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New York – Dozing Baseball Fan’s $10 Mln ESPN Lawsuit Is Thrown Out

New York – Dozing Baseball Fan’s $10 Mln ESPN Lawsuit Is Thrown Out

New York – A New York state judge has thrown out a baseball fan’s $10 million defamation lawsuit claiming that ESPN announcers poked fun at… Read More ›

Central Islip, NY – How Drunk? Estimates Questioned In Drunken-driving Cases

Central Islip, NY – How Drunk? Estimates Questioned In Drunken-driving Cases

  Central Islip, NY – The way prosecutors see it, Oneil Sharpe Jr. was drunk when he raced down a Long Island highway at nearly… Read More ›

Israel – Palestinian Terrorists Fire Rockets At Israel On Sunday Night Near Gaza Border

Israel – Palestinian Terrorists Fire Rockets At Israel On Sunday Night Near Gaza Border

  Israel – Palestinian terrorists fired two rockets at Israel on Sunday night; one exploded in an open area in Eshkol, causing no injuries or… Read More ›

Amman – Jordanian MP Says Son Joined IS, Carried Out Suicide Attack

Amman – Jordanian MP Says Son Joined IS, Carried Out Suicide Attack

  Amman –  A Jordanian parliament member said he learned from Islamic State-linked media that his son carried out a suicide attack in Iraq, three… Read More ›

Facebook to beam free internet to Africa with satellites

Facebook to beam free internet to Africa with satellites

  Facebook is one step closer to finally beaming Internet down from space. The social network is teaming up with the French satellite company Eutelsat… Read More ›

Fleeing ISIS tyranny: Agony of the Yazidis

Fleeing ISIS tyranny: Agony of the Yazidis

  Lalish Temple, Iraqi Kurdistan – “Goodbye,” a woman dressed in a black shawl murmured in Kurdish, as she kissed the outstretched hand of an elderly… Read More ›

Abbas tells PA forces to urgently quell West Bank protests

Abbas tells PA forces to urgently quell West Bank protests

3 Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli troops Sunday-Monday, following Palestinian terror attacks in which four Israelis killed   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered… Read More ›

Thousands of rightists protest at PM’s home, demand action on terror

Thousands of rightists protest at PM’s home, demand action on terror

Likud minister Yariv Levin: Abbas is the problem not the solution, he has no desire for peace; Minister Katz: More settlement construction is the answer… Read More ›

PM charges justice minister with expediting demolition of terrorists’ homes

PM charges justice minister with expediting demolition of terrorists’ homes

After security cabinet approves punitive measure, Netanyahu tasks Ayelet Shaked with setting up mechanism to speed up legal process   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on… Read More ›

Palestinian hackers take over Radio TLV website

Palestinian hackers take over Radio TLV website

Radio broadcasts undisturbed as ‘Anoncoders’ replace website with message targeting ‘Zionisme and Israhell.’ Palestinian hackers who identified themselves as “Anoncoders,” broke into Radio Tel Aviv’s… Read More ›

Israeli judokas fight for Abu Dhabi visas

Israeli judokas fight for Abu Dhabi visas

The Persian Gulf state is refusing to allow the Israeli national team entry ahead of a major tournament that could determine participation in the 2016… Read More ›

Why PM stays quiet on Russian policy

Why PM stays quiet on Russian policy

Netanyahu tells CNN Israel does not support Russian policies, but stays silent to avoid unnecessary conflicts; Bibi, Putin share ‘mutual respect’. WASHINGTON – Israel has… Read More ›

Likud ministers to right wing rally: Abbas’ UN speech responsible for terror attacks

Likud ministers to right wing rally: Abbas’ UN speech responsible for terror attacks

Settler leaders plan to camp out by Netanyahu’s house.   There is a direct connection between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ United Nations speech and… Read More ›

Terrorist attacks cause tension inside Netanyahu’s coalition

Terrorist attacks cause tension inside Netanyahu’s coalition

Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett hinted ahead of Monday night’s security cabinet that he would use the meeting to issue his displeasure with Netanyahu’s policies.… Read More ›

Israel to fast-track demolitions of Palestinian homes, Netanyahu says

Israel to fast-track demolitions of Palestinian homes, Netanyahu says

The decision was made at the conclusion of an emergency cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his justice minister, Ayelet Shaked,… Read More ›

Responding to UN speech, opposition encourages Netanyahu to stay silent

Responding to UN speech, opposition encourages Netanyahu to stay silent

Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog said that if he were prime minister he would deliver messages of hope, not despair.   Knesset members in the… Read More ›

Iraq PM ‘would welcome’ Russian attacks against Islamic State

Iraq PM ‘would welcome’ Russian attacks against Islamic State

Moscow says it will consider extending airstrikes in Syria to Iraq if Baghdad requests its help   Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday that… Read More ›

Saudi Arabia caused a ‘Black Monday’ for fund managers

Saudi Arabia caused a ‘Black Monday’ for fund managers

  The ongoing slump in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to retrench and bring home tens of billions of dollars that it has overseas.… Read More ›

Tesla’s profit margin might be about to skyrocket

Tesla’s profit margin might be about to skyrocket

  Few potential investments out there are as divisive as Tesla. On one side, bulls see the electric vehicle maker as a fundamentally different kind… Read More ›

A big investment-banking business is a horror show, and traders are trying to get out

A big investment-banking business is a horror show, and traders are trying to get out

  Investment banks have had a horror show in one of their biggest business lines. Credit-trading desks, which sit inside fixed-income units, have had a terrible… Read More ›