Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Politics

Justice Department Investigating Abbott Baby Formula Plant

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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Abbott Laboratories infant formula plant in Michigan that was shut down for months last year due to contamination, ...

Israeli Envoy To Canada To Step Down In Protest Against Netanyahu Government

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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Ambassador to Canada Ronen Hoffman announced on Sunday he will step down from his post later this year due to ideological differences with the Benjamin Net...

Peru Closes Machu Picchu As Anti-Government Protests Grow

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru indefinitely shut the tourist site Machu Picchu on Saturday in the latest sign that anti-government protests that began last month are increasingly engulfing...

Netanyahu To Fire Deri In Accordance With Court Ruling, No Replacements Expected Until New Legislation Passes

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to implement the directive of the Supreme Court and fire Shas leader Aryeh Deri from his government duri...

Top Biden Aide Ron Klain Expected To Soon Leave White House

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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who has spent more than two years as President Joe Biden's top aide, is preparing to leave his job in the coming w...

FBI Searched Biden Home, Found FOURTH Batch of Documents Marked Classified

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday and located six additional documents containing classification markings and also too...

100,000 Israelis Protest Against Govt’s Judicial Reform

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the ...

Wall Street Journal Explains Need For Judicial Reform In Israel: Supreme Court Is ‘Threat To Democracy’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman called Tuesday for President Biden to intervene in Israel's judicial reforms, claiming that they will negative...

Right-Wing Leaders Criticize Netanyahu For Hurrying To Dismantle Outpost ‘Like Previous Government’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Right-wing leaders criticized Israeli prime minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant for hurrying to dismantle an outpost erected early Friday morn...

Florida Judge Fines Trump, Lawyer For ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuit

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NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida Judge sanctioned former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys Thursday, ordering them to pay nearly $1 million for filing what he said was a bog...
FILE - Brooklyn assemblyman Dov Hikind in 2012. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

WATCH: Dov Hikind Holds Press Conference Against Antisemitism, Blasts Radical DA Alvin Bragg

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NASSAU (VINnews) — Activist Dov Hikind held a press conference Thursday in Nassau County along with County Executive Bruce Blakeman, and other Jewish and non-Jewish community leade...

Investigation? Review? Biden Faces A Messaging Dilemma

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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Hillary Clinton was running for president, her campaign wanted a gentler way to talk about the criminal investigation into her private email server, so they ...

China Accuses ‘Some Western Media’ Of COVID-19 Coverage Bias

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BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday accused “some Western media” of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China’s abrupt ending of its strict “zero-COVID” polic...

US Treasury Buys Time For Biden And GOP On Debt Limit Deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default began Thursday with Treasury implementing accounting measures to buy time as frictions between President J...

Florida Congressman Steube Hurt Falling In Fall Off Ladder

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Greg Steube sustained “several serious injuries" when he fell off a ladder while cutting trees on his property on Florida's Gulf Coast, his o...

Netanyahu: US A ‘Trusted Partner’ In Promoting Security, Advancing Peace

JERUSALEM (JNS) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday in Jerusalem with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the highest-level Biden administration official ...

Ben-Gvir: Maher Younis Should Be Shipped Off To Syria

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday expressed satisfaction with police efforts to prevent any major celebrations for Maher Younis, who ...

Israel’s Attorney General Calls On Netanyahu To Fire Deri

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara demanded on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fire coalition partner Aryeh Deri of the Shas Party from his gover...

Israeli And PA Envoys Hurl Accusations At Security Council

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UNITED NATIONS (JNS) - The Israeli and Palestinian Authority ambassadors to the United Nations slung barbs at each other in a fiery debate on Wednesday at the U.N. Security Council...

Ben-Gvir Orders Police To Prevent Celebrations As Murderer Of Soldier Released From Jail After 40 Years

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Mahir Younes, one of the terrorists involved in the murder of IDF soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980, was released from prison Thursday morning after 40 years b...