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March 22, 2018 at 9:55 am
Congress is poised to give the Pentagon flexibility on when and how it can spend the cash windfall it is set to get in a massive government spending bill unveiled Wednesday.
Under the bill, known as the omnibus, the Pentagon would be allowed to spend up to 25 percent of its operations and maintenance funds in the last two months of the fiscal year. It would also have more flexibility to reprogram funding.
The omnibus would provide $700 billion for defense spending in fiscal year 2018, an $80 billion increase over caps that were lifted as part of a budget deal. That number covers the Pentagon, as well as non-Pentagon defense programs such as the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons program.
Read more at The Hill.
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March 22, 2018 at 9:53 am
Why was the Obama campaign’s use of Facebook data with voters considered genius while the Trump campaign’s methods are ‘scandalous’?
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March 22, 2018 at 9:51 am
President Trump late Wednesday night tweeted about the new budget being negotiated in Congress.
“Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming. Most importantly, got $700 Billion to rebuild our Military, $716 Billion next year…most ever. Had to waste money on Dem giveaways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment.”
“Democrats refused to take care of DACA. Would have been so easy, but they just didn’t care. I had to fight for Military and start of Wall. (sic)”
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March 22, 2018 at 9:49 am
Former FBI profiler James Fitzgerald is a pioneer in the science of profiling criminals and tracking down perpetrators. He shares insight about the Austin bombing case on ‘The Story.’
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March 22, 2018 at 9:47 am
Attorney Reuven Ladianski of Tel Aviv’s Let Live party blasted Chabad shluchim after one of them offered him a chance to put on tefillin in the city hall.
“Missionaries in the corridors of the Tel Aviv municipality!” he wrote on Facebook. “The man in the photo is a Chabad chossid who was wandering about on the 11th floor of the building and accosted me on my way to my office and offered me without hesitation and shame to put on tefillin.”
“I told him that city hall is not a place for missionaries and that he must leave the building,” Ladianski wrote, saying he would struggle against such religious coercion.
Responses flooded in, many of them blasting Ladianski.
Right-wing activist Yoav Aliasi posted: “Th...
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March 22, 2018 at 9:46 am
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz sides with President Trump over Mueller’s Russia investigation, shares his insight on ‘Hannity.’
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March 22, 2018 at 9:44 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the 2018 elections already underway, senators chided the current and former secretaries of Homeland Security on Wednesday for not more strongly warning the American public about past Russian intrusions in state election systems and for a lack of urgency to protect balloting this year.
Kirstjen Nielsen, President Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, testified alongside Jeh Johnson, secretary under former President Barack Obama, as the Senate intelligence committee launched an effort to protect the country's election security after Russian agents targeted election systems in 21 states ahead of the 2016 general election. There's no evidence that any hack in the November 2016 election affected election results, but the attempts rattled sta...
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March 22, 2018 at 9:43 am
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Lawmakers in Kosovo approved a contentious and long-pending border demarcation deal with Montenegro Wednesday despite the opposition's use of tear gas to prevent a vote.
The 120-seat parliament voted 80-11 to endorse the deal, ensuring its passage with the minimum two-thirds support required.
The European Union has set the border agreement as a precondition for Kosovo's citizens to travel without visas in Europe's the Schengen travel zone
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli said he was hopeful the EU would follow through and let Kosovars enjoy visa-free, as citizens of other Balkan region countries already do.
The opposition Self-Determination party says Kosovo loses 8,200 hectares (20,000 acres) of its territory under the agreement, which ...
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March 22, 2018 at 5:47 am
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March 21, 2018 at 11:26 pm
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN
Former Shas party leader Eli Yishai, who was a member of the Security Cabinet in 2007, speaks about events following the revelation of details surrounding Israel’s attack against the Syrian nuclear facility.
“I left the meeting and headed directly to Rav Ovadia to consult with him. He understood and gave his bracha for the mission and the soldiers involved”, stated Yishai.
He explains that on that dramatic day, and after many discussions by the forum of seven (political-security cabinet), regarding the attack on the reactor and its destruction, the cabinet convened to approve the operation. Yishai said that he told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and then Defense Minister Ehud Barak that if he wants his consent, he must go to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef...
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March 21, 2018 at 11:00 pm
President visits homes of Adiel Kolman, Lt. Ziv Daus and Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, all of whom were murdered in terror attacks in past 7 days; 'Our children grow up and are tasked with our defense. When such a calamity befalls us, we look up to you,' president tells Daus's family, later asking Kolman's widow to 'lend me your strength.'
President Reuven Rivlin paid his respects Wednesday to the family of Adiel Kolman, who was murdered in a Jerusalem stabbing attack this week, and the families of Lieutenant Ziv Daus and Sergeant Netanel Kahalani, murdered in the ramming attack near Mevo Dotan this past weekend.
Visiting the Daus residence, the president listened to stories about Ziv and his family. His father, Ronen, told Rivlin...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:08 pm
DAPCHI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram Islamic extremists brought back nearly all of the 110 girls they had kidnapped from a boarding school last month, dropping them off in the middle of the night Wednesday with a warning: "Don't ever put your daughters in school again."
