There have been reports that Yahadut Hatorah has decided to halt coalition negotiations with Likud representatives due to the Chilul Shabbos expected to surround the Eurovision Song Contest.

Despite the State Attorney’s intention to recommend indictments against Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit gave his approval for the appointment of Deri as minister in the fifth Netanyahu government.
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Connecticut’s Attorney General gave state lawmakers the legal go-ahead Monday to pursue legislation that would prevent parents from exempting their children from vaccinations for religious reasons, a move that several states are considering amid a significant measles outbreak.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller was expected to step down days after concluding his investigation in March. Yet he remains a Justice Department employee — and the department won’t say why.
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New York and New Jersey want to know how the Internal Revenue Service decided to stop requiring donor information from certain nonprofit organizations — among them big political spenders.
Monday’s lawsuit against the tax agency, from New York Attorney General Letitia James and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, comes as Montana and New Jersey are challenging the policy change itself in a separate case.

After a long trend toward greater safety in air travel, there has been an uptick in airline accidents and deaths in 2018 and 2019.
Many aviation experts regard that recent increase as a statistical blip, however.
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One of the central issues at the center of the coalition negotiations between the chareidi factions and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the draft law of the Yisrael Beiteinu MK Avigdor Liberman, who announced that he will not allow changes to the law submitted by the Defense Ministry.

Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a girl while walking on a Boro Park street on Chol Hamoed Pesach
The NYPD says that on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at approximately 5:50PM, a 13-year-old girl was walking home in the vicinity of 47th Street and 12th Avenue, when she was approached from behind by an unidentified male.

There was an fire at the Skulener Bais Medrash in Boro Park, early Tuesday morning.
The FDNY was on the scene just after 2:00AM for a fire in the basement of the building, located at 1315 54th Street – just off 13 Avenue.
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