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August 11, 2019 at 6:48 pm
The suspect accused of killing 22 people at an El Paso Walmart told authorities that he was targeting “Mexicans” and confessed to carrying out the shooting rampage when he surrendered to authorities, according to police.
Law enforcement officials responding to the scene on Saturday spotted a car stopped at an intersection not far from the Walmart, an El Paso police detective wrote in an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by The Washington Post. They then saw a man – identified as Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old charged with capital murder in the case – get out of the car with his hands in the air, the affidavit said.
He told them, “I’m the shooter,” Det. Adrian Garcia said in the affidavit, which was filed to a judge on Sunday, the day after the ...
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August 11, 2019 at 6:47 pm
Any Israeli involvement in any maritime coalition in the Gulf is a “clear threat” to Iran’s national security and the Islamic Republic has a right to confront the threat, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Friday, according to a statement on the Foreign Ministry website.
Israeli media had quoted Foreign Minister Israel Katz as telling a close-door meeting on Tuesday that Israel was part of discussions and intelligence-sharing with a possible US maritime security coalition. Israeli officials declined to confirm or deny the reports.
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August 11, 2019 at 6:46 pm
President Trump on Thursday said no one is authorized to speak to Iran on behalf of the United States, and he accused French President Emmanuel Macron of sending “mixed signals” to Tehran over possible talks.
“I know Emmanuel means well, as do all others, but nobody speaks for the United States but the United States itself,” Trump said in a series of tweets.
It was not immediately clear what Trump was referring to and the White House declined to comment, but a report earlier this week said Macron had invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to this month’s G7 summit to meet Trump. A French diplomat denied the report on Wednesday.
European leaders are seeking to defuse the brewing confrontation between Tehran and Washington after Trump pulled out of the Iran...
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August 11, 2019 at 6:46 pm
President Trump on Friday said he received a “beautiful” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the country continues to test ballistic missiles, alarming U.S. allies in the region.
Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a fundraiser in the Hamptons that the two men could meet again in the future to discuss denuclearization.
Trump and Kim have held three face-to-face meetings that have yet to yield concrete plan to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
Read more at The Hill.
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August 11, 2019 at 5:03 pm
Columbia, SC - A South Carolina sheriff said Thursday that the state needs a hate crime law after his deputies couldn’t initially charge a 16-year-old Catholic school student who made videos using racial slurs and shooting a box that he said represented black people.
The teen was charged four days later with making student threats after a third video surfaced of him threatening to shoot people at Cardinal Newman school in Columbia, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
“It’s an absolute shame this state does not have a law against hate crimes,” Lott said. “Our legislators have got to take some action. Look at the turmoil these videos have created in the community.”
South Carolina, Georgia, Wyoming and Arkansas are the only states without...
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August 11, 2019 at 5:02 pm
Lieutenant Commander S., Commander of the IDF counter-terrorism unit, was on the move with his team as soon as the body of Dvir Sorek was found in Gush Etzion Thursday morning.
S. and his team are "terrorist hunters." They tracked down and eliminated the terrorist who murdered two civilians in a shooting attack at the Barkan Industrial Zone last year, captured the terrorist who carried out attacks at the Assaf and Ofra junctions, and captured the terrorist who stabbed IDF soldier Ron Kokia to death in 2017.
"I can't get Dvir's picture out of my head," the unit commander said in an interview with Yediot Aharonot Sunday morning. "From the moment the body was found I read about him. I wanted to know him. He was an amazing boy until the last momen...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:59 pm
IDF lookouts on Sunday morning identified an armed terrorist approaching the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
The terrorist fired at IDF soldiers along the border. The soldiers, who were on alert following the identification of the terrorist, opened fire at him.
During the incident, IDF tanks fired at Hamas terrorist posts in the area. None of the Israeli forces was injured and no damage was done. There was no danger to the surrounding communities.
According to Palestinian Arab reports, the terrorist who infiltrated into Israel died.
The incident comes 24 hours after IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade shot and killed four armed terrorists who attempted to infiltrate Israel early Saturday morning.
The terrorists, who attempted...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:54 pm
Louisville, KY - Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan traveled to Kentucky to call on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring House-backed gun regulation bills to the U.S. Senate floor for a vote.
Ryan, a Democrat running for president, led a “caravan” Thursday from northeast Ohio to McConnell’s hometown of Louisville.
Hundreds of supporters of gun control legislation gathered at the city’s Muhammad Ali Center to hear Ryan and others.
Ryan says he wants to get “weapons of war ... off the streets.” Nine people were killed Sunday in a mass shooting in Ryan’s home state, hours after a shooting at a Texas Walmart.
U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth of Louisville said Ali’s widow, Lonnie Ali, wanted the rally held at the Ali Center. She says the late civil ri...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:50 pm
New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the nation Thursday night that he stripped the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir of its statehood and special constitutional status to free the disputed region of “terrorism and separatism.”
Modi’s Hindu-led nationalist government imposed an unprecedented security lockdown and a near-total communications blackout in the Muslim-majority region since Sunday night, arresting more than 500 people.
Kashmir is claimed in full by both India and its archrival Pakistan, although each controls only a part of it and rebels have been fighting Indian rule in the portion it administers for decades. This week, India downgraded the Himalayan region from statehood to a territory, limited its decision-making power and eliminated its...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:50 pm
The prosecution will not change its decision to indict the minor accused in the Duma case with membership in a terrorist organization, despite the court's recommendation to reconsider it.
The minor accused of involvement in murder in the village of Duma, admitted as part of a plea agreement of conspiring to ignite the family's home for a racist motive, and of involvement in other cases involving damage to Arab property.
The parties did not reach an agreement on the indictment concerning membership in a terrorist organization and, as stated, it was ultimately decided to leave this section in the indictment.
As part of the plea agreement, the prosecutor's office agreed not to demand more than 5.5 years in prison.
The minor's attorneys, Attorney Adi Kedar of the Honenu...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:46 pm
Helena, MT - A judge on Thursday ordered the publisher of a neo-Nazi website to pay a Jewish real estate agent $14 million for inciting his readers to harass her family with hundreds of threatening and anti-Semitic messages and calls.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen entered Tanya Gersh a default judgment in her civil lawsuit after The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin refused to appear for a scheduled deposition in the case.
He ordered Anglin to pay Gersh over $4 million in compensatory damages, $10 million in punitive damages and told him to permanently remove all posts, comments and images about Gersh, her husband and son.
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Anglin accused Gersh of trying to run the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer out of the mountain resort town of Whitefis...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:45 pm
Washington - According to a new report by CNN, Jared Kushner was the one who convinced President Trump to grant clemency to Shalom Rubashkin, not any of the senators or community leadrs as previously thought.
Sholom Rubashkin, the former CEO of America’s largest kosher meat processing plant, was convicted in 2009 of a series of fraud charges. Rubashkin’s legal troubles began in 2008, when a federal immigration raid discovered nearly 400 undocumented workers at his plant in Iowa. This was one of the biggest immigration raids at the time. In the aftermath, the picture that emerged in court papers was of a chaotically run business. Reports around the trial noted that Rubashkin had used $300,000 of company money to pay his credit card bills and $200,000 on a home renovation.
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August 11, 2019 at 4:45 pm
London - Large chunks of Britain, including London, were hit with a power cut Friday afternoon that disrupted train travel and snarled rush-hour traffic.
Power supplier National Grid said issues with two generators had caused a loss of power across parts of the country and that they had been resolved.
Power failures were reported as far apart as London in southeast England and Cheshire in the northwest. Many people reported that the outage lasted just a few minutes, but the impact on travelers was severe.
Transit operator Transport for London said some traffic lights in the city had been knocked out, and advised drivers to be careful.
National Rail Enquiries, which is run by Britain’s train companies, said “power supply problems are currently causing disruption to a large n...
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August 11, 2019 at 4:44 pm
President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, tweeted Sunday about the traditional Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av, which memorializes the destruction of the two temples in Jerusalem by the Babylonian and Roman empires.
“From sundown last night to sundown tonight, Jews around the world observe Tisha B'Av, an annual day of mourning and fast when we remember the destruction of the Temple and other tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people,” Ivanka tweeted. “May all observing experience a meaningful Tisha B'Av.”
Earlier on Sunday, Ivanka also tweeted a blessing to Muslims observing the Eid al-Adha festival, which began Sunday night and ends Thursday.
“Eid Mubarak to Muslims all around the world celebrating Eid al-Adha! Wishing you h...
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August 11, 2019 at 7:57 am
HaRav Ahron Lopiansky Kinnos with Commentary Tisha B'Av Event from YGW on Vimeo.
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August 11, 2019 at 7:53 am
For those that cannot make it to shul for Eicha & Kinos on Tisha B’Av morning, Kinos with Rabbi Hauer will be accessible by calling 410-415-9180 or watch it here on Sunday morning. The Sunday broadcast will only be available to watch from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm.
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August 10, 2019 at 9:30 pm
To listen to Eicha/Kinos given by Rabbi Hauer on Motzei Shabbos, call 410-415-9180.
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August 9, 2019 at 2:43 pm
Springfield, MO - Police in Springfield, Missouri, say they have arrested an armed man who showed up a Walmart store wearing body armor, sending panicked shoppers fleeing the store.
Springfield police posted on Facebook that “an armed individual” was arrested. No shots were fired.
The Springfield News-Leader quoted Lt. Mike Lucas as saying that the man showed up Thursday afternoon wearing body armor and military-style clothing. He walked inside the Walmart carrying a “tactical rifle” and another gun. Lucas says the man had more than 100 rounds of ammunition.
Lucas says an off-duty firefighter held the suspect, a 20-year-old man, at gunpoint until police arrived.
He says: “His intent obviously was to cause chaos here, and he did that.”
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