Several hundred people rioted in early May outside Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue. Led by a group called Pal Awda NY/NJ, it harassed those attending the Greater Israeli Real Estate Event, which promoted land sales in Israel and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). Pal Awda is the New York and New Jersey affiliate of Al […]
Comedian Ron White, who famously smoked cigarettes and drank scotch during his sets, used to tell a joke about vegetarians. “You ever seen a healthy vegetarian?” White would ask his audience. “They look like s***. They’re all plump and gray.” “It’s because their bodies become intolerant of things they need, and I’ll give you an […]
With the conclusion of Memorial Day weekend, the summer season is upon us, and nothing says summer in the United States like a good old-fashioned family road trip. This summer is particularly noteworthy for it is the nation’s semiquincentennial, celebrating 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on […]
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) did something very unusual last week. When Polis granted Tina Peters’s clemency petition, allowing her to leave prison years ahead of her scheduled release date, there was no political or personal benefit to the governor. As a Democratic governor in what has become a solidly blue state, Polis’s main constituency consists […]
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.), a 16-year veteran of Capitol Hill, will not seek reelection in November, the Miami Herald reported on Friday morning, becoming the 30th House Democrat from the 119th Congress who won’t be joining the 120th. Wilson is expected to make her formal announcement on Friday at an event in her South Florida district,...
President Trump said Friday he is meeting in the White House Situation Room to make a “final determination” on the tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump reiterated his call for Iran to never obtain a nuclear weapon and...
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo on Thursday denied that his country has agreed to carry out joint anti-drug trafficking strikes with the U.S. military on Guatemalan soil, but he confirmed a collaboration to “intensify” the Central America country’s fight against drug trafficking. “There is no agreement. There is a request and the request falls within the existing...
A court in Kenya on Friday blocked the government from permitting the U.S. to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to Ebola virus, which is spreading in northeastern Congo. The decision comes amid growing public backlash in the country to an announced U.S. plan, with critics accusing the Kenyan government of trading the country’s...
Illinois city official Sylvia Sims Bolton turned herself in this week after allegedly trying to cast her dead mother's ballot, fueling broader concerns about the safety of mail-in voting.