Former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Meir Shamgar died on Oct. 18 at the age of 94.
Shamgar joined Israel’s highest court in 1975 and became chief justice eight years later. He retired in 1995.
He was known for his “firm stance” in favor of freedom of speech, according to a short biography released by the court.
Shamgar “had an important role in shaping the foundation of Israeli jurisprudence, including legal policy in Judea and Samaria,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement.

President Donald Trump announced abruptly Saturday night that he would no longer host next year’s Group of Seven summit at the Trump National Doral near Miami, bowing to criticism for having selected his own property as the venue for a major diplomatic event.
Trump was buffeted by two straight days of allegations of self-dealing and exasperation from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including some Republican allies who said the selection of Doral as the venue for a gathering of world leaders was indefensible.

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry will step down by the end of the year, President Donald Trump said on Thursday, a day before a deadline set by congressional Democrats for Perry to turn over documents in the impeachment probe.
Trump told an event in Texas that he had known for months that Perry would resign.
“Rick and I have been talking for six months. In fact, I thought he might go a bit sooner,” Trump said. “But he’s got some very big plans. He’s going to be very successful. We have his successor. We’ll announce it pretty soon.”
Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette, who has attended several international energy meetings in recent months, is widely expected to replace Perry.

President Trump says the White House has abandoned plans to host next year’s G7 summit at his Doral Miami Resort because of “crazed and irrational hostility” by Democrats and the media, the Daily Beast reports. “I thought I was doing something very good for our Country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 Leaders,” the president tweeted late Saturday. “Would set up better than other alternatives. I announced that I would be willing to do it at NO PROFIT or, if legally permissible, at ZERO COST to the USA. But, as usual, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners went CRAZY!” he said. Trump said the search for a new venue would begin immediately, with Camp David considered a candidate.

Instant messages between two high-level Boeing employees in 2016 indicate the company was aware of major problems with an automated feature on the 737 Max jet that has been implicated in two deadly crashes.
The messages, between two top pilots, were about an automated feature known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that investigators say repeatedly – and in error – forced down the noses of planes that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing 346 people.
In the messages, Mark Forkner, then chief technical pilot for Boeing’s 737, wrote to technical pilot Patrik Gustavsson that the MCAS was engaging “itself like craxy,” calling the problem “egregious.”

Liberal comedian and commentator Bill Maher offered President Trump $1 million to resign during his show Friday night.
“Just take my check for $1 million,” Maher, a long-standing Trump critic, said on HBO’s “Real Time.”
“I bet I could get another 1,000 people just from here to the beach — including Malibu, of course — who would pay that much to see you resign,” Maher added.
Maher concluded, “Mr. President, it is really very simple. You love money. We hate you.”
Read more at The Hill.
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Former 2016 Green Party presidential Jill Stein pushed back forcefully against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that Stein and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) are Russian assets Saturday on CNN.
“I am not a Russian spy,” Stein said on CNN’s “Smerconish.”
Stein continued, “I think this is a completely unhinged conspiracy theory for which there is absolutely no basis in fact, not for myself and not for Tulsi Gabbard. I think it’s really outrageous that Hillary Clinton is trying to promote this crazy idea.”
On a podcast Thursday, Clinton called Stein a “Russian asset.” The former first lady and New York Senator also said that one of the 2020 Democratic candidates was the “favorite of the Russians” to win the 2020 election.