Iran test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile inside its borders, U.S. officials said Friday, defying Trump administration demands that it curtail the weapon program and demonstrating its intent to further push back against U.S.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday denigrated a majority-black district represented by a congressional nemesis as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening a campaign against prominent critics of his administration that has exacerbated racial tensions.

A New York Police Department officer was found dead Saturday in a possible suicide on Staten Island, police said. The officer’s death marks the fifth apparent suicide of a member of the NYPD since June, including a respected chief and an experienced detective.
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Beetles are not a kosher food, and now the hometown of the Beetles, Liverpool, England is now less kosher as well.
A few weeks ago, Rosemans, a store that was supervised under the Liverpool Kashrut Commission (LKC), was caught with non-kosher meat.
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A top executive for Juul Labs said that his company never intended its electronic cigarettes to be adopted by underage teenagers, as House lawmakers on Thursday accused the company of fueling the vaping craze among high schoolers.
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Motorists will not need to reach into their pockets for money when they cross the Hudson River from New Jersey into New York City.
The Port Authority on Thursday approved installing cashless tolls at the George Washington Bridge and Lincoln and Holland tunnels.

A glimmer of hope has appeared in the seemingly intractable dispute over who will pay for improvements to the century-old rail infrastructure connecting New Jersey to New York and points north and south.
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British Airways is resuming flights to Cairo after security concerns prompted a weeklong halt to services.
The airline says the flight BA 155 is scheduled to leave Friday at 5:20 p.m.
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A powerful video of the Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Harav Yeruchem Olshin shlita’s bracha to a little girl at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was shown to a crowd of thousands last night at the Chai Lifeline dinner in Ateres Chana – Bais Faiga hall in Lakewood, NJ.