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June 25, 2019 at 6:35 pm
Reacting to what he called a "disturbing level of violence" over the past several days that left 12 shot and four dead, Baltimore police Commissioner Michael Harrison pleaded for the public's help.
In at least three of the cases, Harrison said at a news conference, the victim was at least acquainted in some way with the person police believe shot them. And in many cases, police responded to the scene seconds or minutes after the sound of gunfire.
Harrison said he believes shooters are being protected by a "culture of violence" where even the people affected by gun violence fear reprisal if they speak out.
"Now officer are very often in the right places and right time, but violent crimes are being committed anyway, which speaks to a certain culture of violence where criminals do not...
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June 25, 2019 at 6:34 pm
The same day as a billion-dollar cocaine bust at the Philadelphia seaport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Baltimore made the port's largest ever cocaine seizure.
Authorities and local partners seized 333 pounds of cocaine found June 18 in a shipping container of beach chairs from China that had passed through Panama. The beach chairs were destined to a Maryland address.
The 125 bricks had a street value of $10 million. The previous record for a cocaine seizure in Baltimore came in April 2007, when authorities seized 311 pounds of the drug, officials said.
“This seizure illustrates the complexities of Customs and Border Protection’s multi-faceted missions, from ensuring that imported goods comply with U.S. trade regulations to interdic...
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June 25, 2019 at 6:29 pm
In concluding remarks on the security summit with Israel, Russia, and the US in Jerusalem, US National Security Adviser John Bolton called the Palestinian boycott of economic conference in Bahrain a ‘mistake’.
“It’s a mistake for the Palestinians to boycott,” Bolton said in response to i24NEWS correspondent Jordana Miller’s question concerning the Peace to Prosperity workshop that is meant to be the first part of the Trump administration’s peace proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While the two-day event is being boycotted by the Palestinians, representatives from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt will participate.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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June 25, 2019 at 6:29 pm
One of the highlights of the Torah Umesorah 75th anniversary dinner was an original song and video production depicting the heartfelt belief and mission of Torah Umesorah as instilled in us by our Roshei Yeshiva : To ensure that all of our children can aspire to the level of our Gedolim. Despite carrying the weight of klal Yisrael’s challenges on their shoulders, our Gedolim never hesitate to make the chinuch of even the youngest of our tiknokos shel beis raban a top priority. Torah Umesorah is grateful for their daily hadracha, helping our students to not only succeed, but to reach for the stars - by being lifted up and riding On The Shoulders of Giants.
Credits: Composed and Sung By: Baruch Levine Lyrics By: Malka Leah Josephs
Video Produced by: Kol Rom Music
Arranged and ...
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June 25, 2019 at 6:25 pm
A new survey showed a rise in the number of Americans who said small businesses should have the right to refuse service to Jews if doing so would violate the owners’ religious beliefs.
Conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, which has partnered with the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University, the survey revealed that 19 percent of Americans felt discrimination against Jews on religious grounds was acceptable.
This marked a seven-percent rise since 2014, when only 12 percent agreed.
According to the data, 24 percent of Republicans, 17 percent of Democrats, and 16 percent of independents said such discrimination should be permitted.
In 2014, only 16 percent of Republicans and nine percent of Democrats did so.
There is a gender gap on the subject, with 22 perc...
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June 25, 2019 at 6:21 pm
Washington - The acting commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, John Sanders, is resigning and will leave his post on July 5, the agency said on Tuesday, a move that coincides with an outcry over the treatment of detained migrant children.
The relocation of 250 migrant children from an overcrowded Texas border patrol station, where they were held for weeks in squalid conditions without adequate food and water, has stepped up criticism from immigration activists and Democrats of Republican President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies.
The New York Times first reported that Sanders was resigning. Sanders has led the agency since April, when Trump reshuffled the management of U.S. immigration agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.
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June 25, 2019 at 6:19 pm
Manama, Bahrain - President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, appealed Tuesday for the Palestinians to consider a $50 billion economic support plan they have already rejected because it does not include a political resolution to the long-running conflict with the Israelis.
Kushner, speaking at a conference in Bahrain, defended the proposal as the foundation of any eventual peace plan. Meanwhile, Palestinians protested the plan in the streets of the West Bank, Gaza and elsewhere.
“We don’t need money. We are not hungry for bread,” said Gaza physician Said Jadba, one of the protesters jamming the streets of West Bank cities as the plan was unveiled. “We are hungry for dignity.”
The president’s son-in-law sought to defend...
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June 25, 2019 at 6:18 pm
Baqaa Camp, Jordan - A U.S. Middle East peace plan is stirring anger and apprehension in Palestinian refugee camps around the region by raising the prospect that a long-cherished dream of returning to former homes in what is now Israel will be forever crushed.
In camps around the region, Palestinians staged strikes, burned Israeli and U.S. flags and played nationalist songs from loudspeakers to protest against a plan they say could result in their permanent expulsion from ancestral homes.
The Trump administration launches a $50 billion economic initiative at an international meeting starting in Bahrain on Tuesday as the first part of its broader political blueprint to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While the plan’s political details remain secret, for many Palestinians ...
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June 25, 2019 at 4:58 pm
Tel Aviv is moving towards becoming Israel’s first city with no public phones, removing 50 in the past few years and another 34 this year.
Ramat Gan wants to replace its public phone booths with trees after finding that 80 percent of its populace no longer wants the town’s 232 public phones.
Israel still has about 10,000 public phones, many of them no longer in use.
The only people who may miss them are yeshiva students and chareidi children, who do not have personal cell phones.
The number of phone booths in the US decreased from two million in 1999 to about 100,000, with a fifth of them in New York.
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June 25, 2019 at 4:56 pm
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hosted in Jerusalem what he termed as “a historic and unprecedented” trilateral meeting in Jerusalem between the national security advisers of the US, Russia, and Israel.
The three parties are focused on Iran’s presence in Syria, which is perceived as a threat to Israel, and the latest developments on Iran’s aggressive conduct in the region in general. Russia, President Bashar al-Assad’s patron, has significant sway on the goings-on in the war-torn country.
Tuesday’s meeting took place following meetings held by Netanyahu and Israel’s National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat in recent days with US National Security Adviser John Bolton and the Secretary of the Russian National Security Cou...
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June 25, 2019 at 4:54 pm
Washington - Melania Trump has announced that her spokeswoman will be the new White House press secretary.
Stephanie Grisham, who has been with the Trumps since 2015, will also take on the role of White House communications director.
The first lady tweeted Tuesday that she “can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country.”
Grisham succeeds Sarah Sanders, who announced her resignation earlier this month.
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June 25, 2019 at 4:33 pm
Jerusalem - SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot.
The company issued a statement Tuesday saying its lunar mission in April has been widely hailed as “an exceptional success,” despite crash landing on the moon. It says that “an attempt to repeat a trip to the moon is not enough of a challenge” and will instead search for a different mission.
The SpaceIL “Beresheet” spacecraft attempted to be the first privately funded lunar mission, but failed to make a controlled landing on the lunar surface. The company launched in 2011 and initially competed for Google’s Lunar Xprize, a $20 million challenge for private companies to land on the moon.
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June 25, 2019 at 4:33 pm
Des Monies - Joe Biden’s presidential campaign announced a new round of endorsements on Tuesday as the former vice president tries to bolster his status as the Democrats’ presidential front-runner. He heralded support from four South Carolina state legislators, including two African Americans, Rep. Carl Anderson and Sen. Kevin Johnson.
Their backing comes as Biden faces criticism from rival Democratic candidates for recent comments in which said the Senate “got things done” with “civility” even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed. Biden and others are competing aggressively for an edge with black voters who make up a majority of the Democratic primary electorate in South Carolina, home of the first Southern primary in 2020.
Bi...
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June 25, 2019 at 4:32 pm
TechnologyOpens a New Window. shares Tuesday helped drag down major indexes of U.S. stocksOpens a New Window., already struggling on concerns over tensions with Iran and comments by the head of the Federal ReserveOpens a New Window..
And in another sign of weakening investor sentiment, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury fell below 2 percent. Bond yields, or interest rates, move in the opposite direction of bond prices.
The latest U.S. sanctions by President TrumpOpens a New Window. on IranOpens a New Window. drew a sharp rebuke from the Islamic Republic on Tuesday, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani calling the economic crackdown “outrageous and idiotic.”
Tensions between Tehran and Washington heightened last week after an ...
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June 25, 2019 at 4:28 pm
New York - A pilot who died when his helicopter crashed atop a New York City skyscraper on June 10 had been flying erratically and said he did not know where he was shortly before the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a preliminary report released on Tuesday.
The report said the pilot, who has been identified as Tim McCormack, 58, of Clinton Corners, New York, had asked air traffic controllers for permission to return to a heliport on East 34th Street and then changed course and altitude several times. He came within 500 feet of the heliport before reversing course and striking the 54-story AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in one of the city’s busiest areas a few blocks north of Times Square. No one in the building or on the ground was injured.
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June 25, 2019 at 4:26 pm
Springfield, IL - Illinois’ new governor delivered on a top campaign promise Tuesday by signing legislation legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, the 11th state to do so and the first to implement a comprehensive statewide cannabis marketplace designed by legislators.
Legalization in Illinois also means that nearly 800,000 people with criminal records for purchasing or possessing 30 grams of marijuana or less may have those records expunged, a provision minority lawmakers and interest groups demanded.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, whose election last year gave Democrats complete control over state government again after four years under GOP predecessor Bruce Rauner, signed the bill in Chicago amid a bevy of lawmakers and pot proponents.
Under the measure, residents can...
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June 25, 2019 at 4:24 pm
Washington - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacked “anything American” after Tehran said the latest U.S. sanctions had scuttled any chance of diplomacy, calling White House actions “mentally retarded”.
Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing sanctions against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior figures, with punitive measures against Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expected later this week.
The moves came after Iran shot down a U.S. drone on June 20 and Trump called off a retaliatory air strike minutes before impact, saying too many people would have been killed. It would have been the first time the United States had bombed the Islamic Republic in four decades of mu...
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June 25, 2019 at 4:21 pm
New York - Steve Dunleavy, a reporter and columnist for the New York Post who helped define the tabloid’s modern style, died. He was 81.
The Post reported that Dunleavy died at his home on Long Island on Monday night.
Steve Dunleavy was one of the greatest reporters of all time,” Post owner Rupert Murdoch said. “His passing is the end of a great era.”
Dunleavy was born in Sydney, Australia, and began his journalism career at The Sun, where his father worked as a photographer.
He did stints at a variety of newspapers, including the Daily Mirror and The South China Morning Post, before arriving in New York City in 1966 where he eventually joined the New York Post in 1977 shortly after Murdoch bought the tabloid.
Dunleavy also helped create the television ne...
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June 25, 2019 at 12:52 pm
BREAKING: Melania Trump announces that her spokesperson Stephanie Grisham to be Next White House Press Secretary And Communications Director
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June 25, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Orange County, NY - A Kiryas Joel paramedic was honored last night as ALS provider of the year by Orange County Department of Emergency Services, the first time a Chasidic individual has ever been selected to receive that award.
Avrohom Yitzchok Flohr, a senior member of Kiryas Joel Hatzolah, was hailed for responding to 350 mutual aid calls, responding to calls from local ambulance companies located outside the village. The decision to honor Flohr as the Advance Life Support provider of the year was made by the Orange County Emergency Medical Services council, said Frank Cassanite, deputy commissioner of Orange County EMS.
“He is an excellent medic who does a great job for Orange County,” Cassanite told VIN News. “Their agency provides mutual aid services and he ...
