President Donald Trump said Friday that he will not fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for repeated violations of the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from engaging in political activity in the course of their work.
“Well I got briefed on it yesterday, and it looks to me like they’re trying to take away her right of free speech, and that’s just not fair,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News.
His comments came a day after the Office of Special Counsel publicly recommended Conway’s removal from federal office, calling her a “repeat offender.”

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a British court Friday that “175 years of my life is effectively at stake,” as a judge ruled that he would face a full extradition hearing in early 2020.
At a largely procedural hearing, Assange appeared via a video link from Belmarsh, a maximum-security prison on the outskirts of London.
Assange sported a shaggy white beard and wore a blue sweatshirt and black-framed glasses. He looked tired. His lawyers said he was receiving medical care at the prison.

President Trump on Friday said former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t “have what it takes” to become president.
“It means mental capacity, it means a lot of different things,” the president said in a phone call interview with Fox News.
The president predicted the Democratic nomination for president was between the three current Democratic frontrunners: Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Trump said he’d “love” to run against any of them.
Read more at The Hill.
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Moderating a panel in Jerusalem this week titled “The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism: The Media, BDS and Celebrated Bigotry,” David Hazony, executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund, analyzed the issue right off the bat: “What you are seeing on [North American college] campuses is only a thin slice of the anti-Semitic beast that has emerged in our public life around the world in the last six months, in the last year.”
The event was hosted by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), in partnership with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and Hazony’s organization.

Reaction and analysis from Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy and Priorities U.S.A. communications director Josh Schwerin.
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The Chairman of United Right party, MK Rabbi Rafi Peretz spoke with Rav Chaim Kanievsky at a cornerstone laying ceremony for a charedi school in Yerushalayim on Thursday.
Channel 2 News reporter Yair Sherki tweeted a photo of their encounter, writing, “I don’t remember such a close relationship between the leader of the National Religious party and charedim.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Rose Marie Bentley of Oregon died at the age of 99, with only one doctor ever realizing that all her organs except her heart were misplaced, in a medical condition known as “situs invertus with levocardia.” The doctor who noticed that her liver, stomach and other abdominal organs were reversed right to left, entered the information into a report, which was never seen again until after her passing.
One in 22,000 people are born with this condition, many with heart defects, and their chance of reaching adulthood is one in 50 million.
The only chronic complaint Bentley suffered from was arthritis, her children said.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the world’s largest beer maker, said on Thursday it was opening a cybersecurity unit in Israel to help protect itself from a growing number of attacks.
Israel is a leader in cybersecurity and many of the world’s largest companies have opened centers there or acquired Israeli tech firms to defend themselves against hackers as the reliance on digital networks and cloud storage becomes more prevalent.
AB InBev’s Tel Aviv hub will focus on analyzing threats and potential attacks, said Luis Veronesi, vice president of global security and compliance. The company did not disclose financial details of the move.

President Donald Trump on Friday doubled down in accusing Iran of executing twin tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman, saying the incident had Iran “written all over it.”
“Iran did do it,” Trump said in an interview on television program Fox and Friends, after the US military released footage it said showed an Iranian patrol boat removing an “unexploded limpet mine” from one of the tankers.
“You know they did it because you saw the boat,” Trump said. “I guess one of the mines didn’t explode and it’s probably got essentially Iran written all over it.”
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Defense attorney and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz was honored with a Sefer Torah at the headquarters of the Chabad in Crown Heights on Thursday, in recognition of his work in the Sholom Rubashkin case.
Dershowitz was the guest of honor at the special event, which began at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and continued at the main synagogue at the Chabad movement’s headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway.