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June 22, 2017 at 10:31 am
A Democratic strategist criticized for tweeting “#HuntRepublicans” after a shooting that seriously wounded a top GOP leader is defending his bellicose language and doubling down on his support for “hunting.”
New Jersey political operative James Devine tweeted Wednesday that Republican Karen Handel’s victory over Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s special congressional election is evidence that Democrats should adopt more aggressive tactics. He tweeted: “it is time for hunting.”
Fox News host Tucker Carlson lambasted Devine in an appearance on his show Tuesday, calling him “unbalanced.”
Devine accused Republicans of using violent rhetoric for decades and said Democrats should “fight fire with fire.” He told Carlson he ...
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June 22, 2017 at 10:13 am
A burglar caught red handed, ended up in quite a sticky situation when the homeowner found him where he wasn’t supposed to be.
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June 22, 2017 at 10:11 am
Britain’s interior minister says the country has entered a new phase of global terrorism.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the House of Commons on Thursday that 13 plots linked to or inspired by Islamist extremists were foiled between June 2013 and the Westminster Bridge attack in March this year. She says five plots have been prevented since March.
Rudd says that “we now believe we’re experiencing a new trend in the threat we face.”
Rudd says more must be done to tackle the extremists who want to “radicalize and weaponized” young people in Britain.
Security services have been warning for months that U.K. nationals who have traveled to fight with the Islamic State group pose a danger to Britain when they return home.
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June 22, 2017 at 10:09 am
A Canadian man from Tunisia shouted “Allah Akbar” in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport, and made reference to people being killed overseas during the attack that’s now being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal and court officials said.
Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Montreal, was immediately taken into custody. A criminal complaint charging him with committing violence at an airport says Ftouhi asked an officer who subdued him why the officer didn’t kill him.
The attack Wednesday at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, is being investigated as an act of terrorism, but authorities have no indication at this time that the suspect was involved in a “wider plot,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge David...
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June 22, 2017 at 9:14 am
Jerusalem - Former Israeli Police Maj.- Gen. Arieh Amit said Thursday that security forces should have “no mercy” on ultra-Orthodox protestors involved in civil unrest and attacking Israeli soldiers.
“The time has come to deal with those involved in civil unrest and attacking soldiers in Mea She’arim and Beit Shemesh with rubber and artificial bullets. NO MERCY,” wrote Amit in a Facebook post in Hebrew.
Amit, who served in the Israeli police for over 20 years, holding senior positions including Head of Operations and Commander Chief of the Jerusalem District, made the comments in response to the ongoing campaign carried out by extremists in the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel against the enlistment of haredi men into the IDF.
The campaign has garnered co...
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June 22, 2017 at 9:11 am
London - Police said on Thursday the cause of death of a man at the scene of a van attack on Muslim worshippers in London this week was his multiple injuries.
The vehicle ploughed into people as they left a mosque shortly after midnight on Monday, injuring 11.
Makram Ali, 51, had fallen ill at the scene just before the attack, and police initially said it was unclear whether he had been killed in the incident or had died of other causes.
But they said on Thursday the preliminary findings of a post mortem had concluded he died of multiple injuries.
“We know that he had some form of collapse because of his weak leg, a condition he suffers from, before recovering, sitting up and expressing a wish to return home only to then become a victim of this horrific incident,” Ali...
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June 22, 2017 at 9:09 am
London - Some 600 buildings in England could have been fitted with flammable external panels like the ones believed to have contributed to a fire that killed at least 79 people in a west London apartment building, Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street office said.
Government facilities testing cladding have so far found three tower blocks to have combustible panels. The testing came after local authorities submitted samples following the June 14 fire at Grenfell Tower in north Kensington.
Police and fire officials are trying to determine whether the aluminum composite panels contributed to the rapid spread of the blaze, which engulfed the 24-story building in less than an hour.
“A number of these tests have come back as combustible,” May said. “The re...
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June 22, 2017 at 9:06 am
The tight security around Trump Tower has eased up since Melania and Barron Trump left for the White House, and some area merchants are breathing a sigh of relief now that their customers don’t have to go through a series of checkpoints.
“Crossing Fifth Avenue initially when all this started was a bit of a hassle,” Jonathan Colon, a salesman at the luxury shoe store Crockett & Jones, a block from Trump Tower, said Tuesday. “So now that the police presence has calmed down a bit it’s just much easier to get around the whole area.”
After Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, security around his namesake tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue ramped up dramatically, even including a fleet of heavy sanitation department trucks filled with sand t...
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June 22, 2017 at 9:02 am
Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Dovid Lau Shlita on Wednesday 27 Sivan responded to reports of three swastika attacks in Yerushalayim, including one shul.
Rabbi Lau expressed his deep shock at the desecration of the shul and said that “We cannot accept or digest such grave events. I appeal to the enforcement authorities to use the tools available to them and to bring to justice the desecrators of the shul.”
“It is inconceivable for worshipers to come to the shul in the center of the Holy City and reveal such harsh scenes.”
The Chief Rabbi also addressed clergy of various religions, asking them to issue a statement of condemnation and protest against the blasphemy caused by desecration of the shul as well.
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June 22, 2017 at 9:01 am
Thousands traveled to the tziyun of the Tana R’ Yonasan ben Uziel in Amuka on Tuesday, 27 Sivan, for the yahrzeit.
Mekubal Rav Yechiel Abuchatzera was among the mispallalim, conducting Tikkunim with rabbonim of the yeshiva and kollel who maintain a presence at the tziyun year-round.
