The European Union’s chief executive on Wednesday said the United States had taken into account some EU concerns over new sanctions on Russia but Brussels was ready to retaliate within days if the measures hurt EU economic interests.
President Donald Trump signed a Russia sanctions bill Congress forced on him, adding a statement saying the administration will carry out the law but with reservations about its impact and the constitutionality of some provisions.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) recently confirmed the Old Testament’s account of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Empire in the sixth century BC.
After fighting Republicans tooth-and-nail for years on their plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare, Democrats have in a matter of days started touting a slew of proposals aimed at improving the ailing health care system.
New sanctions imposed on Russia will lead to a “full-scale trade war”, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
Scientists have, for the first time, successfully freed embryos of a piece of faulty DNA that causes deadly heart disease to run in families.
Donald Trump has warned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that he will be held ‘personally responsible’ for the safety of two opponents who were jailed on Tuesday.
At least 34 young Christians are reported to have been killed in a tragic accident on their way to pilgrimage in Madagascar.
The recent clashes in and around the Temple Mount were fueled in part by the Iranian government, Palestinian sources told Israel Hayom this week.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed the media’s narrative of Russian collusion at a White House Press conference. Earlier in the day, the Washington Post ran an anonymously resourced story meant to harm the Trump presidency, which claimed that President Trump ‘dictated’ Donald Trump, Jr.’s statement regarding a meeting he had with a Russian attorney.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday held a rare meeting in Ramallah with a delegation from rival Hamas over possible reconciliation between the battling Palestinian factions.
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior advisor of US President Donald Trump, has expressed doubt the American administration could find a ‘unique’ solution that would lead to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, according to an audio recording leaked to WIRED magazine.
A stunning 22 percent of inmates in the federal prison population are immigrants who have either already been deemed to be in the country illegally or who the government is looking to put in deportation proceedings, the administration said Tuesday.
Eight churches in Baghdad have closed their doors permanently due to the mass exodus of believers from Iraq.
Hundreds of Jews on Tuesday visited the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem for the Tisha B’av fast commemorating the destruction of the Jewish temples that once stood at the site.
China’s UN ambassador urged the international community on Monday to support President Xi Jinping’s new four-point proposal to end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and establish an independent Palestinian state.
Israeli police gave permission on Sunday for the far-right Lehava organization to hold a counter-protest during Jerusalem’s pride march, due to take place on Thursday.
Israeli police said on Tuesday that hundreds of Jewish visitors were permitted to visit the Temple Mount to mark the Jewish holy day of Tisha b’Av, but that six visitors were ejected from the flashpoint site for ‘violation of the rules.’
Republican senators are still working to revive an Obamacare repeal bill even though some in their own party are starting to doubt anything can be done.
Donald Trump’s White House expanded its engagement with faith leaders last week by holding three different listening sessions that featured nearly 100 different Christian leaders and activists, participants have told The Christian Post.