4 Die After Construction Crane Crushes Cars In SeattleFour people died and three were injured when a construction crane on the new Google Seattle campus collapsed Saturday, pinning six cars underneath.
One female and three males were dead by the time firefighters got to the scene, Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said.
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Trump’s Executive Privilege Strategy Could Mean Messy FightSince George Washington’s time, presidents have used executive privilege to resist congressional inquiries in the name of protecting the confidentiality of their decision-making.
President Donald Trump threatened this past week to broadly assert executive privilege to block a number of current and former aides from testifying, including some who have cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

New York Police Rescue ‘GOAT … And It’s Not @TomBrady’“There’s a new GOAT in town, and it’s not @TomBrady…”
That’s what the New York Police Department tweeted after rescuing a crying pygmy goat that had mysteriously wandered into a Queens backyard this past week.
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 Shooting Victim Chabad Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein Gives TV Interview [WATCH INTERVIEW]Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, a victim of the synagogue shooting in Poway, California, joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist exclusively to talk about the injuries he suffered and Lori Kaye, the woman who was killed.

Statement By Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters on the Fatal Poway ShootingUpon the close of the Sabbath and Passover holiday in New York, we learned of the shooting at Chabad of Poway, in San Diego. The murder of an innocent woman and the wounding of several others who were celebrating their faith in the synagogue, on the terra firma of our freedom-loving country, is appalling and heartbreaking.

Nearly 700 From LA Universities Still In Measles QuarantineNearly 700 people possibly exposed to measles at two Los Angeles universities are still quarantined three days after health officials ordered the precautions to contain the spread of the highly contagious disease.
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 Iran Guard Monitors US Aircraft Carrier With DroneIran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard successfully managed a surveillance flight over a U.S. aircraft carrier, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Saturday.
The report included footage apparently from a Guard drone that flew over the USS Dwight D.
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Biden Entry Sparks A Sharper Edge To Democratic RaceAs she campaigned through Iowa this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts didn’t hesitate to jab the newest contender in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary: Joe Biden.
“Our disagreement is a matter of public record,” Warren said, referring to Biden’s past support of a massive bankruptcy overhaul.

NY Times Apologizes For Cartoon With ‘Anti-Semitic Tropes’The New York Times has apologized for an anti-Semitic cartoon that appeared in the newspaper’s international edition.
It showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dachshund wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind and skullcap-wearing U.S.
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 Man Apprehended In Flatbush For Inappropriately Touching WomenThe NYPD has arrested a man wanted in Flatbush for inappropriately touching women the past few weeks.
Following a YWN article a few weeks ago warning the community about the man, Flatbush Shomrim’s 24 hour emergency hotline received literally hundreds of calls reporting sightings of the man.

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