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September 25, 2017 at 9:40 am
The average price of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline fell 7 cents nationally over the past two weeks, to $2.62.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the drop comes as flooded refineries continue to come back online after devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey.
Lundberg says she expects prices will continue to fall in the next few weeks.
Gas in San Francisco was the highest in the contiguous United States at an average of $3.18 a gallon. The lowest was in St. Louis at $2.19 a gallon.
The U.S. average diesel price is $2.51, down 2 cents from two weeks ago.
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September 25, 2017 at 9:38 am
A masked gunman opened fire at a Nashville church Sunday, walking silently down the aisle as he shot unsuspecting congregants. At least one person was killed and seven others wounded, authorities said.
An usher confronted the shooter, who apparently shot himself in the struggle before he was arrested, police said.
The FBI said Sunday night it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.
No motive was immediately determined. Church members told investigators that the suspect had attended services a year or two ago, said Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Metro Nashville Police Department. Nashville police did not immediately comment on several bizarre posts on the suspect’s Facebook page in the hours before the shooting.
The ...
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September 25, 2017 at 9:37 am
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term Sunday, but now faces the tricky prospect of forming a coalition with two disparate new partners after voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist, anti-migrant party surged into parliament.
Merkel’s center-left challenger, Martin Schulz, conceded his Social Democrats had suffered a “crushing election defeat,” with projections showing the party’s worst performance in post-World War II Germany.
He vowed to take his party, the junior partner in Merkel’s outgoing “grand coalition” of Germany’s traditionally dominant parties, into opposition.
“We have a mandate to form a new government, and no government can be formed against us,” Merkel told cheering supporters. She a...
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September 25, 2017 at 9:36 am
Republican opposition to the GOP health care bill swelled to near-fatal numbers Sunday as Sen. Susan Collins all but closed the door on supporting the last-ditch effort to scrap the Obama health care law and Sen. Ted Cruz said that “right now” he doesn’t back it.
In a late bid to win votes and stave off defeat, Republicans were adding $14.5 billion to the measure for states, according to documents obtained late Sunday by The Associated Press.
White House legislative liaison Marc Short and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of the measure’s sponsors, said Republicans would press ahead with a vote this week. But the comments by Collins and Cruz left the Republican drive to uproot President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act dangling by an increasingly fray...
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September 25, 2017 at 9:34 am
Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd. the company responsible for the building of the Tel Aviv light-rail system has notified the city of Bnei Brak that it intends to carry on with construction work, within the city limits of Bnei Brak during Yom Kippur.
According to a report on Channel 10 news, the letter was sent to the Bnei Brak Legal Advisor stating that certain aspects of the construction project would continue in parts of the city during the holiest of days.
Following the arrival of the main digging mechanism at Bnei Brak in order to dig tunnels for the new mass transit system, NTA notified the city’s legal adviser that while digging was not scheduled for the weekend of Yom Kippur, there would be people required to work in order to safeguard the machine from vandalism o...
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September 25, 2017 at 9:33 am
The Secret Service says it arrested someone near the White House on Sunday for possessing firearms.
In a statement Monday, the agency says officers were approached by an individual at 17th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue at about 7:15 a.m. Sunday. The location is the Old Executive Office Building, part of the White House grounds.
The Secret Service says the person was arrested for possessing “several firearms.” It provided no further details.
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September 25, 2017 at 9:31 am
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer said Sunday.
Between January and August, Kushner either received or responded to fewer than 100 emails from White House officials from his private account, attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement that confirmed Kushner’s use of a personal address in the first months of the administration.
The use of a private email account to discuss government matters is a politically freighted issue that factored prominently in last year’s presidential election. Trump repeatedly attacked Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for setting up a private email server as secretary of state, a decision that prompted an F...
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September 25, 2017 at 9:30 am
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says she trusts President Donald Trump to keep his word and support legislation to protect from deportation young immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who came here as children.
Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer have said they had an agreement with Trump to protect those immigrants while also bolstering border security — as long as his long-promised wall with Mexico is addressed separately.
Republicans in Congress insist there isn’t an actual deal, though Trump has said the two sides were “fairly close.”
Pelosi tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” — “I trust him on it.” She says she remains concerned about what Trump might come up with on border security.
Pelosi says she ex...
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September 25, 2017 at 9:30 am
Within 10 days more than 900 summonses were filed against drivers who failed to keep right. The Israel Police continues to significantly increase enforcement against the offense of not keeping right as much as possible.
Traffic enforcement police explain It is the duty of a driver on the road to maintain the right lane during his journey, driving on the left lane constitutes a disturbance to movement and delaying the other drivers on the road, while the left lane is intended only for passing other vehicles. According to the law, maintain the right is an offense that carries a fine of 250 NIS and 6 points against the driver.
In the framework of the enforcement activity against road and life-threatening offenses, the traffic enforcement officers have significantly increased enforceme...
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September 24, 2017 at 10:19 pm
Baltimore, MD - Sept. 25, 2017 - Kaylah Diamonds & Jewelry celebrate the grand opening of their beautiful new showroom at 1312 Reisterstown Rd. (formerly Weinreb & Friedman) with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The staff at Kaylah Diamonds thanks the community for their support and looks forward to serving you for many years to come.
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September 24, 2017 at 9:24 pm
We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Reb Shimon Gitelis Z”L, who was Niftar today in Lakewood. He was 102.
