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February 10, 2019 at 8:46 pm
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says President Trump will not sign a bill that includes less bed space for ICE detention facilities for violent offenders.
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February 10, 2019 at 8:45 pm
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel weighs in on the ongoing border security negotiations.
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February 10, 2019 at 8:43 pm
An Iranian nuclear scientist in possession of information about the Revolutionary Guards’ nuclear program was smuggled from Tehran to Britain in a combined operation that involved intelligence agents from Britain, the United States, and Israel.
British media reported that British intelligence agents used the immigrant crisis and smuggled the scientist in a dinghy. The Sunday Express newspaper implies he has been a western asset for years, who helped plan the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a nuclear scientist who died in a 2012 Tehran car explosion.
The 47-year-old scientist hid among Iranian immigrants in a boat that crossed the Channel. The engineer arrived in Kent, England, along with 12 other immigrants. The MI6, Mossad, and the CIA were involved in the operation.
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February 10, 2019 at 8:40 pm
BERLIN (AP) — Five watercolors attributed to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler from his early days as a struggling artist have failed to sell at auction in the southern German city of Nuremberg, possibly over fears they could be fakes.
The Nuremberger Nachrichten newspaper reported Sunday that no bids were received on the paintings, which had starting prices of between 19,000 euros ($21,500) and 45,000 euros ($50,900).
Three days before Saturday's auction, prosecutors seized 63 other paintings attributed to Hitler from the auction house to investigate allegations they were fakes.
In Berlin last month, prosecutors seized three other Hitler watercolors after receiving a complaint questioning their authenticity.
As a young man, Hitler unsuccessfully struggled to succeed as an artist i...
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February 10, 2019 at 6:29 pm
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 10, 2019 - Yitzy Kaplowitz is a singer/songwriter/ guitarist on a mission to share heartfelt and inspiring Jewish music.
Yitzy has been composing and performing since he was a young boy, but he put his musical pursuits on hold for a number of years to train to be a physician. After completing his medical training Yitzy returned to his music with a renewed passion and energy. Yitzy is a sought after performer and together with his band Ohr Haganuz performs throughout the greater Baltimore area. Yitzy does not typically sit down to compose music; most of his compositions were gifts from above that came to him during times of deep hergesh. Musically, his compositions cover a range of styles, from folk to funk, Americana t...
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February 10, 2019 at 6:27 pm
בס”ד מוצ”ש ועשו לי מקדש
חיל ורעדה יאחזון בשמועה הנוראה שבאו שבאו פריצים בעיצומו של יום �...
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February 10, 2019 at 4:34 pm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. (all times local):
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Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar says if elected president she will seek to immediately address the problem of climate change.
She tells a Minneapolis crowd that on Day One of her administration, the U.S. would rejoin the Paris climate accord, the landmark agreement on curbing global warming. President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the accord in 2017, describing it as too costly for American businesses and taxpayers.
Klobuchar also says in her first 100 days as president she would reinstate clean power rules and gas mileage standards. And, she's pledging to put forth "sweeping legislation" to invest in green jobs and infrastructure.
Klobuchar announced Sunday she was running for presid...
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February 10, 2019 at 4:02 pm
We regret to inform you of the Petirah of Rebbetzin Devorah Svei A”H, wife of Harav Elya Zatzal.
He husband, HaRav Elya Svei, ZTL, the Rosh Hayeshivah of Philadelph Yeshiva, was Niftar in 2009.
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February 10, 2019 at 3:28 pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who formally launched her 2020 presidential bid yesterday, said today that President Donald Trump “may not even be a free person” by the 2020 election, TPM.com reports.
Early in her speech at a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, according to several reporters present, Warren speculated that Trump may not finish his term.
“Here’s what bothers me, by the time we get to 2020, Donald Trump may not even be president,” Warren reportedly said. “In fact, he may not even be a free person. But here’s how I see it – Donald Trump is not the only problem we’ve got.”
Warren says there’s a crucial question right now about “what Donald Trump does every day. There’s a racist tweet, a hateful twe...
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February 10, 2019 at 3:16 pm
According to its website, Hatzolah of Los Angeles was established in 2001 to “enhance pre-hospital care and develop a higher level of emergency preparedness and support in the Los Angeles Jewish Community,” because “in emergency medical situations where every second counts, community members deserve to have access to the best possible care.”
Hatzolah’s goal is to be permitted to transport patients and respond with ambulances to emergency calls using lights and sirens (Code 3 practice) like the LAFD. But that’s not a message that sits well with the LAFD, whose Chief, Ralph Terrazas, on Jan. 17 sent a letter to Cathy Chidester, director of the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency, saying that allowing Hatzolah to dispatch its own...
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February 10, 2019 at 3:12 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, today (Sunday, 10 February 2019), in Tekoa, paid a condolence call to the family of the late Ori Ansbacher. The Prime Minister informed the family of the results of the ISA investigation which determined that the murder was carried out for a nationalist motive.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife heard from Ori's parents about her personality and said that the entire public embraces them in their terrible grief.
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February 10, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Jerusalem - Israel’s internal security agency says the murder of a 19-year-old Israeli woman by a Palestinian suspect near Jerusalem last week was politically motivated.
