AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An initial background check failed to detect a felony conviction that should have barred the man who killed five co-workers and wounded six others at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant from buying the gun. Months later, a second background check of Gary Martin found his 1995 aggravated assault conviction in Mississippi involving the stabbing of an ex-girlfriend. But it prompted only a letter stating his gun permit had been revoked and ordering him to turn over his firearm to police — raising questions about the state's enforcement to ensure those who lose their permits also turn over their weapons.  A vigil for the victims, including a university student on his first day as an intern and a longtime plant manager, was scheduled for S...
Police said the shooting occurred in the parking lot. LITHIA SPRINGS, Ga. — Douglasville Police said one person was killed in a shooting in the parking lot of a Walmart store. It happened at about 12:50 p.m. on Sunday afternoon at Thornton Road and Interstate 20, police said.  Investigators said they are working to determine the circumstances behind the shooting.
Vienna - Austria’s chancellor has described parts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy as “very successful” as he prepares to visit Washington this week. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told Sunday’s edition of Austrian newspaper Die Presse one of the main aims of his visit is to help avert a trade war. On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said U.S. authorities appear to have concluded that European cars were a national security threat. Kurz is expected at the White House on Wednesday. He pointed to differences with Trump on trade and the Iran nuclear deal, but praised the president’s support for Israel and efforts to secure peace on the Korean Peninsula. The Austrian leader was quoted as saying “Trump is running, in part, a very a...
The Israeli army attacked two Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday night after an IDF soldier was injured amid clashes along the volatile border. The Israeli soldier was said to have been hit by an improvised explosive thrown by Palestinians during the protests, the IDF said in a statement. The full extent of the soldiers injuries are not immediately clear but he has since been evacuated to the Barzilai Medical Center for treatment. Dozens of Palestinians were said to have gathered along the border where they “hurled explosive devices and rolled burning tires at IDF soldiers along the security fence,” the statement continued. Read more at i24NEWS.
Talk about dirty money. According to a recent report, the typical Manhattan ATM is more bacteria-ridden than a wide range of other heavily used objects, including a subway pole, an NYC Wi-Fi hub and the handle of a public toilet at Penn Station. Mike Brown of financial product marketplace LendEDU left the comfort of his Hoboken office on Jan. 4 armed with a Hygiena SystemSURE Plus — a handheld testing device that measures bacteria on a given surface — to test 20 different ATMs (split between Times Square and the West Village). The keypad, touch screen and card-reader of each cash machine was tested. He also tested nine other objects and surfaces in the city to see how they compared with ATMs. Predictably, the more heavily trafficked Midtown machines were also the dirtiest, ...
A new warning about the health risks of eating browned potatoes and burnt toast draws a link between a chemical called acrylamide and an increased risk of cancer. The warning comes from the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency, which launched a campaign on Jan. 23 called "Go for Gold" that's aimed at reducing the amount of acrylamide that people eat. The name refers to the golden color people should aim for when cooking starchy foods, instead of cooking further, to the point of reaching a darker brown color. But what is acrylamide, and how much of a health risk does it pose? [10 Do's and Don'ts to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer] Acrylamide is a chemical that can be formed in starchy foods when they're cooked at very high temperatures — for example,...
Question #1: Stuffing a Pillow “My pillow is torn, and some of the filling has fallen out. May I restuff it on Shabbos?” Question #2: Stitches “Does stitching a wound closed involve a Torah prohibition on Shabbos? Question #3: Miscellaneous What do these questions have to do with one another? Introduction Among the 39 melachos of Shabbos, we find several sets of pairs, including tying and untying, writing and erasing, building and razing, and kindling and extinguishing. One of the sets is tofeir and korei’a, sewing and tearing. Of this pair, korei’a usually gets more coverage in practical halacha, because it involves many common questions such as opening packaging and tearing toilet paper. So that tofeir does not feel left out, the aim of this article i...
BOSTON — Here’s one way to predict your heart health: get down and give me 41. A new study finds that men who can perform at least 40 push-ups in one attempt are much less likely to suffer from heart disease within the next 10 years. Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public health say their report is the first to show how push-up capacity is linked to heart disease. They found that middle-aged men who can log more than 40 push-ups in a single try have a 96% reduced risk of developing the potentially deadly condition and other related ailments, such as heart failure, compared to those who can complete no more than 10 push-ups. For their study, the authors reviewed health data from 1,104 active male firefighters taken annually from 2000 to 2010. At the ...
Following the government's in camera testimony before the High Court of Justice, Regavim's recent petition regarding the "Smugglers' Route" connecting Har Hebron and Yatta to the Arad Valley – running right through an IDF training ground – was denied. At the same time, Chief Justice Esther Hayut determined that enforcement procedures began only as a result of Regavim's petition, and required the government to pay all legal expenses for the case. After hearing arguments regarding an illegal road paved by the Palestinian Authority through an IDF training ground in the heart of the Judean Desert, the High Court of Justice's decision, handed down late last week, noted that no enforcement action had been taken against this road - which poses a serious threa...
