On the way to a Senate vote yesterday, Lindsey Graham stopped a group of Hasidic Jews to compliment their hats. What ensued was a general swapping of fedoras, to judge by a photo that Graham’s Senate colleague Ben Sasse posted on Twitter. On the subway to the vote, Lindsey literally struck up the conversation with…
Natalie Portman slammed the gender pay gap as “crazy” – and said it was even worse in Hollywood than in other jobs. Portman revealed that she was paid three times less than her male co-star Ashton Kutcher for her role in the 2011 romantic comedy “No Strings Attached.” “Compared to men, in most professions, women…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ivanka Trump said she will take a leave of absence from the Trump Organization and her branding business to settle her family into Washington as her father assumes the presidency and her husband takes on a senior White House role. “When my father takes office as the 45th President of the United…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A U.S. court ruled that Iran and Syria must pay a total of $178.5 million in damages to the family of an infant with dual American-Israeli citizenship who was killed in a terrorist attack by a member of Hamas. Chaya Zissel Braun was 3 months old when she was thrown from her…
Wealthy French art dealer Guy Wildenstein and seven others were acquitted of tax fraud charges on Thursday thanks to a legal loophole the Paris court acknowledged might not be understood by the general public. Four Wildenstein family members and four of their financiers and lawyers were accused of deliberately understating to tax authorities the real…
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo has a new proposal that would lift the statute of limitations that has prevented victims of sex abuse from seeking justice for crimes committed against them as children. According to a report in the New York Daily News, Cuomo’s proposed bill would end all time limits on criminal prosecutions…
Carl Bernstein had some tough remarks for President-elect Donald Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway, slamming her as the incoming leader’s “propaganda minister.” “It’s time to talk about what we do as journalists, and what propaganda ministers do, and that is what she is, is a propaganda minister,” the reporter of Watergate fame said on Anderson Cooper’s…
In a series of early morning tweets on Thursday, Senator Chuck Schumer announced that he would vote against the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions. Schumer, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, made conciliatory gestures towards Trump in late December. But in recent days, he has pushed back hard…
After his sexting embarrassed her and possibly cost boss Hillary Clinton the election, Anthony Weiner is apparently pleading with Huma Abedin not to divorce him. “He knows he’s hit rock bottom. But now they are both out of the limelight, they can focus on their son. They are actually getting on pretty well, and he…
Rex Tillerson, President-elect Trump’s pick to be secretary of state, denounced countries that support the boycott Israel movement and questioned the two-state solution at his Senate confirmation hearing. The former Exxon CEO vowed to make the fight against BDS a key priority. “Countries [that support BDS] need to understand that it does shape our view…
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — The recent passing of an anti-settlements resolution in the United Nations “stands in sharp contrast to the condemnation and accusations that have dominated subsequent commentary from Israel and that country’s supporters,” New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCullay said in an Op-Ed in a major daily newspaper. New Zealand is one of…
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