Mexico City – A Mexican man who threw himself in front of his wife to shield her from bullets in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, died on Monday, officials and his family said, raising the toll of Mexican nationals killed in one of two weekend mass shootings in the United States to eight. [...]

Seoul, SKorea – North Korea on Tuesday continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing unidentified projectiles twice into the sea while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing their joint military exercises that the North says could derail fragile nuclear diplomacy. South Korea’s military alerted reporters of the launches [...]

Berlin – Police in the German city of Munich are investigating a rabbi’s report that he and his two sons were insulted and spat at on the way home from synagogue. Police spokesman Ralf Etzel said Tuesday they are currently looking for two suspects. Etzel said the 53-year-old rabbi and his sons, both 19, reported [...]

Sacramento, CA – Four California voters have sued to block a new state law aimed at forcing Republican President Donald Trump to release his income tax returns. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law last week that requires presidential candidates to file five years of their income tax returns with the California secretary of state. [...]

Orlando – Investigators were unable to corroborate specific allegations that a Transportation Security Administration supervisor instructed air marshals to racially discriminate against passengers at Florida’s busiest airport. But investigators for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General uncovered other concerns about racial profiling of passengers by other TSA supervisors at Orlando International Airport, [...]

Washington – Two Democratic senators asked U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday if “outside” influence caused him to delay awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract, after President Donald Trump suggested Amazon.com Inc should not win it. The contract, called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, is part of a broad modernization [...]

New Jersey – A Jewish comedy club owner and the family’s nanny were stabbed to death in a suburban New Jersey neighborhood. David Kimowitz, 40, owner of The Stand comedy club in New York City, was found dead on Saturday morning in his Maplewood home. The au pair, Karen Bermudez-Rodriguez, 26, was found dead on [...]

Florida – A Florida man who mailed pipes filled with explosives to prominent Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday. Cesar Sayoc, 57, who pleaded guilty in March to using weapons of mass destruction and other crimes, began crying when U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff [...]

Tel Aviv – The Tel Aviv Prosecutor’s Office has filed a criminal indictment in the city’s District Court against Natan Grossman, an owner of the Peleg-Yerushalmi affiliated HaPeles newspaper, as well as against Shmuel Elyashiv, Avraham Trager, Chaim Yavrov, Netanel Shtepfer, Shabtai Fein, Yisrael Tropper, and Moshe Brillman. The indictment contains 27 counts of felony [...]

Dayton, OH – A Twitter account that appears to be from the gunman who killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, showed tweets that labeled himself a “leftist,” bemoaned the election of President Donald Trump, supported Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and encouraged people to cut fences of immigrant detention centers. While investigators are still trying to [...]