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Whom Does Jerusalem Belong To?

May 18, 2015
Far right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commemorated Israel’s “Jerusalem Day” with a speech in which he said, “Jerusalem was always the capital of the Jewish people only, and no other,” and warned that Muslim terrorism menaced it.

Will Justice Scalia Apologize for His Part in Keeping an Innocent Man Imprisoned for 30 Years?

Sep 4, 2014
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once held that one of two North Carolina men who were freed this week after decades due to DNA evidence should be killed under the death penalty; a "war" within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is breaking out; meanwhile, a human rights lawyer was recently arrested after standing on a sidewalk during a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City while waiting for her children. These discoveries and more after the jump.