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The Jerusalem District Court agreed to postpone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial — just hours after President Trump called for the case to be dropped while suggesting American aid could hang in the balance over the decision. The court revealed Sunday that Netanyahu will not have to testify for the next two weeks due to diplomatic and national security issues, two days after the judge initially rejected the premier’s repeated requests to have the trial delayed. The new order came after Trump took to Truth Social and slammed the corruption trial — which sees Netanyahu accused of bribery,...

The Senate Judiciary postponed their hearing on "Stand Your Ground" laws on Tuesday morning, after the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard one day earlier. "Stand Your Ground" came into national prominence last year after George Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, where the law allows people to use deadly force to defend themselves. Martin's mother was expected to testify, along with the parents of Jordan Davis, another unarmed, black teenager killed in Florida. RT's Meghan Lopez talks to Jordan's father Ron Davis and his lawyer, John Phillips, about the controversial legislation.

President Barack Obama, who is a fervent basketball fan, will get his NBA fix next month but his campaign will have to postpone the Obama Classic fundraiser that was to feature more than two dozen professional basketball stars. The campaign on Thursday notified ticket holders the Dec. 12 event would now be held in the summer.

After rejecting a GOP bill passed by the House, Senate Democrats pursue their own plan to avert a government default in a messy legislative showdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid announced late Saturday that negotiations with Minroity Leader Mitch McConnell and the White House had made enough progress that he would delay consideration of his own legislation to avert the debt crisis. Rather than a 1 a.m. Sunday vote, Reid said he would give the negotiators room to maneuver and set a 1 p.m. Sunday vote on his bill -- which McConnell has already assured would be defeated. A...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will postpone a deadline for resolving a row over relocating a U.S. base by up to half a year to November, abandoning Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's original end-May target, the daily Sankei Shimbun said Saturday. The decision will be conveyed to the U.S. side as early as next week, the paper said, while Kyodo news agency reported diplomatic sources saying U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit Japan on May 21 to discuss the base issue. "In order to get the understanding of as many people as possible, we will keep seeking their cooperation even...

GENEVA (AFP) – Members of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday postponed a decision on a damning report on Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip that raised evidence of war crimes by both sides and possible crimes against humanity. The 47 member Council decided to delay until March 2010 a vote on the report by an independent international fact-finding mission headed by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone. Goldstone last month recommended that the UN Security Council should ask the International Criminal Court to examine possible charges, unless progress was made in investigations in Israel and the...

A 60-year old Saudi man has agreed to postpone his marriage to a 10-year old girl after protests from a human rights group. The elderly man decided to take a second wife in a challenge with the girl’s father, who said he was afraid of his first wife and dared him to take a second one. But the man agreed to postpone his marriage after the Saudi National Human Rights Association sent a letter to the Emir of Hail, a city in northwestern Saudi Arabia, AlArabiya.net reported on Sunday, citing Saudi newspaper Al-Madina. The report did not say for how...

As he considered running for governor last summer, it was clear in conversations with me that Arnold Schwarzenegger was motivated at least in part by the drama of parachuting into the midst of the state's crisis and not only bringing order from chaos but also moving California forward on a great new agenda. What exactly that agenda might be was a little unclear, not surprisingly, since he had been focused last year on the global launch of one of the biggest action movies in history and had been intending to run in 2006, not 2003. His quickly cobbled together campaign...

BEIJING, China (AP) - The United Nations investigator on torture said Thursday that China postponed his visit by several months, again thwarting a decade-long effort to pursue claims of abuse in the country's prisons. Theo van Boven had planned a two-week visit later this month to investigate reports of torture in Chinese jails, but China wanted more time to prepare, a statement on van Boven's Web site said. "The need for additional time to prepare for the two-week visit, especially given the different authorities, departments, and provinces involved, was cited by the government as a reason for the postponement," the...

<p>State officials will open bids today for $11 billion in short-term loans to ease a severe cash crunch, but while the money will forestall defaults on other loans coming due this month, it may delay resolution of California's monumental budget crisis for many more weeks.</p>