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April 25, 2018 at 8:57 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is saving one of its biggest cases for last. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries.
It's the last case the justices will hear until October.
The Trump administration is asking the court to reverse lower court rulings striking down the ban. The policy has been fully in effect since December, but this is the first time the justices are considering whether it violates immigration law or the Constitution.
The court will consider whether the president can indefinitely keep people out of the country based on nationality. It will also look at whether the policy is aimed at excluding Muslims from the United States.
People have been waiting in line for a...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:57 am
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must resume a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation but gave it 90 days to restate its arguments before his order takes effect.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington, if it survives the 90-day reprieve, would be a new setback for the administration because it would require the administration to accept requests from first-time applicants for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Two nationwide injunctions earlier this year applied only to renewal requests.
Bates said the administration's decision to end DACA, announced in September, relied on "meager legal reasoning." He invited the Department of Homeland Security to try again...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:56 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Kim Jong Un wants a historic, high-stakes meeting as soon as possible and suggested the North Korean dictator has been "very open" and "very honorable," a sharply different assessment of a leader he once denounced as "Little Rocket Man."
The United States and North Korea have been negotiating a summit between Trump and Kim to be held in May or June to broker a deal on Pyongyang's nuclear program. Trump, who has struck a decidedly optimistic tone on the situation in recent days, said Tuesday that the United States and North Korea were having "good discussions."
"We have been told directly that they would like to have the meeting as soon as possible. We think that's a great thing for the world," Trump said Tuesday at the White H...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:43 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — His nomination in peril, Veterans Affairs nominee Ronny Jackson fought to convince lawmakers of his leadership abilities as more details of accusations against him emerged, ranging from repeated drunkenness to a toxic work environment as he served as a top White House doctor.
President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about his choice to lead the sprawling veterans' agency, suggesting during a White House news conference that Jackson may want to withdraw because of unfair scrutiny. But the president privately urged his nominee to keep fighting to win Senate confirmation, and Jackson showed few signs of backing down.
A watchdog report requested in 2012 and reviewed by The Associated Press found that Jackson and a rival physician exhibited "unprofessional behavi...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:42 am
DALLAS (AP) — A man who shot and critically wounded two Dallas police officers and hurt an employee at a home improvement store led law enforcement on a high-speed car chase before he was captured in a late-night arrest.
The two officers and the store loss-prevention officer underwent surgery for their injuries after the shooting Tuesday afternoon at the Home Depot store in the north of the city, Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said late Tuesday night. She did not provide the officer's names or other details, but asked for continued prayers for their recovery.
Police arrested Armando Luis Juarez, 29, on charges of aggravated assault on a police officer and felony theft. He was taken into custody shortly before 10 p.m.
"We got our man," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at the...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:40 am
PARKVILLE, MD (AP) — Baltimore County Police say all of the juvenile suspects allegedly involved in the carjacking of a pregnant teacher have been arrested.
Authorities say four teenage girls attacked the teacher at the elementary school where she worked. They violently stole her purse, her cellphone and her Kia Sportage.
The first two suspects were quickly identified, arrested and charged. Investigators found the other two in recent days.
In a Tuesday statement, Baltimore County Police allege the female suspects have been involved in at least two other car thefts. They believe they have also been behind street robberies and purse snatchings in the city of Baltimore.
The girls showed up at the Parkville elementary school on Friday under the guise of enrolling a child, then attack...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:40 am
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — It took a big money push from the Republican Party, tweets by the president and the support of the state's current and former governors, but the GOP held onto an Arizona U.S. House seat they would have never considered endangered in any other year.
Tuesday's narrow victory by Republican Debbie Lesko over a Democratic political newcomer sends a big message to Republicans nationwide: Even the reddest of districts in a red state can be in play this year. Early returns show Lesko winning by about 5 percentage points in Arizona's 8th Congressional District where Donald Trump won by 21 percentage points.
"Debbie will do a Great Job!" the president tweeted Wednesday.
The former state senator defeated Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room physician...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:36 am
Eight school systems applied for waivers to the state school board to allow them to go to school fewer than the 180 required days due to circumstances like the weather.
