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June 26, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Denver - Five people were killed in Colorado on Sunday when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a car in Las Animas County in the southern part of the U.S. state, state police said.
The train collided with a vehicle carrying six people, said Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis.
A girl was airlifted to a Denver-area hospital with serious injuries, Lewis said. No crew or passengers were injured on the train, he said.
Amtrak said there were 286 passengers on the Chicago to Los Angeles line. The train struck a vehicle that was on the tracks at roughly 9:45 a.m. near Trinidad, Colorado, about four miles (6.5 km) east of the Amtrak Trinidad station.
Amtrak said some of its equipment was damaged but crews quickly made repairs and the train resumed its journey.
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June 26, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Maybole, Scotland - At the heart of the campaign that led Britain to vote to leave the European Union was a desire to regain independence lost amid a globalized world. It’s the same kind of feeling that Donald Trump rode to become the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S., where he campaigns to put “America first” and “make America great again.”
“I love to see people take their country back. And that’s really what’s happening in the United States,” Trump told reporters this weekend during a visit to his golf resort in western Scotland.
The anxiety that drove the stunning “Brexit” decision has been brewing for at least a decade in the United Kingdom, as waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe arri...
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June 26, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Baltimore, MD Daily Dvar Halacha - June 26, 2016 / 20 Sivan 5776 - Drinking Out Of A Bottle? O.K.?
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June 26, 2016 at 7:49 pm
ISIS says suicide bombing that killed seven Jordanian soldiers was carried out by one of its jihadists.
The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing this week that killed seven Jordanian soldiers on the Syrian border, the jihadist-linked news agency Amaq said in a statement on its website, according to AFP.
Quoting an unnamed source, it said Tuesday's attack against "the Jordanian-American base at Rokban in Jordan was carried out by an Islamic State fighter".
The blast, which also left 13 soldiers wounded, struck an area where thousands of Syrian refugees are stranded.
According to the Jordanian army, the suicide bomber set off from the makeshift Syrian refugee camp near the Rokban crossing in Jordan's remote northeast.
He then en...
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June 26, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Lake Isabella, CA - A ravenous and deadly wildfire in central California has burned 200 homes, many belonging to retirees on fixed incomes with few other possessions.
“Most people here, this is all they had,” said Daniel O’Brien, 53, who lost two rental mobile homes. “You have these moments where you just want to breakdown crying and fall apart.”
The 58-square-mile fire has claimed at least two lives and officials warned the death toll may rise. Cadaver dogs were being brought in Sunday to search for remains.
Kern County Fire Department operations chief Joe Reyes said firefighters had contained significant swaths of the fire’s northern and eastern edges, but that work remained in securing the southern side of the blaze. Crews were moving in f...
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June 26, 2016 at 7:46 pm
New York - The $2.08 trillion wiped off global equity markets on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union was the biggest daily loss ever, trumping the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy during the 2008 financial crisis and the Black Monday stock market crash of 1987, according to Standard & Poor’s Dow Jones Indices.
Global markets skidded following the unexpected result from the June 23 referendum, in which Britons voted to withdraw from the EU by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin.
Markets in mainland Europe were hit the worst, with Milan and Madrid each down more than 12 percent for their biggest losses ever. Britain’s benchmark FTSE 100 was down nearly 9 percent at one point on Friday, but rallied to close down 3.15 percent.
The route started in Asia, w...
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June 26, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Word has spread quickly in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Lakewood, Jackson and Toms River.
Brenda’s is coming to Brewers Bridge Plaza.
Frum fashionistas (“frum” is a Yiddish term for a member of the Orthodox community) know Brenda’s, housed in an unassuming storefront in Brooklyn's heavily Orthodox Borough Park, as a go-to destination for designer-label women’s clothing that meets their religious standards for modest attire.
