Washington – The Atlantic hurricane season is off to yet another early start, but U.S. weather officials say it should be a near normal year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday predicted nine to 15 named storms. It says four to eight of them will become hurricanes and two to four of those [...]

Washington – The FBI, focused intently for years on combating terrorism from abroad, is turning more attention to home-grown, U.S. domestic violent extremists, a senior FBI counterterrorism official said on Thursday. Arrests related to domestic terrorism in the current fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1, are at 66, exceeding international terrorism arrests, now at [...]

Washington – U.S. officials say the Trump administration is considering an emergency declaration that would allow it to make a new arms shipment to Saudi Arabia without the approval of Congress. Two officials say a decision on invoking a national security waiver in the Arms Control Act to bypass congressional review of proposed sales to [...]

London – A women’s-only pond in North London will now be open to transgender swimmers, which will prevent Orthodox Jews from using the pond. A group of haredi Orthodox women are planning to fight the decision, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. Under Jewish law, women cannot be dressed immodestly in front of men. Trans women [...]

Brooklyn, NY – Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro today announced the arrest by FDNY Fire Marshals of a Brooklyn man in connection with three vehicle fires over a span of three months from March to May 2019. Jonathan Perez, 28, is alleged to have ignited three vehicles in Brooklyn. Fire Marshals responded to each of [...]

Washington – The U.S. filed new charges Thursday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of placing the United States at risk of serious harm by publishing thousands of secret and classified documents, including the names of confidential sources for American armed forces. In an 18-count, superseding indictment, Justice Department prosecutors allege that Assange directed [...]

Miami, FL – A surge of asylum-seeking families has been straining cities along the southern U.S. border for months, but now the issue is flowing into cities far from Mexico, where immigrants are being housed in an airplane hangar and rodeo fairgrounds and local authorities are struggling to keep up with the influx. U.S. immigration [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump rolled out another $16 billion in aid for farmers hurt by his trade policies, and financial markets shook Thursday on the growing realization that the U.S. and China are far from settling a bitter, year-long trade dispute. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said that the first of three payments is [...]

New York – Hoping to catch the person or persons responsible for pulling the emergency brakes on MTA subway trains, disrupting service for thousands of commuters, the NYPD has released surveillance footage showing a person wanted in question with an incident that took place on May 21st. Police said that the unknown suspect gained access [...]

Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited the parties expected to join his coalition to an emergency meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday night, but Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman refused to come. The Likud reacted by bashing Liberman, and warning that he could prevent Netanyahu from forming a coalition by Wednesday’s [...]