A prominent neo-Nazi group is breaking up after its leader allegedly slept with his spokesman’s wife, then physically attacked both the spokesman and his own wife after they investigated the affair. Matthew Heimbach, leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, was arrested Tuesday in Indiana and charged with battery, intimidation, strangulation and domestic battery committed in…
The parents of the murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich are suing Fox News over their coverage of his death, claiming the network “intentionally exploited” the story as political cannon fodder, the Washington Post reported. In May 2017, nearly a year after Rich’s unsolved murder in Washington, D.C., Fox News claimed to have evidence that Rich…
(JTA) — Florida’s Orthodox Jewish community is working to convince the governor not to sign a bill that would keep the state in daylight saving time all year. Agudath Israel of Florida has contacted state lawmakers to explain how the Sunshine Protection Act would adversely affect the Orthodox Jewish community, Vos Iz Neis reported, citing…
(JTA) — A Swiss neo-Nazi who assaulted an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich was sentenced to two years in prison. The incident on a main street in the Swiss city’s Wiedikon district, the Jewish quarter of Zurich, took place on July 4, 2015. The assailant made the Hitler Nazi salute and shouted anti-Semitic slogans on…
Citing Jared Kushner’s lack of top secret security clearance and reports of his contacts with foreign governments and businesses, a group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on Trump to fire his son-in-law from his position as a White House senior advisor. “It is grossly irresponsible to continue allowing Jared Kushner such direct influence over American…
(JTA) — Citing Muslim extremism, two Cabinet ministers in Sweden called for closing all faith schools in the country. At a news conference Tuesday, Secondary Education Minister Anna Ekström and Public Administration Minister Ardalan Shekarabi said they supported banning faith schools. “The important thing for us is that in school there are no confessional elements,”…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Arab Israeli lawmakers have been banned from accepting funds for travel abroad from organizations that support a boycott against Israel. The lawmakers’ requests were turned down on Tuesday by the Knesset’s Ethics Committee, Times of Israel reported. The rejection was based on a motion passed in January citing a blacklist by Israel’s…
(JTA) — Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist who died Wednesday at 76, had a publicly strained relationship with Israel. Although Hawking visited the country several times, giving lectures at Israeli and Palestinian universities, he pointedly boycotted an academic conference in Jerusalem in 2013. However, Hawking has an Israeli scientist to thank for some of his…
Larry Kudlow, a conservative cable news analyst, will step in as Trump’s top economic adviser following the resignation of Gary Cohn. Kudlow, who until now worked as an economic pundit for CNBC, has been close to Trump for years and kept in touch with him after the elections. Trump phoned Kudlow Tuesday night and offered…
After the ousting of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speculation over which Trump cabinet member is next to go is now shifting to the embattled Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin. Shulkin has been harshly criticized following an internal investigation into his wife’s taxpayer-covered trip to Europe and possible misuse of his personal security detail….
A video of a crowd heckling Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the University of California, Los Angeles last month has been released after being withheld at Mnuchin’s request. Mnuchin was subjected to near-constant hissing from the start of the speech, but tried to make light of the situation. “I normally go speak to people who…
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