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October 18, 2017 at 12:20 pm
Israel’s Security Cabinet held a special session in order to discuss policy in the wake of the recent agreement of peace between Palestinian factions of Fatah and Hamas.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said there would be no talks with the Palestinians unless Hamas agrees to a series of conditions it is unlikely to accept, including recognizing Israel and agreeing to disarm. The reason for this stipulation is that the current Palestinian agreement between the warring factions does not include the disbanding or disarmament of Hamas’ military terror wing.
A statement made by the Prime Minister’s office read: “In keeping with previous decisions, the Israeli government will not hold any political negotiations with a Palestinian government that i...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:53 am
Doctors at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa removed a metallic chain from the stomach of a 4-year-old boy who ingested it.
Children are at times curious, and in this case, it led to a visit to an emergency room and invasive treatment. The boy’s sister saw him playing with it and when it suddenly vanished, she understood that he swallowed it. This was confirmed by hospital personnel who ordered an x-ray.
The child was asymptomatic, not complaining of pain or discomfort. It was decided to hold off with an invasive procedure and admit the boy for observation while following the passage of the chain through the stomach and digestive tract, permitting it to pass through the body on its own, which often occurs in such cases. After two days x-rays saw the chain in his stomach and the ...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:50 am
President Donald Trump says he’s “more than close” to naming a new health and human services secretary.
But Trump tells Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade in an interview Tuesday that he’s not ready to reveal a name because the individual’s background needs to be looked into a little bit more.
Trump says that if the Senate approves his eventual choice “it will be a fantastic, a fantastic nomination.”
Tom Price, Trump’s first HHS secretary, resigned under pressure in late September after his costly travel aboard chartered aircraft triggered investigations and angered Trump.
Price was the first member of Trump’s Cabinet to be forced out.
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October 18, 2017 at 11:48 am
The Senate is moving ahead on a Republican budget plan, a critical step in President Donald Trump and the party’s politically imperative drive to cut taxes and simplify the IRS code.
The nonbinding budget plan would permit Republicans to pass follow-up tax cuts later this year that would cost up to $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. The plan cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate on a party-line vote of 50-47.
The plan breaks with longstanding promises by top Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan that the upcoming tax drive won’t add to the nation’s $20 trillion debt. Once the budget plan passes through the GOP-controlled Congress, the House and Senate can then advance a follow-up tax overhaul measure without fear of a...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:46 am
A lawsuit seeking disclosure of FBI files that may detail a U.S.-based support network for the 9/11 hijackers has reached a federal appeals court, which is being asked by a Florida online publication to order a Freedom of Information Act trial on the dispute.
The case centers around reporting published by the Broward Bulldog on the FBI’s investigation into a Saudi family that abruptly left its home in a gated Sarasota community two weeks before the 2001 terror attacks. One FBI document written in 2002 that was disclosed in court said agents had found “many connections” between the family and some of the hijackers who took flying lessons at a nearby airport, including ringleader Mohamed Atta.
Later, however, the FBI disputed its own document, telling a 9/11 review ...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:45 am
An official says work on an electric cable linking the power grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece is on track to start in the first quarter of 2018 after Greek and Cypriot regulators approved the project.
Nasos Ktorides, who heads the EuroAsia Interconnector project, said Monday that Israeli regulators are expected to give their approval next month.
The 1,520-kilometer (945-mile) undersea electric cable with a 2,000-megawatt capacity will be able to both receive and transmit electricity.
Work on the cable is expected to last until 2022 and its first phase will have an estimated cost of around 3.5 billion euros ($4.13 billion).
The project emerged amid improved relations between the three counties, coupled with the discovery of gas deposits in the east Mediterranean that could be us...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:43 am
New York is poised to adopt new standards for the treatment of prisoners held in solitary confinement in local jails.
The state’s Commission on Corrections is expected to formally issue the new rules Tuesday. The changes come at the urging of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and must be published in the state register before taking effect, likely later this fall.
Under the new regulations, all prisoners held in solitary at local jails must get at least four hours outside their cell daily.
The rules will also require local authorities to inform the state when prisoners under 18 are placed in isolation or when an inmate is held in solitary for more than a month.
Cuomo says the standards will prevent prisoner mistreatment.
The state has already implemented changes to reduce solit...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:43 am
Britain’s domestic intelligence chief says the country is facing the worst terrorist threat he’s seen his 34-year career.
MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said in a rare public speech on Tuesday that the threat is “multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.”
Parker says there has been a “dramatic upshift” this year, which has produced attacks in London and the city of Manchester that have killed 36 people combined.
Parker says another 20 attacks were foiled in Britain over the past four years and “many more” were prevented.
He cited a record number of terrorism-related arrests, including 379 during the first six months of 2017.
Parker says it’s impossible for MI5 to st...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:32 am
Multiple people have been injured after a shooting at a business park in Edgewood Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Authorities are asking the public to avoid the Emmorton Business Park area after reports of a shooting.
Harford County authorities are leading the investigation, assisted by state troopers and officers from surrounding counties. Special agents from the ATF are also on the scene, and the FBI is aware of the incident.
Authorities are looking for a man behind the wheel of a red Dodge Charger with Delaware tags. More details should be discussed at a media briefing yet to come.
At least two patients have been sent to Shock Trauma in Baltimore.
