Washington – Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he’s no longer considering an independent presidential bid. Schultz said Friday in a letter posted on his website, “I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve our country at this time.” Schultz faced intense resistance from Democratic […]

Washington – Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the U.S.-Israel relationship into a partisan issue. “Certainly the president is trying to [turn Israel into a partisan issue]; I don’t think he’ll be successful in that,” he told Haartez at the LGBTQ […]

Washington – For all the strategic calculations, sophisticated voter targeting and relentless talk about electability in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Democratic presidential nomination will be determined by a decidedly different group: black voters. African Americans will watch as mostly white voters in the first two contests express preferences and winnow the field — then […]

Jerusalem – A Likud lawmaker close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to prevent egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall in exchange for a small ultranationalist faction dropping out ahead of this month’s Knesset election. The move would anger non-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, for whom the right to pray at the […]

London – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday in London to discuss the Iranian threat and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The meeting lasted only half an hour, reported Haaretz. While in the capital of the United Kingdom, the Israeli leader is also expected to […]

Washington – The Trump administration official tasked with developing a plan to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians is preparing to leave the White House. An administration official says Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, will depart the administration in the coming weeks. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to […]

Quite remarkably, Israel has been through 20 smooth transitions of power. And despite the dispersal of the Knesset following Benjamin Netanyahu’s inability to form a majority coalition in April, the mandate to govern has been returned to where it belongs in a democracy: the voters. In less than three weeks, Israelis will head to the […]

The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who had challenged the watchlist with the help […]

London – Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Wednesday for a national election on Oct. 15, saying it was the only way out of Britain’s Brexit impasse after lawmakers moved to block his plan to leave the European Union next month without a divorce deal. But Parliament delivered Johnson his third defeat in two days and […]

Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will serve as welfare minister in the wake of the resignation of Haim Katz over charges of fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu adds the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, generally known as welfare, to three other ministries he now leads: defense, health and Diaspora affairs. Katz […]