During a campaign swing through Iowa this week, Joe Biden mentioned that his family recently dined with former President Barack Obama’s family. At a Houston fundraiser, Biden joked about the infamous expletive he deployed in congratulating Obama’s health care victory.
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Shai (Shomron-Yehuda) police on Wednesday received numerous calls regarding a suspicious person in the area of Almog Junction. Police were dispatched and the man in question was stopped for inspection.
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Yair Sherki tweets a photo of Bayit Yehudi party leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz with HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita at a cornerstone laying ceremony in Yerushalayim on Thursday, June 13, 2019.
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The police chief of Alaska’s largest city hurried out of the department’s glass building after the ground began to shake. Phone lines jammed and even police radios were spotty after a major earthquake, but his cellphone was recently equipped with a national wireless network dedicated to first responders.

The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates as part of its investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.
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The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor have been accounted for.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that Navy Seaman 1st Class Frank Hryniewicz was accounted for on Jan.
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New York lawmakers are poised Thursday to eliminate a religious exemption to vaccine requirements in the face of its worst measles outbreak in decades.
The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly planned to vote on repealing the exemption, which allows parents of children to cite their religious beliefs to opt a child out of the vaccines required for public school enrollment.

Two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz came under a suspected attack Thursday, setting one of them ablaze in the latest mysterious assault targeting vessels in a region crucial to global energy supplies amid heightened tension between Iran and the U.S.

In a meeting between Bayit Yehudi party activists and Ayelet Shaked, the former justice minister announced that she will be announcing her decision regarding her future path within the next two weeks.
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A rocket fired from Gaza scored a direct hit on a Yeshiva in Sderot, Thursday night.
Yeshiva “Lev Daas” is reportedly a Chabad Yeshiva located in the center of the city.
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