Jerusalem – Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Pedestrians stood in place, buses stopped on busy streets and cars pulled over on major highways — their drivers standing on the roads with their heads [...]

Jerusalem – The Israeli military says it struck several Hamas militant sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons with explosives launched from the strip. The military says it hit the sites in northern Gaza Strip early on Thursday. It says that afterward, two rockets were fired out of Gaza. There were no injuries on [...]

New York – “The Mueller Report” is now officially a best-seller. A published edition of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sold just under 42,000 copies last week, NPD BookScan reported Wednesday. Jointly edited by Scribner and The Washington Post, it sold more than any [...]

Washington – The arrest of an Army veteran in a plot to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California is the result of a confidential informant’s work. Court documents show that Mark Domingo was nabbed after the informant steered him away from impulsive gun attacks, offered opportunities to drop the plot and eventually led [...]

Lodz, Poland – An activist who says he is working to “liberate Poland from American Jews’ occupation” unveiled an effigy in Lodz of a Jewish politician hung on a gallows. Sławomir Dul presented the display featuring the late communist politician Jakub Berman, captioned “Jew,” outside the headquarters of the city’s police station Tuesday, Gazeta Wyborcza [...]

Washington – The number of survivors may be dwindling, but the State Department’s envoy on Holocaust issues says the issue of restitution still lingers. Thomas Yazdgerdi, the special envoy for Holocaust issues, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday that he is preparing a report to Congress due in November that assesses what countries in [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump says calls from some Democratic lawmakers for Attorney General William Barr to resign are “so ridiculous.” Trump tells Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan that he heard Barr “performed incredibly well” in testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The president noted that three of the senators who questioned Barr are [...]

Los Angeles – California had its slowest recorded growth rate in its history last year as the country’s most populous state was hit by a slowdown in immigration and a sharp decline of births. Estimates released Wednesday show California had 39.9 million people as of Jan. 1, adding nearly 187,000 people for a growth rate [...]

New York – New York City has reached a $3.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed over the 2014 death of a Rikers Island inmate who records show was deprived of seizure medication. The Daily News reports the city agreed last week to pay the money to the girlfriend of Rolando Perez, mother of his [...]

Charlotte, NC – A North Carolina college student tackled a gunman who opened fire in a classroom, saving others’ lives but losing his own in the process, the police chief said Wednesday. Riley Howell, 21, was among the students gathered for end-of-year presentations in an anthropology class at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte when a [...]