WASHINGTON (JNS) — The United States has indicted a Turkish bank for allegedly evading U.S. sanctions on Iran after reportedly failing to reach a deal with the Trump administration to avoid charges. “Halkbank, a Turkish state-owned bank, allegedly conspired to undermine the United States Iran sanctions regime by illegally giving Iran access to billions of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the European Union said Thursday that President Donald Trump directed him and other envoys to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukraine policy and that he disagreed with the directive. Gordon Sondland’s closed-door testimony to House impeachment investigators was aimed at distancing himself from Trump and […]

By: Dov Hikind Democratic nominee for president, Bernie Sanders, did it. He finally did it. His open and warm embrace of notorious and unabashed antisemites like Linda Sarsour, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, is a signal that his views on Israel and antisemitism are just as toxic if not more dangerous coming from him. The […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House acknowledged Thursday that it held up military aid to Ukraine as President Donald Trump pushed the country’s new leader to investigate the Democratic National Committee in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, a central question in the House impeachment inquiry . Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that Trump […]

WASHINGTON (JNS) — White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner will visit Israel next month in the aftermath of the Sept. 17 elections, which have still resulted in no clear government coalition. He plans to meet with Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, reported McClatchy. Kusher will be accompanied by Avi Berkowitz, […]

NEWTOWN, CT (JTA) — The father of a Jewish boy killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School won a $450,000 judgment against the editor of a book that claimed the 2012 massacre at the school never happened. A jury in Wisconsin determined the amount to be paid to Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68. Cummings was a formidable orator who advocated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving an American diplomat’s wife felt ambushed when President Donald Trump tried to get them to meet with the woman in front of the press, attorneys for the couple said Wednesday. Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn traveled to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — He said she’s a “third-grade” politician. She said he’s having a meltdown. And with that President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chalked up the latest explosive meeting that ended abruptly with a walkout at the White House. It’s a familiar ritual, with Trump and congressional leaders meeting on official business, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior U.S. delegation faces the herculean task of pressuring Turkey to accept a cease-fire in Northern Syria, hours after President Donald Trump declared the U.S. has no stake in defending Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America’s partners against Islamic State extremists. Vice President Mike Pence, heading a U.S. […]