Damascus – Syrian TV Airs Purported Images Of Israel Strike (video)
Damascus, Syria - Syrian television is broadcasting images of what it says is the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Syria earlier this week.
U.S. officials say the Wednesday ...
Washington – White House: Jobs Report Shows Signs Of Economic Growth
Washington - Friday's jobs report shows the U.S. economy is improving, but Congress needs to act on policies that promote growth and avoid deep cuts slated to take effect next mont...
New York – Ed Koch Passes Away On The Same Date As Daniel Pearl
New York - Former New York City mayor Ed Koch who died Friday morning at the age of 88 said in 2008 he has engraved on his tombstone the final statement of murdered journalist Dani...
Washington – Kerry Likely To Move Cautiously On Middle East Peace
Washington - The United States has hinted it might try Middle East peace-making once again, but Secretary of State-designate John Kerry is likely to move cautiously, in contrast to...
Idaho – Republican Compares Obamacare To The Holocaust
Idaho - A Republican state senator has compared the role of insurance companies in the federal health care overhaul to the plight of Jews during the Holocaust, a newspaper reported...
Washington – Clinton Lashes Out At Benghazi Critics
Washington - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is leaving office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic ...
Washington – U.S. Skeptical About Argentina-Iran “Truth Commission”
Washington - The United States on Thursday voiced doubt that Argentina and Iran's planned "truth commission" would bring to justice those responsible for the deadly 1994 bombing of...
New York, NY – Ex-Mayor Ed Koch Dies At 88 (photos)
New York, NY - Former Mayor Ed Koch, the combative, acid-tongued politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during a three-term City Hall run in which he embodied New...
United Nations – UN: Unable To Verify Syria Complaint About Israel, Cites Bad Weather
United Nations - U.N. peacekeepers in a demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel were unable to verify a Syrian complaint that Israeli planes had flown over the Golan Heights ar...
Israel – Arye Deri Recommends PM; Hands Peres Letter From Ovadia Yosef
Israel - Arye Deri, of the Shas party on Thursday recommended Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to form the next government.
Deri said, "According to the meetings that we had wi...
Cairo – Egypt Curfew Scaled Back As Mursi Seeks End To Bloodshed
Cairo - Egyptian authorities scaled back a curfew imposed by President Mohamed Mursi, and the Islamist leader cut short a visit to Europe on Wednesday to deal with the deadliest vi...
Washington – Corporations Fear Big Tax Hikes In White House Budget
Washington - Corporations fear they will be the main course on a menu calling for hundreds of billions of dollars in new tax revenue that President Barack Obama is expected to seek...
Germany – Egypt’s Mursi Says His Jewish Comments Misunderstood
Germany - Egypt's Islamist president turned aside repeated criticism of his past comments referring to Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs" as he visited Germany on Wednesday...
Jerusalem – Israeli Secularists Find Their Lost Voice In Yair Lapid
Jerusalem - After a stunning success in last week's election that positioned Yesh Atid as Israel's second largest party, its leader, secular talk-show host Yair Lapid, said his par...
Washington – Al Gore Defends Current TV Sale To Al Jazeera
Washington - Al Gore said on Tuesday that tough competition from major U.S. television networks forced him to sell Current TV, a struggling progressive cable channel, to Al Jazeera...
Washington – Obama Congratulates Netanyahu On His Election Win
Washington - President Barack Obama on Monday called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on "his party’s success in winning a plurality of Knesset seats."
Duri...
London – Rupert Murdoch: We Owe Major Apology For Offensive ‘Blood Libel’ Cartoon
London - Rupert Murdoch, owner of British broadsheet The Times on Monday tweeted an apology following the fallout from the publication on Sunday of a cartoon accused of using anti-...
New York – Cuomo’s Big Donors Boost His Campaign Fund To $22M
New York - Gov. Andrew Cuomo has collected mostly five-figure donations to build an almost unassailable campaign fund over the last six months even as he seeks to limit future dona...
Washington – Obama Unveils Biggest Gun-Control Push In Generations
Washington - President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers on Wednesday as he tried to channel national outrage over ...
Jerusalem – Court: Israel Can Remove Palestinian Protest Tents
Jerusalem - Israel's Supreme Court gave the government the go-ahead on Wednesday to remove tents Palestinian activists pitched on a patch of West Bank land marked for Jewish settl...