Toronto – Confessing a “massive blind spot” in his thinking, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau moved to contain a growing furor Thursday after a photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 “Arabian Nights” costume party and two other similar incidents came to light. With Election Day just a month away in his bid for […]

Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, on Thursday each called for the formation of a unity government following Israel’s inconclusive national election. But with both men demanding to be prime minister, there were no signs they could break the deadlock. The rival proposals, marked by deep differences, indicated the […]

New York – President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns. Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who recently subpoenaed the president’s accounting firm for eight years […]

Jerusalem – Joint Arab List leaders celebrated as voting booths closed Tuesday night, heralding “the end of the Netanyahu era” as a surge in voter turnout led to exit polls predicting from 13-15 seats for the party. “We feel good that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] cannot form a government,” Joint List leader Ayman Odeh […]

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations an “act of war” against the kingdom by Iran, as the Saudis displayed missile and drone wreckage and cited other evidence they said shows the raid was “unquestionably sponsored by Iran.” Iran, which has denied […]

Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled his trip to the United Nations next week for its General Assembly following an election result that currently shows the prime minister’s Likud Party narrowly trailing Blue and White, in which neither party is clearly positioned to form a majority coalition. Almost every year since becoming […]

Washington – President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s naming hostage negotiator Robert O’Brien, who Trump had monitor the criminal case in Sweden against American rapper A$AP Rocky, as his new national security adviser. Trump tweeted the announcement from California, where he was opening the third and final day of a West Coast fundraising swing. “I […]

Jerusalem – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the Blue and White were again locked in a virtual dead heat at the close of voting in Israel, exit polls on Tuesday showed. Both Blue and White, which is led by Benny Gantz, a former military chief of staff, and Likud took 32 seats in […]

Washington – In less than three years, President Donald Trump has named more former lobbyists to Cabinet-level posts than his most recent predecessors did in eight, putting a substantial amount of oversight in the hands of people with ties to the industries they’re regulating. The Cabinet choices are another sign that Trump’s populist pledge to […]

Jerusalem – Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman called for a unity government with Likud, Blue and White and his party after receiving a boost in seats in the exit polls after the second round of Israeli elections on Sept. 17. “I say to all citizens, our security and economy are in an emergency situation. […]