A federal judge on Monday denied a House request to prevent President Donald Trump from tapping Defense Department money for his proposed border wall with Mexico, saying Congress lacked authority to sue.
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Ministry of Environmental Protection: After Moshav Idan in the Aravah – mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus were also discovered in the settlement of Beit Aryeh in Shomron. The Ministry instructed the local council to expand the monitoring and supervision of its territory and, if necessary, pest control – The ministry calls on local authorities throughout the country to increase efforts to eliminate mosquito hazards

In a turnabout, the government said Wednesday it will start posting a list of some 400 troubled nursing homes , days after senators released the “secret” document along with a report questioning oversight of poor-quality facilities.
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Half of U.S. adults consider fake news a major problem, and they mostly blame politicians and activists for it, according to a new survey.
A majority also believe journalists have the responsibility for fixing it.
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The High Court of Justice on Wednesday morning ruled against a petition of the Chazon organization, which is seeking to prevent the removal of the signs “Abba + Ima = a family” and “The Courage to be Normal”.

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand (KEER’-sten JIHL’-uh-brand) has a plan to legalize marijuana and expunge all nonviolent criminal charges associated with it.
The New York senator says in a Medium post on Wednesday she’d work with Congress to decriminalize recreational marijuana use and tax nonprescription marijuana products.

MK Moshe Gafne, who chairs the Knesset Finance Committee, launched an attack against MKs Avigdor Lieberman and Betzalel Smotrich in his address to a conference at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel on Tuesday.
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Shock and grief spread through the NYPD as the news spread that Deputy Chief Steven Silks was pronounced dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound, Wednesday evening.
Police found Silks in his off-duty vehicle on Burns St.

YouTube is updating its hate speech policies to prohibit videos with white supremacist and neo-Nazi content.
The video streaming company says it has already made it more difficult to find such videos, but it’s now removing them outright.
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Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennet spoke with HaRav Chaim Druckman in order to pave their way back to the Bayit Yehudi party and unite the religious right. Last Friday, the two called the rabbi separately and spoke to him about a possible merger of the parties or as a technical block.