WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump appears to be opening the door for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pahm-PAY’-oh) to run for an open Senate seat in his home state of Kansas. Trump told “Fox & Friends” on Friday that Pompeo “loves what he’s doing” but if he thought “there was a chance of losing […]

Ezras Nashim, an all-woman Orthodox Jewish paramedic group, was denied an application Tuesday night to operate an ambulance in two Brooklyn neighborhoods by the Regional EMS Council of NYC, setting the stage for a fight in Albany.
Representatives of the all-male Hatzolah EMS opposed the application, as did a group of rabbonim, who contended at a hearing last month that having two ambulance services covering the same area would be confusing.
The group wants to run its own ambulance to fill a “significant void” in emergency medical coverage for Orthodox Jewish women in Brooklyn, according to the group’s application.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI lawyer is being investigated for allegedly altering a document related to surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser in 2016. That’s according to a person familiar with the case and published news reports. The Associated Press confirmed reports by CNN and The Washington Post that the finding will be in […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — After two weeks of riveting public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, there is a mountain of evidence that is now beyond dispute. Trump explicitly ordered U.S. government officials to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on matters related to Ukraine, a country deeply dependent on Washington’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says he does not expect to be impeached, claiming Democrats have “absolutely nothing” incriminating, despite days of public testimony by witnesses who said Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to press the country to investigate his political rivals. Trump told “Fox & Friends” on Friday, “I think it’s very hard […]

The Satmar Rebbe distributed $5 million to 150 anti-Tzioni Mosdos during his trip to Ererz Yisroel this week.
Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum was in Israel to present the heads of the institutions with checks made out in shekels, The Jerusalem Post reported. The checks were distributed on Thursday night in the Satmar neighborhood of Beit Shemesh.
The mosdos involved all refuse to take money from the medina in compliance with the Satmar ideology.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taking on the workhorse heavy pickup truck market with his latest electric vehicle. The “cybertruck,” an electric pickup truck, will be in production in 2021, Musk said at the Los Angeles Auto Show Thursday. The pickup, which Musk said will cost $39,900 and up, will have […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli settlers attacked five villages in the occupied West Bank overnight, torching vehicles and olive trees, and leaving graffiti on the walls of homes. Ghassan Daghlas, a spokesman for the Nablus governorate, says the Jewish settlers set fire to five cars and spray-painted graffiti on more than […]

MOSCOW (JTA) — A Russian state-owned bank sent to one of its clients a promotional code that contained the phrase “Kill Jews.” Artem Chapaev, a former creative consultant at Amnesty International from Moscow, on Wednesday posted on Twitter a screen shot of the password, which he received as a text to his smartphone from Sberbank. […]