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The United Nations “blacklist” of businesses operating in Israeli settlements was lauded by the Palestinian leadership following its publication last week, but a recent report indicates that Palestinians actually prefer to work for Israelis rather than Palestinians. Titled “Why Palestinians prefer to work for Israeli employers,” the report, by Israel-based media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch, affirms that whenever Palestinian workers have the opportunity to work for Israeli employers, they are quick to leave their jobs with Palestinian employers. The report cites an article in the official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that praises the Israeli-employment sector. According to senior...

The Oscar-winning actor/director, 47, sat down with Diane Sawyer for a tell-all interview during which he opened up about his struggles with sobriety, being a dad and his very public split from the actress. During the emotional interview, Affleck admitted he never wanted his marriage to end in divorce and called the experience "painful." “I didn’t want to get divorced, I didn’t want to be a divorced person, I really didn’t want to be a split family with my children,” he said. “It upset me because it meant I wasn’t who I thought I was and that was so painful...

A Texas-based genetic engineering company has finished developing a coronavirus vaccine, according to new reports. Scientists at Greffex Inc. — which has a corporate headquarters in Houston and a laboratory in Aurora, Colorado — completed the vaccine this week, company president and CEO John Price told the Houston Business Journal. Now the vaccine will move to animal testing by the necessary government agencies — the FDA in the US and similar regulatory bodies in China and other heavily affected countries, according to the report. For safety reasons, Greffex did not use a living or killed virus to form the vaccine,...

Tobias Rathjen, 43, opened fire on two shisha bars in German town of Hanau on Wednesday night, killing nine He was subsequently found dead in his parents' apartment, having shot his 72-year-old mother and himself 24-page manifesto posted online details his plans for global ethnic cleansing, including Muslims and Jews His website details obsessions with alien abduction, mind control, right-wing conspiracies and secret US military bases where he believed children were sacrificed to Satan ======================================================================================== A far-right 'terrorist' who shot nine people dead in an attack on two shisha bars in Germany before killing his mother and then himself was...

The gunman first attacked a hookah bar and a neighboring cafe in central Hanau at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, killing several people, before heading about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) west and opening fire again, first on a car and then a sports bar, claiming more victims. Hookah lounges are places where people gather to smoke flavored tobacco from Middle Eastern water pipes, and some of the victims appeared to be Turkish. Witness Kadir Kose ran over from a cafe he runs nearby after he heard the first shots, initially assuming there was an altercation between family members. He said he...

Key Points YouTube channel JerryRigEverything showed the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip display is as strong as plastic, not glass as advertised. The Motorola RAZR is already breaking, with one reviewerÂ’s screen completely separating from the phoneÂ’s body. Maybe you shouldnÂ’t buy a folding phone yet. ===================================================================== SamsungÂ’s new foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Z Flip. Ryan Browne | CNBC =========================================================================== Two new phones with folding displays, the $1,380 Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and the $1,500 Motorola RAZR, launched in recent weeks, and people already have complaints about them. It seems like a repeat of what we went through nearly a year...

Weeks after their classmate Nicholas Sandmann achieved victory in a lawsuit against CNN for the network’s role in broadcasting a defamatory narrative against him, a group of Covington Catholic students are launching new lawsuits against a list of media liberals who dishonestly attacked the students over the infamous incident at the Lincoln Memorial in 2019...The case was filed in the Kenton County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer told CNN on Thursday none of his fellow rivals won Wednesday's debate in Las Vegas because President Trump was the true victor.  "Because I saw so much bickering between Democratic candidates tearing each other down and going after each other and forgetting the fact that what really counts is beating Donald Trump in November of 2020," Steyer said."I saw people going after each other’s personality and records instead of remembering that, in fact, the Democratic Party needs to win in November," he added.Steyer was not on the stage after failing to meet the...

Ella sings "Stormy Weather" with Joe Pass, Hannover 1975

Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe distorted an Axios report on President Donald Trump’s economy to credit former president Barack Obama. Morning Joe ran a segment defending Obama’s tweet congratulating himself for today’s booming economy. Scarborough cited an Axios report on Trump’s economy to assert Feb. 18 that “[if] you look at the last ten presidents and their GDP growth throughout their administrations, six in ten of those presidents -- according to Axios yesterday, and just according to government statistics -- actually had stronger economies than Donald Trump.” [Emphasis added.] But that’s not what Axios’ piece was about.

LONDON - The amount of debt owed by the world’s governments will jump to a record $53 trillion by the end of the year, S&P Global estimated on Thursday, with $8.1 trillion set to borrowed this year alone. About 70%, or $5.8 trillion, of sovereigns’ gross borrowing will be to refinance maturing long-term debt, though the expected $2.3 trillion of new borrowing will still be worth at least 2.6% of global GDP. S&P said the increase reflected the higher borrowing needs of the largest countries. The U.S. at $3 trillion and Japan at $1.75 trillion will remain by far the...

The Vermont democratic socialist went on his usual line about how socialism is awesome. He railed against what he sees as socialism for the rich, calling out Donald Trump for getting hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for his business ventures. Sanders also railed against the welfare state expenditures for Walmart’s workers because the Walton family pays what the Left sees as “starvation wages.” And then Bloomberg torpedoed it in a couple of sentences. “What a wonderful country we have. The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling, famous for the TV commercials where he proclaimed “I'm not only the Hair Club president but I'm also a client,” died in Florida. He was 78. Sperling died Wednesday in Boca Raton after a lengthy illness, spokeswoman Terri Lynn said Thursday. In the late 1960s, Sperling was a balding New York City swimming pool salesman who was growing frustrated with toupees. "If you're dating and going to be having special moments, how do you explain, 'I got to take my hair off now?'" he said.

About 80% of novel coronavirus cases are mild, according to China's most comprehensive report about the outbreak published so far.Many patients experience only a fever or dry cough, while some never show no symptoms.The new numbers, along with the fact that 322 out of 621 confirmed cases on a quarantined cruise ship involved people who showed no symptoms, suggest that many mild cases of the new coronavirus are going unreported.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The death toll from the novel coronavirus that originated in China crossed 2,000 this week, but new research suggests that most cases of...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Roger Stone. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Roger Stone is a Republican with libertarian tendencies who was sentenced today for over 3 years by anti-Constitutionalist Judge Amy Berman Jackson, after being found guilty by a rigged, Democrat-infused jury, whose foreman Tomeka Hart had illegally publicly commented on his guilt as well as Trump's "criminal regime." All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full...

Sports used to be a thing over which people of different political and social backgrounds could join in support of their local team. No longer. The trend of politicizing everything infected professional sports years ago but now has even started creeping into sports history. This week, the San Francisco Giants cast Aubrey HuffÂ’s legacy down the memory hole because he made the mistake of backing the wrong political party.Ten years ago, Giants players and fans celebrated their first world championship since 1954. It was the only one they had won to that point, since moving from New York to...

Forget Lincoln and Douglas. Forget Nixon and Kennedy. Hell, forget the Athenians and the Melians back during the Peloponnesian War. Last night’s Democratic primary slagfest in Nevada was the greatest debate in all of human history. Oh, was it glorious — the sheer raging hostility spraying across the stage as every campaign besides the Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg bids faces the desperate possibility that each might fade into the woodwork against the Bernie surge and the Bloomberg billions. It’s not that the gloves were off. No, my friends, everybody was wearing steel-tipped boots and going right for the crotch....

Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer told CNN on Thursday none of his fellow rivals won Wednesday's debate in Las Vegas because President Trump was the true victor. "Because I saw so much bickering between Democratic candidates tearing each other down and going after each other and forgetting the fact that what really counts is beating Donald Trump in November of 2020," Steyer said. "I saw people going after each other’s personality and records instead of remembering that, in fact, the Democratic Party needs to win in November," he added. Steyer was not on the stage after failing to...

Berman-Jackson or whoever she is, is insane.