JERUSALEM / AP A Palestinian Cabinet minister on Tuesday called on the international community to punish Israel for a contentious new law, just hours after the Israeli parliament adopted the bill to retroactively legalize thousands of West Bank settlement homes built unlawfully on private Palestinian land. The explosive law, approved by lawmakers late on Monday, is the latest in …

  MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE / AP President Donald Trump is accusing the media of deliberately minimizing coverage of the threat posed by the IS group, saying news outlets “have their reasons” for not reporting what he described as a “genocide” underway at the hands of the group. The president did not immediately offer evidence to support his claim, made …

  BEIJING / AP A judge in China’s top court has labeled Donald Trump an enemy “of the rule of law” over his insults directed at a US judge who temporarily blocked the president’s travel ban, saying Trump had set a poor example as head of the world’s leading democracy. Supreme People’s Court Judge He Fan’s blog post came after …