President Donald Trump’s latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China’s technology ambitions and other trade tensions.
The Trump administration raised duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25% from 10%.

A judge cleared the way Thursday for a disciplinary trial to begin next week for the white New York City police officer accused in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose pleas of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against police brutality.

A fast-acting school bus driver is being lauded for grabbing a student by the back of his jacket as he was about to step out into the path of a car.
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President Donald Trump has a message for Iran’s leaders as tensions flare over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program: “Call me.”

Neturei Karta were out mourning the 71st anniversary of the State of Israel, with their annual protests.
A small crowd marched around Kikar Shabbos, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting “Tziyonim are not Jews”.

Palestinian terrorists threw stones at an Egged Number 1 bus on Thursday night.
The bus was heading to the Kosel was was attacked as it passed “Sha’ar Shechem”.
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The South Side Sandwich Shop in Lakewood makes hundreds of sandwiches a day. But today, they are involved in a controversy about a flag outside their store.
YWN spoke with the proprietor of the establishment who tells us that he simply wanted to show his appreciation towards the State of Israel, and hung an Israeli flag outside his store in honor of Yom Ha’atzmut.

It’s an Israeli Independence Day custom.
Once again, as is done every year, the national flag was flown on the roof of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak.
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Federal officials announced Thursday that they have filed 109 hate crime charges against the 19-year-old man accused of opening fire in a Southern California synagogue.
Prosecutors say the gunman, identified as John T.
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As YWN reported earlier this week, a Hasidic Williamsburg man was punched in the face in an anti-Semitic attack. Now the NYPD is releasing footage of the suspectes as well as additional details.
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