trial in Ukraine invokes blood libel

Hennadiy Korban runs the nationalist UKROP party and has a seat on the board of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community.   In 1913, the Russian empire… Read More ›

Intelligence Report: Sensitive tasks ahead for Mossad

Intelligence Report: Sensitive tasks ahead for Mossad

Yossi Cohen believes Iran remains Israel’s No. 1 challenge and will be charged with building ties with Tehran’s Arab foes.   Yossi Cohen took over… Read More ›

Anti-Semitic letter sent to officials in New York towns

Anti-Semitic letter sent to officials in New York towns

“Hassidic and Orthodox Jews are a severe danger to civilized society. They need to be placed on reservations under the supervision of the United Nations.”… Read More ›

How US Jewish groups got spied on by Obama

How US Jewish groups got spied on by Obama

Spying on allies is both routine and legal in the United States, though perhaps not very politic.   At first blush, it appears like a bombshell:… Read More ›

This new Samsung laptop is shockingly thin and light

This new Samsung laptop is shockingly thin and light

When I first picked up Samsung’s newest laptop, I almost sent it shooting out of my hand and into the ceiling. At first glance, it… Read More ›

TRUMP: Voters should be concerned about Ted Cruz’s birthplace

TRUMP: Voters should be concerned about Ted Cruz’s birthplace

  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mocked Donald Trump’s apparent concerns about whether Cruz’s birthplace should be an issue in the presidential campaign. Cruz tweeted a famous scene of… Read More ›