Several of the girls interviewed by The Associated Press said they had been traveling for days before the convoy of vehicles arrived in the center of the town of Dapchi around 2 a.m. Residents who had fled upon hearing that Boko Haram was headed their way watched from hiding as dozens of girls descended from the vehicles apparently unharmed.
"We were freed because we are Muslim girls and they didn't want us to suffer. That is why they released us," said Khadija Grema, one of the freed girls who said a Christi...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:04 pm
Hamas says it searching for suspect in last week’s bomb attack on PA cabinet leader Rami Hamdallah.
Hamas on Wednesday named a suspect in last week’s bomb attack on Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet leader Rami Hamdallah, AFPreported.
Hamdallah was unhurt by the roadside blastthat struck his convoy on March 13 as he visited Hamas-run Gaza.
The interior ministry in Gaza on Wednesday said it was searching for Anas abu Koussa, born in 1993, describing him as the lead suspect in the attack.
It did not provide a possible motive for the attack on Hamdallah. A Hamas security source said investigators had arrested and were questioning three people, including two members of the PA-run intelligence services.
Another security source said he believed radical Salafist Muslim...
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March 21, 2018 at 10:02 pm
Senate expected to pass Taylor Force Act which would cut funding to the PA if it continues to pay terrorists.
The Senate is expected to pass the Taylor Force Act this week as part of the $1.3 trillion omnibus appropriations bill, The Jewish Insiderreported on Wednesday, citing Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who introduced the legislation last year.
The Taylor Force act would eliminate U.S. funding that directly benefits the Palestinian Authority (PA) as long it continues its policy of paying stipends to terrorists or their families.
The legislation, named for U.S. army veteran Taylor Force who was murdered in a stabbing attack in Jaffa in March of 2016, was approved by the House of Representatives in December but has yet to clear the Senate. The omnibus faces ...
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March 21, 2018 at 8:30 pm
ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the Austin bombings (all times local):
6:20 p.m.
Police have discovered a 25-minute recording on a cellphone found with bombing suspect Mark Conditt and Austin Police Chief Brian Manley says he considers it a "confession."
Manley says at a news conference that Conditt talks on the recording in great detail about the differences among the bombs he built.
He says that the tape is "the outcry of a very challenged young man."
Officials say the 23-year-old Conditt blew himself up in his vehicle overnight as authorities closed in on him.
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4:30 p.m.
An official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says the agency is reasonably certain there are no other devices "out in the public," but he urges caution.
ATF Special A...
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March 21, 2018 at 8:30 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A military analyst for Fox News said Tuesday that he was quitting the network because he believed it had turned into a propaganda machine for President Donald Trump's administration.
Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer, said he told Fox at the beginning of the month that he did not want his contributor contract renewed.
"Over my decade at Fox, I was long proud of the association," Peters wrote in an email that was distributed to colleagues at Fox News, and first reported by BuzzFeed News. "Now I am ashamed."
Fox said in a statement that the network did not want attributed to a specific spokesperson that Peters was entitled to his opinion, "despite the fact that he's choosing to use it as a weapon in order to get attention." Fox said it was proud of ...
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March 21, 2018 at 8:30 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican Rick Saccone conceded defeat to Democrat Conor Lamb on Wednesday night in a closely watched special election in Pennsylvania, more than a week after the end of a remarkable race that has shaken GOP confidence ahead of the November midterm elections.
Lamb, 33, claimed the seat by about 750 votes in a Republican-held district that President Donald Trump won by almost 20 percentage points just 16 months ago. Lamb, who struck a moderate tone during the race and was backed by the district's influential labor unions, beat Saccone, a state lawmaker who had compiled one of the most conservative voting records in the state Legislature.
Lamb also benefited from what Pittsburgh-area Democrats called the party's most energized electorate they had eve...
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March 21, 2018 at 8:30 pm
LONDON (AP) — Chris Wylie can't prove the work he did for Cambridge Analytica helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election, but he thinks he has pretty good evidence.
While working for the political consulting company from 2013 to 2015, Wylie's team spoke to Americans in focus groups to identify deep-seated concerns. Then they tested ways to tap into those fears through social media. The slogans they developed later became the catchphrases of the Trump campaign, he says.
"My ears perked up when I started hearing some of these things like 'drain the swamp' or 'build the wall' or 'the deep state' because these were all narratives that had come out from the research that we were doing," Wylie told an audience at London's Frontline...
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March 21, 2018 at 8:00 pm
Baltimore, MD - Mar. 21, 2018 - The Baltimore City Department of Public Works advises citizens that shortly before noon today, Wednesday, March 21, trash and recycling collection was cancelled for the remainder of the day due to worsening weather and road conditions. Make-up collections, service on Thursday, March 22, and additional updates will be announced as further assessment of the weather and routes are made. Please stay tuned to your local news, Twitter and Facebook for updates. Mechanical street sweeping was announced Tuesday evening as cancelled as drivers are reassigned to emergency snow operations.
