A U.S. citizen and former New Yorker accused of becoming a sniper for the Islamic State group stood silent as his lawyer entered a not guilty plea for him on Wednesday, with the lawyer saying afterward that her client had refused to do it himself. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov “lives by Sharia law,” defense attorney Susan […]

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported on Tuesday, a week before elections for 22nd Knesset, that there are 5.8 million registered voters in Israel, 48,000 more than in the election for 21st Knesset in April 2019. This represents an 8% increase. Of the registered voters, 79% are Jews, 16% Arabs, 5% others (Christian who […]

State attorneys general investigating whether Google is engaged in monopolistic behavior are planning to take a deep look into the tech giant’s advertising business. The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Google on Monday seeking internal documents about how it sells ads and tracks the behavior of people who use […]

The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States. The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ruling that had blocked the new asylum policy in some states along the southern border. The policy is meant to […]

A blaring red alert indicating rocket fire from Gaza interrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s campaign event in Ashdod on Tuesday night. He was forced to stop his speech and was whisked away by a cohort of security guards to a sheltered room. The incident prompted scornful reactions from politicians on both the right and left, […]

Iran’s president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to “put warmongers aside” as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid an escalating crisis between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. Hassan Rouhani’s remarks signaled approval of President Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of John Bolton as national security adviser, a […]

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative deal Wednesday with about half the states and thousands of local governments over its role in the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic, but criticism by several state attorneys general clouded prospects for an end to litigation against the company and the family that owns it. Arizona Attorney General Mark […]

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) There is a fascinating question raised in Chasuchei Chemed of Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein in Brachos (10a).  A husband found out that the genetic predisposition toward schizophrenia in his future children was five times higher than that of the general populace.  This was on account of his wife’s family history […]

Knesset Channel poll suggests voters may be swinging rightward after Netanyahu's promise to apply sovereignty in Jordan Valley