Democratic divisions over race, age and ideology surged into public view Thursday night as the party’s leading presidential contenders faced off in a fiery debate over who is best positioned to take on President Donald Trump.
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President Trump opened his most consequential trip of the year by plunging into a series of high-stakes meetings at an international summit in Japan on Friday by pushing allies on both trade and defense spending.
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The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to send President Donald Trump a bipartisan, Senate-drafted, $4.6 billion measure to care for migrant refugees detained at the southern border, capping a Washington skirmish in which die-hard liberals came out on the losing end in a battle with the White House, the GOP-held Senate and Democratic moderates.

Missionaries are delivering material to homes all around Flatbush on Thursday. Please warn your children, and dispose of this garbage immediately.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the $50 billion U.S. economic investment plan for the Palestinians, which has been castigated by the Palestinian leadership, is “a brilliant idea.”
Speaking late Thursday at a conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said the Trump administration’s vision of turning “welfare into investment” is what “we did in Israel and it worked.”

North Korea said Thursday that South Korea must stop trying to mediate between Pyongyang and Washington, as it stepped up its pressure on the United States to work out new proposals to salvage deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
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Twin suicide attacks targeting security forces struck Tunisia’s capital on Thursday, killing a patrol officer and injuring at least eight people.
Tunisia has been struck repeatedly by terror attacks, threatening the country’s relative political stability.
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During a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, the chairman of the Blue and White party, MK Benny Gantz announced that if it were possible to stop the elections and form a national unity coalition government that does not include Netanyahu, he would agree to it

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited an awkward encounter with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law in a Washington restaurant as an example of diplomacy being conducted behind his back when he was in the administration, according to a transcript of a congressional hearing released Thursday.

The chairman of the dati leumi Bayit Yehudi party is Rabbi Rafi Peretz, who is also serving as Israel’s Interim Minister of Education – Peretz is reportedly considering compelling all schools, including chareidi and Arab, to fly the national flag