WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani wants to take the information he has gathered from his investigations in Ukraine to the U.S. attorney general and to Congress. Trump said Giuliani had not yet told him what information he has gathered, though the president said he’s heard it […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an Israeli startup device that can quickly extract results based off just a drop of blood.
However, unlike the former startup Theranos, which falsely claimed that it could test for diseases based off blood from the prick of a finger (and whose founder and deputy were criminally charged), Sight Diagnostics’s OLO blood analyzer conducts just the complete blood-count test (CBC), which calculates white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets in somebody—a procedure that currently can take up to a day and consists of large laboratory machines.

PYONGYANG (AP) – North Korea said Sunday it carried out a “very important test” at its long-range rocket launch site that will have a key effect on the country’s strategic position. The Korean Central News Agency said the test was conducted at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground on Saturday afternoon. It said that the result […]

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is unveiling a broad new education plan Saturday that pledges to spend $700 billion over a decade to create a high-quality child care and preschool system that he said would reach all children from birth to age 5 and create 1 million jobs.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that Israel has never had a better friend in the White House than him because, unlike his predecessors, “I kept my promises.” Trump energized an audience that numbered in the hundreds at the American Israeli Council National Summit in Florida by recounting his record on issues […]

Jewish convert David Ben Avraham (formerly known as Samah Zaytun), who was released from a Palestinian Authority prison in Halhul after 60 days, arrived on Friday for medical examinations at the national headquarters of United Hatzalah in Yerushalayim.
Ben Avraham completed the conversion process at Rav Nissim Karelitz’s bais din in Bnei Brak, before being arrested on erev of Yom Kippur upon arriving for a meeting with his son near Karmei Tzur.
After his release, he was evacuated by ambulance for further treatment and medical examinations at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Yerushalayim. “I would like to thank the United Hatzalah volunteers and the ambulance staff for the dedicated and courteous care and for the quick evacuation to the hospital,” he said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign has parted ways with a newly hired staffer following a report that he sent tweets containing anti-Semitic rhetoric.
A spokesman for Sanders’s campaign confirmed to CNN on Friday that Darius Khalil Gordon was no longer with the campaign.
“He is no longer with the campaign and we wish him the best,” Sanders campaign spokesman Mike Casca told the network.
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Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not bring up the contentious issue of annexing the Jordan Valley during a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Portugal, a senior Trump administration official told reporters Saturday.
“I can tell you that there was no annexation plan, full or partial, for any part of the West Bank presented by Israel to the United States during the meeting, and that has long been the US government position, that the ultimate disposition of territory is to be determined between the parties,” Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said in a statement.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday he would not proceed with the plan to designate the infamous Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.
While everything is ready for the move, the plan would now be put on hold, Trump said in his tweet, adding that the decision was made at the request of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The Mexican president hailed the change of heart, telling reporters that joint action with Washington on cartels needed to be done “with respect for our sovereignty.”
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Israel would preemptively bomb Iran in a military operation in order to stop the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon if necessary, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in an interview Saturday.
Speaking with Italian-language daily Corriere della Sera, Katz offered the answer after being asked if Israel was considering such an option.
“Yes, it is an option. We will not allow Iran to produce or obtain nuclear weapons. If it were the last possible way to stop this, we would act militarily,” Katz replied.
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