Series on January 2015 Paris attacks (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Intensive multi-day coverage of events surrounding the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, January 2015.
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Jews Leaving Europe For Israel In Record Numbers (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption has reported that 2014 saw a 10-year high in the number of “olim,” or Jewish immigrants to Israel, with 26,500 Jews moving to the country in the past year.
Read MoreThe Politics of Eurovision (Wonkistan)
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Happy Thursday! Yesterday we introduced our crash course on the Eurovision Song Contest. Today’s installment: the politics of Eurovision.
Each participating country has 12 votes to spend in the final round, whether or not they make it in themselves. Half of those 12 votes comes from a jury, and the other half comes from phone voting within the country. The scoring system is very confusing, but maximum score a country can award is all 12 of its votes — the famous “douze points.”
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