Despite the contest being 500 miles away from the White House, all roads lead back to President Trump.
Israeli leaders stepped in to comfort and console American Jews after a gunman massacred 11 members of the Etz Chaim (Tree of Life) synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning.
The Anti-Defamation League says the attack is part of a rise in anti-Semitism across the nation, with the numbers jumping radically last year.
A search and rescue agency official says he's not expecting any survivors from the Lion Air plane that crashed into seas off Jakarta with 189 people aboard.
In an emotional scene, the Israeli national anthem was performed at a public sporting event in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday while two Israeli Cabinet ministers said they would soon head to the region in new signs of warming ties between Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
The man arrested in the mass shooting Saturday at a Pennsylvania synagogue appears to have made virulently anti-Semitic posts on a social media platform popular with far-right extremists, including one made shortly before the attack.
We live in a world of many gods, a smorgasbord of counterfeit deities, all vying for our attention, pushing and pulling us in every direction imaginable. But perhaps the premier god — the one with a grip so tight it’s nearly consumed our collective cultural psyche — is sex.
The suspect in the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and told officers afterward that Jews were committing genocide and that he wanted them all to die, according to charging documents made public Sunday.
President Donald Trump on Saturday lamented the “devastating” attack by a shooter on a Pittsburgh synagogue, saying it lays bare the “hate in our country” and speculating that the death toll — ” a lot of people killed” — would have been curbed if the building had had an armed guard.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Jewish leaders condemned the attack on Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue Saturday.