President Donald Trump loves to recount how his 2016 campaign defied expectations to pierce the vaunted Democratic “blue wall.” For 2020, he’s looking to do one better.
As his re-election campaign kicks into high gear, it’s exploring opportunities to contest states he lost in 2016, aiming to keep divided Democrats on the defensive.

Top Democrats on Saturday rushed to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump retweeted video that was edited to suggest she was being dismissive of the significance of the worst terrorist assault on U.S.
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A 2-year-old girl sustained light facial injuries in her home in Betar Illit, apparently from a caustic cleaner being used to clean before Pesach. United Hatzalah paramedics treated the child and she was transported to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.

A founder of the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel was blocked from entering the United States in what he said was a “politically motivated” move.
Omar Barghouti was traveling to the U.S.
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An empty bus rolled down a hill after it was parked near a camp site where a number of high-school students were camping out during their selection trials for elite units in the IDF.

After the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, his lawyer was quick to characterize it as an assault against the rights of journalists all over the world who seek to uncover secrets.
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An MTA bus driver allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks towards a Hasidic man, regarding the measles outbreak in the community.
The United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg said the incident happened last week on a B57 bus.

Key figures in Britain’s opposition Labour Party said Friday the government should oppose the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on charges of conspiring to break into a Pentagon computer.
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President Donald Trump says the U.S. wants to keep economic sanctions in place to pressure North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, but isn’t ruling out a third summit with Kim Jong Un or taking steps to ease food or other shortages in the repressive nation.
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Southwest is removing flights with the troubled Boeing 737 Max aircraft from its schedule through Aug. 5, a period that includes the peak of the airline’s busy summer travel season.
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