Fatah breakaway group in the Gaza Strip claimed its members have intercepted a shipment of military boots equipped with “secret electronic tracking chips,” that were on their way to market, according to a Palestinian news source. The shipment of suspicious shoes that came through the Kerem Shalom crossing was sent by the breakaway group to Hamas to examine. Some Palestinian online news sources claimed Hamas said Israel was behind the shipment and was trying to spy on members of the “Palestinian resistance.”  Read more at JPost
Friday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called on Americans to protest across the country to send President Donald Trump a message that his declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border is “fake.” Waters said, “I really expect we’re going to have a growing number of Republicans that are going to join with us in this disapproval. Yes, they’re concerned if a Democratic president gets elected then they can use emergency powers to do a lot of the things they don’t like. As you know, they don’t believe in climate change. They don’t want us to talk about Medicare for all or any of those subjects they think we’ll spend too much government money, even though they’ve created the la...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kerry Adamowicz hoped that a meeting with Hartford Yard Goats officials might lead to a few peanut-free days or maybe a peanut-free section at the Double-A baseball team’s stadium, so her son and other children with food allergies could enjoy a game. The team decided to go a bit further. The Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies announced this month it is going completely peanut free — no more peanuts, Cracker Jack or any other food that could put kids with the potentially deadly peanut allergy in anaphylactic shock. “Everyone wants their kids to be kids and be part of the group,” said Adamowiz, whose 2-year-old, Sam, has a severe peanut allergy. “Our biggest worry is would he even be able to go to a game? Now we know, stre...
Baltimore, MD - Feb. 17, 2019 - The condition of the Rebbe, shlita, turned extremely critical and he is now on a respirator. The family is at his bedside. The Rebbe, shlita, is one of the oldest Gedolim worldwide. Please be Misapllel for Yisroel Avrohom ben Shaina Rochel. You can join Tehillim here.
Explosive device thrown at IDF soldiers on Gaza border, leaving one moderately injured. IDF tanks open fire on Hamas positions in response. An IDF soldier was injured after an explosive device detonated near the Gaza border Sunday evening as hundreds of Arab rioters attack Israeli forces stationed along the frontier. Hundreds of Arab rioters hurled rocks and explosive devices at IDF soldiers along the border separating Israel and the northern Gaza Strip Sunday evening. “Over the last hour, a violent riot was instigated in the northern Gaza Strip, during which dozens of rioters hurled explosive devices and rolled burning tires at IDF soldiers and the security fence,” an IDF spokesperson said. Initial reports say the bomb in question was hurled at the soldier along the ...
Israel Police have arrested nine more suspects on Sunday and detained two others on suspicion of being involved in the bribe affair within the Health Ministry. The investigation revealed on Monday brought to light the suspicion that the health inspector received bribes in exchange for granting permits to businesses in Tel Aviv. The police suspect that the inspector had for years received bribes from dozens of business owners ranging between 3,000 to 4,000 NIS each time a business received a business license and confirmation that it met the sanitary conditions of the Ministry of Health. Read more at Arutz Sheva.
 President Rivlin: "There is nothing more democratic than pointed disagreement. It is possible, important and perhaps even crucial to discuss and to insist on a culture of disagreement. Today, we are so sorely missing these encounters in the public sphere. I want to say this as we approach elections. It is tempting to create a false reality where we are all the same, to blur the edges, to melt everyone into a single bloc. Or, on the other hand, to present the world as if there is only black and white. The realization that disagreement and discussion are options is in fact the way to recognize that there is an other, and that he or she is really, truly different from me." President Reuven (Ruvi) and Nechama Rivlin hosted the 22nd Bible Study Group of 929 this evening, Sunday 17...
An executive with Amazon on Friday invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit the corporation’s facilities after she denounced its treatment of workers, asserting that “Amazon workers have to urinate in bottles & work while on food stamps to meet ‘targets,’ ” citing a Newsweek report from last year.. Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of worldwide operations, extended the invitation while pushing back on claims about conditions at the company that Ocasio-Cortez had shared on Twitter. “.@aoc these claims simply aren’t true,” Clark wrote. “We are proud of our jobs with excellent pay ($15 min), benefits from day 1, & lots of other benefits like our Career Choice pre-paid educational programs. Why don’...
Former President Obama will be involved in the development of the NBA’s first professional league outside of North America. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced on Saturday that Obama would be a part of Basketball Africa League, a 12-team competition consisting of countries from the continent. The Associated Press noted that it is unclear what role Obama will fill. The news outlet noted that Basketball Africa League will begin in 2020 and feature Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. Read more at The Hill.
In a video circulated on social media to mark the anniversary of the death of former Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, the terrorist organization appears to be threatening to attack Israeli passenger flights and popular tourist destinations in Israel. Mughniyeh was assassinated in Damascus in 2008, in an operation that Hezbollah has attributed to the Mossad and the CIA. Images in the video include El Al planes, as well as pictures of Ben-Gurion International Airport, passports, and the arrivals and departures board at Ben-Gurion. Hezbollah has not been officially confirmed as the entity that compiled the video, which was published by Mughniyeh’s sister, Zeinab. The general message of the video is one of revenge for airstrikes on weapons stockpiles belonging to Hezbolla...
More articles