BOSTON (AP) — The top prosecutors in Massachusetts and New York have sent a letter to Facebook demanding the social media giant protect its users' private information. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched a joint investigation Saturday after reports that British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica captured information from 50 million Facebook users without their consent. The firm is tied to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. Healey says residents in her state "deserve answers immediately," from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica about what data was shared and how it was allowed to happen. Her office says it has been in touch with Facebook about the investigation. Schneiderman says that if the company v...
Palestinian teen provocateur Ahed Tamimi was sentenced to eight months in prison Wednesday for an incident in which she slapped an IDF soldier and accosted him and a comrade.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are taking a closer look at flavors in tobacco products that appeal to young people, particularly menthol-flavored cigarettes, which have escaped regulation despite nearly a decade of government scrutiny. The Food and Drug Administration issued a call Tuesday for more information about flavored cigars and electronic cigarettes, which currently have no flavor restrictions. Extra attention will fall on menthol, the only cigarette flavor permitted by Congress under the 2009 law that brought tobacco under FDA regulation. The FDA's past efforts to begin regulating the ingredient have been stalled by industry. Studies have shown the minty flavor appeals more to younger smokers. More than 50 percent of underage smokers reported smoking menth...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says international donors have raised 456 million euros ($560 million) to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide around 2 million people with safe drinking water. At a pledging conference in Brussels on Tuesday, the EU offered more than 77 million euros, which combined with other donations will meet around 80 percent of the plant's costs. People in the impoverished coastal strip rely on an underground aquifer for their water. But quality is poor and Gazans are drawing off around four times what the aquifer can sustain each year. The Palestinians say water shortages are creating health problems and exacerbating political tensions. The EU says that funding the plant is part of its efforts to help build a Palestinian state.
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the Austin bombings (all times local): 10:35 a.m. A neighbor who watched the Austin bombing suspect grow up says he "always seemed like he was smart" and "polite." Jeff Reeb said Wednesday that he's lived next to the parents of Mark Anthony Conditt for about 17 years and that they are good neighbors. Reeb says Mark Conditt and his grandson played together into middle school and that Conditt visited his parents regularly. The parents live a few miles from the Pflugerville home where Mark Conditt lived with roommates. Reeb says Conditt was in the process of gutting the house and remodeling it, which meant a lot of hammers and nails around frequently. He says police had an unmarked car parked near Conditt's parents' house overn...
ATLANTA (AP) — Prosecutors in west Georgia focused on the race of black potential jurors as they purposely and systematically excluded them from the trials of black men facing the death penalty four decades ago, lawyers for one of the men said in a court filing this week. An all-white jury in 1977 convicted Johnny Gates of raping and murdering a white woman and sentenced him to die. His lawyers have asked a judge for a new trial and argued in a court filing Monday that newly disclosed prosecution trial notes from a string of capital cases tried in Muscogee County in the late 1970s, combined with the consistent striking of black prospective jurors, demonstrate systematic race discrimination in jury selection. "When you have this kind of race discrimination infecting a trial from the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc. has finalized the $2.4 billion purchase of New York City's Chelsea Market building. The management company Jamestown Properties announced the sale of the former Nabisco factory on Tuesday. The building is directly opposite Google's New York City headquarters in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Google has about 7,000 employees in New York, the most of any location outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters. Google vice president for real estate David Radcliffe says the Chelsea Market purchase "further solidifies" the company's commitment to New York. Google and Jamestown say they'll work together to ensure a smooth transition with minimal impact to tenants. The building's office tenants include Major League Baseball and ...
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday's school shooting in Maryland (all times local): 11:30 a.m. The two students wounded during a shooting at their Maryland high school are still recovering in hospitals. A spokeswoman for MedStar St. Mary's Hospital said Wednesday that the 14-year-old male victim of Tuesday's shooting at Great Mills High School remains in good condition. Authorities have not released his name. A spokeswoman for the University of Maryland Prince George's Hospital Center says the 16-year-old female victim remains in critical condition. The girl's family has identified her as Jaelynn Willey. Authorities have said Jaelynn and the teen identified as the shooter, 17-year-old Austin Rollins, had previously had a relationship. They hav...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A fragment of an enigmatic Dead Sea Scroll has gone on public display at Jerusalem's Israel Museum for the first time since its discovery 70 years ago. The Genesis Apocryphon, the sole copy of an ancient Jewish text elaborating on stories from the first book of the Bible, dates to the first century B.C. and was among the first seven scrolls found in the Judean Desert in 1947. The Associated Press previewed the exhibit Tuesday. The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D. They include the earliest known copies of biblical texts, documents outlining the beliefs of a little understood Jewish sect, as well as related texts lik...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal regulators have cited a Baltimore hospital in connection with a January incident in which a mentally ill woman was discharged and left at an open-air bus stop wearing only a flimsy gown and socks. The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday that a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services investigation found the University of Maryland Medical Center violated patient rights as well as several patient safety and hospital management regulations. The 22-year-old woman had been treated for a head wound, but authorities say she became resistant while being discharged. Security intervened and escorted the visibly disoriented woman outside, where temperatures were in the 30s (near zero Celsius). The hospital, which previously apologized for a lack of "basic hu...
