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Washington – VW Facing ‘Tsunami’ Of Legal Trouble In Emissions Scandal

Washington – VW Facing ‘Tsunami’ Of Legal Trouble In Emissions Scandal

  Washington –  Who knew about the deception, when did they know it and who directed it? Those are among questions that state and federal… Read More ›

Tehran – Iran Not Backing Down: Saudi Arabia Should Apologize For 769 Haj Deaths

Tehran – Iran Not Backing Down: Saudi Arabia Should Apologize For 769 Haj Deaths

  Tehran – Iran’s supreme leader has said Saudi Arabia should apologize for a crush outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca that killed 769 worshipers… Read More ›

Los Angeles – Holocaust-Film-Based Poll Shows 1 In 3 Americans Would Refuse To Hide A Jew If Alive During Holocaust

Los Angeles – Holocaust-Film-Based Poll Shows 1 In 3 Americans Would Refuse To Hide A Jew If Alive During Holocaust

  Los Angeles, CA – A scientific poll born out of a Holocaust-based film reveals that 1 in 3 American adults say they would have… Read More ›

Government spokesman: Afghan city largely in ‘hand of enemies’

Government spokesman: Afghan city largely in ‘hand of enemies’

  The Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz has largely fallen into “the hand of enemies,” Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said late Monday. Sediqqi… Read More ›

GOP opponents of nuclear deal couldn’t find Iran on a map, says Rouhani

GOP opponents of nuclear deal couldn’t find Iran on a map, says Rouhani

The Republican candidates for U.S. president who are attacking the nuclear deal with Iran could hardly find the country on a map, or know that… Read More ›

Donald Trump unveils plan to slash taxes for the poor — and the wealthy

Donald Trump unveils plan to slash taxes for the poor — and the wealthy

New York – Donald Trump is vowing to drastically cut income taxes for millions of Americans across the wealth spectrum while casting aside loopholes popular on… Read More ›

NASA: Flowing liquid water found on Mars

NASA: Flowing liquid water found on Mars

‘Results are very exciting, because they increase the possibility that there is life alive on Mars today,’ expert says   WASHINGTON — Liquid water has… Read More ›

While Rouhani speaks, Iranian-Americans protest rights abuses

While Rouhani speaks, Iranian-Americans protest rights abuses

Outside the UN, anti-Rouhani demonstration features wide coalition of regime opponents, from Dershowitz to Yemenites   NEW YORK — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani may have… Read More ›

Putin at UN: Coalition against IS akin to alliance against Nazis

Putin at UN: Coalition against IS akin to alliance against Nazis

Russian president slams West’s refusal to work with Syria’s Assad as ‘enormous mistake’ in fight against Islamic State   Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday… Read More ›

UN speeches reveal sharply different approaches on Syria

UN speeches reveal sharply different approaches on Syria

Obama and Hollande take aim at Assad, while Putin and Rouhani back Syrian leader and Jordan’s king laments a ‘third world war’   UNITED NATIONS… Read More ›

Dogs burnt to death in shelter arson

Dogs burnt to death in shelter arson

Vandals apparently set fire to dog shelter in northern Israeli town, killing two dogs and severely burning 13 others. Vandals entered a “Let the animals… Read More ›

Norwegian cartoon compares Israel to Nazis, N. Korea

Norwegian cartoon compares Israel to Nazis, N. Korea

Israeli embassy protests newspaper’s publication of cartoon suggesting that purchasing Israeli oranges supports murderers; editor declines to apologize. The Israeli Embassy in Norway has in… Read More ›

Netanyahu calls on Abbas to resume direct peace talks as he heads to UN

Netanyahu calls on Abbas to resume direct peace talks as he heads to UN

PM to discuss Palestinian conflict with world leaders and Jewish community heads in NY.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud… Read More ›

World leaders converge on UN with focus on Syria

World leaders converge on UN with focus on Syria

Obama: We’re prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran.   NEW YORK – The UN convened its 70th general debate in New York… Read More ›

Abbas adviser suggests US pressured Palestinian leader to nix UN speech ‘bombshell’

Abbas adviser suggests US pressured Palestinian leader to nix UN speech ‘bombshell’

Mahmoud Habbash said that Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry held “difficult” talks in New York during which they discussed the PA president’s… Read More ›

British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn: Osama bin Laden was framed for 9/11

British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn: Osama bin Laden was framed for 9/11

Corbyn claimed US and Britain made it look like bin Laden was responsible for the attacks in order to allow the West to go to… Read More ›

Iran invites black Americans to discrimination conference

Iran invites black Americans to discrimination conference

Tehran continues to claim support for victims of police violence, and some families of victims say they want to attend   Iran has invited black… Read More ›

This map shows the most popular slang word in every state

This map shows the most popular slang word in every state

Welcome to the United Slang of America. In order to create the map above, we used a layered, multistep approach. First, we called up some… Read More ›

Mark Zuckerberg says that visiting an Indian temple at the urging of Steve Jobs helped him stick to Facebook’s mission

Mark Zuckerberg says that visiting an Indian temple at the urging of Steve Jobs helped him stick to Facebook’s mission

  Mark Zuckerberg says that a trip to India at the urging of Steve Jobs played a crucial role in Facebook’s development. “Early on in… Read More ›

The guy who price-gouged AIDS patients did the same thing to kids with kidney disease

The guy who price-gouged AIDS patients did the same thing to kids with kidney disease

  The former hedge fund manager whose pharmaceutical company has come under withering attack for allegations of egregious price-gouging on life-saving medication is the subject… Read More ›