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June 22, 2017 at 8:59 am
A police spokesman on Wednesday morning 27 Sivan reported a man was arrested in the capital on suspicion of assaulting an Arab male in a hate attack.
Police over the weekend received a call for a fight in a gas station in which one person was taken to a local hospital with light injuries and the other party fled the scene.
Police responded to the scene and began probing the incident. Police learned that shortly before the attack, a 25-year-old Arab male from the eastern capital was there with a 19-year-old female. Police learned a 25-year-old male passed in his vehicle and when he saw the Arab male with the Jerusalem woman, he asked the male “are you Arab”, to which he responded “yes”. Police believe the male in the vehicle then attacked the Arab male with a...
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June 22, 2017 at 8:51 am
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Simon Wiesenthal Center partnered to present a conference on hate speech on the internet and cyber terrorism. The EchoChamber conference was a platform for high-level discussions with top decision-makers, experts and advisers from Israel, the U.S and Europe, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 19, 2017.
Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yuval Rotem, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Dr. Michael Borchard, of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel, gave opening greetings.
The Keynote Address was delivered by Julia Klöckner, CDU Deputy Chairwoman. Member of Parliament, in the presence of Germa...
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June 22, 2017 at 8:50 am
Adrift and nearly out of money after three months of living out of his van in the Washington area, the gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn’t have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said Wednesday.
James T. Hodgkinson, 66, was shot and killed by police after he opened fire on Congressional Republicans practicing for their annual charity baseball game against Democrats last week. Rep. Steve Scalise of Lousiana, the House majority whip, was struck in the hip and gravely wounded. Scalise remains hospitalized, and his condition was upgraded to fair on Wednesday. All five people who were shot, including two U.S. Capitol police officers, survived their injuries.
At a news conf...
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June 22, 2017 at 8:48 am
Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time, part of a push to recast itself as a company with a conscience and a heart.
Besides the built-in tipping announced Tuesday, Uber is giving drivers an opportunity to make more money in other ways too.
Riders will be charged by the minute if they keep an Uber car waiting for more than two minutes. Uber also is reducing the time riders have to cancel a ride to avoid being slapped with a $5 fee from five minutes to two minutes after summoning a driver.
Uber won’t take any of the tip money. The San Francisco company will continue to collect part of ride-cancellation fees, as well as the waiting-time charges.
The tipping option, long available in the app of rival Lyft, will ...
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June 22, 2017 at 8:47 am
Hamas, a radical Islamic terrorist organization ruling Gaza for the past 10 years, has turned it into a terrorist stronghold. Hamas’ oppressive rule is a threat to Israel, to Palestinians and to the stability of the Middle East.
The following Is an Israel Foreign Ministry video marking ten years of Hamas’ rule.
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June 22, 2017 at 8:47 am
Police are investigating the discovery of a Nazi-themed flag in a storage building at a New York school.
The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports that the black and white flag, bearing a swastika, was found spread on the floor of a barn at the Cambridge Central School campus.
Cambridge-Greenwich Police Chief George Bell says the flag also has an eagle holding a sword and hammer — a symbol of a Hitler youth group.
Bell says people have a right to freedom of expression but it is illegal to trespass in a school building.
The incident was the second involving a Nazi flag in southern Washington County in recent days. The other one was flying in front of a home in Greenwich last week.
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June 22, 2017 at 8:37 am
President Donald Trump called Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince Wednesday as the U.S. stepped up efforts to mediate a crisis between Qatar and America’s closest regional allies.
The president called Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after Saudi Arabia’s King Salman appointed his 31-year-old son as crown prince. The elevation places Mohammed bin Salman as first-in-line to the throne and removed the country’s counterterrorism czar and a figure well-known to Washington from the line of succession.
The White House said in a statement that the two leaders expressed their shared commitment to “cutting off all support for terrorists and extremists, as well as how to resolve the ongoing dispute with Qatar.”
Several members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, ...
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June 22, 2017 at 8:36 am
An Israel Police spokesman on Wednesday 27 Sivan announced the arrest of three “right-wingers” suspected of planning a price tag attack.
The spokesman stated, “For some time now, the police have been working in Jerusalem in an intensified and complex effort to thwart and prevent right-wing activists from trying to carry out price tag attacks, usually aimed at damaging property belonging to minorities.
“In the context of the complex effort in which focused investigative intelligence activity is being carried out, including advanced technological means, by a central unit in Jerusalem, they were located early Sunday morning and three right-wing activists were arrested in line with police suspicions”.
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June 22, 2017 at 8:33 am
The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached an agreement with New York state to settle a lawsuit over voter registration opportunities through state motor vehicle offices.
Federal investigators found applications for New York driver’s licenses, permits and identification cards didn’t consistently serve as applications for voter registration for federal elections as required by law.
Under a settlement agreement, New York will make sure a voter registration opportunity will be included with all applications for driver’s licenses and renewals.
Change of address information submitted for driver’s license purposes will also be used to update voter address information.
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June 22, 2017 at 8:32 am
There was a serious construction site accident on HaShaked Street in Nahariya on Wednesday morning 27 Sivan when a worker fell into a deep pit. MDA officials report the man, in his 30s, was in moderate-to-serious condition when he was extricated from the pit.
Fire rescue extricated the man. One paramedic was lowered down to treat the victim until the rescue could be accomplished. Paramedics add the victim was conscious and alert when transported.
