Washington – Rick Gates, a key cooperator in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, testified Thursday against a prominent Washington attorney accused of concealing information from the Justice Department about work done for the government of Ukraine. Gates, a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty last year in Mueller’s investigation, took [...]

Israel – The man whose mother’s burial was delayed in Israel over his alleged refusal to give his wife a religious divorce said reports that he had changed his mind are “fake news.” He identified himself as Yisrael Meir Kin in an English-language video released to the religious news website Arutz Sheva. He appears in [...]

Salt Lake City – Utah legislators are drafting a proposal to scrap a planned state-run medical marijuana dispensary system after facing pressure from county attorneys who said the system put public employees at risk of being prosecuted under federal drug laws. Republican Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers says medical cannabis would instead be distributed through [...]

Iowa – It’s well known that Sen. Cory Booker has studied the Torah, dating back to the days when he was a student at Oxford. The presidential candidate got a chance to show off his Hebrew vocabulary on the campaign trail on Wednesday when asked to respond to President Trump’s claim that Democrats are disloyal [...]

El Paso, TX – Walmart plans to reopen the El Paso store where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting earlier this month, the retail giant said Thursday, but the entire interior of the building will first be rebuilt. The renovated store will include an on-site memorial honoring the victims of the shooting, many [...]

New York – At least 38 former Yeshiva University High School students filed a civil lawsuit for sexual abuse on Thursday at the New York Supreme Court, the Jerusalem Post reports. According to Kevin Mulhearn, a lawyer for the group of students, the abuse took place between the 1070s and 1980s, and was perpetrated by [...]

Minneapolis – Republican Jason Lewis jumped into Minnesota’s Senate race Thursday with a campaign video that attacked the state’s freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar and the so-called “resistance” to President Donald Trump. Lewis, a former conservative radio host who lost his House re-election bid in 2018, went hard at the nation’s current political and cultural divisions [...]

Rio De Janeiro – A Brazilian public university canceled a lecture about the Middle East peace process after what the moderator said were threats by a pro-Palestinian group. The University of Pernambuco called off the lecture by Jewish political scientist Andre Lajst hours before it was scheduled to take place at its campus on Thursday [...]

New York – Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, who once sparred with journalists, has decided to join them. Fox News said Thursday that Sanders has been hired to provide political commentary and analysis across all its properties, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and the radio and podcast division. Sanders was press [...]

Jerusalem – Two rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel. The first was fired late Wednesday night and landed in an empty field near the community of Nahal Oz. The Israel Defense Forces said its Air Force responded by firing on several military targets in a Hamas naval facility in the northern Gaza Strip. [...]