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July 14, 2024 at 3:02 pm
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, a monumental failure of one of the agency’s core duties.
The gunman, who was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue,” the agency said.
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a man wearing...
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July 14, 2024 at 2:14 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2024 - 2:07PM – A three-car accident on I-95 North just before the entrance to the NJ Turnpike has traffic backed up for miles.
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July 14, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Avigdor Shwekey (Monsey) & Zeesy Freedman (Baltimore) on their engagement.
Mazel Tov Aryeh Leib & Dena Freedman and Rabbi Moshe Dovid & Peshi Shwekey.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Dov Koval and Mrs. Zipporah Freedman and great grandmother, Rebbetzin Rivka Diskind.
יה"ר שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל. אמן!
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July 14, 2024 at 1:43 pm
Baltimore, MD - July 14, 2024 - If you're stuck in traffic on I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) looping around Baltimore, or on the Capital Beltway in Maryland, you likely have concluded that Baltimore and Washington, D.C., are two of the nation's worst cities for traffic jams.
According to a new study, your conclusion is correct.
Software company INRIX recently released its Global Traffic Scorecard for 2023, which calculates the cities with the most time consuming traffic delays. The commute times in the study were determined by looking at the time it takes to get to and from major employment centers within an urban area from surrounding commuting neighborhoods.
Using that criteria, Baltimore was rated the 14th worst city in the nation for traffic delays. That ra...
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July 14, 2024 at 12:50 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 14, 2024 – 12:46PM - Traffic on Smith Ave in front of Wellwood is extremely slow due to an earlier accident. Hatzalah and BCPD are on the scene.
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July 14, 2024 at 11:50 am
Former US First Lady Melania Trump released a statement on Sunday commenting on the attempt to assassinate her husband, former President Donald Trump at a rally on the previous day.
"I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans. We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of our gentle nation is tattered, but our courage and common sense must ascend and bring us back together as one," Melania opened.
She described her feelings at the time of the incident: "When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron's life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave Secret Service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband.
"To the families of the innocent victims who a...
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July 14, 2024 at 10:15 am
Importance
Living in a world inhabited by billions of people can make us feel unimportant — as if our existence does not matter.
Chazal felt otherwise. The mishnah in Sanhedrin[1] derives the significance of each human life from how Hashem created the first human being. Whereas Hashem created each creature in pairs, He made just one human. The fact that the whole world initially existed on behalf of a single person teaches us that each human life is as significant as the entire world. Causing the loss of even one life is like destroying the whole world; saving even one life is like saving the entire world.
This idea should impact how we view our place within the world. The mishnah continues, “Therefore, each and every person needs to say, ‘The world was created on my b...
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July 14, 2024 at 9:56 am
Newark, DE - July 14, 2024 - For those heading north (i.e. to Lakewood, NY, Newark Airport, Philadelphia…), be aware that speed cameras have been placed along Interstate 95 at Route 896 in Newark, (as soon as one leaves Maryland), as part of the Delaware Department of Transportation's Electronic Speed Safety Program and the speed limit drops to 55MPH.
Drivers who speed through the construction zone will receive warnings until July 30.
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July 14, 2024 at 9:40 am
It's certainly been a hot Maryland summer so far, and Baltimore City just announced another "Code Red" heat alert for July 14-17.
For many residents, that can mean big utility bills as air conditioners struggle to keep up with the heat wave.
Thanks to a ramped-up state program, BGE customers can now take advantage of a tune-up of their heating and air-conditioning system for no additional cost.
Everyone who uses BGE is eligible to schedule the tune-up, which they're technically already helping pay for.
The tune-up service - along with the perhaps better-known Quick Home Energy Check-up - is sponsored by the EmPOWER Maryland program, which is funded by a charge on your energy bill.
The tune-up will include a system performance check, coil inspection, indoor and outdoor c...
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July 14, 2024 at 12:33 am
The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post.
Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pa., squeezed off shots — one of which grazed Trump in the ear — at an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.
Sources said Crooks was planted on a roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.
He was killed by Secret Service snipers. An AR-style rifle was later recovered.
Bethel Park is a village 40 miles south of where the Butler rally was held.
Why Crooks fired on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is unclear.
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July 14, 2024 at 12:01 am
Baltimore, MD – July 13, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Yaakov & Aviva Gluck on the birth of Reva Miriam.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Howard & Gitty Gluck and Gregg & Rena Trestman
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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July 13, 2024 at 11:23 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 13, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Chaim Baruch and Ayala Lefkowitz on the birth of a daughter.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Rabbi and Mrs Yoseph Lefkowitz
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
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July 13, 2024 at 11:15 pm
The White House said President Biden spoke with former President Donald Trump on Saturday evening.
No further details were provided on the call.
Biden will convene a briefing with homeland security and law enforcement officials at the White House on Sunday morning.
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July 13, 2024 at 11:01 pm
Former President Donald Trump says he was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday evening.
The bloodied former president was whisked away by Secret Service after shots were heard in the crowd of his Butler, Pa. political event. The shooter and a rally attendee are both dead as a result of the incident, the Associated Press reports.
Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday evening to thank law enforcement, offer his condolences to the family of the deceased eventgoer and to confirm he was hit by a bullet.
"I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound," Trump wrote.
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July 13, 2024 at 10:30 pm
Meta (META.O), opens new tab said on Friday it was rolling back some restrictions that had applied to former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
The social media company indefinitely suspended Trump's accounts following his praise of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The company then reinstated his accounts in early 2023, saying it would monitor Trump's posts for further violations that could result in another suspension of between one month and two years.
Trump, who is running against U.S. President Joe Biden, will no longer be subject to the additional monitoring, Meta said.
"In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear fro...
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July 13, 2024 at 10:19 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Saturday, 13 July 2024), at his press conference in Tel Aviv [translated from Hebrew]:"Dear citizens of Israel, good evening.The State of Israel, via the IDF and the ISA, attacked a target in Gaza today in order to eliminate Muhammad Deif and his deputy Rafa'a Salameh. While there is no absolute certainty yet that they were eliminated, I would like to assure you that one way or another, we will reach the entire Hamas leadership.Muhammad Deif is an arch-murderer, the Hamas Chief-of-Staff, the #2 in the chain of command. It was Deif who planned and led the October 7 massacre and many additional terrorist attacks. His hands are soaked in the blood of many Israelis.At midnight last night, when the ISA Director presented me with the details ...
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July 13, 2024 at 10:13 pm
The IDF on Saturday afternoon confirmed that Israeli security forces attempted to eliminate Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas' military wing and considered one of the terror group's leaders, and the commander of Hamas' Khan Yunis Brigade.
"In a joint IDF and ISA activity based on precise intelligence, the IDF's Southern Command and the IAF carried out a strike in an area where two senior Hamas terrorists and additional terrorists hid among civilians," the IDF confirmed.
"The location of the strike was an open area surrounded by trees, several buildings, and sheds."
Earlier, the IDF had said that the strike was in a "defined terrorist area" and that it was "waiting for the results of the attack." The IDF does not believe that there were hostages in the area around Deif.
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