No major breakthroughs expected at discussions on sidelines of UNGA

Lawmakers in Spain’s Catalonia region vote to give leader power to call referendum; Madrid says move is illegal

Senate approves bill authorizing reward for information leading to arrest or conviction of American journalists’ Islamic State murderers

Winners include the 55.3% of Scots who voted to stay part of the UK, Gordon Brown and J.K. Rowling

State Department lists 55 countries in international coalition against jihadist group

Defenders of the professor who lost tenure claim he is not anti-Semitic, but what really matters is his words

Obama not in the building when intruder breaks security perimeter, runs across lawn before stopped by Secret Service

Several months before her death, Rivers agreed to contribute to publication on staples of Jewish immigrant community of Manhattan’s Lower East Side