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May 25, 2016 at 10:26 am
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Donald Trump handily won Washington state's Republican presidential primary Tuesday, even as he shared the ballot with three other candidates who had already dropped out of the contest.
As counties started posting their results shortly after 8 p.m., Trump took a commanding lead with 76 percent of the vote, followed by John Kasich and Ted Cruz, with 10 percent each. Ben Carson garnered 4 percent of the vote in early returns.
Even though Trump is the only candidate remaining in the GOP contest, Kasich and Cruz were still on the ballot because they suspended their campaigns after the ballots were printed. Carson's name also appeared because he never submitted a withdrawal of candidacy.
Republicans in Washington state will allocate all 44 delegates to th...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:45 am
As a result of lower fares and discounts for children, there are more people trying to get to Meron for Lag B’Omer than ever before. This has led to thousands being told ticket sales have stopped as all buses are full.
Chairman of the Knesset Ombudsman Committee MK Yisrael Eichler is calling on the Transportation Ministry to take the necessary steps to make additional buses available. Eichler on Tuesday evening explained that in some chareidi areas, ticket sales have halted as all the available buses are full.
Eichler maintains that instead of hiring buses from private companies as was promised would be the case, the sale of tickets has stopped in some areas and people are told there is no room for this year’s trip to Meron.
After consulting with Israel Police and private bu...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:40 am
Donald Trump spent much of the Republican presidential primary contest inveighing against politicians for leaning on wealthy contributors for support. Now he’s doing the same.
On Tuesday, some of the GOP’s best-connected fundraisers signed on to help raise as much as $1 billion for Trump and the Republican National Committee, part of an effort to rapidly build out a finance operation that the candidate has lacked until now.
Half a dozen of the party’s elite money players — including New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks — have agreed to serve as vice chairs of the Trump Victory fund, a joint fundraising committee between Trump’s campaign, the RNC and 11 state parties, the party announced Tuesda...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:40 am
It's been about a year since the observatory at One World Trade Center opened to the public.
The attraction, called One World Observatory, opened on May 29, 2015.
Organizers say 1,776 members of the public got tickets through a lottery to attend an anniversary open house Tuesday.
The observatory is on the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors. It provides panoramic views of New York City and the surrounding area.
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May 25, 2016 at 9:36 am
The official unemployment rate for April 2016 is 4.9%, representing a drop from March when unemployment was 5.3%. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), 193,000 people were registered as unemployed in April as compared to 208,700 in March.
A breakdown of the numbers shows that among 25-64-year-olds, unemployment in April was 4.4% and the number of people in this group in the labor force is 80.5%. Those numbers in March were 4.5% and 79.8% respectfully. Among men in this age group, 84.8% are in the workforce as compared to 75% among the women.
Despite the euphoria, CBS officials explain the decline in April may not be indicative of the workforce explaining additional jobs became available ahead of Pesach and in most cases, this was time limited.
In addition, some...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:30 am
Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2016 - The Ethiopian Aliyah was the topic of the annual RCA Israel Region and World Zionist Organization Yom Iyun held in Weizmann Hall of the World Headquarters of Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, Israel on Monday.
After coffee, greetings were given by Rabbi Yechiel Wasserman, Head of the Center for Religious Affairs of the Diaspora.
Chief Rabbi of the Ethiopian Community HaRav Yosef Hadana gave divrei bracha and provided background of the Ethiopian aliyah.
However, it was the keynote speaker, HaRav Dr. Sharon Shalom, author of "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic and Conceptual World of Ethiopian Jewry" who with his personal story and wit had one woman saying, " I want to move to Kiryat Gat and be in his shul." Rabbi Dr. Shalom is a musmach of Yeshivat Ha...
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May 25, 2016 at 9:20 am
Baltimore, MD - May 25, 2016 - This evening, a community-wide meeting will be held at 5:30 PM at Northwestern High School 6900 Park Heights Ave the subject of which will be Co-location of Northwestern and Forest Park High Schools in Sept. 2016. As there are a number of serious concerns with the prospect of this merge, it is important for there to be a strong showing from the members of our community who share in these concerns.
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May 25, 2016 at 9:20 am
Baltimore, MD Daily Dvar Halacha - May 25, 2016 / 17 Iyar 5776 - Why Does Everyone Look At Their Nails During Havdala?
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May 25, 2016 at 9:08 am
(CNN) Protesters lit fires, smashed a door and threw rocks outside a Donald Trump rally Tuesday night in New Mexico -- the latest scuffle to follow the presumptive Republican nominee's campaign.
The scene outside Albuquerque's convention center was chaotic as police ushered protesters away from Trump's event and into the nearby streets.
There, anti-Trump protesters -- many critical of his positions on immigration -- loudly chanted, "F*** Donald Trump."
The protesters had broken a glass door to the convention center. Some taunted police and jumped on police vehicles as officers in riot gear and on police horses moved them away from the convention center's exits.
Trump had already left the event.
The scene was reminiscent of the violence between Tr...
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May 25, 2016 at 8:56 am
Coalition agreement details show that aside from folding on death penalty law, Liberman made a key concession on being a minister.
Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman signed a coalition agreement with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday to enter the government, but a reading of the agreement reveals that he gave up on many of his demands in the process.
Last week Liberman declared three central conditions for his joining the coalition: a pension reform, that he be appointed Defense Minister, and a law applying the death penalty to terrorist murderers.
But a reading of the final agreement revealed by Channel 2 exposes that aside from Liberman's folding on the death penalty bill demand, the deal allows Netanyahu to swap him from t...
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May 25, 2016 at 8:52 am
The 25-year-old Howard County man charged with walking into Fox 45 last month in a Hedgehog costume and a fake bomb will be in court later today.
