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June 21, 2017 at 6:12 pm
The Federal Aviation Administration says a plane landed safely at New York’s Kennedy Airport after the crew reported seeing a green laser.
The FAA said Wednesday that the report was made around midnight as Delta Airlines Flight 2294 from Las Vegas was about 4 miles northwest of Farmingdale, New York.
The Nassau County Police Department on Long Island says the laser may have come from the Plainview or Old Bethpage area.
Delta spokeswoman Kate Modolo says the airline also is investigating.
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June 21, 2017 at 5:50 pm
President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement in the coming days on whether any recordings exist of his private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, potentially bringing to an end one of the central mysteries of the ongoing probe that has consumed his White House.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that he expects an announcement “this week” on the possibility of tapes. The president fired Comey in May and then tweeted that the lawman, who was overseeing the investigation into possible contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press.”
Trump and his aides have since then steadfastly refused to cla...
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June 21, 2017 at 5:47 pm
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday, 26 Sivan, called on the international community to act against the Hamas regime in Gaza and nations that support it.
The ambassador’s remarks were made during a UN Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East.
Ambassador Haley began with a condemnation of the fatal Friday night terror attack near Shar Shechem which claimed the life of border policewoman Hadas Malka HY”D.
“First, the United States condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly terrorist attack last week in Jerusalem. This stabbing attack left one Israeli border guard dead and wounded several others. We express our deepest sympathies to the victims and their families. The United States reiterates its commitment t...
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June 21, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Jerusalem, Israel - June 21, 2017 - Day 2 of the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society, held at the Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, highlighted challenges and solutions for Israel’s excess regulation and bureaucracy.
Eli Groner, Director-General of the Prime Minister’s Office, said the government is acting. The government did a mapping of all regulations and decided that it could reduce regulation by 25 percent over 5 years. In the last year, Groner said that 1 billion, 300 million shekels previously wasted on regulation have been saved.
Groner placed blame on the private industry for some of the country’s regulation challenges. He cited a recent case where IKEA is suing the government for not having strict enough fire regulations for sprinklers, ...
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June 21, 2017 at 4:07 pm
First comes the unscratchable itching, and the angry blossoming of hives. Then stomach cramping, and—for the unluckiest few—difficulty breathing, passing out, and even death. In the last decade and a half, thousands of previously protein-loving Americans have developed a dangerous allergy to meat. And they all have one thing in common: the lone star tick.
Red meat, you might be surprised to know, isn’t totally sugar-free. It contains a few protein-linked saccharides, including one called galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha-gal, for short. More and more people are learning this the hard way, when they suddenly develop a life-threatening allergy to that pesky sugar molecule after a tick bite.
Yep, one bite from the lone star tick—which gets its n...
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June 21, 2017 at 3:45 pm
A sinister portrait of Russia’s cyberattacks on the U.S. emerged Wednesday as current and former U.S. officials told Congress Moscow stockpiled stolen information and selectively disseminated it during the 2016 presidential campaign to undermine the American political process.
The Russians “used fake news and propaganda and they also used online amplifiers to spread the information to as many people as possible,” Bill Priestap, the FBI’s top counterintelligence official, told the Senate Intelligence committee.
While he said the Russians had conducted covert operations targeting past American elections, the internet “has allowed Russia to do so much more” than before. But, he added, the “scale and aggressiveness” was different this time, wit...
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June 21, 2017 at 3:44 pm
Following months of renovations, Terminal 1 at Ben-Gurion International Airport has reopened for low-cost airlines. As part of the deal, these carriers will pay half the parking fee paid by carriers using Terminal 3.
The terminal will now accommodate security inspection and check-in and therefore, low-cost travelers will no longer have to use Terminal 3 as in the past. According to Transportation Ministry officials, some 1.4 million departing passengers are expected to pass through annually. All arriving passengers will be brought to Terminal 3.
Renovations of the once ‘main terminal’ at Ben-Gurion International Airport included a 60 million shekel HBS baggage screening security system. Stands have been set in place to accommodate scanning biometric passports, carry-on lugg...
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June 21, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Otto Warmbier’s death after returning from North Korean imprisonment is stoking outrage in Washington and threatening to overshadow high-level U.S.-Chinese talks Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has been counting on China to use its economic leverage with Kim Jong Un’s totalitarian government as American concern grows over North Korea’s acceleration toward having a nuclear-tipped missile that can strike the U.S. mainland.
Top U.S. and Chinese diplomats and defense chiefs are meeting in the U.S. capital for security talks, and North Korea will get “top billing,” according to Susan Thornton, the senior U.S. diplomat for East Asia. The two world powers are trying to build on “positive momentum” created when Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping me...
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June 21, 2017 at 2:50 pm
Houston, TX - Evacuations were ordered on Wednesday for an area near Ellington Airport after a pilot was forced to eject from a burning F-16 jet.
