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. […]

A group of Republican senators and senior White House officials met privately Thursday to map out a strategy for a potential impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, including rapid proceedings in the Senate that could be limited to about two weeks, according to multiple officials familiar with the talks.
The prospect of an abbreviated trial is viewed by several Senate Republicans as a favorable middle ground – substantial enough to give the proceedings credence without risking greater damage to Trump by dragging on too long.

Leaders of the anti-vaxx movement have been chased out from Jewish communities across North America. Now, they are trying their luck in Yerushalayim.
Using various secretive methods, the group has surfaced in Yerushalayim, hiding behind the innocuous sounding name: Ezrat Menachem. Using email and social media, Matzav.com has uncovered, they publicized an event this week featuring one of the most outrageous anti-vaxx activists, huckster Del Bigtree. Bigtree is a huckster who is famous for promulgating the disproven link between autism and vaccines.

The U.S. Secret Service paid more than $250,000 to President Donald Trump’s private businesses in just the first five months of Trump’s presidency – paying the president’s company an average of nearly $2,000 per day, according to Secret Service records.
Those records, obtained by the group Property of the People after an open-records lawsuit, detail some of the revenue that Trump derives from the U.S. taxpayer.
The president has set up an extraordinary arrangement: he kept ownership of his businesses – and then visited them repeatedly, bringing along aides and security officials and charging the government for what they bought.