A teenager from Sharon, Mass., was one of three people murdered in Israel on Thursday afternoon when a Palestinian man attacked cars stuck in traffic in the West Bank.
Ezra Schwartz, 18, a recent high school graduate, was spending a "gap year" in Israel studying and performing community service through a program at Yeshiva Ashreinu. Schwartz and five other yeshiva students were in a minivan driving to bring snacks to Israeli Defense Force soldiers when the gunman opened fire with a submachine gun on a road near the settlement of Alon Shvut.
AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican Gov. Paul LePage's push for welfare reform continues to generate controversy in the Pine Tree State.
Supporters say the governor's no-holds-barred approach is winning, as evidenced by a 22 percent drop in food-stamp recipients in Maine since 2012, according to state data. But it may be costing him public support: Although he was re-elected last year, Lepage's job approval rating has fallen to 39 percent, according to a Morning Consult poll of 654 voters from May to November, released Friday.
