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Bernie Sanders speaking to a crowd of supporters at a Democratic unity rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 21, 2017. (George Frey/Getty Images, via JTA)
September 22, 2017, 2:56 am
Sanders: Diplomacy, human rights must drive US world affairs
Vermont independent chides President Trump on proposed foreign aid cuts as well as handling of North Korea, Iran and terrorism
By AP
David Litt, center, with President Obama and actor Keegan-Michael Key in the White House. (Courtesy of Litt/via JTA)
September 22, 2017, 1:43 am
Why Obama’s former speechwriter calls him the most Jewish president ever
Now a writer on 'Funny or Die,' David Litt says Obama’s way of seeing the world -- 'always asking questions,' with a 'real capacity for doubt' -- makes him an honorary MOT
By Gabe Friedman
A man watches a television screen showing US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a news program at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, August 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
September 22, 2017, 1:28 am
Kim vows to make Trump ‘pay dearly’ for threatening N Korea
Comments come in response to US president's speech at UN, in which he vowed to 'totally destroy' Asian country if provoked
By AFP and Times of Israel correspondent
A plane passes as firefighters attempt to extinguish a burning private airplane that crashed at Ataturk Airport on September 21, 2017 in Istanbul. (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)
September 22, 2017, 1:18 am
Private jet crashes Istanbul’s main airport, bursts into flame
Plane speeds off runway, catches fire, but all four occupants climb out to safety
By AFP
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after speaking to the press in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
September 22, 2017, 12:40 am
Trump says ‘friend’ Erdogan getting ‘high marks’
Earlier this week, US froze arms sales to Turkish president's bodyguards, after his aides attacked demonstrators in Washington
By AFP
An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)
September 22, 2017, 12:16 am
UN sets up probe of IS atrocities in Iraq
Terror group's massacres of Yazidis denounced as genocide
By Carole LANDRY
Damaged gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Sofia. (Courtesy Shalom organization of Bulgarian Jews)
September 21, 2017, 11:50 pm
Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns vandalism in Sofia Jewish cemetery
Deputy mayor says all damage will be repaired, expresses 'sincere regret
By JTA
Ivanka Trump listens as her father, US President Donald Trump, speaks to the press at his Bedminster National Golf Club in New Jersey, on August 11, 2017. (AFP/JIM WATSON)
September 21, 2017, 11:48 pm
Ivanka Trump opens up about her postpartum depression
US president's daughter discusses 'very emotional time' because 'this is something that affects parents all over the country'
By Catherine Lucey
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the commencement address at the Alumni Exercises at Harvard's 366th commencement exercises on May 25, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images/AFP)
September 21, 2017, 11:37 pm
Facebook to give Congress the contents of 3,000 ads bought by Russians
Mark Zuckerberg says company working with US government on its investigations into Russian interference in 2016 presidential election
By AP
(L to R) New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman looks on as Acting Brooklyn Attorney General Eric Gonzalez speaks during a press conference to call for an end of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in New York state courts, August 3, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)
September 21, 2017, 11:02 pm
Borough Park man indicted in prostitute scheme to intimidate abuse victim
Samuel 'Mendy' Israel tried to lure victim's relative into hotel and film meeting with prostitute hired in advance
By JTA
In this June. 21, 2011, file photo, former U.S. CIA Operations Officer, Valerie Plame Wilson arrives for the UK film premiere of Countdown to Zero in London. (Jonathan Short/AP, file)
September 21, 2017, 10:46 pm
Ex-CIA agent tweets article blaming Jews for US wars, then apologizes
Valerie Plame Wilson links to piece called 'America's Jews are driving America's wars,' then says she is of 'Jewish decent,' finally says she made a 'doozy' of a mistake
By TOI staff
In this May 16, 2014 file photo, French far-right Front National Party President Marine Le Pen and vice-president Florian Philippot, left, talk to the media at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)
September 21, 2017, 10:28 pm
Le Pen’s deputy quits as tensions engulf French far right
Florian Philippot claims National Front's 'old demons' sneaking back into party with a history of racism and anti-Semitism
By Elaine Ganley
A Visitor walks by an installation by Haitian artist Jean Ulrick Desert, titled The Burqa Project-On The Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double's Ghost for an exhibition "Islam, It's Also Our History" at the Espace Vanderborght in Brussels on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)
September 21, 2017, 9:47 pm
Brussels exhibit tackles Islam in city scarred by terror
'Islam. It's Also Our History' showcases 13 centuries of Muslim creation and culture in Europe
By Vanessa Gera
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump wait for a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 21, 2017 in New York City. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)
September 21, 2017, 9:25 pm
Trump orders new barrage of North Korea sanctions
EU also orders ban on investments, while Chinese banks told to curb their dealings with Pyongyang
By Shaun Tandon and Andrew BEATTY
This file photo taken on June 13, 2004 shows L'Oreal- patriarch and France's richest woman Liliane Bettencourt attending an exhibition in Krefeld, Germany. (AFP PHOTO / DPA / HORST OSSINGER)
September 21, 2017, 9:04 pm
Liliane Bettencourt, world’s richest woman, dies at 94
The head of the L'Oreal empire spent decades trying to play down allegations her father and husband were ardent Nazi collaborators
By AFP
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