Vice President Mike Pence abruptly canceled an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday because “something came up” at the White House, according to Pence’s spokeswoman.
“Something came up that required the @VP to remain in Washington, DC. It’s no cause for alarm. He looks forward to rescheduling the trip to New Hampshire very soon,” Pence’s press secretary, Alyssa Farah, confirmed on Twitter.
The White House provided no other details.
The vice president was scheduled to be in New Hampshire to speak about the opioid crisis with patients at the Granite Recovery Center and then to deliver remarks.

Rav Shalom Cohen on Tuesday told his followers not to do any ultrasounds during pregnancy, Kikar Shabbos reported.
According to Kikar Shabbos, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar was also present at the gathering, as were rabbis from the Bonei Olam organization, which helps couples pay for fertility treatments.
“I am telling everyone: Today, I don’t know what they demand from pregnant women, to come, to do an ultrasound, to see if it’s male or female, to see if it’s whole or not whole. For what reason?
“I am telling you, the best thing is not to go anywhere.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Trump administration is threatening to impose hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil penalties on immigrants who disobey deportation orders by seeking refuge in churches or elsewhere in the United States, according to federal officials.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Washington headquarters notified a woman seeking sanctuary in a North Carolina church Monday that they intend to fine her more than $300,000. An immigrant in Colorado faces a fine of more than $500,000.
The administration’s effort imposes penalties that have been on the books for years but were rarely enforced.

MK Moshe Gafni, the chairman of the Knesset’s powerful Finance Committee, surprised participants in a conference Tuesday by declaring that the Gadol Hador, not Benjamin Netanyahu, was ‘his’ prime minister.
The comments were made during a conference on health care and health insurance Tuesday morning, when a participant in the conference told Gafni that “your prime minister” is to blame for the budget deficit, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu, Gafni said that Rav Chaim Kanievsky was “his” prime minister.
“No, he [Netanyahu] is your prime minister as well; my prime minister is Rav Kanievsky.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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The Trump administration is dropping plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the Justice Department said in an email Tuesday just days after the Supreme Court described the rationale for the question as “contrived.”
The decision to back away from the controversial question was a victory for civil rights advocates concerned that the query would lead to an inaccurate count of immigrant communities that could skew representation and federal funding.
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Israeli Labor Party members on Tuesday elected veteran lawmaker Amir Peretz as their new leader as the political faction looks to revitalize itself ahead of the September national election.
Peretz faced off against the younger generation of the party’s youngest members of Israeli Parliament (Knesset), Itzik Shmuli and Stav Shaffir, emerging victorious in the political faction looking to revitalize itself ahead of elections.
Shaffir congratulated her rival on his win, vowing that now the real battle can begin: “From tomorrow morning we are returning to the true struggle against the right and replacing Netanyahu’s corrupt reign.”

 
Iran announced on Monday it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, drawing a warning from US President Donald Trump that Tehran was “playing with fire.”
Tehran’s announcement marked its first major step beyond the terms of the pact since the United States pulled out of it more than a year ago. However, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the move was not a violation of the accord, arguing that Iran was exercising its right to respond to the US walkout.

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President Trump on Tuesday blasted New York, claiming without evidence that “people are fleeing” the state while saying they should “move quickly to Texas” and Florida.
“People are fleeing New York like never before. If they own a business, they are twice as likely to flee. And if they are a victim of harassment by the A.G. [attorney general] of the state, like what they are doing to our great NRA, which I think will move quickly to Texas, where they are loved,” the president tweeted.
“Texas will defend them & indemnify them against political harassment by New York State and Governor Cuomo. So many people are leaving New York for Texas and Florida that it is totally under siege. First New York taxes you too high, then they sue you, just to complete the job.”

Israel is likely to launch a long-awaited tender for fifth generation (5G) mobile networks within two weeks, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Despite its vibrant tech sector, Israel lags countries like South Korea, Switzerland, Britain and Spain that have already started to roll out 5G services, which are at least 10 times faster than 4G.
Israel‘s Communications Ministry said late last year that it hopes to allocate frequencies by the end of 2019 with 5G networks to commercially launch between 2020 and 2023.
A spokesman for the ministry said on Tuesday that the tender would likely be in “a week or two.”