A home in the southern city of Sderot sustained a direct hit Friday night as three waves of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli communities bordering the coastal enclave.
The Iron Dome missile defense system brought down at least seven rockets during the attacks, the Israel Defense Forces said. No one was hurt in the attack, but one home was damaged by a direct hit from a rocket while a woman in her 60s was injured making her way to a shelter.
In response, IDF fired a tank barrage at a Hamas position in the Strip.
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GAZA CITY (AP) – Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed a Palestinian man Saturday as aircraft pounded militant sites in response to barrages of rockets launched toward Israel from the seaside enclave. The exchange of fire shattered a monthlong lull across the volatile frontier. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Ahmed al-Shehri, 27, died from shrapnel injuries during […]

House Republican Rep. Jim Jordan and former House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz weigh in on what Jim Morrison’s closed-door testimony means for Democrats’ impeachment push.
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Israeli high-tech companies reached the highest quarterly sum since 2013 by raising $2.24 billion in the third quarter of 2019.
A report by IVC Research Center and the international-law firm ZAG-S&W revealed that high-tech firms secured 142 deals in the last quarter—also the highest number since 2013—including 13 deals that exceeding $50 million each.
The six largest deals that were secured in the third quarter, each exceeding $100 million, added up to $841 million.

Saad al-Hariri is ready to return as prime minister of a new Lebanese government, a senior official familiar with his thinking said, on condition it includes technocrats and can quickly implement reforms to stave off economic collapse.
Hariri resigned after massive protests against the political elite, accused by demonstrators of overseeing rampant state corruption, saying he had hit a “dead end” in trying to resolve the crisis.
There is no obvious alternative to Hariri as prime minister, a post reserved for a Sunni Muslim in Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system.

The number of uninsured children in the U.S. increased for the second year in a row and now tops 4 million, the most since ObamaCare became law, according to a new report released Wednesday.
According to the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the number of uninsured children increased by more than 400,000 between 2016 and 2018.

 
President Donald Trump nominated Steve Biegun to become his next deputy secretary of state on Thursday, a move that would place his top negotiator for North Korea in a position to replace Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should he run for the Senate.
Since August 2018, Biegun has led efforts to negotiate an end to North Korea’s nuclear program, a high-wire act that remains a priority for the president.
Biegun would continue to oversee the North Korea talks if the Senate confirms him to become the nation’s No. 2 diplomat, a senior administration official said, but he would leave day-to-day management of the negotiations to his deputy, Alex Wong.

Former President Barack Obama will raise money for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at a fundraiser in California next month.
Obama will appear for a conversation with DNC Chair Tom Perez on Nov. 21 in Los Altos Hills, according to the invitation for the event, which was first obtained by Politico. The DNC confirmed the veracity of the invitation to The Hill.
Tickets for the event range from $10,000 to $355,000, the most expensive of which contains perks including access to National Finance Committee Benefits and the “Premium Convention Package.”
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Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks out on impeachment resolution on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources reported by POLITICO, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.
The moves come as Harris is hemorrhaging cash and in danger of lacking the resources to mount a competitive bid against better-funded rivals in Iowa. The overhaul will touch nearly every facet of Harris’ operation, with layoffs or re-deployments coming at headquarters, as well as in New Hampshire, Nevada and her home state of California, a Super Tuesday prize that her advisers once viewed as a big asset.