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Pence will speak at the Knesset, meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, tour Yad Vashem and visit the Western Wall. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives in the Jordanian capital Amman on January 20, 2018. KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP … Read More

Dying North Koreans a sign US diplomatic strategy works, Tillerson says Signs of starvation and death in North Korea indicate that US diplomatic strategy works fine, says the secretary of state. The objective now is not to let Pyongyang evoke … Read More

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the newly-remodeled Pyongyang Teacher Training College, in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on Jan 17. Photo: KCNA/via REUTERS TOKYO Japan will help developing nations in Africa … Read More

AntisémitismeAFP ‘Anti-Semitism is the dangerous fuel feeding our enemies for generations’, diaspora minister said The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs released a report on Sunday that noted an increase in anti-Semitic sentiment throughout 2017 attributing the rise of the far-right and … Read More

Rep. Matt Gaetz appeared on FNC’s ‘America’s Newsroom’ Friday morning to discuss the effort to release a Top Secret memo which allegedly details abuse of FISA surveillance during the Obama administration. Gaetz also told Sean Hannity Thursday night that if it comes … Read More

Standing near a 7-Eleven in Boyle Heights on Thursday morning, Roberto Pedraza hawked tamales and cups of champurrado, the Mexican hot drink, out of insulated jugs stationed on top of plastic crates. He knew the store chain had been a … Read More

 Patches of dead and dying trees near Cressman, Calif., in 2016. CreditScott Smith/Associated Press Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) The more than 100 million trees that died in California after being weakened by drought and … Read More

MEXICO CITY— A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck offshore Friday in Mexico’s Gulf of California, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Friday morning quake was centered about 48 miles (78 kilometers) north-northeast of Loreto, … Read More

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, with President Trump in the Oval Office in July.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times  WASHINGTON — President Trump directly contradicted his own chief of staff on Thursday and said his position on building … Read More

Few people outside Germany are familiar with the caricature that many Germans hold of themselves in their minds. Far from the aggressive bully of 20th-century war propaganda, the perfectionist engineer of Madison Avenue car advertisements or the rule-following know-it-all of … Read More

LONDON — Relations between the U.S. and Turkey have hit a new low over Washington’s support of militias battling the Islamic State, according to analysts. The government in Ankara views the Kurdish fighters as terrorists. Experts warn that the crisis … Read More

© Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP George Soros has lamented that the European Union is on the verge of collapse while Russia is becoming “a resurgent nationalist power.” Hungarian-American tycoon George Soros, who runs the $26 billion Soros Fund Management and … Read More

  AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) says his office “will prosecute” employers who cooperate with federal immigration officials to deport criminal illegal aliens from the United States. In a press conference on Thursday, the pro-open … Read More

The Liberals have applied an ideological purity test to their applications for summer job grants. Under the new rules for the summer jobs grants program, applicants must agree — by marking a box on an electronic form — that they … Read More

NORTH KOREA could soon trigger a conflict with the United States if it continues to ignore calls to diplomatically give up its nuclear weapons and missiles, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned. North Korea has refused to shut down its … Read More