So the news that Brenda’s is opening a 5,000-square-foot store in Jackson — in a shopping center that’s getting a glam makeover geared for upscale Orthodox shoppers — is eliciting cheers from its faithful female customers in the Lakewood area, and not a few ...
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June 26, 2016 at 5:51 pm
During the Nazi occupation of Rome between September 1943 and June 1944, the city was struck by a mysterious epidemic, Haaretz reports.
A previously unknown and highly contagious disease, the “K syndrome,” forced the Fatebenefratelli hospital to isolate dozens of infected patients in a special wing, completely inaccessible to outsiders. The fictitious illness kept dozens of Roman Jews safe from the Nazis who were hunting them down. The letter “K” was a reference to Albert Kesselring, the German officer in charge of the city.
A young doctor, Adriano Ossicini, came up with the idea and the other staff played along, saving at least 40 lives. More than a thousand Roman Jews were arrested and deported to death camps. Ossicini told La Stampa, “We were tel...
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June 26, 2016 at 5:45 pm
'US and Israel face exactly the same threat', claims 'America's leadership directly affects every Israeli'.
Americans and Israelis face “exactly the same” threat from radical Islam, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said on Sunday, arguing that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump would do much more for American security – and Israel – than Barack Obama.
America’s most popular cable news host spoke with Israel’s Channel 10 Sunday evening, addressing the rising threat from ISIS and other Islamic terror groups, the upcoming American presidential elections, and political bias in the media’s coverage of candidates like Mr. Trump.
Following the devastating terror attack in Orlando which left 49 dead and 53 wounded...
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June 26, 2016 at 5:36 pm
At least seven people were injured – several of whom were stabbed – Sunday when friction between neo-Nazi and counter demonstrators in Sacramento turned violent.
Seven patients were transported to area hospitals, “some with critical trauma stab wounds,” the Sacramento Fire Department said.
The injuries were the result of what the fire department described as a “mass casualty event.”
"It was quite a bit of a melee," SFD public information officer Chris Harvey told The LA Times.
No arrests had been made as of Sunday afternoon, but the original, permitted neo-Nazi rally was officially cancelled, ABC10 reported. That rally was to include factions from the Traditionalist Workers Party, Golden State Skinheads, Blood & Honor, National Socia...
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June 26, 2016 at 4:56 pm
Baltimore, MD – June 26, 2016 - On Sunday, June 19th, Rebbeim, teachers, family, and friends joined the seniors of Mesivta Neimus Hatorah in celebration of their graduation. After opening remarks by Menahel Rabbi Laib Schulman, Rabbi Emmanuel Hakakian, English Principal introduced the seven graduates offering brief remarks about each one. Following a siyum by senior Yosef Berkowitz, the crowd listened intently as each talmid reflected of his time in yeshiva, as well as thanking their parents and the hanhalah of the yeshiva.
The guest speaker was Rabbi Zvi Teichman, Rav of Ohel Moshe, who offered powerful words of inspiration about the accomplishments of each one of the boys, as well as praise for the incredible work the yeshiva does on a daily basis.
Rabbi Shmuel Weissman, tw...
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June 26, 2016 at 4:32 pm
AUSTRIA
Norbert Hofer
Third president of Austria’s lower house of parliament; former presidential candidate, Freedom Party of Austria
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Norbert Hofer supports the idea that Austria must act independently of the European Union. Some refer to the third president of the National Council as Austria’s Donald Trump; some accuse him of holding neo-Nazi views. Tweeting in the early hours of the results, Hofer said, “#Brexit What an exciting night. The EU must break new ground if you want to survive.” He lost a cliffhanger presidential election in May by 0.3 percent of the vote.
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BELGIUM
Tom Van Grieken
Party councillor, party board, national chairman, Vlaams Belang
Tom Van Grieken is the 29-year-old leader of Belgium’s far-right ...
