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Police on Tuesday night were summoned to Meah Shearim, receiving a report of a break-in.
When the police vehicle entered the neighborhood, it came under attack. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Attorney General Bill Barr agrees with Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that weaponizing the Department of Justice against a political opponent is an abuse of power no matter who does it.
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Washington – President Donald Trump says calls from some Democratic lawmakers for Attorney General William Barr to resign are “so ridiculous.” Trump tells Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan that he heard Barr “performed incredibly well” in testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The president noted that three of the senators who questioned Barr are [...]
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Israel traffic police, in cooperation with the units of the Traffic Department, the Ministry of Transportation, the Environment, the IDF, Military Police, Hovercraft and a Helicopter, joined the fight to reduce road accidents and to enforce targeted offenses.
A man was arrested in Washington on Wednesday after reportedly making death threats against conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro told Fox News he couldn’t comment on pending legal proceedings but confirmed the situation, as reported by TMZ, on Twitter, thanking law enforcement “for their quick and hard work here.”
U.S. Attorney General William Barr will be subpoenaed if does not appear for a hearing of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries said on Wednesday.
“We plan on subpoenaing him if he decides not to show up. He can run but he can’t hide,” Jeffries told reporters.
Barr might skip the hearing on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report because he objects to plans for an extra hour of questioning that would include committee lawyers, a Democratic congressional aide said on Sunday. Read more at REUTERS.
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Los Angeles – California had its slowest recorded growth rate in its history last year as the country’s most populous state was hit by a slowdown in immigration and a sharp decline of births. Estimates released Wednesday show California had 39.9 million people as of Jan. 1, adding nearly 187,000 people for a growth rate [...]
President Donald Trump may want to cast his potential Democratic rivals as a band of angry socialists, but Joe Biden is not cooperating with Trump’s reelection strategy, and that’s giving the president growing unease. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Co-hosts Rabbi Schnall and Rabbi Markowitz are joined by Rabbi Haber member Machon Chayim Aruchim. Among other topics, they discuss why Chayim Aruchim was founded, when someone should call Chayim Aruchim, and share stories of how they personally benefited from Chayim Aruchim. Read more on Yeshiva World News
As Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations got underway on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the danger still posed by antisemitism across the globe.
“The radical right, the radical left and radical Islam agree only on one thing — hatred of Jews,” Netanyahu said in his speech at an official state ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
The prime minister made an apparent reference to the recent controversy surrounding a cartoon published in the international edition of The New York Times that was widely condemned as antisemitic.
“The publication of caricatures of hate toward Israel undermines the legitimacy of the Jewish state,” he said.
Netanyahu also called for more international pressure on the regime in Tehran,
New York – New York City has reached a $3.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed over the 2014 death of a Rikers Island inmate who records show was deprived of seizure medication. The Daily News reports the city agreed last week to pay the money to the girlfriend of Rolando Perez, mother of his [...]
This week, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Aviv Kochavi appointed Gil Messing as the new IDF Spokesman. The appointment was approved by Prime Minister/Defense Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
However, according to a report in the daily Haaretz, Lessing served as an undercover police agent during the corruption investigation into the Yisrael Beitenu party headed by Avigdor Lieberman.
In wake of a series attacks on places of worship, president says terrorism against people of all faiths must end, and that 'all civilized nations must join together in this effort'
Amazon.com Inc dismissed the idea of running a fully automated warehouse in the near future, citing the superior cognitive ability of humans and limitations of current technology.
The technology for a robot to pick a single product from a bin without damaging other products or picking multiple products at the same time in a way that could benefit the e-commerce retailer is years away.
Scott Anderson, director of Amazon Robotics Fulfillment, said technology is at least 10 years away from fully automating the processing of a single order picked by a worker inside a warehouse. There is a misperception that Amazon will run fully automated warehouses soon, Anderson said during a tour of Amazon’s Baltimore warehouse for reporters on Tuesday.
Charlotte, NC – A North Carolina college student tackled a gunman who opened fire in a classroom, saving others’ lives but losing his own in the process, the police chief said Wednesday. Riley Howell, 21, was among the students gathered for end-of-year presentations in an anthropology class at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte when a [...]
Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s call to fill streets around the nation Wednesday but security forces showed no sign of backing his cry for a widespread military uprising, instead dispersing crowds with tear gas as the political crisis threatened to deepen. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Attorney General William Barr will not show up to a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, according to a committee aide.
The hearing, which was set to examine Barr’s handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, would have included an extra hour to allow committee lawyers to question the attorney general. The Justice Department has argued it would be inappropriate for staffers to participate in the questioning.
The move heightens the clash between the Trump administration and House Democrats, who threatened this week to subpoena Barr.
Read more at POLITICO.
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