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A modified lockdown is in effect at Edgewood High, Edgewood Middle, Deerfield Elementar...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:22 am
Baltimore, MD - October 18, 2017- STAR-K proudly welcomes back Accents and Cocoaccinos (and welcomes the more recently opened Serengeti restaurant) to the STAR-K family, as of November 1. These three Greenspring Shopping Center eateries have been under OU certification over the past several years, however, due to the community’s desire, owners Larry and Lara Franks have decided to resume STAR-K certification. Accents and Serengeti offer glatt kosher cuisine; Cocoaccinos offers a 100% cholov Yisroel menu.
"We are delighted to rejoin the STAR-K family,” says owner Lara Franks. It is something our customers have been requesting for a while, so that their entire families can come together b'simcha and enjoy great meals together in our establishments."
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October 18, 2017 at 11:22 am
The Tower of David Museum (ToD) at Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel, held a grand opening for its new Innovation Lab on Tuesday evening. The ToD Museum housed within the walls of the ancient fortress of King Herrod is to be new home for some of Israel's latest technology development.
Eilat Lieber, Director and Chief Curator, envisions technology coming from the ancient stones as a "leap into tomorrow." Augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology is to enhance the visitors' museum experience. The days of walking through a museum and reading signs is of the past. The future involves integrating AR/VR to reach the younger generation who have grown up with interactive games, cell phones, ipads, and apps, to not just observe, but to ex...
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October 18, 2017 at 11:18 am
A speeding car struck another car head-on, killing four people Tuesday afternoon in Westminster, authorities told 11 News.
The crash was reported around 2:12 p.m. on Route 31 near Old New Windsor Pike.
Carroll County Sheriff's Cpl. Jon Light told 11 News that a deputy traveling west on Route 31 spotted a car traveling east at more than 100 mph. The deputy turned around and came upon the crash scene.
Authorities said the speeding car clipped another car, crossed the center line and hit a third car head-on, killing three of its occupants. The driver of the speeding car also was killed in the crash.
"The suspect vehicle, an Infiniti, was passing another car traveling eastbound ... that was occupied by two people, and that vehicle sustained minor, rear driver's side damage. (Th...
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October 18, 2017 at 10:54 am
Five people have been shot at an office park in the Maryland community of Edgewood, and the shooter is believed to be on the loose, a deputy with the Harford County sheriff’s office said Wednesday morning.
The shooter left the scene — the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood, roughly 30 miles northeast of Baltimore — and no one has been arrested, the deputy said.
Five schools in the Edgewood area were placed on lockdown — meaning students are being kept in the buildings, and visitors are not permitted — at the advice of the sheriff’s office, the county school system said on its website.
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October 18, 2017 at 8:00 am
1:09PM IL: A lone male terrorist ran towards IDF soldiers stationed at Gush Etzion Junction a short time ago. Soldiers implemented protocol, shouting at him several times to halt. When he did not, a warning shot was fired in the air and when the terrorist continued running towards soldiers, gunfire was directed at his legs.
The wounded terrorist was armed with a knife. He was transported by the IDF to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No additional injuries are reported.
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October 17, 2017 at 4:21 pm
President Reuven Rivlin met this morning (Monday), at his residence with Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University in New York, together with faculty member, Israel’s former Ambassador to the US, and former deputy minister, Danny Ayalon.
The President spoke with Rabbi Berman, who took office in June, about the importance of Yeshiva University, and of the emphasis the institution placed on combining Torah and Jewish studies, with academic excellence in other fields. The President also thanked Rabbi Berman for the University’s unwavering support for the State of Israel and the Jewish people around the world.
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October 17, 2017 at 4:18 pm
A federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the policy that was to be implemented starting early Wednesday. He found Trump’s executive order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor.”
The judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, said the new restrictions ignore a federal appeals court ruling that found President Donald Trump’s previous ban exceeds the scope of his authority. The latest version “plainly discriminates based on nationality in the manner that the 9th Circuit has found antithetical to … the founding principles of t...
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October 17, 2017 at 3:19 pm
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea to charges of endangering comrades in Afghanistan has set up a dramatic sentencing hearing that could land him in prison for life.
Bergdahl, who was captured and held by the Taliban for five years after leaving his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009, pleaded guilty Monday in North Carolina to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, a rare charge that carries a potential life sentence.
Because Bergdahl had no plea deal with prosecutors, his punishment will be decided by the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, at a hearing starting Oct. 23.
Bergdahl was thoroughly questioned by Nance at his plea hearing at Fort Bragg, and the soldier acknowledged that his actions — and subsequent military search missions — put fellow service...
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October 17, 2017 at 3:18 pm
The MDA spokesman reports receiving the call at 6:06am on Tuesday, 27 Tishrei for an accident in the Yarkon district between a vehicle and bicycle. The accident occurred on Route 5 near the Kassam Interchange westbound. EMTs and paramedics were dispatched to the call, during which they pronounced a male in his 50s dead on the scene.
Responders explain finding the remnants of the bicycle that was torn apart in the collision and the male supine on the ground nearby. He was in traumatic arrest upon their arrival and had sustained massive head and multisystem trauma.
His identity was not immediately available.
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October 17, 2017 at 3:17 pm
Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to its Windows 10 operating system, hoping to spark enthusiasm for its virtual- and augmented-reality ambitions.
The Windows 10 update became available Tuesday.
Several of Microsoft’s partners — Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo — are simultaneously launching their first “Windows Mixed Reality” headsets Tuesday. Samsung is also releasing one early next month.
Microsoft is also announcing a new generation of laptops in its Surface line. Two versions of the new Surface Book 2 — one 13.5 inches and the other 15 inches — will go on sale next month.