An executive order by Gov. Hogan prohibited schools from being in session past June 15, but the Maryland General Assembly approved emergency legislation to allow them to forgo that deadline to get to 180 school days.
The board approved a one-day waiver for Kent County and St. Mary's County and an eight-hour waiver for Baltimore County High Schools. They denied a one-day waiver for schools in Cecil County and denied two-day waivers for Caroline, Howard, Somerset and Queen Anne's counties. They will have school June 18 and 19.
Requesting waivers is something that happens to some extent every year, but this y...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:32 am
SALIDA, Colorado (AP) — The co-owner of a Colorado crane company where the suspect in a deadly weekend shooting at a Nashville restaurant once worked said she had urged federal officials to keep him in custody after he was arrested at the White House last year.
Travis Reinking, 29, is accused of opening fire Sunday outside a Waffle House with an AR-15 rifle and then storming the restaurant, wearing only a green jacket. Four people were killed and four others were wounded in the shooting.
But Reinking had exhibited erratic behavior for years before the shooting. Darlene Sustrich, who co-owns a Colorado crane company where Reinking once worked, said they got a call from the FBI after he allegedly tried to jump the White House fence last July.
"We told them, 'Hang onto him if yo...
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April 25, 2018 at 8:24 am
BERLIN (AP) — People wearing kippot as a sign of protest are taking to the streets in several German cities, taking a stand against an anti-Semitic assault in Berlin.
Some 150 protesters came to a rally Wednesday in the eastern German city of Erfurt and hundreds more are expected later in the day in Berlin, Cologne and Potsdam.
The kippa protest follows last week's assault on two young men wearing the skullcaps. The attack, in which a 19-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker is a suspect, added to growing concern about anti-Semitism.
The country's main Jewish leader said Tuesday he would advise people visiting big cities against wearing kippot. His comment drew sharp criticism from other Jewish leaders, who say it is time for Jews to wear a kippa to show they're not afraid.
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April 25, 2018 at 8:18 am
In part one of this article we examined why, in spite of their overwhelming popularity, diets are failures. We established that adherence is the most important component of a food program for success along with avoidance of all or nothing thinking. The article also stated that small, gradual changes are best for changing poor habits and creating new and healthy behaviors. The bottom line in weight loss is still creating a calorie deficit, but in a way we can stick to. In part 2, we will now examine many ways to create a situation where more calories are being used as energy than are being consumed. In addition, a few tips for better adherence to your program will be suggested.
Dr. Kravitz has come up with 50 different concrete suggestions for cutting calories with...
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April 24, 2018 at 8:45 pm
Baltimore, MD - Apr. 24, 2018 - An exciting new night seder chaburah has begun in Kehillas Kol Torah. The Mir Night Kollel features an intense learning environment for baalei batim, giving them the chance to get totally involved in the sugya, and feel as if they are back in yeshivah, even after a long day at work.
Several similar chaburos in various communities in the past three years, including Lakewood, Englewood, New Jersey, and Brooklyn. The chaburos are directed by Harav Yosef Elefant, Shlita, R”M at Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, who provides mareh mekomos and then broadcasts a live shiur via Skype on Thursday evenings at 9:30 p.m. Participants in the various locations can all interject with questions and Rav Elefant is available afterward to answer questions.
I...
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April 24, 2018 at 7:00 pm
This article consists of two original shaylos that I wrote in Hebrew. These teshuvos are in the process of being edited for the next volume of Shu”t Nimla Tal, which, when ready, will be uploaded to the website RabbiKaganoff.com. Both teshuvos are germane to atypical questions I have been asked about the laws of loshon hora. The two questions were:
A therapist requesting guidance concerning what she should or should not say about a couple that she had counseled through a divorce.
Is it loshon hora to tell over something that the person himself is not embarrassed about and does in public? For example, when these is no reason for the other person to know (no to’eles), is it loshon hora to say that someone has extreme political positions that he h...
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April 24, 2018 at 6:13 pm
Raphael Ahren reports for TOI that U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Monday that when “you look at Jerusalem under the sovereignty of the Israeli government, how it’s been able to maintain the openness that it’s had – rather than a place of conflict, it’s actually the model for coexistence in the world.”