Reb Shimon, Z”L, was one of the last “Alter Mirrer”, the title given to those who learned in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland, and who miraculously survived the hands of the Nazis, Y'sh by fleeing with the entire Yeshiva through Kobe, Japan, and on to Shanghai, China. He was also Zoche to have studied under Hagaon HaRav Yeruchim Levovitz, ZATZAL, in the Mir – likely the last living Talmid.
He served as a Rebbe in Yeshiva Toras Ems in New York for approximately 30 years and resided in Lakewood for the last 22 years of his life.
His children are Reb Moshe (Lakewood), Mrs. Hindy David (Lakewood), and Mrs. Hadassah Singer (Chicago), Reb Ze...
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September 24, 2017 at 9:21 pm
On this coming Friday, Erev Yom Kippur, Egged buses around the country will gradually halt service. The schedule will be as follows according to Egged spokesman Ron Ratner.
Intercity buses will halt between 13:30-15:00
Urban bus service to halt between 14:00-15:00
Service will be renewed gradually on motzei Shabbos beginning at 20:30. Ratner strongly advises erev Yomtov travelers to check with the Egged information operator or the updated scheduled online since changes often do occur.
The Egged central information numbers are 03-694-8888 or *2800 or one may send an SMS text message from phones to 2800 (without the star).
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September 24, 2017 at 7:00 pm
As five million Kurds in northern Iraq prepare for Monday’s historic referendum on independence, Israelis from across the political spectrum continue to embrace the prospect of a separate state of Kurdistan – nearly a century after the imperial powers reneged on their promise of Kurdish self-determination.
“I fully support the Kurdish people’s right to national self-determination,” Yair Lapid – chairperson of Israel’s opposition Yesh Atid party and a former finance minister – told The Algemeiner on Sunday.
“The Jewish people know what it is to struggle for an independent homeland and the Kurds have a moral right to a state of their own,” Lapid stressed. Addressing international objections to Monday’s vo...
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September 24, 2017 at 6:57 pm
Sikrikim entered the Vishnitz Shul in Monsey during Rosh Hashanah and in the presence of the Rebbe, Shlita, who is considered the elder of the admorim in the USA today, began shouting against Deputy Education Minister Rav Meir Porush, who was present for yomtov. Also present was his son, Elad Mayor Yisrael Porush and twin grandchildren, who came for a bracha ahead of their bar mitzvas in Eretz Yisrael this week.
The sikrikim waited for the shul to be quiet during musaf and then began shouting “sheigetz” at Porush. They returned on shabbos during laining, apprehended, and sent to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
As was the case in recent years, sikrikim organized groups to create disturbances such as these during Rosh Hashana in the USA. It is reported their number...
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September 24, 2017 at 6:57 pm
The incident begins with Israel’s disabled community protesting and blocking roads in their effort to achieve additional rights from the government. In their latest protest, disabled Israelis blocked the Ayalon Highway.
A harsh exchange of words took place on Radio 103 between coalition whip David Bitan and Mrs. Leah Goldin, the mother of IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin HY”D, who was killed in Gaza fighting in 2014 and whose body was taken by Hamas.
During Goldin’s program, she spoke of the battle being waged by the disabled and the need to increase their rights.
Bitan stated the minimum wage increase they seek at present will not occur, adding “If there is budgeting available, I would first direct it towards the senior citizens or the seniors and the disabled”
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September 24, 2017 at 6:57 pm
As expected, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was reelected on Sunday to a fourth term in office in her country’s federal election, but many Jewish observers received the results with concern, due to the strong showing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The latest tally — as of press time — showed the 63-year-old Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union getting around 33 percent of the vote, with Martin Schulz’s Social Democratic Party coming in second at around 21 percent. Merkel has served as chancellor since 2005.
The populist and Eurosceptic AfD — which was founded in 2013 — finished third, notching 13 percent support.
All mainstream parties have ruled out forming a coalition with Afd, which will become the f...
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September 24, 2017 at 6:57 pm
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says a Republican tax overhaul plan expected to come out this week will offer help for the middle class and businesses.
He says the plan “creates a middle-income tax cut, it makes businesses competitive and it creates jobs.”
Mnuchin tells ABC’s “This Week” there are changes, too, for the “high end,” including “getting rid of lots of deductions.”
But he’s offering no specifics.
In the past, Mnuchin has said there would be no “absolute tax cut” for the wealthy.
On Sunday, he said: “It was never a promise. It was never a pledge. What it was and it is still, it was what the president’s objective was.”
He added: “The current plan for many, many people it ...
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September 24, 2017 at 4:50 pm
On 26 Elul, a taxi driver arrived at the Ramat Gan police station with a bag containing gold and jewels valued at tens of thousands of shekels. The driver explained that he checked he vehicle at the end of a day and found the bag, which he assumes was forgotten by a passenger.
Police found a SIM card among the jewelry and began working with the lead to track down the owner. Police were successful and returned the valuable items to their rightful owner on erev Rosh Hashanah, receiving warm thanks and words of praise.
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September 24, 2017 at 4:48 pm
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard has displayed the country’s sophisticated Russian-made S-300 air defense system in central Tehran.
This is the first time that the S-300 air defense system has been displayed in public.
The public show in Tehran’s Baharestan square near the Parliament building square exhibited different missile systems, including ballistic missiles, solid-fuel surface-to-surface Sejjil missiles and the liquid-fuel Ghadr.
The IRGC prepared the show for the annual Defense Week, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed in August a bill imposing mandatory penalties on those involved in Iran’s controversial ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them.
