Hours before the shooting on Saturday at the Chabad of Poway synagogue outside San Diego, an 8chan user identifying himself by the same name as the suspect in the attack posted a link to a white nationalist manifesto on that far-right message board. “What I’ve learned here is priceless,” the user wrote, adding, "a livestream […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Delek Group confirmed on Sunday it submitted a proposal through its Ithaca unit to buy Chevron’s oil and gas fields in the British North Sea. Last week Reuters reported that Delek was close to clinching Chevron’s oil and gas fields in the British North Sea, which have a price tag of […]

A few months ago, I was in the back seat of a cab in New York with my parents. They were having the kind of conversation that’s easy to ignore: flight plans, work grievances, my father’s mother’s recent move to a nursing home at a small town in central Israel. I zoned out. Then I […]

The bearded young man who sat across from me in the conference room of a sun-bleached hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, last fall was covered in dust from his journey to the capital. He was a goat herder with a wife and four children, and he came from one of the small villages along the Shabelle […]

Last week I saw my cardiologist. He told me I drink too much. This wasn’t a shock. I live on Martha’s Vineyard, by the wine-dark sea, where drink animates the bleak winter months — and lays down a base for the heroic imbibing of the summer social season. Also, I’m a writer, a trade unrenowned […]

On weekend mornings from August to May, thousands of American soccer fans stuffed into $90 replica uniforms gather at their nearest British or Irish pub to scream in unison at a television. It’s the popular way English soccer is consumed in America, and it was the closest I could get to the actual experience of […]

It was an announcement made with great fanfare by Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty on Tuesday. Up to 60,000 parents a year are to benefit from two weeks’ extra parental leave from November. The State will offer parents €245 per week for the leave, the same rate as maternity and paternity benefit. This may be […]

There is never a perfect time to do the right thing in Northern Ireland. If you open a calendar on any given week you will find a reason for politicians to hold off engaging with each other. Marching season, conference season, elections, pressure in Westminster, negotiations in Brussels and issues within individual parties are just […]

‘Unfortunately I am afraid, as always, of going on. For to go on means going from here…” So says the narrator in Samuel Beckett’s novel ‘The Unnamable’. Getting from here to there in the political landscape of the North is the goal – but it must mean progress. It’s meaningless if ‘there’ turns out to […]

Going to a home show usually provides opportunities to check out options for things like bathroom renovations and backyard decks. But visitors to this weekend’s Airdrie Home and Lifestyle Show will also have the chance to look at a much different addition to their homes — a rescue dog, just waiting to join a new […]