Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007, was secretly conducting an unapproved investigation for the CIA, according to new reports. On Thursday it was revealed that an Associated Press report has tracked the connections between Levinson’s trip and the CIA, in direct contradiction to the US government’s public denials of him […]
December 11, 2013 14:36 by Pesach Benson Audit finds EU pays Palestinian civil servants in Gaza who haven’t worked in six years. AP writes: Some 65,000 civil servants and members of the security forces in Gaza stopped reporting to their jobs in 2007, when the Islamic militant Hamas seized the territory from Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
Photo: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Created by the members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 to defend the earliest American community, the Army National Guard celebrates its 377th birthday today. Originally a militia group made up of all able-bodied colonists over the age of 16, the National Guard in its current form wasn’t created until […]
Unprecedented snowfall continues across Israel. Snow continues to fall in areas of higher elevation, including in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and in the Gush Etzion region. Weather authorities also warn of flash flood warnings and heavy rains in Israel’s center, extending everywhere not affected by snowfall from Netanya to Ashkelon. Updates about specific regions are […]
Korean Central News Agency via Korean News Service Pyongyang announced the trial and execution of Jang Song-taek, former vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission and uncle to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Although Kim has already purged hundreds of officials during his two year reign, Jang’s ouster is highly unusual. Jang is married […]
By United Press International December 11, 2013 12:15 pm John Cornyn (File Photo) John Cornyn of Texas has become the eighth sitting Republican U.S. senator to face a potentially serious primary challenge. Rep. Steve Stockman filed to run in next year’s primary just under the deadline Monday and with no notice to Republican groups, Politico […]
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to vote to admit Israel to full membership in the organization, making it the first non-European member of the group. Israel has been a provisional member of the group for the past two years. CERN’s current main activity is the administration and experimentation work of a […]
DENVER — The suspension of a 6-year-old boy for kissing a girl at school is raising questions about whether the peck should be considered sexual harassment. The boy’s mother said officials at Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Canon City, a southern Colorado city of 16,000, are over-reacting. Jennifer Saunders said her son was […]
The Murray-Ryan budget surfaced Tuesday night, and led the conversation between House conservatives this morning at The Foundry’s Conversations With Conservatives. Missed the event? We’ve compiled an exclusive list of some of their comments below. On the Murray-Ryan Budget Deal: Representative Mick Mulvaney (R-SC): Now we’ve raised the debt ceiling over a trillion dollars this calendar […]
The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Tuesday called on Israel to renounce chemical weapons and join the convention banning them. Speaking to Reuters, OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu, whose organization has been leading the mission to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, also called on Egypt and North Korea to […]
