New York – Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg met Monday with the Rev. Al Sharpton, as the Indiana mayor faces scrutiny of his record on race and is stepping up his outreach to African Americans. Buttigieg and the civil rights leader met for lunch in Harlem at Sylvia’s Restaurant, a cornerstone of black American culture [...]

Washington – The Israeli ambassador to the United States linked The New York Times to the “Jew-hatred of growing parts of the intellectual class.” Ron Dermer was speaking Monday in the U.S. Capitol at the annual Holocaust Days of Remembrance organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. It was an unusually political attack on a [...]

Poway, CA – A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder and three counts of attempted murder in the weekend attack on a Southern California synagogue. San Diego County prosecutors also charged John T. Earnest on Monday with an earlier arson attack on a mosque. The murder and attempted murder charges stemming from Saturday’s shooting [...]

Miami – A bill prohibiting anti-Semitism in Florida’s public schools and universities is going to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Senate unanimously passed the bill Monday, two days after a gunman opened fire in a California synagogue, killing one and injuring three others. Lawmakers mentioned the shooting before passing the bill, which would mandate that [...]

Washington – Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has submitted a letter of resignation to President Donald Trump. It’s effective May 11. His departure ends a nearly two-year run defined by his appointment of a special counsel to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. The departure had been expected since the confirmation of William [...]

New York – The CEO of Boeing defended the company’s safety record and declined to take any more than partial blame for two deadly crashes of its best-selling plane even while saying Monday that the company has nearly finished an update that “will make the airplane even safer.” Chairman and CEO Dennis Muilenburg took reporters’ [...]

New York – Cisco Systems Inc said on Monday it is rolling out hardware for the next generation of Wi-Fi standards, giving a core part of its $28.2 billion infrastructure business a refresh and in the process aiming to garner more software revenue. Cisco announced new access points and switches for businesses for Wi-Fi 6, [...]

United Nations – U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres demanded Monday that the world “step up to stamp out anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, persecution of Christians and all other forms of racism, xenophobia, discrimination and incitement.” The U.N. chief said he was responding to incidents “that have become all-too familiar — Muslims gunned down in mosques and their [...]

Los Angeles, CA – Authorities say they thwarted a terror plot targeting white supremacists in California by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and wanted retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks. Federal prosecutors said Monday that Mark Domingo was arrested for planning to plant a bomb at a Nazi rally Sunday in Long [...]

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