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Yahoo’s popular finance tool has users revolting

Yahoo’s popular finance tool has users revolting

  Marissa Mayer may have one more problem to add to her list. Yahoo has been making changes to its popular finance tool, and users have complained… Read More ›

Tamir Rice’s family accuses prosecutor of ‘manipulating’ grand jury to get cops out of indictment for 12-year-old’s death

Tamir Rice’s family accuses prosecutor of ‘manipulating’ grand jury to get cops out of indictment for 12-year-old’s death

  The family of a 12-year-old black boy shot by police in Ohio is claiming that a prosecutor abused the grand-jury process to ensure that the… Read More ›

Microsoft rushed to kill a key feature because a ‘major publication’ was about to publish a negative article

Microsoft rushed to kill a key feature because a ‘major publication’ was about to publish a negative article

  Microsoft rushed to kill unlimited OneDrive storage because “a major publication was going to print something that was very damaging and was not true,”… Read More ›

Los Angeles – Weight-loss Resolution? Watch ‘In Defense Of Food’ First

Los Angeles – Weight-loss Resolution? Watch ‘In Defense Of Food’ First

  Los Angeles – January is looming, and we all know what that means: A resolution to lose weight and get healthy. Just like the… Read More ›

New York – Honest Tea: Trump Quote Being Phased Out From Bottle Caps

New York – Honest Tea: Trump Quote Being Phased Out From Bottle Caps

  New York – Organic beverage maker Honest Tea says a Donald Trump quote is being removed from its bottle caps, but not because it… Read More ›

Seattle – Amazon Holiday Shipping, Prime Memberships Break Records Share Tweet Share Mail

Seattle – Amazon Holiday Shipping, Prime Memberships Break Records Share Tweet Share Mail

  Seattle – Online retailer Amazon has been a prime beneficiary of more consumers doing their holiday shopping online and procrastinating. Amazon Prime, the company’s… Read More ›

South Korea, Japan reach agreement on ‘comfort women’

South Korea, Japan reach agreement on ‘comfort women’

Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement over the long-standing issue of “comfort women,” a term that describes sex slaves used by the Japanese… Read More ›

Drowned Syrian toddler’s family reunited in Canada

Drowned Syrian toddler’s family reunited in Canada

Relatives of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, the toddler who tragically drowned off the Turkish coast earlier this year, have arrived safely in Canada as refugees. There… Read More ›

Expelling ISIS from Ramadi: Why It Matters

Expelling ISIS from Ramadi: Why It Matters

  The expulsion of ISIS fighters from the Iraqi city of Ramadi is a morale-boosting victory for the Iraqi Security Forces after a thoroughly forgettable… Read More ›

IDF soldiers come under fire in Qalandia riot

IDF soldiers come under fire in Qalandia riot

Palestinian throws pipe bomb at troops operating in Jenin; no injuries reported in either incident   Shots were fired at IDF troops overnight Monday during… Read More ›

IDF deploys concrete barriers to northern border

IDF deploys concrete barriers to northern border

In expectation of Hezbollah attack over killing of terrorist Samir Kuntar, army said to bolster troop presence in northern towns   The IDF began placing… Read More ›

Olmert to go to jail after Supreme Court cuts sentence to 18 months

Olmert to go to jail after Supreme Court cuts sentence to 18 months

Justices overturn one bribery conviction but uphold another for disgraced former prime minister, who was originally slated to serve 6 years for his part in… Read More ›

Haredim skip swear-in of first openly-gay Likud MK

Haredim skip swear-in of first openly-gay Likud MK

Amir Ohana, replacing retiring minister Silvan Shalom, became a member of Knesset while United Torah Judaism chose to ignore the swear-in ceremony. Likud’s first openly-gay… Read More ›

Duma arson suspect could be released to house arrest

Duma arson suspect could be released to house arrest

State Attorney files prosecutor’s statement against one of the Jewish terror suspects, but not in the Duma case, leading the court to order his release;… Read More ›

The two faces of fascism in Israel

The two faces of fascism in Israel

Op-ed: Those who believe in democracy try to convince; those who have lost faith in democracy try to impose. That’s exactly what far right-wing activists… Read More ›

Israel to grant stipends to North African Jews who survived Nazi occupation

Israel to grant stipends to North African Jews who survived Nazi occupation

The government will dole out annual payments of NIS 3,600 to Jews who immigrated to Israel from Morocco, Iraq, and Algeria.   The Finance Ministry… Read More ›

Gold stresses common Israeli-Arab interests in unprecedented interview to Saudi paper

Gold stresses common Israeli-Arab interests in unprecedented interview to Saudi paper

Gold stresses common Israeli-Arab interests in unprecedented interview to Saudi paper   In the Foreign Ministry’s first interview granted to a Saudi news outlet, director-general… Read More ›

Wiesenthal Center: EU settlement labeling worse than Iranian threats

Wiesenthal Center: EU settlement labeling worse than Iranian threats

Leading the list at No. 1 was the hatred that inspired Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife to murder 14 people in a shooting rampage… Read More ›

Family of slain American teen Ezra Schwartz visits site of son’s death

Family of slain American teen Ezra Schwartz visits site of son’s death

“Gush Etzion is here to embrace you and to hold you up whenever you need,” friend tells parents of slain teen.   Cars whizzed by… Read More ›

Israel to clamp down on rabbis ‘inciting’ Jewish terrorism

Israel to clamp down on rabbis ‘inciting’ Jewish terrorism

Law enforcement to lower bar for investigating far-right spiritual leaders, in effort to curb anti-Arab violence   Israeli authorities are looking at new steps to… Read More ›