The Treasury Department on Tuesday targeted a Hezbollah security official and two members of Lebanon’s parliament suspected of using their positions to further the aims of the Tehran-backed militia and “bolster Iran’s malign activities.”
It’s the first time that the U.S.
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California has become the first state to offer taxpayer-funded health benefits to young adults living in the country illegally.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes low-income adults age 25 and younger eligible for the state’s Medicaid program regardless of their immigration status.

Thousands of residents of Yehuda and Shomron were shocked on Sunday morning when they saw PA (Palestinian Authority) flags hanging at intersections. Hundreds of phone calls were received by ‘moked’ emergency dispatchers in the respective regional councils as a result, as concerned residents reported what they saw.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are teaming up on a measure that would designate climate change as an emergency, and they have won early support from one of Sanders’ fellow Democratic presidential candidates.
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Israel’s new education minister has likened intermarriage among North American Jews to the Holocaust in a recent Cabinet meeting.
A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that “assimilation is like the Holocaust” in a July 1 session.

The House Judiciary Committee is moving to authorize subpoenas for several people tied to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, including President Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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A lobster can bring down an entire government coalition – but only in Israel. That’s why embassies and ambassadors are under instruction never to publicly show non-kosher food.
We can now understand why the Israeli embassy in Brazil photo-shopped the picture of Israeli Ambassador, Yossi Shelly, dining with Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his family’s history of slave ownership doesn’t change his opposition to reparations.
The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday that he and former President Barack Obama have opposed reparations, and “both are the descendent of slave owners.”

The start of a new school year can be hard on the budget. There are costs you might expect (replacing worn-out binders, outgrown clothes, an outdated laptop) and ones you don’t (a budding interest in a travel sport, say, or a fundraiser or birthday cupcakes).
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Despite the agreement of all, actualizing a merger of right-wing parties ahead of the Knesset election is another matter entirely. According to a Walla News report on Tuesday, Ayelet Shaked is working to advance such a union, of all the right-wing parties, those who she describes as being “right of Likud”, which would include the New Right (Naftali Bennet) and the Otzma Yehudit party.