An armored personnel carrier overturned in a training accident at West Point Thursday morning, according to officials with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
It happened on Route 293 and Natural Bridge Road at around 7:30AM.
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Any plan to adequately address climate change would likely cost at least $10 trillion, freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday as she responded to a flurry of climate proposals from Democratic presidential candidates.
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Amazon said Wednesday that it plans to use self-piloted drones to deliver packages to shoppers’ home in the coming months.
The online shopping giant did not give exact timing or say where the drones will be making deliveries.
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He said it a Brooklyn press conference on Tuesday. Mayor Bill de Blasio, in addressing the increase in hate crimes in New York City under his watch, said, “I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is the right-wing movement.”
DeBlasio made the outrageous comments at a Brooklyn press conference on Tuesday.

Philadelphia’s new street sweeping program has hit a road bump: The trucks are too wide to fit down some of the city’s narrow, colonial-era streets.
Philadelphia has been trying for decades to tackle its litter problem.
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In many Jewish homes today the women are the bringing in a large portion of their household income.  In most cases, this is either because they are supporting their husbands who are learning, or just because it takes two incomes to make ends meet in today’s world.

A North Texas school board has voted to fire an English teacher who tweeted that her high school was full of students who are in the country illegally.
The Fort Worth Independent School District board voted 8-0 at a special meeting Tuesday night to terminate Carter-Riverside High School teacher Georgia Clark.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a close Likud party ally as justice minister.
Amir Ohana’s appointment on Wednesday came as Netanyahu heads an interim government following the dissolution of parliament last week.
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A federal judge on Monday denied a House request to prevent President Donald Trump from tapping Defense Department money for his proposed border wall with Mexico, saying Congress lacked authority to sue.
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Ministry of Environmental Protection: After Moshav Idan in the Aravah – mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus were also discovered in the settlement of Beit Aryeh in Shomron. The Ministry instructed the local council to expand the monitoring and supervision of its territory and, if necessary, pest control – The ministry calls on local authorities throughout the country to increase efforts to eliminate mosquito hazards