NEW YORK - Precisely five years since Jonathan Pollard was released from prison after serving thirty years of an unprecedented life sentence for passing classified information to an ally, Israel, he was finally informed Friday afternoon that onerous parole restrictions have been lifted. Now, thirty-five years after his arrest on November 21, 1985, Jonathan Pollard, 65, is a free man.
In a statement, Mr. Pollard’s longtime pro bono attorneys, Jacques Semmelman and Eliot Lauer said, “We are grateful and delighted that our client is finally free of any restrictions, and is now a free man in all respects.” The attorneys also said they “look forward to seeing our client in Israel,” where Pollard has long expressed an interest in moving after his parole ended....
There has been a major coronavirus outbreak aboard a US Navy guided missile destroyer, the USS Michael Murphy, which has spread to nearly one-quarter of the ship’s 300 strong-crew, according to two US Navy officials.
The ship has been in port in Hawaii so there has been limited operational impact due to the outbreak.
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One official said that the majority of the sailors who have contracted the virus experienced no symptoms and many are expected to return to the ship in the coming days.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is adding four Obama-Biden administration veterans to his top ranks as he continues to build out his White House team.
Cathy Russell, who was Jill Biden’s chief of staff during the Obama administration, will serve as director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, evaluating applicants for administration roles. Louisa Terrell, who served as a legislative adviser to the president in the Obama administration and worked as deputy chief of staff for Biden in the Senate, will be director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Terrell has already been engaged in Capitol Hill outreach as part of Biden’s transition team.
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“I think Gulf states are hoping that Joe Biden will govern as a centrist with an experienced team and will address the weaknesses of the JCPOA,” said Ali Shihabi, an author and commentator on the Middle East with a focus on Saudi Arabia.
While President-elect Joe Biden has yet to fill out key cabinet and foreign-policy positions for his next administration, top U.S. allies in the Arab Gulf are voicing concerns over a return to a more friendly posture towards Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, including going back to the Iranian nuclear deal.
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Census Bureau officials have expressed concern that they’ll be unable to complete determining the state population totals before the upcoming presidential inauguration, The New York Times reports.
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The Trump administration pushed to complete the 2020 U.S. Census without counting the number of undocumented immigrants in the total population count for states, which is used for determining the number of seats in the House of Representatives. However, this plan likely relies on the census being completed before Trump leaves office, and Census Bureau...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said lawmakers should redirect unspent stimulus funding, including money he is pulling back from the Federal Reserve, to buoy the economy as the U.S. waits for a coronavirus vaccine.
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“I hope that Congress will seriously consider reallocating $580 billion of funds that have already been appropriated that wouldn’t cost taxpayers an additional penny,” he said in a phone interview Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Mnuchin requested the return of unused funds from the Fed’s emergency pandemic lending program, t...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a one-month curfew to combat the rising spread of COVID-19.
Newsom tweeted that the curfew would go into effect Saturday beginning at 10 p.m. and last for the next month. Gatherings and nonessential work will be prohibited from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. in purple-tier counties.
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“The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge. We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said in a state...
ATLANTA — Georgia’s secretary of state certified President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the state on Friday, dealing a blow to President Trump’s bid to overturn the vote in a half-dozen battleground states and with it the national election that Mr. Biden won decisively.
The Georgia certification, which ensures that Mr. Biden will receive the state’s 16 electoral votes, was an early milestone in the state-by-state process of finalizing Mr. Biden’s victory, a process that is set to unfold in the coming days as Mr. Trump continues to deny his defeat and cry fraud and his campaign and its surrogates inundate the courts with largely baseless lawsuits that have so far been unsuccessful.
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China has accused Italy of starting the killer coronavirus pandemic – and claims its own study proves it.
But Beijing has also previously blamed Spain for sparking the worldwide Covid outbreak to deflect blame, while insisting “China is not a culprit of this virus”.
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Its accusation against Italy follows an Italian study supporting suggestions that the virus was circulating outside China earlier than thought.
