MONTREAL (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in several cities consistently higher than they ever were in Flint, Michigan, according to an investigation that tested drinking water in hundreds of homes and reviewed thousands more previously undisclosed results. Residents […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A federal appeals court in New York says President Donald Trump’s tax returns can be turned over to state criminal investigators. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came Monday. It is certain to be further appealed. The decision upholds a lower-court ruling rejecting Trump’s lawsuit seeking to […]

COLORADO (JTA) – A group of men wearing large white kippas and tallesim handed out fliers promoting Holocaust denial and hung up cards bearing anti-Semitic canards on a pedestrian mall in Boulder, Colorado. The fliers handed out at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall by the men who appeared to be posing as Jews claimed the Holocaust […]

BROOKLYN, NY (VosIzNeias) – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has settled a lawsuit with former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind — sparing her from having to testify in federal court Tuesday over why she blocked him on Twitter. “I have reconsidered my decision to block Dov Hikind from my Twitter account,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement obtained by […]

BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union is criticizing Israel’s advancement of over 2,000 new homes in West Bank settlements. In a statement Monday, the EU reiterated its longstanding position that all settlement activity on occupied land is illegal and “erodes the viability” of the establishment of a Palestinian state. The Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group Peace […]

BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has paid tribute to 10 people killed by a neo-Nazi group in an eastern German city where a tree planted in honor of the first victim was recently destroyed. Merkel on Monday visited a park in Zwickau, where 10 new trees have now been planted in memory of […]

AMMAN (AP) – Jordan’s foreign minister says two of its citizens detained by Israeli authorities will be released later this week, after over two months in detention. Ayman Safadi tweeted Monday that Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Miri will return to Jordan “before the end of the week.” He did not specify when. Israel arrested […]

TEHRAN (AP) – The head of Iran’s nuclear program says Tehran is now operating 60 IR-6 advanced centrifuges in violation of its atomic deal with world powers. The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi mean that Iran is now operating double the amount of advanced centrifuges than was previously known. Salehi made the announcement to state […]

SALT LAKE CITY (JTA) – The principal and a teacher at an elementary school in Utah have been placed on paid administrative leave after a student dressed in an Adolf Hitler costume and participated in the schools Halloween parade. The student at the Creekside Elementary School in Kaysville, Utah wore a brown long-sleeve shirt with […]

STERLING, Va. (AP) — Joe Biden is working on a national campaign of his own, but he made time for a trip to Virginia to rally party activists two days before a pivotal state election. On Sunday, the Democratic presidential hopeful and former vice president joined former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, local Democratic officeholders and […]