Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden joked that he would challenge President Donald Trump to do push-ups on stage if Trump mocked Biden’s age during a general election debate in a Tuesday interview.
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In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.”

A driver exiting a car wash in New Jersey accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and careened into a nearby waterway Tuesday.
It happened in Hackensack and involved a 2002 Mercedes SUV, and the incident was captured on video.

A NY State Trooper collided with a civilian vehicle in Monticello, Tuesday afternoon.
It happened just before 5:00PM, off Route 17 at Exit 104 (near the 17B).
MobileMedics and Catskills Hatzalah treated one victim on the scene, and was transported to the hospital by MobileMedics.

Tuesday’s weather is expected to be sunny and hot around 90 degrees, but the heat and humidity really cranks up after that – and NBC New York says it could feel like 111 in New York City by the weekend.
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Federal prosecutors won’t bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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ICE Agents were in Midwood, Tuesday morning. They were seen on Avenue J between East 14th and East 15th Street at around 8:00AM. It is unknown if anyone was arrested.
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Benoit Wesly is a 73-year-old businessman and an outspoken Jewish leader in the Netherlands. Early Sunday morning he awoke to find four assailants surrounding his bed.
They had broken into his home in Maastricht and assaulted, tortured and robbed him.
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Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe’s democracies, according to a report surveying 198 countries that was released Monday.
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Prior to dissolving the 21st Knesset, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reached agreement with coalition partners on a number of matters, which were revealed on Monday night’s KAN11 evening news.
According to the report released by Michael Shemesh, the agreements reached include a guarantee by PM Netanyahu that work being performed on Shabbos will not be authorized without approval by a representative of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.