Alex Brizzi is charged with four counts of arson and several counts of reckless endangerment. He is also charged with having a fake bomb and making a false statement about a bomb.
Brizzi was shot several times by SWAT team members when he came out of the building and didn't listen to their commands.
Police say his costume was covering a life jacket that was designed to look like a bomb.
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May 25, 2016 at 8:48 am
A man under surveillance for suspected illegal firearms dealing was recorded Monday telling a federal informant he planned to "shoot some cops" after a judge acquitted Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero.
The affidavit was filed in federal court against Robert Lee "Cowboy" Owens, 64, of North Baltimore. He was arrested Monday and charged with possession of a firearm by a previously convicted person, according to court records. A special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in the affidavit that the criminal informant had earlier been offered a firearm by Owens and agreed with the ATF to buy it from him in a vehicle bugged with audio and video recording devices. That informant went to Owens' home and, with ATF money, bought the .22 cali...
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May 25, 2016 at 7:50 am
The brachos (blessings) associated with shemittah are expressed in similar language to the words that we say in the bracha (blessing) of Bareich Aleinu in Shemoneh Esrei. There is a great emphasis on the blessing of the land and the fruits as a harbinger of geulah (redemption), as the lush produce reflects the presence of Hashem on this earth. Now, in golus (exile), we ask Hashem to place His bracha on the face of the earth, but not actually within the earth itself. We yearn to go back to a time when Hashem's bracha will be within the earth and within us, when we can eat the lush fruits of Eretz Yisroel and be satisfied from even small amounts.
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May 25, 2016 at 7:50 am
Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his choice for defense minister, ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman, signed a coalition agreement on Wednesday and issued assurances that the most right wing government in Israel’s history would act responsibly.
Once Lieberman is sworn in, Netanyahu will have a government of 66 legislators, widening his current one-seat majority in the 120-member parliament, a goal the Israeli leader has said he has sought since winning a fourth term last year.
Lieberman’s return to office - he was previously foreign minister - has raised questions at home and abroad given his past criticism of Israel’s Arab minority, U.S.-sponsored peace talks with Palestinians and regional powers Egypt and Turkey.
At the signing ceremony, in whi...
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May 24, 2016 at 7:39 pm
New York - New York City is testing park benches with built-in charging stations for mobile devices.
Five of the benches are being installed at parks in the Bronx and upper Manhattan.
The Daily News (http://nydn.us/1VgusE2 ) says the benches can also help keep track of how many people are visiting the parks.
The Parks Department will spend about $24,000 on the solar-powered benches. They’ve been used in several other cities, including Boston and Los Angeles.
The two-year pilot program is part of a city initiative called Parks Without Borders . It aims to make underused areas more accessible and welcoming.
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May 24, 2016 at 7:07 pm
Washington - The Treasury Department has arrested five people in Miami accused of posing as IRS agents in telephone calls and demanding immediate payment of overdue taxes, a scheme that netted them an estimated $2 million, a top official said Tuesday.
J. Russell George, who heads the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration office, said Tuesday that the five defrauded about 1,500 people.
The IRS has called similar impersonators the largest such scam in agency history. George said overall, 1.2 million Americans have reported receiving such calls, and around 6,400 of them have reported being cheated out of $36.5 million.
The callers pose as IRS or Treasury agents and demand immediate payment of back taxes or other fees, threatening arrest if they don’t. Geor...
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May 24, 2016 at 7:07 pm
Cairo - The question of what caused EgyptAir Flight 804 to crash in the Mediterranean, killing all 66 on board, remains shrouded in confusion, speculation and conflicting statements. Here is a look at what is known so far and what questions remain unanswered.
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EXPLOSION OR NOT?
One of the primary questions is whether or not the plane was brought down by a bomb or some sort of mechanical failure. On Tuesday, two different Egyptian officials publicly disagreed on whether or not the available evidence indicated an on-board explosion. A senior Egyptian forensics official told The Associated Press that the condition of the human remains collected from the crash site so far indicated an explosion. Later however, the head of Egypt’s forensic agency dismissed such talk, calli...
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May 24, 2016 at 7:06 pm
Washington - The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday.
“The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision,” Lynch said in a brief statement that said the department had considered “all relevant factual and legal issues.”
Roof is awaiting trial on federal hate crime charges in connection with the June 17 shooting at Emanuel AME Church, which contributed to a national conversation about race relations and also led to the removal of a Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse.
Roof is also charged with nine counts of murder in st...
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May 24, 2016 at 7:06 pm
Chicago - The union for transportation security officers on Tuesday urged the U.S. Congress to pay for 6,000 more full-time workers who conduct screenings to alleviate long lines at U.S. airports, a problem that caused a shakeup in the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s management.
The American Federation of Government Employees, the officers’ union, asked lawmakers to approve emergency legislation to fund additional screeners needed after years of staffing cuts and growing numbers of passengers, it said in a statement.
“It’s time for Congress to stop the waiting games and give TSA the resources it needs to meet growing demands at our nation’s airports,” J. David Cox Sr., the union’s national president, said in the statement.
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May 24, 2016 at 7:06 pm
Washington - Democrat Hillary Clinton, seeking to dampen Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s growing appeal with working-class voters, on Tuesday accused him of having cheered on the 2008 housing market crash.
Clinton’s campaign released an ad with audio the presumptive Republican nominee had recorded in 2006 for his now-defunct Trump University venture. Trump, a billionaire real estate developer, said of a “bubble burst” that “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy” property and “make a lot of money.”
Clinton’s campaign and her surrogates have seized on the recording to argue that she would take better care of the U.S. economy. She is seeking to blunt the inroads that Trump...