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June 26, 2016 at 4:12 pm
Newt Gingrich Talks To Fox News About Brexit
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June 26, 2016 at 4:04 pm
Tensions are mounting between Jerusalem City Hall and chareidi parties in the coalition as additional businesses opened their doors this past Shabbos in the ‘Mitcham HaTachana’ complex, the old Jerusalem train center that has been converted into a mall. Councilman (Agudas Yisrael) Yochanan Weitzman addressed his concerns in an email on motzei Shabbos to party colleagues and the Vaad Rabbonim for Shmiras Shabbos.
He explained that in addition to souvenir and toy store that opened, other concession booths operated, some for book week and some selling other items.
Weizman added a play area for children was operating in violation as well, adding he was unable to determine if they were taking an entry fee for visitors to the play area as is done during the week.
Weizman also cite...
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June 26, 2016 at 3:50 pm
As the Chief Rabbinate of Israel probes ways to improve the state kashrus system, one of the ideas being floated is to license private hashgachos, with the latter employing the mashgichim that will provide supervision.
The private hashgachos would sign a contract with the Chief Rabbinate, acting as an outside contractor, committing to provide hashgacha on the level detailed by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. The Chief Rabbinate would employ inspectors who would randomly monitor implementation of the kashrus and the Chief Rabbinate would maintain the right to cancel the hashgacha of a business and oust the private hashgacha for failing to maintain the proper standard.
In a recent ruling of the High Court of Justice, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel was given the exclusive control of kosher su...
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June 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Jerusalem - Michal Froman, a pregnant Israeli woman stabbed by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist five months ago, gave birth to a girl on Saturday in the Jerusalem hospital of Hadassah Ein Karem.
Froman, 32 and a mother of five, is the daughter-in-law of the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, who was rabbi of Tekoa for many years and became famous for his engagement in friendly relations with Palestinians and promoting interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims. Although the whole Froman family – Menachem’s wife, Hadassah, and sons – are involved in interfaith activities, Michal was not really part of it before the terror attack. But now, she tells Tazpit Press Service (TPS), things have changed for her.
“The terrorist who attacked me did not look like some ...
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June 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm
A group of East Coast states wants to help overhaul the way America pays for its decaying roads, and it’s starting with Monopoly money.
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Hampshire are proposing pilots to figure out how they might charge motorists a fee for the miles they travel – rather than taxing their gas, as state and federal officials do today.
The I-95 Corridor Coalition, which represents transportation officials from 16 states and the District of Columbia, applied for a federal grant last month to test the idea.
Officials would stitch together the policies and technologies needed to count the miles driven by 50 recruits from each of the four states, including state legislators, transportation officials or other willing guinea pigs. They would send out &ldq...
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June 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Nachal Chareidi soldiers declare their allegiance at the March 16, 2016 ceremony following completion of a portion of their training.
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June 26, 2016 at 3:21 pm
Beirut - A graphic video emerged Sunday showing the killing of five Syrian media activists captured by the Islamic State group last year.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the five were abducted in October and are believed to have been killed in December over their coverage of events in the eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zour, half of which is held by IS.
The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdurrahman, said news of the detention and killing of the activists was withheld because no bodies had surfaced and the families feared retribution for reporting the deaths.
In the video, an IS narrator says the group is facing a media war and warns against reporting to the “crusaders” and “enemies of God.” The narrator says journalists who rep...
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June 26, 2016 at 3:13 pm
Washington - Republicans are sprinting to shape up Donald Trump’s presidential campaign before the party’s national convention in three weeks, even as leading members of the party carry a deep antipathy or outright opposition to his claim on the GOP nomination.
His campaign chairman said Sunday there’s a hiring spree in 16 states and the campaign is working with the Republican National Committee to solidify other matters. Paul Manafort said Trump is not all that involved in the race to organize an offensive against Democrat Hillary Clinton and catch up to her massive fundraising advantage.
“The good thing is we have a candidate who doesn’t need to figure out what’s going on (inside the campaign ) in order to say what he wants to do,&rdqu...