“The Old City of Jerusalem is all of one square kilometer, and yet it houses the most holy places for two of the three major religions and a very holy place for the third. And Jerusalem over the past 51 years now has become a place like it’s never been before. It’s a place where people who want to worship at the Kotel [the Western Wall], al-Aqsa [mosque] or the Church of the Holy Sepulcher all can do so wit...
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April 24, 2018 at 6:04 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — James Comey's "A Higher Loyalty" had a very big opening week.
Flatiron Books announced Tuesday that sales topped 600,000 copies, a number that includes print, audio and e-books. The former FBI director's memoir has been one of the year's most anticipated releases. It includes his accounts of investigating Hillary Clinton's emails and of his awkward encounters with President Donald Trump.
Comey, fired by Trump a year ago, has likened the president to a crime boss who values personal loyalty over service to the country. Published April 17, "A Higher Loyalty" is the hottest political book since Michael Wolff's million-selling "Fire and Fury," which came out in January.
Both books were published by imprints of Macmillan.
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April 24, 2018 at 6:00 pm
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Construction workers in Iran may have unearthed the mummified remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the country's last monarch, nearly four decades after the Islamic Revolution toppled the dynasty.
The recent find of the gauze-wrapped body has triggered intense speculation and revived discussion of Iran's dynastic past, which the clerically-run government has spent decades trying to suppress. A mob demolished Reza Shah's tomb shortly after the 1979 revolution, and the family lives in exile.
The monarchy's widespread abuses did much to fuel the revolution, but its mystique persists as Iran grapples with economic woes and calls for reform ahead of the 40th anniversary of the uprising.
Reza Shah's grandson, the U.S.-ba...
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April 24, 2018 at 5:53 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — So much for an abrupt U.S. pullout from Syria.
One month ago President Donald Trump surprised many, including some in his own administration, by announcing, "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now." He insisted that the time had come for the U.S. military to shift its focus away from Syria.
But on Tuesday, it was clear that something or someone had changed Trump's mind.
The president said at a White House news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at his side that before the U.S. withdraws from Syria, "we want to leave a strong and lasting footprint." This long-term approach, he added, was "a very big part" of his conversation with Macron, who told reporters that he and Trump now agree that the...
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April 24, 2018 at 5:50 pm
There’s a famous quote attributed to Henry Wotton that “An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
If one takes this aphorism to heart, it is not limited to ambassadors, but to anyone in a nation’s foreign policy establishment.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is not an honest gentleman, has taken the art of lying for his country to a new level. He brazenly lies about easily verifiable facts. He claims that his nation that is currently exporting its revolution across the Middle East is the unfair victim of the United States. And he claims that Iran has never sought a nuclear weapon.
Zarif’s serial dishonesty was on display this weekend when he appeared on the CBS news show, “F...
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April 24, 2018 at 5:46 pm
Two former allies of former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie convicted in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case say their actions didn't violate federal law.
Attorneys for Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly argued in federal appeals court on Tuesday that their 2016 convictions should be thrown out because the government misapplied the law when it charged them.
They were convicted in 2016 on fraud, conspiracy and civil rights counts for causing traffic jams to punish a New Jersey mayor who wouldn't endorse Christie for re-election.
Baroni faces 24 months in prison, and Kelly faces 18 months.
Their attorneys argued Tuesday that the indictment against them was flawed because there is no recognized right to intrastate travel and because the lane realignment didn'...
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April 24, 2018 at 5:43 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A former Brooklyn prosecutor was convicted Tuesday of bribery and conspiracy in a gun-permit scandal after giving bribes including a diamond-studded watch to a former New York Police Department sergeant.
John Chambers, 63, of Manhattan, lowered and shook his head as guilty verdicts were announced by a jury forewoman in Manhattan federal court. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III set sentencing for Aug. 9.
The conviction came after an ex-NYPD police sergeant testified about lavish gifts he received from Chambers in exchange for speeding up the processing of gun licenses. Prosecutors said permits that normally would take 30 to 40 days to be granted sometimes would be issued within hours.
A lawyer for Chambers said his client was framed by the ex-sergeant.
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