U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles because the bags may not inflate in a crash. The problem could be responsible for as many as eight deaths.
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An totally Kosher event with music and Divrei Torah scheduled for Tuesday night in WIlliamsburg was banned at the last minute.
The event was titled “Shirim, V’shiyurim”, and had a lineup of Chassidish singers, top of the line music, as well as Divrei Torah by the world renowned Chassidish speaker, HaRav Avrohom Mordechai Magid.

Don’t skip breakfast.
A new study finds it could increase your risk of heart-related death.
Researchers at the University of Iowa studied 65,000 adults for 12 years.
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On Monday afternoon, a woman in Bnei Brak was preparing food for her family for Pesach when her hand got stuck in a blender. The woman, in her 40s, was treated at the scene by volunteers from United Hatzalah and was taken to the hospital with parts of the blender still attached to her hand.

An Israeli teenager who fell to his death last year at an iconic waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park was trying to mimic a popular social media photograph when he fell, authorities said.
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A violent arrest in Brooklyn was caught on camera.
Four NYPD officers tried to take down a robbery suspect who fought back, and then got hold of one of their Tasers.
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Jerusalem Old City Jewish Quarter tourism officials reported on Tuesday morning that over 7000 people have packed the sites of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem over the past two days, enjoying a variety of activities on the sites, including the Burnt House, the Herodian Quarter and the Churva Shul.

Members of the New York state Senate are joining the fight to encourage people to get vaccinated amid an ongoing measles outbreak in the state.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-led chamber launched a public awareness campaign on Monday designed to give people accurate information about inoculations and how to get them while dispelling myths that they are unsafe.

A group of Peleg protesters attempted to block the intersection of Kikar Shabbos on Monday evening. The intersection is a major thoroughfare for those living in the Me’ah Shearim and Geulah neighborhoods.

As coalition talks progress, and parties have to prepare their ‘wish list’; their list of demands for entering the coalition, United Right-Wing list leader Rafi Peretz is demanding the education portfolio for himself and the justice portfolio for the second person on the party lineup, MK Betzalel Smotrich.