Rock and Roll Legend Chuck Berry Dies
Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry has died aged 90, police in the US state of Missouri report. The singer was found unresponsive at lunchtime on Saturday, St Charles County police said. Berry's...
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Rock N’ Roll Legend Chuck Berry Dead At 90
Rock n' Roll legend Chuck Berry died Saturday at the age of 90, police in Missouri said. "The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr.,...
New Michael Brown Video Raises Questions
New surveillance footage has emerged of the black teenager Michael Brown suggesting he had not in fact robbed a Ferguson, Missouri convenience store hours before he was shot by a white police...
Jeff Bridges Revives ‘The Dude’ At John Goodman Tribute
Jeff Bridges hilariously resurrected his iconic slacker character "The Dude" from "The Big Lebowski" Friday as he honored his friend John Goodman at a celebration of the actor's glittering career....
Hatred, Prejudice On Rise In Trump’s America
Nearly two-thirds of US voters say hatred and prejudice in the United States have risen since Donald Trump was elected president, an opinion poll revealed Thursday. Sixty-three percent of subjects...
French-Swiss Firm Lafarge Ready To Sell Cement For Trump’s Wall
French-Swiss group LafargeHolcim is ready to sell its cement to build US President Donald Trump's controversial border wall, the company's CEO said in an interview. The wall Trump promised to erect...
Vandals Topple Headstones At Jewish Cemetery In Brooklyn
A number of tombstones were overturned in an historic Jewish cemetery in New York, police said Sunday, the latest in rising number of apparent anti-Semitic incidents across the United States....
Third Jewish Cemetery Damaged In Surge of US Anti-Semitic Acts
Vandals tumbled and defaced headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, local officials confirmed Friday, the third such cemetery in the United States to suffer damage in a surge in...
FBI Arrests Man In Bomb Threats To Jewish Centers
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a man in St Louis, Missouri on Friday suspected of phoning in bomb threats to Jewish community centers and schools around the United States. The Justice...
US Government Offers Jewish Communities Support After Threats
The US authorities have offered support to Jewish communities in the wake of a series of threats and attacks since President Donald Trump's election in November. The Department of Homeland Security...
Jewish Agency Says US Must Punish Anti-Semitic Attackers
Israel's Jewish Agency on Wednesday expressed "deep concern" over anti-Semitic threats against American Jewish communities, calling for US authorities to find and punish those responsible. "I am...
‘Hundreds’ of US Jewish Graves Attacked In Philadelphia
Police are searching for the vandals that damaged what one local rabbi said was nearly 500 headstones at a Jewish graveyard in Philadelphia. Money is being raised to repair the graves and to identify...
Vandals Attack Jewish Cemetery In Philadelphia
Vandals have broken and overturned more than 500 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, the latest in a spate of recent bomb threats and attacks against sites for Jews across the United...
India Shocked After National Killed In US
India has expressed shock after the fatal shooting of an Indian national in the US, amid reports that the attack may have been racially motivated. Srinivas Kuchibhotla died shortly after Wednesday's...
JK Rowling Boosts US Muslims’ Fundraiser For Jewish Cemetery
A fundraiser started by a pair of Muslim-American activists got a boost from famed Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, raising tens of thousands of dollars to aid a Jewish cemetery that was vandalized...
Trump Denounces ‘horrible’ Anti-Semitic Threats
After avoiding the subject for several days, President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried a spate of anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers across America as "horrible" and "painful."...
Trump Denounces Anti-Semitism and Threats Against Jewish Centers
President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers and promised to work to bridge divisions in the country. 'The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish...
Trump Calls Anti-Semitic Threats ‘horrible,’ ‘painful’
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitic threats against Jewish community centers as "horrible" and "painful," promising to work to bridge divisions in the country. "This tour was a...
At Least 11 US Jewish Centers Get Bomb Threats
Nearly a dozen Jewish community centers across the United States received bomb threats that led to evacuations, in the latest wave of such attacks since Donald Trump became president a month ago. The...
Fantasy League Aims To Lure US Students To Economics
Have you needed to use your high school chemistry recently? Anyone asked you lately who won the US-British war of 1812? Probably not. But have you taken out a loan to purchase a car or a house or go...