The MTA announced that the Staten Island-bound lower level of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will be closed this Sunday, May 5, from 12:01 a.m. until 6 p.m. for the annual Five Boro Bike Tour. The upper level of the bridge will remain open throughout the event.
One Brooklyn-bound lane on the lower level will be closed from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., and the Bay Street Exit will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The BQE approach (I-278) to the bridge will close from 9:30 a.m. until 6 p.m., and the 92nd Street exit ramp to the Staten Island-bound lower level, as well as the Belt Parkway entrance ramp to the lower level, will be closed from 12:01 a.m. to 6 p.m.

White House lawyer Emmet Flood sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr in April complaining that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report made “political” statements, according to multiple reports.
The letter was sent one day after Mueller’s redacted report was released to the public.
“The SCO Report suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately fails to comply with the requirements of governing law,” Flood wrote. “Lest the Report’s release be taken as a ‘precedent’ or perceived as somehow legitimately the defect, I write with both the President and future Presidents in mind to make the following points clear.”

Nearly 10 years after Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb the New York City subway system, a federal judge in Brooklyn on Thursday said he will effectively serve no additional prison time after prosecutors cited Zazi’s “extraordinary cooperation” with US investigators.
Zazi pleaded guilty in 2010 to three charges connected to a plot to bomb the subway around the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, including conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to a terrorist organization.

Sen. Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign sent a fundraising email to supporters on Thursday with a message slamming President Trump for his “gendered” attack against the California senator after the president labeling Harris’s line of questioning towards Attorney General William Barr during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as “probably very nasty.”
“It seems like anytime Donald Trump feels threatened by a strong woman, he lashes out with this gross, weird attack,” the message read. “It’s the kind of sexism that makes me want to run my head through a wall.”
“You’d think, after three years, he could at least come up with something more original,” Harris’s campaign wrote.

Rav Shabsai Sheftl Horowitz II (1590-1660). The son of the Shelah Hakodesh, Reb Shabsai studied under his father and under Rav Shlomo Ephraim Lunshitz. After his father left for Eretz Yisrael, he became dayan of Prague. He then became Rav of Fuerth, then Frankfurt am Main, then Posen, where he founded a yeshiva. In 1654, he was appointed Rav of Vienna. In 1649, he published his father’s work, Shnei Luchos HaBris, along with his own extensive introduction, Vavei HaAmudim.

It was not a good sign when A.G. Sulzberger took over as publisher of the New York Times in January 2018 with a “Note From the Publisher” that contained a claim that was flat-out false.
Now, navigating the worst crisis of his tenure, this time over the publication by the Times of an antisemitic cartoon, the A.G. Sulzberger-published Times has gone and published another untruth in the editorial column. This time, the falsehood is the claim, in an unsigned Times staff editorial about the cartoon controversy, “We have been and remain stalwart supporters of Israel.”
It just doesn’t pass the laugh test. Does the Times think its readers haven’t been paying any attention?

Israeli tech entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz is looking for entrepreneurs to do battle against tech giants such as Apple, Amazon, and Google. “Despite assisting and strengthening those companies myself, I think too much power breeds evil,” he said Wednesday in an event held in northern Israeli business hub OpenValley.
“In the past, it seemed impossible to fight such huge corporations, but every organization is set to eventually fade and disappear, and the question is whether there’s some initiative that can overcome these companies,” he said.
“It is my favorite mission,” he added. “I’m already invested in a company I want to see make Amazon’s commerce redundant.”

Attorney General William Barr appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, will not return for hearing with the House.
WATCH:

A defiant Julian Assange told a London court Thursday he will fight extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer, arguing that his work as WikiLeaks founder has benefited the public.
Speaking by video link from Belmarsh Prison in southeast London, Assange said: “I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people.”
His formal refusal to be extradited marks the start of what is expected to be a bruising legal battle over whether he will be brought to trial in the United States.
Read more at ABC News.
{Matzav.com}