Washington – Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S. soil. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the “painful images of 9/11 for a political attack” [...]

Damascus – An Israeli airstrike on a military position in central Syria early Saturday wounded six soldiers and destroyed several buildings, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported. SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the airstrike near the town of Masyaf, in Hama province, hit a military academy widely known as the Accounting School. [...]

Pyongyang – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is open to a third summit with President Donald Trump, but set the year’s end as a deadline for Washington to offer mutually acceptable terms for an agreement to salvage the high-stakes nuclear diplomacy, the North’s state-run media said Saturday. Kim made the comments during [...]

Ramallah, West Bank – A new government for the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority was sworn in Saturday, led by a veteran peace negotiator and harsh critic of Gaza’s Hamas rulers. President Mahmoud Abbas picked Mohammed Ishtayeh as prime minister, a move that deepens the internal Palestinian divide at a time when prospects for a peace [...]

New York – Fisher-Price is recalling nearly 5 million infant sleepers after more than 30 babies rolled over in them and died since the product was introduced in 2009. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says that anyone who bought any models of the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play sleeper should stop using it right away [...]

Palo Alto, CA – Tesla Inc on Thursday started leasing out its Model 3 sedan in the United States, in a financing option that would increase the electric car maker’s customer base. Tesla said its customers in the United States would be able to lease any Model 3 variant for a small down payment and [...]

Trenton, NJ – Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed legislation making New Jersey the seventh state to enact a law permitting terminally ill patients to seek life-ending medication. New Jersey will join six other states and the District of Columbia that have similar laws once it goes into effect in August. Murphy, a Democrat, signed [...]

Washington – The Trump administration again named Israelis along with Americans as deserving immunity from International Criminal Court prosecution. In a statement Friday, President Donald Trump declared victory after the ICC rejected a request to investigate U.S. personnel for actions in Afghanistan. “Since the creation of the ICC, the United States has consistently declined to [...]

New York – Hembert Figueroa was surprised one day to find that the dollar bills in his pocket were no good at a Dos Toros Taqueria restaurant in Manhattan, where the ironworker was on a lunch break from a construction job. Dos Toros is among a small but growing number of establishments that have adopted [...]

Washington – A man lit his jacket on fire in front of the White House on Friday, Fox News reported, as live news video showed police surrounding a man on the ground. The U.S. Secret Service said on Friday it was responding to a “a police/medical incident” along the north fence of the executive mansion.