A security guard at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv sustained light wounds to his leg on Tuesday after being assaulted with a knife and an axe.
Security guards fired warning shots and then arrested the assailant. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated. Police said the suspect is a 41-year-old man from central Israel.
“We came to Tel Aviv from Beersheba to escape the security situation,” an eye witness told Ynet. “We heard shots and saw the security guards take down a person who shot them.”
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Dozens of Popular WeChat Accounts Deleted Amidst Crackdown: Shanghaiist WeChat is a growing social media app in China, and abroad. Within China's borders, it's giving Sina Weibo -- a homebrewed version of Twitter -- a run for its money. And like Weibo, WeChat has attracted the attention of China's Internet censors. Dozens of popular WeChat accounts, some with hundreds upon thousands of followers, were ...
Police officer and political novice Dave Feliciano, who is contesting the Republican primary to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), said on the steps of the South Carolina state House Thursday that Graham is "ambiguously gay." The State reports that Feliciano made the comment as he participated in a news conference announcing that four of Graham's challengers will support whomever ends up in a ...
The Missouri House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday that would require women to wait 72 hours before having an abortion, The Associated Press reports. If the proposal is passed by the Senate and later becomes law, Missouri would become the third state after Utah and South Dakota to require a three-day waiting period before the procedure. "If you are going to make ...
Since the death of George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was killed in Wichita in 2009, former abortion doctor Ann Kristin Neuhaus has been fighting Operation Rescue--one of the country's most radical anti-choice groups--alone. As part of their effort to oust "Tiller the Killer," Operation Rescue lodged frequent accusations of medical misconduct with the Board of Healing Arts, the state medical licensing ...
More: Fox Host: Overtime Pay Isn't Fair to Companies Because It Makes Employees Too Greedy Fox Business host Stuart Varney on Thursday asserted that paying overtime could stifle companies like Google, and that a proposed White House change to overtime rules was essentially "buying votes." Bloomberg News reported this week that the Obama administration was considering directing the Labor Department to make more American ...
The still-emerging drought in California and the American west may become the biggest climate story of the decade. I interviewed a number of scientists, in California, and across the country, on how climate change can effect drought, and atmospheric cycles in general.
It's been well-documented that the GOP is in the middle of an aggressive rebranding campaign intended to woo African-American voters, and in the midst of this, yet another Republican congressional candidate has provoked cries of racial insensitivity. In a post on his Facebook page that was--in theory, anyway--about federal spending, Jim Brown, who's running in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District, compared modern-day "entitlements" to ...
More: Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC. Measles was considered eliminated at the turn of the millennium. Now it's back, thanks to the loons to refuse to vaccinate their children.Of all the things to be nostalgic for, infectious diseases probably don't make it onto many lists. However, if you happen to pine for the good old days when measles was an ...
For months, National Review's staff has worked to invent bogus justifications for anti-gay business discrimination, condemning non-discrimination efforts as a form of government overreach. Long before states like Kansas and Arizona sought to pass laws allowing business to refuse service to gay an d lesbian customers, National Review was championing business owners who had been sued for engaging in anti-gay discrimination. In August, ...
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor Thursday to castigate fellow Republicans for holding up aid to Ukraine over provisions boosting funding for the International Monetary Fund. "What has happened? Where are our priorities? Is the IMF, no matter whether it's fixed or not fixed with this legislation, more important than the lives of thousands of people? Is that what we're ...
More: $175M Tax Break for Marathon Refinery Buys Detroiters Only 15 Jobs Marathon Petroleum, which received a $175-million tax break from the City of Detroit in a mammoth expansion project, is coming under fire from City Council for failing to hire enough Detroiters. When Marathon asked the city for the tax break as part of the company's plan to expand its operations in southeast ...
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets Wednesday into southern Israel, sending civilians rushing into bomb shelters but causing no casualties. The Israeli military said it was the largest rocket barrage since 2012, when it launched an eight-day air campaign in Gaza it said was aimed at stopping the attacks. The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted "29 terror sites in ...
WELLINGTON -A citizen board member in Wellington is facing criticism after she likened the village's planning director to Adolf Hitler during a public meeting last week. Marcia Radosevich gave the Nazi dictator's one-armed salute and said "Heil Hitler" while the board was discussing the powers of village staff members during the monthly Planning, Zoning & Adjustment Board meeting March 5. The gesture was ...
"Guess what, Ireland?" jibes a video released by the US Embassy in Dublin. " It was Americans who first started turning things green." Green rivers, green beer, "even wearing green". It's one of five ways Americans invented St Patrick's Day, apparently. If the video is anything to go by, they also gave us parades, marching bands, and corned beef. The claims will surprise ...
"If a plane breaks up at altitude, the parts float down, so you find wings and rudders and horizontal stabilizers falling flat," Marks said. "If there was an explosion, you can find burn damage." A loss of pressurization could put the crew and passenger to sleep, as happened with golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet, which crashed in October 1999 in South Dakota after the ...
Bachmann recently "retired" from Congress, but in reality she quit because the criminal investigations were closing in on her. This is the first time Marcus Bachmann has been named in reports as part of an investigation. The shenanigans of her failed presidential campaign are what the Department of Justice is looking into, and they are also the subject of investigations in Iowa, an ...
For many years the hallmark of a well maintained home was the golf course green trimming of the yard and paved walkways surrounded by meticulously trimmed bushes in geometric patterns. Flowers and plants were selected based on carefully conceived color coordination with garden furniture and it seemed that the goal was to make the lawn look as artificial as possible. This look was ...
he Cana­dian Press is re­port­ing that Olivia Chow re­signed her seat in Par­lia­ment ear­lier to­day and is ex­pected to for­mally launch her bid on Thurs­day to be­come the next mayor of Toronto. More: Russ Campbell's Blog: Chow Declares Her Candidacy; Let the Games Begin
The College of Charleston, a publicly-funded university in South Carolina and one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the US, has seen its budget cut by the state legislature in retaliation for selecting a gay person's memoir for a freshman lit course: insidehighered.com Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame) suggests giving to the College, in support of its "The College Reads!" program, ...
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