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Los Angeles, CA – Doctor Who Helped Launch Modern Paramedic System Dies At 98

Los Angeles, CA – Doctor Who Helped Launch Modern Paramedic System Dies At 98

  Los Angeles, CA – As a cardiologist in Los Angeles during the 1960s, Dr. Walter S. Graf became alarmed by the number of heart… Read More ›

Pentagon: ‘We’re in combat’ in Iraq

Pentagon: ‘We’re in combat’ in Iraq

Washington- The Pentagon conceded Wednesday that U.S. troops are in combat in Iraq after days of dancing around the characterization following the first death of U.S.… Read More ›

U.S. jets intercept Russian planes near aircraft carrier

U.S. jets intercept Russian planes near aircraft carrier

The U.S. Navy launched four armed fighter jets to intercept two Russian Tu-142 Bear aircraft that were flying near the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan… Read More ›

China one-child policy: Member of first generation looks back at rule’s impact

China one-child policy: Member of first generation looks back at rule’s impact

Beijing – Growing up in Shanghai in the 1980s, I never thought much of the fact that most of my classmates were only children. Years later… Read More ›

Eilat stabbing likely nationalist attack, police say

Eilat stabbing likely nationalist attack, police say

Woman lightly hurt in attack on street of Israel’s southernmost city; Arab teen taken in for questioning   A stabbing attack that left an Israeli… Read More ›

2 Israeli women hurt in separate stone-throwing attacks

2 Israeli women hurt in separate stone-throwing attacks

Security forces come under fire, are targeted by stones and Molotov cocktails in Jerusalem and West Bank; no injuries   Two Israeli women were injured… Read More ›

IDF imposes new restrictions on West Bank Palestinians as attacks persist

IDF imposes new restrictions on West Bank Palestinians as attacks persist

Young Hebron male residents to be distanced from Jewish settlement; army said set to separate Jews, Palestinians at Etzion Junction   The army began implementing… Read More ›

BDS calls for culinary boycott of Israel

BDS calls for culinary boycott of Israel

After the cultural and academic boycotts of Israel, it’s time for the culinary boycott: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement has launched an international… Read More ›

Bomb found at central Tel Aviv intersection: ‘We were lucky’

Bomb found at central Tel Aviv intersection: ‘We were lucky’

Explosive device found in trash bin on busy corner of Bograshov and Ben Yehuda Streets on Tuesday could have caused mass casualties, say police. “If… Read More ›

High court to state: Why haven’t you destroyed terrorists’ homes

High court to state: Why haven’t you destroyed terrorists’ homes

Judges order the state to submit details of all demolition orders approved since 2013 by Monday to determine why the houses were not destroyed. The… Read More ›

Kuwait disqualified by Olympic Committee after denying Israeli delegate visa

Kuwait disqualified by Olympic Committee after denying Israeli delegate visa

The IOC suspended Kuwait on Tuesday for the second time in five years over government interference in the country’s Games committee.   BERLIN – The… Read More ›

India – Israel relationship emerges from the closet

India – Israel relationship emerges from the closet

Leaders’ visit represents most visible sign of change.   Long believed to hold the potential to become natural allies and trading partners, the predicted mutually-beneficial… Read More ›

Report: Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks

Report: Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks

On Thursday the United States said it was hoping to hear from Iran and Assad’s other main ally, Russia, on whether they would be ready… Read More ›

Israeli envoy to Chile says local Palestinians threaten Jews with violence

Israeli envoy to Chile says local Palestinians threaten Jews with violence

The Federacion Palestina de Chile demanded that Rafi Eldad, Jerusalem’s ambassador to Santiago, be officially shunned by the government.   Israel’s top diplomat in Chile… Read More ›

Iran poets sentenced to 99 lashes for holding women’s hands

Iran poets sentenced to 99 lashes for holding women’s hands

Widespread crackdown on free expression by judiciary and regime security services seen as effort to prevent ‘soft revolution’   DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) —… Read More ›

Today’s college graduate is expected to retire at age 75 — here’s how much you have to save to stop working sooner

Today’s college graduate is expected to retire at age 75 — here’s how much you have to save to stop working sooner

  Today’s recent college graduates probably feel like retirement is a long way off. It might be even further away than they think. A study… Read More ›

Theranos is reportedly shaking up its board of directors amid criticism over its lab testing technology

Theranos is reportedly shaking up its board of directors amid criticism over its lab testing technology

  Theranos, the lab-testing company currently embroiled in questions about the legitimacy of its test methods, is reportedly preparing to shake up its board of… Read More ›

The first reviews of the Apple TV are in and it sounds completely underwhelming

The first reviews of the Apple TV are in and it sounds completely underwhelming

  Apple’s TV streaming box hits stores on Friday, but we’re seeing the first reviews trickle out. The device, which connects to your TV to make it… Read More ›

Boulder, CO – Republicans Go On The Attack In Feisty Presidential Debate

Boulder, CO – Republicans Go On The Attack In Feisty Presidential Debate

  Boulder, CO – Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush suggested rival Marco Rubio resign his Senate seat on Wednesday at a testy economic debate marked… Read More ›

Washington – AP FACT CHECK: The Republican Debaters And The Facts

Washington – AP FACT CHECK: The Republican Debaters And The Facts

  Washington – Ben Carson pitched a tax plan with numbers that didn’t add up. Donald Trump boasted that he’s paying his own way in… Read More ›