People were evacuated from buildings within a 4,000-foot radius of the airport, according to officials at the Houston Office of Emergency Management. They said there are only support and public works facilities within the area.
Officials said Beltway 8 was closed from Crenshaw to Galveston roads, and deputies from the Harris County Precinct 8 Constable's Office said they were blocking streets around the airport, including the intersection of Farley and Genoa Red Bluff roads.
The jet was taking-off when it caught fire and crashed, according to several officials. Video from KPRC 2 viewer Mitch Ivey showed a large plume of smoke rising from ...
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June 21, 2017 at 2:37 pm
Republicans are angling toward a Senate vote next week on their marquee effort to erase much of President Barack Obama’s health care law. But there’s plenty of grumbling from senators across the GOP spectrum, and leaders haven’t yet nailed down the support they’ll need to prevail.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said Tuesday that there’s “more work to do” before the bill adequately cuts premiums. A second conservative, Utah’s Mike Lee, complained about not seeing the legislation despite being on the working group of senators assigned to craft it and said lawmakers should have seen the measure “weeks ago” if they’re to vote next week. And Alaska moderate Lisa Murkowski said she didn’t know how she’d vote, adding, “I...
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June 21, 2017 at 2:36 pm
Police have released their findings, the result of the probe into the Friday evening multi-pronged shooting/stabbing terror attack near Shar Shechem that claimed the life of border policewoman Hadas Malka H'yd. Two residents of the eastern capital were taken into custody, suspected of transporting the terrorists to the scene.
A resident of Issawiya is in custody, suspected of bringing the terrorists to the area of the attack as well as having advanced knowledge of the attack and not reporting or trying to stop them. In addition, the mother of one of the three terrorists was arrested, a resident of Dir el-Meshal.
Jerusalem Police Chief Yoram Halevi reports “During a menachem aveil visit to Family Malka, I promised Hadas’ HY”D father that as we did in the past, ...
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June 21, 2017 at 1:38 pm
Officials at Sheba Medical Center report that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not sustain a cardiac incident. Chief of Cardiac Medicine at Tel Hashomer Prof. Shlomi Matzki announced on Tuesday evening that the former prime minister was being kept for a number of hours for observation after it was determined he did not sustain a cardiac incident.
Earlier in the day, the Massiyahu Prison doctor was summoned to check Olmert, followed by Mr. Olmert’s personnel physician. It was decided to take him to a hospital for diagnostic testing. The doctors feared he might be suffering a cardiac incident. The Shin Bet was contacted and arrangements were made to transport him to the hospital.
Hospital officials on Wednesday morning 27 Sivan stated Mr. Olmert remains hospitalized an...
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June 21, 2017 at 1:08 pm
Canadian born suspect shouted "Allahu Akbar"
Flint Township, MI. - Police say an airport officer was stabbed in the neck Wednesday morning at Bishop International Airport in Flint.
The officer was taken to the hospital. Michigan State Police said the officer is in critical condition.
Police identified the injured officer as Lt. Jeff Neville. Bishop International Airport was evacuated and is closed.
Police said a suspect has been taken into custody. The airport released the following ...
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June 21, 2017 at 1:03 pm
Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman spoke at a conference on Transparency in Health in Tel Aviv and addressed the boiling issue of the doctors’ resignation from Hadassah, accusing the doctors of “destroying the health system.”
“I would like to address the burning issue these days, the subject of Hadassah,” said the Health Minister, adding that the only thing that interested me was the children, “I did not look at anyone who came out against me or at the signs and the buses. What interests me is only the children”.
“I instructed the Hadassah Director-General Rothstein that what the doctors will receive what they are asking for towards returning the situation to what if was before the crisis. Rothstein received my guidance. Unfortunat...
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June 21, 2017 at 12:12 pm
President Donald Trump’s White House is putting the “brief” in press briefings.
Sean Spicer, the embattled press secretary, spoke for 30 minutes Tuesday and didn’t answer a number of basic questions, including whether the president believes Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether Trump had seen the hotly debated Senate health care bill.
Once more freewheeling exchanges, White House press briefings have been shrinking both in length and content as Trump’s senior aides clamp down on information and contend with the president’s own lack of message discipline and preference for speaking directly to his fan base.
The administration has erected other barriers to transparency as well, such as refusing to make its visitor logs public. And Trump has...
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June 21, 2017 at 11:31 am
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte is set to be sworn in as the newest member of Congress, a month after he body slammed a reporter who asked him a question about the GOP health care bill.
Gianforte, a wealthy former software executive, has called for civility in politics following his conviction for assaulting a reporter the day before winning a special congressional election.
Gianforte, 56, won a May 25 special election to serve the remaining 18 months in the House term vacated by now-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Gianforte has already filed for re-election. He will be sworn in Wednesday by House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Gianforte said his top priority is to make sure Montanans’ voices are heard and vowed to “protect our Montana way of life from federal overreach and bring accou...
