Pence will speak at the Knesset, meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, tour Yad Vashem and visit the Western Wall. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives in the Jordanian capital Amman on January 20, 2018. KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP … Read More
Dying North Koreans a sign US diplomatic strategy works, Tillerson says Signs of starvation and death in North Korea indicate that US diplomatic strategy works fine, says the secretary of state. The objective now is not to let Pyongyang evoke … Read More
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the newly-remodeled Pyongyang Teacher Training College, in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Jan 17. Photo: KCNA/via REUTERS TOKYO Japan will help developing nations in Africa … Read More
AntisémitismeAFP ‘Anti-Semitism is the dangerous fuel feeding our enemies for generations’, diaspora minister said The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs released a report on Sunday that noted an increase in anti-Semitic sentiment throughout 2017 attributing the rise of the far-right and … Read More
Rep. Matt Gaetz appeared on FNC’s ‘America’s Newsroom’ Friday morning to discuss the effort to release a Top Secret memo which allegedly details abuse of FISA surveillance during the Obama administration. Gaetz also told Sean Hannity Thursday night that if it comes … Read More
Standing near a 7-Eleven in Boyle Heights on Thursday morning, Roberto Pedraza hawked tamales and cups of champurrado, the Mexican hot drink, out of insulated jugs stationed on top of plastic crates. He knew the store chain had been a … Read More
Patches of dead and dying trees near Cressman, Calif., in 2016. CreditScott Smith/Associated Press Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) The more than 100 million trees that died in California after being weakened by drought and … Read More
MEXICO CITY— A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck offshore Friday in Mexico’s Gulf of California, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Friday morning quake was centered about 48 miles (78 kilometers) north-northeast of Loreto, … Read More
John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, with President Trump in the Oval Office in July.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump directly contradicted his own chief of staff on Thursday and said his position on building … Read More
Few people outside Germany are familiar with the caricature that many Germans hold of themselves in their minds. Far from the aggressive bully of 20th-century war propaganda, the perfectionist engineer of Madison Avenue car advertisements or the rule-following know-it-all of … Read More