WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have handed out candy to hundreds of military families and local schoolchildren as the White House got a head start on Halloween. The children dressed up as astronauts, military officers, pirates and dinosaurs as they greeted the president and first lady one-by-one Monday. The […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission. The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Patient safety at Missouri’s only abortion clinic is the point of contention at a state administrative hearing that will decide if the clinic can remain open. Opening statements and testimony began Monday before a commissioner with the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission. At issue is the state health department’s effort to revoke […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The assassination of a leading terrorist should not deter the United States from stopping the spread of terrorism by Iran and the Islamic State, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned a senior Trump administration member. In a meeting in Jerusalem with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Netanyahu said that despite the death of Islamic […]

KIEV (JTA) — It was not his desired meeting place, but Rudy Giuliani still looked very comfortable enjoying a cigar in Paris with Moshe Azman, a Chabad rabbi who is one of several figures claiming to be the chief rabbi of Ukraine. Later that same day, May 21, Giuliani tweeted out a photograph of the […]

CALIFORNIA (JNS) Up and down the state of California, synagogues, Hebrew schools and Jewish residents are dealing with effects of wildfires that have consumed tens of thousands of acres in recent days, from evacuations to school closures to days with no electricity as authorities try to limit the fire damage and danger. In the Northern […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other U.S. officials met separately in Jerusalem with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Gantz, who is trying to form a coalition government, and his party’s No. 2, Yair Lapid, attended the meeting at the U.S. Embassy on Monday. U.S. […]

CHICAGO,Ill. (VosIzNeias) — A Democratic congressional candidate who is running for a seat in the Chicago suburbs has been criticized for derogatory remarks he made about Judaism and Israel in a 2015 radio interview. Rush Darwish, a Palestinian-American who formerly served as a talk-show host, once criticized his guest for sounding “like you are praising […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will take a vote this week to formalize Democrats’ impeachment inquiry amid President Donald Trump’s criticism that the probe is “illegitimate.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the step is being taken “to eliminate any doubt” about the process as the administration tries to block witnesses and withhold documents. In a […]

GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of opening fire at an off-campus college party in Texas, killing two people and injuring 12 others, was arrested Monday. Brandon Ray Gonzalez, 23, of Greenville, Texas, was arrested at the auto dealership where he worked less than 48 hours after the shooting, Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks […]