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June 24, 2019 at 1:21 pm
The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 kids were detained there and caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.
Rep. Veronica Escobar said 30 children were at the facility near El Paso as of Monday. Her office was briefed on the situation by an official with Customs and Border Protection.
Attorneys who visited the station in Clint, Texas last week said older children were trying to take care of infants and toddlers, The Associated Press first reported Thursday. Some had been detained for three weeks, and 15 children were sick with the flu.
It's unclear where all the children have been moved. But Escobar said some were sent to another facility in El Paso.
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June 24, 2019 at 1:17 pm
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived Monday in Saudi Arabia for talks on coordinating with the close ally amid mounting tensions with Iran.
Pompeo is expected to meet in the Red Sea city of Jeddah with King Salman and the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, before flying for talks in the United Arab Emirates, US officials said.
Both Saudi and Emirati leaders advocate a tough US approach against Iran, which last week shot down an unmanned US drone.
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June 24, 2019 at 1:17 pm
Palestinian media reported on Sunday evening that Israeli authorities had decided to reduce the fishing zone back to six nautical miles.
This comes after five fires were started along the Gaza border, apparently following the launches of incendiary balloons from Gaza into Israeli territory.
Israel has used the size of the fishing zone as a means of retaliating against the launch of incendiary balloons into its territory, without great success.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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June 24, 2019 at 1:16 pm
Gaza City - Hundreds of Palestinians protested throughout the West Bank against this week’s economic conference in Bahrain that will kick off the Trump administration’s plan for Mideast peace.
Palestinians on Monday poured into the streets of West Bank cities, from Hebron to Nablus, many burning effigies of President Trump and Bahrain’s king. Protesters in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, carried a giant coffin labeled “Bahrain workshop,” and signs reading “The Deal of the Century is doomed.”
Dozens of youths in the southern city of Halhul set tires ablaze and slung stones at Israeli soldiers, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
In the Gaza Strip, protest turnout was meager. A single man dressed as the late Palestinia...
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June 24, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” during a parliament session on Sunday after a speaker accused the United States of being the “real world terrorist,” amid escalating tension with Washington following the downing of an unmanned US drone.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for the drone incident because it could have killed 150 people, and signaled he was open to talks with Tehran.
Iran said on Saturday it would respond firmly to any threat against it.
“America is the real terrorist in the world by spreading chaos in countries, giving advanced weapons to terrorist groups, causing insecurity, and still it says, ‘Come, let’s negotiate,’” the parliament’s deputy speaker, Ma...
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June 24, 2019 at 1:14 pm
President Donald Trump said he believes impeachment proceedings could help him retain the White House in 2020.
“I think I win the election easie,” Trump told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview set to be released Sunday, when asked by the host if he thinks impeachment would be politically beneficial.
Trump also said that he believes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cautioned against impeachment because she also “feels that I will win much easier.”
Read more at POLITICO.
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June 24, 2019 at 1:14 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday targeting Iran’s supreme leader and his associates with financial sanctions, the latest action the U.S. has taken to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and supporting militant groups.
The sanctions follow Iran’s downing of a more than $100 million U.S. surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz that has ratcheted up tensions. Trump pulled back from the brink of retaliatory military strikes on Iran last week, but is continuing his pressure campaign.
The targets of the new sanctions include senior military figures in Iran, blocking their access to any financial assets under U.S. jurisdiction.
“These measures represent a strong and proportionate response to Iran’s inc...
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June 24, 2019 at 12:54 pm
There was excitement and nachas for the parents and grandparents and a sense of pride and accomplishment from the mesayemim, at Pirchei Agudas Yisroel's Annual Shas Awards Presentation, which took place Sunday, June 16th, at Agudas Yisroel of Madison in Brooklyn, New York. Thirty boys from around the country each received a peninim shas as an award for being mesayeim Shishah Sidrei Mishnah in honor of their bar mitzvah as their proud grandparents, parents and siblings looked on.
Most of the mesayemim also passed tests on the entire Shishah Sidrei Mishnah! Pirchei's popular Kesser Mishnayos program encourages boys to learn and be tested on mishnayos, with the ultimate goal of being mesayeim for their bar mitzvah. Speakers included Rabbi Herschel Zolty, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivas Mir...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:44 am
Russia and other “rational forces” will take steps to counter new sanctions the United States is preparing to impose on Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Monday.
“We consider these sanctions illegal,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was later quoted as saying in a briefing.
“We have pointed to the illegitimacy of unilateral sanctions many times. All this is a reflection of a wider paradigm, which now seems to be the basis for the US foreign policy and is aimed at substituting the international law and universal mechanisms of international problem-resolution with its national legislation and unilateral steps.”
Read more at i24NEWS.
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June 24, 2019 at 9:42 am
Moshe launches a reconnaissance mission and expects honest reporting. We can't possibly conquer this hotly contested country without accurate intel and without truthful information. Yet the story of "the spies" represents the lowest point in Moshe's career and of the desert saga. What was so notorious about this incident? Why did it torpedo the march toward the promised land, reroute the Jews for an additional 38 desert-years, and reshape the arc of Jewish history?
Our Chazal identified the essential failure of the spies and the mob they foment. G-d asserts that this day– the 9th of Av – the day the Jews whined needlessly (bechiyah shel chinam)- would be converted into a perennial day of tragedy. Evidently, it was the pointlessness of their whimpering which was so...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:34 am
ALLEGAN, Mich. — A company is issuing a voluntary nationwide recall of a baby formula powder sold exclusively at Walmart.
