Netanyahu seeks reassurances from US on security interests.

Atlanta, GA – CNN today removed its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr, from her job after she published a Twitter message saying that she respected the Shiite cleric the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday. Ms. Nasr left her CNN office in Atlanta on Wednesday. Parisa Khosravi, the senior vice [...]

As the city suffers through the current heat wave, the FDNY is on track for one of the busiest days of the year, responding to two five-alarm fires in Queens today alone, each utilizing over 200 firefighters and 44 units. In addition, firefighters responded to two second-alarm fires in the Bronx and a third-alarm in Queens [...]

Washington – With new reports that Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi is still alive nearly a year after the cancer-stricken terrorist was released on compassionate grounds based on medical evaluation that he had only three months left to live, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) are [...]

Dearborn, MI – Ford Motor Company has announced a round of updates to its SYNC technology that promotes safer alternatives to texting while driving. New MyFord Touch-equipped cars will let drivers block incoming calls and texts with a “Do Not Disturb” button, but the biggest addition is support for a new protocol (MAP) that will [...]

Mediaite reports that CNN has fired senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr. As Daniel Halper pointed out the other day, Nasr wrote on Twitter on July 4 that she was “sad” to hear of the death of Hezbollah’s Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah–a man for whom she has “respect.” Fadlallah had justified suicide bombings, [...]

Authorities will charge a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case with 10 counts of murder, the Los Angeles District Attorney said Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday police arrested Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 57. Nicknamed for taking long breaks between attacks, the killer is believed responsible for at least 11 deaths since 1985 in south Los Angeles. The [...]

Washington – Israel’s Army Radio reported on Wednesday that the United States has sent Israel a secret document committing to nuclear cooperation between the two countries. According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel [...]

Stocks logged their best day in about six weeks Wednesday as financials got a boost from State Street’s outlook and investors scooped up some beaten-down tech and industrial shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average 274.66, or 2.8 percent, to close at 10,018.28. It was the first time the blue-chip index ended above 10,000 in a couple [...]

UN Human Rights Council may appoint inquiry panel by end of week.