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New York – More Reforms, Including Tasers, Slated For NY’s Rikers Jail

New York – More Reforms, Including Tasers, Slated For NY’s Rikers Jail

  New York – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a new raft of reforms aimed at improving safety at the… Read More ›

Explosion at SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral

Explosion at SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral

A SpaceX rocket exploded at its Cape Canaveral launch pad Thursday morning, destroying the rocket and the satellite it was due to launch on Saturday.… Read More ›

Why is Beijing so scared of this 25-year-old Hong Konger?

Why is Beijing so scared of this 25-year-old Hong Konger?

Hong Kong – “We are the future of Hong Kong!” Edward Leung stands on a crowded overpass connected to a busy metro station, speaking into… Read More ›

Midway: Why Barack Obama is visiting a tiny island in the Pacific

Midway: Why Barack Obama is visiting a tiny island in the Pacific

It’s not every day that there are more people on board Air Force One than in the place it touches down, but Thursday is one… Read More ›

Jews favor Clinton over Trump, 52-23 percent, new survey shows

Jews favor Clinton over Trump, 52-23 percent, new survey shows

Only religious group with stronger favorability ratings for Democratic nominee is Muslims, by 64% to 9%, Gallup poll says   WASHINGTON — Jewish voters favor… Read More ›

Trump vows to remove millions living in US illegally

Trump vows to remove millions living in US illegally

After Mexico visit, during which he praised local people as ‘amazing,’ nominee also promises to curtail legal immigration   PHOENIX (AP) — Seeking to end… Read More ›

Melania Trump sues Daily Mail over report claiming she was an escort

Melania Trump sues Daily Mail over report claiming she was an escort

Wife of GOP nominee seeks $150 million in damages, hires lawyer who also represented Hulk Hogan in successful $140 million suit against Gawker Media  … Read More ›

OECD finds Israel overall high on health, low on environment issues

OECD finds Israel overall high on health, low on environment issues

A new report by the OECD finds that while Israelis are overall satisfied with their life, the country’s different regions score varying degrees in a… Read More ›

Alsheikh apologizes to Ethiopian community

Alsheikh apologizes to Ethiopian community

In a meeting on Thursday night, the Israel Police commissioner apologized for his earlier comments, stating that he did not mean to offend and that… Read More ›

An Israeli and Palestinian win Student Oscars

An Israeli and Palestinian win Student Oscars

Israeli director Maya Sarfaty won the Student Academy Award for her documentary ‘the Most Beautiful Woman’; another winner in the Animation category was Ahmad Saleh,… Read More ›

White House slams report of secret Iran deal exemptions

White House slams report of secret Iran deal exemptions

Report author tells ‘Post’: Exemptions are ‘permanent’   WASHINGTON- World powers that brokered a nuclear deal with Iran last year allegedly renegotiated at least two… Read More ›

Dani Dayan: The idea settlements are main obstacle to peace is ‘nonsense’

Dani Dayan: The idea settlements are main obstacle to peace is ‘nonsense’

Dayan: “I am a person who, if I may for a second take the diplomatic hat off, fully identifies with the current government. I don’t… Read More ›

British Jews laud success of appeal to help Syrian refugees

British Jews laud success of appeal to help Syrian refugees

World Jewish Relief raises £944,000 for migrants in Turkey, Greece.   Exactly one year after Britain’s World Jewish Relief launched an emergency appeal for refugees… Read More ›

School starts: Bennett stresses core, Zionism

School starts: Bennett stresses core, Zionism

Overcrowding in classes, socioeconomic and sectorial gaps, poor student performance – these are only a few of the many problems facing the education system.  … Read More ›

Clinton pitches her foreign policy to American Legion: ‘No coddling dictators’

Clinton pitches her foreign policy to American Legion: ‘No coddling dictators’

Democratic nominee appeals to Republican voters, says she will uphold US values, care for military, protect national security interests   CINCINNATI (AP) — Portraying a… Read More ›

The Brazilian billionaire who bought Heinz and Burger King could soon be able to strike a $100 billion deal

The Brazilian billionaire who bought Heinz and Burger King could soon be able to strike a $100 billion deal

  Jorge Lemann is behind some of America’s most iconic consumer brands. The Brazilian billionaire’s investment company, 3G Capital, has backed takeovers of Kraft, Heinz, Burger… Read More ›

Donald Trump got 2 significant things out of his trip to Mexico

Donald Trump got 2 significant things out of his trip to Mexico

  Despite Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s belated insistence that he told Donald Trump that Mexico would not pay for a border wall, I believe Wednesday’s trip… Read More ›

MEXICAN PRESIDENT: I told Trump we’re not paying for his proposed wall

MEXICAN PRESIDENT: I told Trump we’re not paying for his proposed wall

  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said on Wednesday thatMexico would not be paying for Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the southern border of the US… Read More ›

Bedford, MA – iRobot CEO Says Vacuum Cleaners Clear Path To Robot Future

Bedford, MA – iRobot CEO Says Vacuum Cleaners Clear Path To Robot Future

  Bedford, MA – The clash this year over the future of iRobot pitted visionary robotics against the retail success of the company’s Roombas, the… Read More ›

Staten Island, NY – NYPD Might Not Say If Officer In Chokehold Death Is Punished

Staten Island, NY – NYPD Might Not Say If Officer In Chokehold Death Is Punished

  Staten Island, NY – New York City might never tell the public if the police officer at the center of the Eric Garner chokehold… Read More ›