Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico – Central American migrants eager beat a crackdown by Mexico on its southern border with Guatemala scrambled into the country on Thursday as the government prepared to send thousands of National Guard members to plug gaps in the porous frontier. Mexico has agreed with the United States to demonstrate by late July [...]

Albany, NY – The New York state Assembly has voted to eliminate a religious exemption to vaccine mandates for schoolchildren in the face of its worst measles outbreak in decades. The Democrat-led chamber approved the bill Thursday. The Senate plans to take up the measure later in the day. Similar exemptions are allowed in 46 [...]

New York – Airline fares within the U.S. are inching higher again. American Airlines confirmed Thursday that it raised domestic fares $5 each way. J.P. Morgan said Southwest Airlines followed by raising prices on tickets bought within a week of the flight and favored by business travelers. Southwest did not immediately comment. Airlines had raised [...]

United Nations – The head of the Arab League is warning against any peace plan that ignores a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit also warns against any proposal that creates an alternative economic track that perpetuates Israel’s occupation of territory the Palestinians want for their independent state. Aboul Gheit [...]

New York – Russian-Jewish billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich is donating $5 million to the Jewish Agency to combat anti-Semitism. It is the largest donation the Jewish Agency has ever received from one donor to fight anti-Semitism, Israel Hayom reported. Abramovich, owner of the Chelsea soccer team in the British Premier League, became an Israeli citizen [...]

Washington – Trump says White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders will be leaving job at the end of the month.

Toronto – A Jewish candidate in Canada’s federal election and a Jewish voter have filed a lawsuit asking to change the voting day because it falls on a Jewish holiday. Shemini Atzeret comes out this year on Election Day, Oct. 21, which would prevent observant Jews from casting their ballots. Of the four advance polling [...]

Warsaw – Poland has recognized the head of the nation’s Jewish community and an ambassador working to recognize non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Monika Krawczyk, president of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, and Jakub Kumoch, the ambassador to Switzerland, were among 17 people honored with national awards on Wednesday for contributing [...]

London – Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington’s political scene. The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top think tank and a who’s-who network of pundits and experts, from the centrist Brookings Institution to the right-wing Heritage Foundation. She was connected to a deputy assistant secretary of state, a senior aide to a [...]

Washington – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. believes that Iran is responsible for attacks that damaged two oil tankers near the Persian Gulf. Pompeo said at a news conference Thursday in Washington that the attacks on the ships are part of a “campaign” of “escalating tension” by Iran and a threat [...]