A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor’s call about an open front door “didn’t have time to perceive a threat” before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman’s family said.
Most of the women in Samuel Little’s hand-drawn portraits seem to be frowning.
Their hair is short and curly or long and straight. They stare straight ahead or slightly off to the side. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The unseasonal storm that struck Israel mid-day on Tuesday rocked the mostly Charedi community of Har Yona in the Galilee. The community, located near the cities of Nof HaGalil and Nazareth, sees strong winds on a regular basis.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu submitted an official request on behalf of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking that he issue a pardon to Israeli Naama Issachar and to allow her to return to Israel.
A ten-year-old boy was trapped inside a trash can in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday evening on Ben Azzai street. Utilizing specialized rescue machinery and incredible care, firefighters extricated the boy from the trash canister without injury.
A seven-story building collapsed Tuesday in an upscale part of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, killing one person and leaving others trapped with some communicating with family members by cellphone from under debris, officials said. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The furor Tuesday over the killing of a black woman by a white Fort Worth officer became increasingly about a gun pointed at a bedroom window. But the police chief and activists said the focus was on the wrong gun. Read more on Yeshiva World News
“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman — aka prisoner No. 77806-112 — reported Tuesday to a federal prison in California to serve a two-week sentence in a college admissions scandal that ensnared dozens of wealthy mothers and fathers trying to get their children into elite schools.
Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government forces and Turkish troops. At the same time, tensions grew within NATO as Turkey defied growing condemnation of its invasion from its Western allies.
When Syria’s Kurdish fighters, America’s longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A white police officer who killed a black woman inside her Texas home while responding to a neighbor’s call about an open front door “didn’t have time to perceive a threat” before he opened fire, an attorney for the woman’s family said.
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