This year's Jewish holiday of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles is meant to bring joy to all those who celebrate, but this year also brought travel guidelines Israeli passengers visiting New York. The Jewish holiday, which in English translates to 'booths,' began last Wednesday, five days after Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement ended, and concludes on Thursday.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who in May acknowledged that the agency wrongly targeted tea party groups that were applying for a tax exemption status, retired from the agency effective Monday, Politico reported. When the IRS scandal hit, Lerner was placed on administrative leave.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York leveled three defendants with terrorism related charges. The prosecutors described Ali Yasin Ahmed, Madhi Hashi and Mohamed Yusuf as "dangerous and influential" members of al-Shabaab, the same Islamic terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for the attack at Westgate Mall, in Nairobi Kenya this past weekend
Bo Xilai appealed his guilty verdict conviction on Sunday, which sentenced the former Communist Party Chinese official to a life in prison. Bo was convicted on corruption charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power