The earliest reported case in Wuhan - regarded by many experts as the initial epicentre of the outbreak - was at the beginning of Decem...
Ministry of Heatlh signs a memo of understanding with British company AstraZeneca and Oxford University
The Ministry of Heatlh has signed a memo of understanding with the British company AstraZeneca and Oxford University that will provide millions of vaccines to Israel.
The first batch of vaccines is scheduled to arrive in Israel during the first half of next year.
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The Ministry of Health emphasizes that AstraZeneca is one of the leading biotech firms in the world and its vaccine trials have already shown promising results.
As part of its effort to addre...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 20, 2020 - There will be a food distribution at TA SUNDAY, November 22nd, beginning at 2:00pm!Food distribution will be ongoing until the packages are all distributed (usually 3-4 hours). Please read the following IMPORTANT DETAILS:1️⃣ A maximum of 10 meals OR pickup for 2 families will be permitted PER CAR, whichever is greater. Very large pickup amounts slow down the line and make pick up difficult for everyone. Please do not arrive to food distribution with more than two meal signs total. 2️⃣ Food will be put into Trunks ONLY. Please make sure that your trunk is either empty or has enough space to pick up the quantity of meals you are coming for.3️⃣ As always, arrive to TA via a right turn onto campus, making no illegal traffic maneuvers. Do not use your...
Ramallah welcomes vote as retaliation for Mike Pompeo's historic visit to West Bank
A United Nations panel voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution backing the Palestinian right for self-determination and statehood on Thursday.
The General Assembly’s Third Committee passed the draft resolution in a 163-5 vote, with 10 member states abstaining.
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The document called for a swift end to the Israeli "occupation" of the Palestinian lands, which purportedly was instated in 1967.
It also calls for a "peace settlement" between Israel and the Palesti...
The deep tunnel encroached several dozen meters into Israeli territory and was discovered last month
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) released new information Thursday regarding the deepest Hamas cross-border attack tunnel that it has discovered to date.
Plunging several dozen meters underground the Israel-Gaza border, the tunnel also extended dozens of meters into Israeli territory. The IDF constructed an elevator to allow troops to descend into the tunnel.
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According to The Jerusalem Post, the military was not certain what the purpose of the tunn...
'At least in the short term, most people who get Covid-19 won't get it again,' researchers say
Patients with COVID-19 remain largely immune to it for at least six months after their recovery, a new study by the University of Oxford revealed Friday.
The finding comes as part of a large-scale study into coronavirus reinfection -- a phenomenon deemed to be quite rare by healthcare professionals.
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The authors highlighted they had not yet gathered enough data to make a judgment on the possibility of reinfection more than six months after reco...
The historic trials issued 12 death sentences and 3 life sentences to high-ranking Nazi officials
Germany marks on Friday the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials, the watershed series of military tribunals intended to bring senior Nazi officials to justice.
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A small commemorative event, scaled down because of coronavirus restrictions, will be held in courtroom 600 at the city's Palace of Justice, where the infamous trials opened on November 20, 1945.
Witnesses, politicians and experts will speak in video messages at the event, wh...
Yitzchok and Rivka have two sons. While in the womb, Hashem told Rivka that these two sons are really two nations. The world is going to be dominated by two different philosophies – one of Yaakov and one of Eisov. Which one of the two will be the most dominant one? Rashi quotes the midrash which says both sons will have descendants who are great – Antoninus and Rebbi. Both were exceedingly wealthy.
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But the posuk says Yaakov and Eisov will part ways at birth and follow their own very different inclinations. This one will go towards evil and this one towards temimus. They will not rule the world together as a 50-50 partnership. It will be like a see-saw. When one rises the other will fall.
What is the philosophy o...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 20, 2020 - IMPORTANT COVID TEST RESULTS FOR WEEK OF THANKSGIVING: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, there is expected to be a nationwide rush on testing this week.
Anyone who needs results by Wednesday 11/25 should be tested no later than Sunday night 11/22
