Washington – Nearly 400 former federal prosecutors have signed onto a letter saying President Donald Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice if he were anyone other than the president. The letter was signed by more than 370 former Justice Department prosecutors who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations. It was released [...]

Mexico City – The remains of a plane that disappeared en route from the U.S. city of Las Vegas to Monterrey in northern Mexico have been found, a state government official said on Monday, with local media reporting that all 14 on board had died. Mexican newspaper Reforma said the private plane had 11 passengers [...]

Washington – A significant portion of the information about Iran’s preparations for a terror attack against a US target or its Gulf allies was achieved by Israeli intelligence, especially the Mossad, Israel’s Channel 13 reported on Monday. The U.S. is rushing an aircraft carrier and other military resources to the Middle East after seeing Iranian [...]

Jerusalem – President Reuven Rivlin met with the families of the Israelis killed over the weekend in the latest round of fighting with Hamas, which launched hundreds of missiles at Israeli cities on Saturday and Sunday. Those killed by Palestinian fire were Pinchas Menachem Prezuazman, a 21-year-old American Israeli; Moshe Agadi, a 58-year-old father of [...]

Otisville, NY – Michael Cohen took a last swipe at President Donald Trump as he reported to a federal prison Monday to begin a three-year prison sentence for crimes including tax evasion and campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made to protect his former boss. “I hope that when I return to my family [...]

Kiev – Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian Jewish actor who was elected president last month, met the country’s top Chabad rabbis. The meeting took place in Kiev, the Jewish community of Dnepro wrote on its website Monday, but did not say when or what Zelensky said. Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, a Chabad leader who attended the meeting [...]

Eisenach, Germany – High-ranking officials of Germany’s Lutheran church have unveiled an installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called “dejudification institute” that was founded 80 years ago to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in the country then run by the Nazis. Lutheran Bishop Ilse Junkermann unveiled the memorial Monday in the [...]

Warsaw – Poland’s prime minister declared that his government will not pay compensation for property lost during World War II since, he said, Poles were the war’s major victim. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement on Saturday during the “patriotic picnic” in the town of Pultusk in central Poland. “We were the most murdered [...]

Paris – Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world. Only a wide-ranging transformation of the global economic and financial system [...]

Washington – In the wake of a deadly attack on a Chabad synagogue in California, the movement will press for a mandatory moment of silence in American schools, a measure that it claims will reduce violence. In a release Sunday, the Washington-based American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) said chapters in all 50 states would advocate [...]