WHEELING – Saturday marks a crossroads for West Virginia and Oklahoma State, both sitting at 4-2 coming into Milan Puskar Stadium for a Big 12 match that can shift the trajectory of either team’s seasons. The meeting will also be a crossroads for two brothers, years in the making. Bryan ...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday freed an American woman and her teenage daughter who had been held hostage in Gaza, Israel said, the first such release from among the roughly 200 people the militant group abducted from Israel during its Oct. 7 rampage. Judith Raanan and her ...
Collecting ceramics may be seen as traditional, even old-fashioned, but there is plenty of room for eccentricity. This puzzle mug by George E. Ohr is an unusual piece by an unconventional artist. There are holes in its sides; if you try to fill it and drink from it like an ordinary mug, the liquid spills out -- probably onto you. Puzzle mugs usually have a hollow portion, often in the handle, that works like a drinking straw. The trick is to know which holes to cover and which to drink from. A puzzle mug is a fitting piece for Georg Ohr, who had a flair for the unusual. Ohr, known as ...
The savage attacks Hamas inflicted upon the Israeli military and civilian population last week are utterly without justification, but not without explanation. The Arab/Israeli bloodlust has been going on since the end of World War I, most pointedly since 1947 when Zionist militias used violence to force 750,000 Palestinians from their villages and ancient homeland. That process resulted in the establishment and international recognition of the State of Israel and the confinement of the Palestinian people to the Gaza strip in the west and to the West Bank in the east. Rather than ...
By JOSH HAMMER The Israel Defense Forces’ much-anticipated ground invasion of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has not yet commenced, but the world’s attention has already begun to shift away from the single bloodiest and most catastrophic slaughter of the Jewish people since the defeat of Nazi Germany 78 years ago. The Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, which featured the indiscriminate mass murder of babies in their cribs, whole civilian families shot dead execution-style, countless teenage girls raped, and roughly 200 more civilians taken hostage back to Gaza’s subterranean terror tunnels, was ...
Jack Lew has some explaining to do. On Oct. 18, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hear testimony from the former Obama administration treasury secretary, who is nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Israel at an obviously critical moment. Lew must explain why, in 2015, he promised the same committee that he would not allow Iran access to the U.S. financial system under the recently announced nuclear deal with Iran yet secretly tried to do just that — by working to turn $5.7 billion in Iranian assets into easily convertible currency via U.S. banks. Lew’s maneuvering as ...