According to a press release, Perrigo Company is voluntarily recalling 23,388 containers of the product because of the “potential presence of metal foreign matter.”
The recall only includes one lot of the 35-ounce, 992-gram containers of “Parent’s Choice Advantage Infant Formula Milk-Based Powder with Iron.”
Perrigo says they issued the recall “out of an abundance of caution.”
People who may have purchased the product should look on the bottom of the package for Lot Code C26EVFV and a use by date of February 26, 2021.
Costumers who purchased the recalled product should stop using it and can return the p...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:34 am
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June 24, 2019 at 9:34 am
New York - Two siblings from the famed Flying Wallendas safely crossed Times Square on a high wire strung between two skyscrapers 25 stories above the pavement.
Nik Wallenda is a seventh-generation acrobat, but this time, he said he was nervous. His sister, Lijana Wallenda, joined him Sunday night for the first time since her near-fatal accident in 2017, when she broke nearly every bone in her face.
The siblings walked from opposite ends of the 1,300-foot wire (396-meter) suspended between the towers, crossing each other in the middle, where Lijana Wallenda sat on the wire and let her brother step over her. Both then continued to the opposite side.
Their latest daredevil stunt was streamed live on ABC and watched by thousands of spectators from below. The two were wearing tethered safet...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:30 am
Tehran - Iran said on Monday U.S. cyber attacks on its military had been a failure, while also hinting that it could be willing to discuss new concessions with Washington if the United States were to lift sanctions and offer new incentives.
The longtime foes have come the closest in years to a direct military confrontation. After Iran shot down a U.S. drone last week, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called off a retaliatory strike while bombers were in the air, deciding that too many people would die.
U.S. media have reported that the United States launched cyber attacks even as Trump called off the air strike. The Washington Post said on Saturday that the cyber strikes, which had been planned previously, had disabled Iranian rocket launch systems. U.S. officials have declined to...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:29 am
Tehran - Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that a local fisherman has found parts of the U.S. spy drone that Iran shot down in the Gulf of Oman last week.
The report says the parts will be delivered to Iranian security forces in Qeshm Island, which is located in the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which all oil trade passes in the Persian Gulf.
Officials have yet to confirm the report.
Iranian authorities had already shown parts of the downed drone, valued at more than $100 million, to journalists on Friday.
Iran says it shot down the spy drone for violating Iranian airspace, which the U.S. insists was flying above international waters.
President Donald Trump called off strikes in retaliation as tensions flare between Washington and Tehran.
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June 24, 2019 at 9:27 am
Cairo - Egypt will take part in a Bahrain conference this week on Palestinian economic development in order to evaluate the proposed $50 billion “Peace to Prosperity” plan, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday.
The June 25-26 conference in the Bahraini capital Manama will discuss a U.S.-led economic vision to be presented by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, part of a wider plan to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
But the lack of a political solution, which Washington has said would be unveiled later, has prompted rejection not only from Palestinians but in Arab countries with which Israel would seek normal relations.
“It is important for Egypt to participate to listen to this proposition and evaluate it…but not in terms ...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:25 am
Alan Dershowitz
I am a pragmatic rationalist. I calculate the costs and benefits of most of my actions, especially when I am representing a client. For the 50 years I was a professor at Harvard Law School, my goal was never to teach the students what to think, but to teach them how to think. I employed the Socratic method in my classes, demanding rational responses from my students. I have never thought of myself as a spiritual person, because for me spiritual was the antithesis of rational.
But recently a Torah – a parchment scroll containing the five books of Moses – was dedicated to me for my pro bono work in defending indigent and other prisoners. The ceremony was held at Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, with hundreds of people dancing in the streets to honor a new Tora...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:23 am
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton landed in Jerusalem on Saturday ahead of a tripartite summit of top security officials from Israel, the United States and Russia on Sunday.
While the meeting between Bolton, Israeli National Security Council head Meir Ben-Shabbat and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev was initially set to discuss security issues pertaining to Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, the focus is now expected to shift to recent escalation in tension between the United States and Iran.
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the summit “historic and unprecedented” and said it “greatly attests to the current international standing of Israel among the nations.”
Israel’s Kan pub...
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June 24, 2019 at 9:22 am
E. coli was detected in the water supply in the City of Long Beach, Long Island, officials announced Friday. A boil-water order has been issued.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said that the state has been swift in its response to the detected E.coli and has sent more than 30,000 bottles of water to the impacted area.
Curran said the Nassau County Health Department received a sample result that tested positive for E. coli Friday morning. The bacteria was detected in the course of normal testing.
The boil-water order will remain in place until all water samples indicate the water is free of bacteria and safe for consumption, Curran said.
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June 24, 2019 at 9:21 am
Arab finance ministers met at the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday and pledged $100 million dollars a month to the Palestinians. The move comes just ahead of the U.S.-sponsored meeting scheduled to take place in Bahrain this week.
The ministers condemned Israel’s seizure of Palestinian funds and called on the international community to pressure the Israeli government to “stop its piracy and return the Palestinian money in full,” according to a report by WAFA, the Palestinian News and Info Agency.
Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the monthly funding for the Palestinians had become an urgent necessity.
Israel regularly withholds a portion of Palestinian tax revenues, offsetting the amount the Palestinian Authority pays to imprisoned terror...
