President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator, as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA, urging the U.S. Senate to confirm them quickly.
If the pundits are correct, the Czech Republic may become the first country other than Israel to elect a Jewish president.
You\’re at a wedding or bar mitzvah, mingling at the bar or catching up with a distant relative, when you hear it — the opening notes of a familiar tune that as if by some invisible force carries you and other guests to the dance floor for the rousing dance circle ritual.
Yemeni and US embassy officials went on high alert recently after Al-Qa\’ida offered a bounty to kill US ambassador to Sana\’a Gerald Feierstein or any American soldier in the country.
An investigator in the deadly July bombing in Burgas was dismissed for leaking classified information to the media.
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