President Barack Obama is igniting a political firestorm this week by bypassing Congress with new measures to tighten U.S. gun rules that are likely to redefine what it means to be a gun dealer and possibly spark legal challenges during his final year in office.
President Barack Obama said on Monday his new executive actions to tighten gun rules were \”well within\” his legal authority and consistent with the U.S. right to bear arms, a warning to opponents who are likely to challenge them in court.
The leaders of a group of self-styled militiamen who took over a remote U.S. wildlife refuge center in Oregon over the weekend said on Monday they acted to protest the federal government\’s role in managing millions of acres of wild lands.
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck northeastern India, inflicting damage on the infrastructure of the Jewish community of Churachandpur.
Americans were as shocked as everyone else when two terrorists shot up the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo magazine last January, but they did not think that they were threatened by an attack which had targeted the creators of a series of cartoons mocking Mohammed, a satirical genre that American cartoonists have not embraced.
Israeli prosecutors filed murder charges on Sunday against a man and a minor for an arson attack in the West Bank that killed three members of a Palestinian family and helped fuel the fiercest eruption of street violence in years.
A record number of more than 1.72 million visitors came to the Auschwitz memorial in 2015.
The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year.
Israel reportedly has turned to the Palestinian Authority for help in capturing the Arab-Israeli gunman who allegedly shot up a bar in central Tel Aviv, killing two, and later killed a cab driver.
Two people were wounded in an attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem.
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