President Trump declared Monday that his possible 2020 opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is “history” and former Vice President Joe Biden is “pulling ahead” in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Looks like Bernie Sanders is history. Sleepy Joe Biden is pulling ahead and think about it, I’m only here because of Sleepy Joe and the man who took him off the 1% trash heap, President O! China wants Sleepy Joe BADLY!” Trump tweeted.
Biden leads Sanders by nearly 20 percentage points in the Democratic primary race, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.
 
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A video showed hundreds of illegal immigrants storming a French airport and occupying an entire terminal Sunday, demanding to meet with the country’s prime minister.
Footage posted on Twitter shows roughly 500 migrants chanting in Terminal 2 of the Charles de Gaulle airport as about a dozen police officers in tactical gear look on.
“France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be here!” one person can be heard yelling into a loudspeaker.

Steve Hilton talks to President Trump about a potential infrastructure plan, health care and tax reform.
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Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky a”h, the beloved “mamme” of Klal Yisroel, showered praise upon her beloved son, Rav Shlomo Kanievsky, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Kiryas Melech. In the following video, Rebbetzin Kanievsky, speaking to Rav Mahir Reiss, expresses her pride over her son:
“My husband [Rav Chaim Kanievsky] said that it’s a shame that Rav Shlomo has to travel and be busy worrying about parnassah [to support his yeshiva], because with his Torah learning, he could grow to become the gadol hador! By the time he was bar mitzvah, he had completed Shas. And he didn’t just learn it. He knew it!
“Bli ayin hara, [Rav Shlomo] has to travel to support the yeshiva. And my husband says that it’s a shame.

Ukraine on Monday inaugurated comedian and political newcomer Volodymyr Zelensky as its new president, a month after he scored a landslide electoral victory that dealt a stunning rebuke to the country’s political establishment.
Zelensky, 41, was sworn-in to office in a ceremony held at Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev becoming the country’s youngest post-Soviet president.
Taking the oath of office, Zelensky, who is Jewish, pledged to “protect the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine” evoking the defensive prowess of Israel.
“We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology,” he was quoted by the BBC as saying.

A total of 17 people have been detained and 11 questioned as criminal suspects, with four others placed under house arrest, in connection to the collapse on Sunday of a crane at a construction site in Yavne that killed four people.
Two more people were injured in the incident, which occurred when part of a crane broke apart as a team tried to disassemble it.
According to a report in Israel’s Walla news, the crane’s counter-jib with its concrete ballast blocks collapsed, killing three construction workers, who were declared dead at the scene.
A fourth victim dangled for approximately an hour as emergency medical and rescue personnel tried to reach him, before he, too, was declared dead at the scene.

Iran has increased by fourfold the rate of enrichment of low-enriched uranium, an official in Natanz nuclear facility was cited as saying by Tasnim news agency on Monday, a week after Iran officially stopped some commitments under an international nuclear accord.
Under the agreement, Tehran was allowed to produce low-enriched uranium with a 300-kilogram limit. Tehran could ship the excess amounts out of the country for storage or sale.
Iran said this month the cap no longer applies as it scaled down commitments in reaction to America’s unilateral withdrawal from the deal.
It was not clear how far Iran’s stock of low-enriched uranium was from the 300-kilogram limit.

A heat wave may force authorities to ban Lag Ba’omer bonfires.
Lag Ba’omer falls on Wednesday night and Thursday, and the National Fire and Rescue Authority has already prohibited lighting bonfires in public parks, forests, and other potentially dangerous areas
Thursday will see a heat wave, affecting most of Israel. All areas of Israel will see heavy or extreme heat, and firefighters are liable to ban Lag Ba’omer bonfires due to the risk that the flames may quickly spread out of control.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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