Washington – Stepping up pressure on Cuba, President Donald Trump is poised to allow lawsuits against foreign companies that have benefited from Cuba’s seizure of American companies after the 1959 revolution, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The move marks a change in more than two decades of U.S. policy on Cuba. The 1996 Helms-Burton [...]

Monsey, NY – Upping the ante in the war against measles, Rockland County Executive Ed Day issued two new directives today aimed at curbing the seven month long outbreak, warning that violators could face fines of up to $2,000 per day. Day made his announcement at a Tuesday morning press conference with Rockland County Commissioner [...]

New York – State Senator Andrew Gounardes (SD-22) and Assembly Member Mathylde Frontus (AD-46) have introduced legislation to provide Brooklyn residents who, in one month, make at least 10 trips across the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge using an E-Z Pass account, the same discount currently extended to Staten Island residents. “The MTA has once again said to [...]

London – When Samsung said this year it would launch a smartphone with a folding screen, the big question was whether the innovation was something people actually wanted or needed. Is the Galaxy Fold a gimmick to help sell more smartphones in a slowing market or a true breakthrough that will change how we use [...]

Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won the backing of a majority of parliament members on Tuesday to form a new government, after the April 9 election. Netanyahu is heading towards a record fifth term in office confident of being able to put together a bloc of religious-rightist parties. It would be a slim [...]

New York – Somewhere in the shadows of federal bureaucracy, there was an issue about the drinking habits of Augusto Pinochet. The National Security Archive, an advocate for open government, had for years tried to gain access to intelligence files about the Chilean dictator, his human rights abuses and his ties to the United States. [...]

Paris – Monuments are the emotional backbone of France. That accounts for the despair over a blaze that killed no one, yet seared the collective soul. It is the power Notre Dame had — still has, despite the charred scars on its Gothic walls. It is not only the unique beauty of the Eiffel Tower [...]

Jerusalem – Ninth grade students on a hike in February in the fields alongside the Zippori stream in the Galilee chanced upon a 1,600-year-old rare coin minted by the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II. The gold coin was minted in Constantinople around 420–423 CE. Similar coins are known from the Eastern Byzantine empire, but this is [...]

Manchester Township, NJ – A utility worker in New Jersey had a close call when a power line that he thought was dead turned out to be very much alive. Video captured Monday by a Manchester Township police car camera showed the worker pulling the line down and it burst into flames as it touched [...]

West Bank – Palestinian officials say dozens of prisoners in Israeli jails have ended a hunger strike over phone privileges. Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Minister Qadri Abu Bakir said on Tuesday that a deal was reached with Israeli authorities to end the eight-day strike in return for phone privileges three times a week. The strike was [...]