Washington – Scrap “Obamacare”? Well, maybe not all of it. The Trump administration is arguing in court that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional. But at the same time, Justice Department lawyers recently suggested that federal judges could salvage its anti-fraud provisions, raising questions about keeping other parts as well. [...]

Mexico City – Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum — a seaweed-like algae — piling up on beaches and turning turquoise waters brown, and experts are warning that it may be the new normal. Mexico’s Riviera Maya [...]

Frankford Township, NJ – Spring was in the air when a New Jersey homeowner found two black bears battling in his yard. Corey Bale tells NJ.com he went outside to investigate last week after a neighbor told him there was a bear behind his Frankford Township home. But when he stepped outside, he heard a [...]

Oświęcim, Poland – The Auschwitz museum in Poland accused Israeli politician Yair Lapid’s rhetoric on Poles’ alleged complicity in the Holocaust Poland feels like denial on the genocide. Lapid, who has adopted extremist rhetoric in speaking about Poland and the Holocaust, was quoted as telling the Polish news site Onet earlier this week that, “the [...]

San Diego – As the 19-year-old college student sped away in his 2012 Honda Civic, he dialed 911 and said: “I just shot up a synagogue.” He told the dispatcher that he thought he had killed some people and that he did it “because Jewish people are destroying the white race.” The chilling account in [...]

Seoul – The U.S. and South Korea have determined that two projectiles launched by North Korea were short-range missiles, a South Korean military official said Friday, a day after the North’s second launch in five days raised jitters about an unraveling detente between the Koreas and the future of U.S.-North Korea nuclear negotiations. The weapons [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump says trade talks between China and the U.S. are continuing in a “very congenial manner” despite new tariffs the U.S. imposed Friday on $200 billion in Chinese imports. Trump tweeted Friday that the increased tariffs will bring “FAR MORE wealth” to the United States, although a study by the Federal [...]

Jerusalem – Israel says it’s reopening the permitted fishing zone off the Gaza coast following a cease-fire deal with the territory’s militant Hamas rulers, which ended the worst spate of fighting between the enemies since a 2014 war. COGAT, the Israeli defense body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, said Israel would expand the Palestinian fishing [...]

Tehran – A top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Friday that Tehran will not talk with the United States, an Iranian news agency reported — a day after President Donald Trump said he’d like Iranian leaders to “call me.” The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Gen. Yadollah Javani as saying that “there will [...]

Chicago – Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that despite assertions by Facebook when it banned him from its platform, he is not a hater of Jewish people, is not a misogynist, nor a homophobe. During a speech at a Roman Catholic church on Chicago’s South Side, Farrakhan asserted people shouldn’t be [...]