The Shin Bet issued a statement Sunday saying that after questioning Palestinian suspect Arafat Erfaiyeh, the agency believed that Ori Ansbacher’s murder was “nationalistic.”
Ansbacher was volunteering at a youth center in Jerusalem on Thursday when she disappeared after walking in the woods. Her body was found later that day. Most details of the case remain under police gag order.
Israeli forces arrested Erfaiyeh, a resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, in Ramallah on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu payed his respects to Ansbacher’s family at their West Bank settle...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:36 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who couldn’t get a beef patty at a favorite New York eatery used a baseball bat in protest.
On Saturday, police released surveillance video of the woman in action in the Bronx — smashing a restaurant’s windows after learning the eatery had run out of her favorite food.
Police say the woman at the Back Home restaurant in the Morrisania neighborhood came in on the afternoon of Jan. 15 and ordered a patty. She was told they’d run out, and she got upset.
Authorities say she left and came back to the Jamaican restaurant with the bat. The video shows a woman bashing in two windows.
She fled and police were still searching for her on Saturday.
The video shows a woman dressed in a black and white jacket and matching sneakers, swinging a mu...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:32 pm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is set to join the 2020 presidential race Sunday, becoming the most prominent Midwestern candidate as the party tries to win back voters in a region that helped put Donald Trump in the White House.
“I’m asking you to join us on this campaign,” she says in remarks released before her afternoon announcement at an event along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Klobuchar, who already is scheduled to speak Feb. 21 in Iowa, site of the nation’s first caucuses on the nominating calendar, says she doesn’t have “a political machine” and doesn’t “come from money,” but does have “grit.”
She is citing the need to “heal the heart of our democracy and ren...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:32 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — As negotiations over a border security hit a snag, the White House on Sunday would not rule out another federal government shutdown even as it signaled a willingness to obtain funding for President Donald Trump’s proposed wall by other means.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, in appearances on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and “Fox News Sunday,” said “you absolutely cannot” eliminate the possibility of another shutdown on Friday if a deal is not reached over the wall. The White House had asked for $5.7 billion, a figure rejected by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, and the mood among bargainers has soured, according to people familiar with the negotiations not authorized to speak publicly abo...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:32 pm
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Long before an ex-student opened fire on his former classmates in Parkland, Florida, many school districts conducted regular shooting drills — exercises that sometimes included simulated gunfire and blood and often happened with no warning that the attack wasn’t real.
The drills began taking shape after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. But 20 years later, parents are increasingly questioning elements of the practice, including whether the drills traumatize kids.
April Sullivan was pleasantly surprised by an “I love you, Mom” text from her daughter last May, even though she knew the eighth-grader wasn’t supposed to be using her cellphone during school in Short Pump, Virginia. But she did not know that her child sent it wh...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Jerusalem - The victims of Sunday morning’s fatal bus crash northwest of Jerusalem have been identified as Rachel Chaya Guttman, and Ruchama Rosen.
The two women, both residents of the haredi city of Modiin Illit, were killed when a bus from Kavim’s 304 line from Modiin Illit to Jerusalem collided with a private vehicle, flipped over, and crashed into a railing.
Forty-one other people were injured in the accident, including two people in serious condition.
While the two women killed in the crash were initially identified as sisters, they have since been named as Rachel Chaya Guttman, 24, and Ruchama Rosen, 27.
Guttman, an art teacher, had gotten married roughly a year and a half ago. She is survived by her husband and her son, who is roughly half a year old.
The second vic...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:19 pm
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline is up a penny a gallon over the past two weeks, to $2.34.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says Sunday that she expects gas prices to keep rising slightly as retailers pass on increases in wholesale costs to consumers.
Lundberg says the price at the pump is 32 cents lower than it was a year ago.
The highest average price in the nation is $3.38 a gallon in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lowest average is $1.91 in Houston.
The average price of diesel fell a penny over the past two weeks, to $3.
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February 10, 2019 at 2:19 pm
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors on Sunday charged a 26-year-old man in the killing of a Milwaukee police officer.
Jordan P. Fricke, of Milwaukee, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and other crimes in the fatal shooting Wednesday of 35-year-old Officer Matthew Rittner, who was serving a search warrant. Authorities arrested Fricke soon after the shooting.
Police say Fricke was the target of the warrant and was wanted for the illegal sale of firearms and drugs. Authorities say officers announced themselves as police and Fricke fired several rounds, hitting Rittner.
Fricke, who also faces reckless endangerment and drug charges, remained jailed on Sunday with preliminary bail set at $500,000. Court records do not list an attorney who could speak for him.
Rittne...
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February 10, 2019 at 2:19 pm
LONDON (AP) — A woman who was injured in a car accident involving Prince Philip says the roads will be safer now that the 97-year-old royal has given up his driver’s license.
Buckingham Palace says Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has voluntarily surrendered his license “after careful consideration.”
Emma Fairweather, who suffered a broken wrist in the Jan. 17 accident, told the Sunday Mirror newspaper that “it’s the right thing to do. Undoubtedly the roads will be safer now.”
Philip was behind the wheel of a Land Rover near the royal family’s Sandringham estate in eastern England when he smashed into another car. Fairweather and the woman driving the car were injured but a 9-month-old baby was not.
Prosecutors say they will con...
