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Fast Forward Palestinian Busted For Hacking High-Tech Israeli Military Drones
JERUSALEM – Israel has charged a Palestinian computer hacker from the Gaza Strip with breaking into Israeli military drone camera systems for Islamic militants and gleaning details of civilian aircraft movements. Beersheba District Court said on Wednesday it had charged Majd Oweida, 22, with designing several computer programs to help the Islamic Jihad group –…
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Fast Forward 2 Dead Brussels Bombers Were Brothers; a Third Suspect On The Run — Police
(Editor’s note: An earlier version reported that the third bomber, believed to be named Najim Laachraoui, was in custody. Authorities now say the third man, who they did not name, is still on the run.) BRUSSELS – Belgium’s chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Islamic State suicide bombers who killed at least 31…
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Fast Forward Yemeni Rabbi Saved By Israel Carried 500-Year-Old Torah
JERUSALEM – Israel has brought in 19 Jews from war-ravaged Yemen in what immigration officials described as the last covert operation to move members of a dwindling Jewish community dating back two millennia. Seventeen people arrived late on Sunday, including a man who doubled up as the rabbi and kosher butcher in the northern Yemeni…
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Fast Forward What, Me Quit? ‘Absurd,’ Bernie Sanders Says To Calls He Bow Out
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, responding to reports President Barack Obama called on Democrats to rally around Hillary Clinton as the likely nominee, said on Thursday it was “absurd” to suggest he drop out of the race. Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors last Friday that Sanders was nearing the point…
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Fast Forward Jared Fogle Faces $150K Suit by Girl in Naked Films
Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman and convicted sex offender Jared Fogle was sued in Indiana federal court this week by one of his victims, a girl seeking $150,000 in damages for negligence and mental suffering, court documents showed. Fogle, who became famous after losing weight on a diet that included sandwiches from the fast-food chain,…
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Fast Forward Banned! Germany Puts Kibosh On Neo-Nazi Group
BERLIN – Germany has banned the neo-Nazi group “White Wolves Terror Crew” (WWT) following raids on 15 properties across the country as worries grow about a rise in right-wing sentiment after the influx of more than a million migrants last year. Attacks on refugee shelters are increasing, with more than 200 on migrant hostels this…
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Fast Forward Top Senate Republican Tells Merrick Garland His Court Nomination Is D.O.A.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland by phone on Wednesday that Republicans will not act on his nomination or meet with him, a McConnell spokesman said. “Rather than put Judge Garland through more unnecessary political routines orchestrated by the White House, the leader decided…
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News Mitch McConnell Blasts Merrick Garland Nod — Does Not Rule Out Consideration
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama has politicized the Supreme Court nomination process by putting forward veteran appellate court judge Merrick Garland during a presidential election. “It seems clear that President Obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize…
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