Times of Israel – by Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday as part of a US bid to find ways to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Speaking alongside Kushner before the start of their meeting at IDF Headquarters in the Kirya compound in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said he believed peace was “within our reach.”

“We have a lot of things to talk about. How to advance peace, stability and security in our region — prosperity too — and I think all of them are within our reach,” he said.  Continue reading “Netanyahu meets Kushner as part of US peace push”

SF Gate – by Ken Ritter, AP

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Nevada vowed a third trial Wednesday for two men accused of armed assault on a federal officer in a 2014 standoff that stopped a cattle roundup near the ranch of states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy.

“There’s no question about us proceeding forward. Just so the record’s clear,” Acting U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre told Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro a day after a jury acquitted two defendants of all 10 charges but failed to reach verdicts on four charges against Eric Parker and two counts against Scott Drexler.   Continue reading “Prosecutor vows 3rd trial for 2 in Bundy ranch standoff case”

Fox News

Several thousand paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division are expected to arrive in Afghanistan in the coming weeks, a U.S. defense official told Fox News Tuesday.

The official refused to be more specific about the timetable because the orders had not yet been signed. Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S commander for the Middle East, earlier told reporters in Saudi Arabia that the deployments could take days or a few weeks.

“What’s most important for us now is to get some capabilities in to have an impact on the current fighting season,” said Votel, who spent last weekend in Afghanistan.   Continue reading “Thousands of US paratroopers expected to arrive in Afghanistan soon”

USA Today – by Alan Gomez

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge said Tuesday he was preparing to order the Trump administration to return the first known DREAMer it deported back to the United States to make his case for staying.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said he needs to hear first-hand from Juan Manuel Montes, 23, to rule on the undocumented immigrant’s claim that he was deported illegally by border agents.   Continue reading “Judge prepared to order first DREAMer deported under Trump back to U.S. to make his case”

Breitbart – by Lucas Nolan

PayPal reinstated the accounts of both Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative following outrage from supporters over their suspensions.

Breitbart previously reported on Jihad Watch’s suspension and the founder of the website, Robert Spencer, calling for a boycott of PayPal if they continued to “bow to leftism.” Many Jihad Watch supporters took to Twitter to express their anger over the website’s suspension.  Continue reading “PayPal Restores Jihad Watch and AFDI Accounts Following Backlash from Supporters”

Fox News

In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Va., ESPN decided to pull one of its announcers from calling a University of Virginia football game — because his name is Robert Lee.

Lee, an Asian-American sportscaster who started with the network in 2016, was moved to a different game “simply because of the coincidence of his name,” ESPN said, referencing the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.   Continue reading “ESPN pulls Asian-American announcer from Virginia football game because he has a Confederate general’s name”

ABC News 2

Demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, interrupted and blasted City Council members during their first meeting since violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters.

Attendees at the packed meeting said they were upset that an August 12 “Unite the Right” rally was allowed to happen.

Demonstrators stood on the dais and unfurled a large banner that read, “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.” The meeting was briefly suspended.   Continue reading “Protests erupt at Charlottesville city council meeting”

Yahoo News

The sad and sorry story surrounding the case of a 2012 high school rape in Steubenville, Ohio, continued Monday when the father of one of the football players convicted in that crime, ambushed and shot a local judge, before being killed. The son of that judge is a former local prosecutor who reportedly worked on the early stages of the rape case.

Nathaniel Richmond was pronounced dead after being shot, according to Jefferson County district attorney Jane Hanlin. The shooting took place outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Steubenville, an old coal town on the Ohio River along the eastern edge of the state. Richmond opened fire on Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese as the judge arrived for work early Monday morning.   Continue reading “Ambush, shooting of judge linked to football rape case”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a widely anticipated national address, President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he will not pull out U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying he’s committed to a new strategy aimed at winning the nation’s longest war, now in its 17th year. Admitting that his “original instinct was to pull out” of Afghanistan – Trump’s core campaign pledge was to reduce US intervention in offshore conflicts – Trump effectively admitted he had been wrong, and said he’s arrived at three “fundamental conclusions” about America’s core interests in Afghanistan:   Continue reading “Trump Unveils New, Dramatic Afghanistan Strategy: “We Aren’t Nation-Building Again, We Are Killing Terrorists””

Fox News

More than 40 people were injured after a regional rail train crashed into another train at a suburban Philadelphia terminal early Tuesday morning, officials said.

The crash occurred early around 12:15 a.m. at the 69th Street Terminal as the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority train traveled inbound toward the station in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

Rail spokeswoman Heather Redfern told Fox News there were 42 people on board the train at the time of the crash, but none of those on board suffered life-threatening injuries.  Continue reading “Dozens injured in train crash in suburban Philadelphia, officials say”

New York Post – by Paul Sperry

Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say.

What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving FBI surveillance of the suspects.   Continue reading “IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence”

NBC News

Six police officers were shot, one of them fatally, in three separate gun incidents in Florida and Pennsylvania late Friday, officials said.

One officer was killed and another gravely injured in Kissimmee, just south of the theme park hub of Orlando, central Florida.

Two officers were critically wounded in Jacksonville, while two state troopers were shot in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.   Continue reading “6 Police Officers Shot in Florida and Pennsylvania, 1 Killed and 5 Wounded”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — Friday will be controversial White House chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s final day working in the West Wing. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement to the press pool describing the move as a mutual decision between Bannon and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Friday.

“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” Sanders said.   Continue reading “Steve Bannon is leaving the White House”

Yahoo News

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A white van jumped the sidewalk Thursday in Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, injuring several people as it plowed into a summer crowd of tourists and residents, police said. The El Pais newspaper said police were treating the crash as a terror attack.

Quoting unnamed police sources, El Pais said the two perpetrators of the crash were holed up in a bar in Tallers Street. There was no immediate police confirmation of the report.   Continue reading “Van plows into crowd in Barcelona; police view it as terror”