After walking away from a deal to build a headquarters on the Queens waterfront in Long Island City, Amazon is back to shopping for office space on Manhattan’s West Side, sources tell NY POST.
The tech giant has been in talks with owners of two new skyscrapers located just one block west of Penn Station: The newly built One Manhattan West and its soon-to-be sister project Two Manhattan West, sources tell The Post.
Amazon, which already has 5,000 workers in NYC, is seeking “at least 100,000 square feet or much more” — just to start, one well-placed source said.

Washington – The U.S. Border Patrol is working on hiring additional staff to manage the processing of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Officials said Tuesday the aim is to take the burden off uniformed agents, who can then go back into the field for law enforcement work. Border resources are stretched thin as the U.S. [...]

Senior Likud officials turned to the Trump administration for help in pressuring Avidgor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, to soften his position and accept a compromise arrangement enabling Netanyahu to form a new government before the Wednesday deadline, Maariv reported Tuesday.
The report cited unnamed Israeli political officials, who say they reached out to the Trump administration in a bid to convince the White House to actively intervene on Netanyahu’s behalf.

Jerusalem – President Donald Trump’s top Mideast advisers face skeptical audiences as they visit several locations in the region and in Europe starting Tuesday to rally support for what they have billed as a workshop on the economic foundations of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The White House is promoting the June 25-26 meeting [...]

The Likud has voted to approve a proposal by Prime Minister Netanyahu to fold Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu party into a joint list.
The merger will hold whether or not elections are called later this week.
The amalgamation will see Kahlon given the 5th slot on the party’s list, Eli Cohen the 15th spot, Yifat Biton the 29th spot and Roy Folkman the 35th spot.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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New York – Democrat Andrew Cuomo plans to seek a fourth term as governor of New York state. During an interview Tuesday morning on WAMC radio, Cuomo said he believes he is making a difference in New York and plans to run again in 2022. If Cuomo is re-elected, he’ll be only the second person [...]

Addressing Likud secretariat before it votes to approve Kulanu merger, premier says that ‘the clearer it is that we are going to elections, the more likely it is that we won't’

In the group’s official weekly newsletter, al-Naba, the terror group ISIS emphasized the economic impact of the fires, noting “many agricultural lands have been destroyed” and “tons of crops,” including wheat and barley, went up in flames in the jihadists’ “harvest of another kind.”
ISIS noted at the beginning of the article that it’s summer; terror groups, in encouraging the use of wildfire arson in the past, have stressed that picking dry, hot, windy weather will intensify their efforts.
Iraq’s Civil Defense Directorate said Monday 6,103 acres of farmland had burned in 136 separate fires over the past 18 days, spanning 11 provinces.

Yanki Kanievsky, a grandson of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita met on Tuesday afternoon with the chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, in an effort to persuade him to compromise and agree to enter into a coalition with the chareidi parties and thereby avoiding new elections.