A friend of Sheldon Silver said in court Tuesday that he warned the former Assembly speaker about being raided by the FBI in 2014 using a Hebrew codeword, the New York Post reported. Dr. Robert Taub — a key government witness in a corruption retrial of Silver that began Monday — said he called Silver…
Federal prosecutors seized up to 16 cell phones when they raided the home, office and hotel room of Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen, the New York Post reported Friday. During a hearing going over the plan of returning seized materials to Cohen and his lawyers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas McKay told the court that…
“Excuse me sir,” my mother would say in her precise and native Hebrew to the first security agent she would spot at the Israeli airport. “I am an Arab.” This was the strategy my mom had adopted to deal with racial profiling when traveling back to the US from Israel with her two children. We…
Pressure is mounting on the FBI director to resign after his agency admitted it failed to investigate a warning that the man accused of killing 17 people — including several Jews — at a Florida high school possessed a gun and the desire to kill. The disclosure spread angry disbelief among residents of the Miami…
The news from Charlottesville came while I was at work. I couldn’t stop staring at my laptop, watching videos of neo-Nazis and white supremacists rampaging through the streets. As tears streamed down my face, I tried to cry quietly so as not to disturb my coworkers. How could I continue working as if nothing had…
(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the United States rose slightly in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to FBI statistics. The data released Monday show there were 684 anti-Semitic hate crime incidents last year, a 3 percent increase from the 664 recorded in 2015. Overall, there were more than 6,100 hate crimes…
With the Russian investigation proceeding at a rapid pace, George Papadopoulos, an otherwise marginal campaign adviser to Trump, is now the man in the middle of the explosive probe. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about meetings he held with Russian officials to discuss potentially damning information about Hillary Clinton during the campaign….
Huma Abedin was brought to tears by the heavy blow that her husband Anthony Weiner’s sexting caused Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the final days of the presidential race, according to a soon-to-be-released memoir from the former Democratic nominee and secretary of state. “This man is going to be the death of me,” Abedin exclaimed about…