The Agudah celebrates 96 years of serving Klal Yisrael Life requires movement. Where there is movement there is life, and where there is life there is a different kind of movement; growth, progress and accomplishment. For over 96 years Agudas Yisrael has been the movement of Torah true yidishkeit. What is a movement? A movement is people uniting behind similar ideals, visions and goals. A movement harnesses the power of numbers to advance those goals. The Agudah has been furthering and continues to further the goals and ideals of Torah and our community, taking the timeless principles of Torah and applying them faithfully to each and every circumstance under the guidance of our Gedolim. It is a movement that has shown the capacity to persevere, and function as effectively today as it did...
Shachar Strug of elite Duvdevan unit buried at military cemetery in Tel Aviv. Strug apparently killed by bullet from his comrade's weapon. Staff Sergeant Shachar Strug, 20, the soldier from the elite Duvdevan special operations force who was killed yesterday by an unintentionally discharged bullet, was laid to rest today, Wednesday, at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv.Among those present at the funeral were Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud), Givatayim mayor Ran Konik, and Boaz Kukia, the father of Ron Kukia, murdered in a terror attack in Arad in November.Strug went to high school in Givatayim, and enlisted in the Duvdevan unit a year ago. He is survived by his parents and sister, all of whom eulogized him at the funeral. A fellow soldier in ...
The wintry mess will continue around Maryland for a little while longer. A Winter Storm Warning is in effect from 2 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday. There will be variable travel conditions Wednesday as the snow continues. Snow ends before 10 p.m. Wednesday evening. Some roads will remain snow covered Wednesday, even with the sun up and air temperatures warming above freezing. SHA said it is not in danger of running out of salt and that it has been replenishing its supply between storms. Temperatures return to the 40s Thursday and Friday. From the National Weather Service:  ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 PM EDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches are expected. * WHERE...The District of Columbia, portions of ...
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GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. This time, the shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically wounded, and a 14-year-old boy also was wounded. The school resource officer who responded inside of 60 seconds and fired off a shot at the attacker was praised as a hero. The violence erupted as classes were beginning Tuesday at Great Mills High School in southern Maryland, in a community where many families have military ties, with parents working at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station or Andrews Air Force Base. It came a month after 17 people were killed at a Florida high school, and intensified ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — At 32 years old, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman controls a vast fortune, a well-heeled military and the future of a nation in the throes of sweeping economic and social change. His ambitious bid to remake Saudi Arabia received a ringing endorsement Tuesday from President Donald Trump as the future leader opened a marathon tour of the United States. Soaking in Trump's plaudits in the Oval Office, Prince Mohammed said little and left most of the talking to his host, who offered an optimistic forecast of lucrative U.S. arms sales to the kingdom and more Saudi investment in the United States. Thousands of American jobs will result, Trump said, even voicing approval for the crown prince's "tremendous" move last year to push aside his older cousin to be...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump convened some of the nation's top law enforcement officials Tuesday to rail against so-called sanctuary cities as he continues his crackdown on jurisdictions that flout federal immigration laws. He accused cities that fail to cooperate with immigration authorities of putting the nation at risk by releasing "thousands of criminal aliens" who should be deported. "In many cases they are very bad actors. We have gang members, we have predators, rapists, killers — a lot of bad people," he said. Trump's latest immigration salvos came as negotiators on Capitol Hill tried to hash out a government-wide spending bill that appears increasingly unlikely to include big money for the president's promised border wall. Trump and his J...
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of trying to recruit people to conduct terrorist attacks in the name of the Islamic State group has been found guilty on federal charges in Ohio. A jury in Akron found 37-year-old Erick Jamal Hendricks guilty Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and attempt to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. Hendricks was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2016, on a federal complaint filed in Cleveland. Authorities say he contacted people over social media trying to recruit them. Authorities also say he told one person his goal was to create a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks in the United States. A message was left for Hendricks' attorney. Hendricks could be sentenced to life in prison....
Baltimore, MD – Mar. 20, 2018 - It is with sadness that BaltimoreJewishLife.com informs the community of the petirah  of Mrs. Chava Israel, z"l, mother of R' Chaim Leib Israel, Mrs. Sura Miriam Werczberger, Rebetzin Malka Feiga (Rav Shaya) Taub and sister of  R’ Mendu Fried. Shiva is being observed at 1849 50th Street (18th & 19th Ave) Boro ParkRebetzin Malka Feiga (Rav Shaya) Taub can be reached at 914.218.1304. She will be sitting shiva in NY the entire week. Bila HaMaves LaNetzach...
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