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July 26, 2016 at 8:14 am
Jerusalem - Israeli police say they have arrested dozens of members of an extremist soccer fans’ group.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said on Tuesday that 56 suspected members of the “La Familia” group of Beitar Jerusalem fans were arrested in an overnight raid.
She says stun grenades, firecrackers and other banned pyrotechnics were confiscated. An undercover agent who had infiltrated the group over the past six months led to the breakthrough.
Beitar has long tried to contain the tightly knit fan group whose behavior has had the team docked points and forced it to play before empty stadiums.
The group is routinely abusive toward opposing players, taunting them with racist and anti-Arab chants. Beitar has asked police to help rein in the group, which is also su...
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July 26, 2016 at 7:25 am
At least two unidentified attackers take hostages in church in northern France. Hostage-takers killed by police SWAT team.
Two men armed with knives took a number of hostages in a church located near Rouen in northern France, murdering one victim before they were eliminated by armed police.
The identities of the knifemen and their motives are not known at this stage, but the course of the investigation thus far indicates the incident was likely an Islamist terror attack.
According to Reuters, police said that five people were held hostage at the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray church in Normandy.
France 3 news network identified a priest, two nuns and at least two worshipers as among those held captive.
France's Le Figaro reports that the attackers murdered the priest by slitting h...
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July 25, 2016 at 10:48 pm
Philadelphia - Michelle Obama says she wants a president who knows issues “cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.”
Once again she’s not mentioning Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by name in her speech at the Democratic National Convention.
But she is citing his penchant for communicating on Twitter and says she wants someone who understands that issues aren’t always clear.
And, she adds, “That’s why in this election. I’m with her.”
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July 25, 2016 at 9:59 pm
Berlin - Four attacks in a week — three of them carried out by asylum seekers — have left Germany on edge and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies of welcoming refugees under renewed criticism.
The unprecedented bloodshed began July 18, when a 17-year-old from Afghanistan wielding an ax attacked people on a train near Wuerzburg, wounding five people before he was shot to death by police. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
On Sunday, a 21-year-old Syrian used a machete to kill a 45-year-old Polish woman in the southern city of Reutlingen. Authorities said assailant and victim knew each other from working in the same restaurant, and the incident was not related to terrorism.
Also Sunday, a 27-year-old Syrian who was denied asylum detonated a backpack...
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July 25, 2016 at 9:25 pm
Roanoke, VA - Donald Trump eagerly injected himself into the Democratic Party’s email controversy on Monday, calling the revelations that the party apparatus backed Democrat Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders proved his charges that the system is rigged.
Trump, kicking off a three-day campaign swing with his vice presidential running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, returned to his freewheeling style after giving a scripted speech on Thursday accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
During an hour-long event in Roanoke, Virginia, Trump labeled Clinton “low-energy,” the same characterization he lobbed at Republican rival Jeb Bush; attacked her running mate, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia; and complained about the air conditioning in the hotel bal...
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July 25, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Las Vegas - A Las Vegas judge has ordered a cosmetologist to cover up a defendant’s neck and facial tattoos that include a swastika and the words “Most Wanted” on each day of his robbery trial.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2abZVGg ) that District Judge Richard Scotti decided that Bayzle Morgan’s tattoos should be concealed in an effort to get him a fair trial.
Morgan has tattoos including a swastika inside a clover under his eye, the words “Skin Head” on his eyebrows and “Baby Nazi” written across his neck.
It comes after an entire group of potential jurors said last month that they couldn’t be impartial after seeing Morgan’s tattoos. A new group will see him in makeup starting Monday.
Defense at...
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July 25, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Baton Rouge - Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson’s pleas for the city to unite and “don’t let hate infect your heart” echoed Monday throughout the funeral service that grieved a man who only four months earlier had been celebrating the birth of his son.
Jackson wrote those words days before he was shot to death, in a Facebook post that described the difficulties of being both a black man and a police officer. His younger brother, Kedrick Pitts, repeated the words again at Jackson’s funeral.
“All I wanted to do was be like you,” Pitts said, speaking to his brother. “Now I can brag about you being an angel.”
Then, he told the overflowing church: “God bless you all. Don’t let hate infect your heart.”
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July 25, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Philadelphia - Bernie Sanders tried to calm tensions among his delegates Monday at the Democratic National Convention but some weren’t in a listening mood, seething over a lengthy primary campaign and a damaging email disclosure.
Sanders’ delegates chanted the Vermont senator’s name during the start of the convention and booed lustily at any mention of rival Hillary Clinton. Behind the scenes, Sanders and his campaign tried to persuade his delegates not to disrupt the proceedings.
“Our credibility as a movement will be damaged by booing, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays,” Sanders said in an email to the delegates, calling it a “personal courtesy” to him. He was speaking later in the evening.
Yet many die-hard back...
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July 25, 2016 at 9:06 pm
New York - The New York City Police Department has acquired $7 million in military-style protective equipment for patrol officers in response to recent shooting attacks on police in Baton Rouge and Dallas earlier this month, officials said on Monday.
“You name it, we’re buying it,” Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference. “There’s not a police department in America that is spending as much money, as much thought and interest on this issue of officer safety.”
Bratton said the NYPD has purchased 20,000 military-style helmets, 6,000 heavy duty bullet-proof vests, trauma kits and ballistic doors and windows for patrol cars.
He said the new bullet-proof vests are capable of stopping rounds fired from the type of weapon used in t...
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July 25, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Gaza City - A total of 35 female trainees completed a course at a Hamas-operated training camp on Sunday night that included the use of weapons, combat drills, intelligence gathering, and cyber warfare.
Hamas and the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, part of its military wing, are both designated as illegal terrorist organizations by Israel, the European Union, and the United States. The terrorist organization which rules over the Gaza Strip regularly organizes summer camps for school children similar to military boot camps and that include live-fire training.
According to Palestinian publications, the military training program – the second of its kind in Gaza – was a week long and intended for girls aged 12 to 18. In order to qualify for the program, the girls, w...
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July 25, 2016 at 9:05 pm
New York - If you have a Yahoo email account or regularly visit services like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, you might be wondering what will happen to the once-venerable brand once Verizon takes over.
Nothing will change in the short term, but neither company said much about the brand’s future once the $4.83 billion deal closes early next year. In announcing the deal Monday, Verizon merely said that the new Yahoo properties will become part of Verizon’s AOL business, which the phone company bought last year for $4.4 billion.
It’s quite possible that Verizon will retain the Yahoo brand — as a sub-brand like AOL.
Here’s what’s known — and what isn’t — about what Verizon’s deal for Yahoo means for you.
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July 25, 2016 at 8:33 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 25, 2016 - What i am about to share is very embarrassing and frightening!! But because there are so many young parents in town i feel compelled to share.
This afternoon I took my kids swimming. When we got home I opened the trunk to gather all the towels goggles etc...The car doors opened when we pulled up and i assumed EVERYONE came out. So I closed the trunk clicked the car to lock it and started walking to my door. To my horror I heard knocking coming from the car. My 6 year old was in the car. I was 3 steps away. He was in a locked car in 100 degrees for 30 seconds...I am very shaken. To think Ii could have gone into my house not seeing my child probably thinking he was playing somewhere not in my immediate site.
B’chasdai Hashem a tragedy was averted...
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July 25, 2016 at 6:52 pm
A recent bris in a Boro Park basement shul tied together the strands of a story which began 3 decades ago in Crown Heights and continued on to a Belgian goodbye party. Shimon and Yehudis Klein got married 6 years ago with hopes and dreams of starting a family in the Klausenburger mesorah in which he grew up. He was from Antwerp, she was from Boro Park, and together they moved to Brussels where Shimon had a parnassah as a chazzan. But the years passed, and the sounds of crying and laughter which are the natural accompaniment of a growing family failed to materialize. The soaring ups and abrupt downs of tests and consultations filled the young couple with anxiety. Money was also hard to come by, and the couple felt that they just were not succeeding in their chosen home city. About...
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July 25, 2016 at 6:33 pm
PHILADELPHIA—A Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee compared Jewish Israeli settlers to termites on Monday while speaking at an event sponsored by an anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts of the Jewish state.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) launched into a tirade against Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians, comparing Jewish people who live in disputed territories to “termites” that destroy homes. Johnson also compared Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a remark that drew vocal agreement from those in the room.
“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fa...
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July 25, 2016 at 6:08 pm
Japan - At least 19 people were killed and as many as 20 wounded by a knife-wielding man at a facility for the disabled in Japan early on Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported.
Police in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo have arrested a 20-year-old suspect, Kyodo reported.
Japanese media said staff called police at 2.30 a.m. local time with reports of a man armed with a knife on the grounds of the Tsukui Yamayuri Garden facility.
A man later went into a police station and said: “I did it” He is described as a man in his 20s and has been arrested, the media reports said.
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July 25, 2016 at 5:59 pm
Brooklyn, NY - A subway tunnel that was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy will be closed for 18 months starting January 2019 for repairs, shutting down of one of the system’s most crowded lines, officials said Monday.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced the decision to close the East River’s Canarsie Tube completely for a year and a half, instead of a partial shutdown that would have lasted for three years.
The L train, which runs from Manhattan through popular Brooklyn neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Bushwick and beyond, will see all service through the tunnel and on the Manhattan portion shut down. Trains will continue to run in Brooklyn only.
The line has seen a sizeable increase in riders since 1990, and now has 400,000 rides on an a...
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July 25, 2016 at 5:31 pm
Philadelphia - The Democratic National Committee is offering its “deep and sincere apology” to Bernie Sanders, his supporters and the entire party for what it calls “the inexcusable remarks made over email.”
The statement from incoming interim party leader, Donna Brazile, and six other officials says the comments in the emails “do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process.”
The statement says the party won’t tolerate disrespectful language.
The statement wasn’t signed by the outgoing DNC head, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
She announced on Sunday that she’d step down from that job at the end of this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
The em...
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July 25, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake calls the Democratic National Convention to order.
Democrats hope prime time addresses by VIPs such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will unify a party divided by an email scandal.
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July 25, 2016 at 4:27 pm
PM Netanyahu's Video Message to the Arab Citizens of Israel
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July 25, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Jerusalem - The Israeli military says its warplanes have hit a position in Syria from where mortars were fired into the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
The army said Monday that the mortars were likely errant fire from the fighting in neighboring Syria.
No injuries were reported from the mortars, which hit an open area near Israel’s frontier fence. Israel’s army said the Syrian government was responsible and it would “continue to act” to preserve Israel’s sovereignty.
Israel has taken pains to stay out of the ongoing Syrian war, but has carried out similar reprisals on Syrian positions when errant fire has previously landed in Israeli-controlled territory.
Israel is also believed to have carried out airstrikes on arms shipments believed to be headed to...
