Protesters are blocking traffic on FDR Drive as the disciplinary trial gets underway for the NYPD officer accused in connection with the death of Eric Garner.
Traffic cameras showed a small number of demonstrators blocking FDR Drive at 25th Street.

An Israeli woman was killed and three other Israeli citizens were injured in a vehicular accident that occurred on Monday morning in Portugal, the Israel Foreign Ministry confirms. The families in Israel have been notified.
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Negotiators representing chareidi parties working to form a coalition government are working to protect the salaries of kindergartens teachers, particularly those in the chareidi system, Kikar Shabbos News reports. They point out that this is particularly necessary pertaining in cases when funds for salaries seem to disappear, stating this outrageous phenomenon must soon disappear.

Two Saudi oil tankers were targeted in what is being labeled a “sabotage attack” off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, Saudi Arabia’s minister of energy reports.
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Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan referenced “Satanic Jews” in a speech denying allegations of anti-Semitism, misogyny and homophobia after Facebook banned him from the social media platform.

House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to “take action” against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her “kind of a calming feeling” in part because in its aftermath, the Palestinians helped create “a safe haven for Jews.”

A Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday, using only its rear wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy.

The state on Sunday signed an agreement regarding the indictment pertaining to the Duma arson case dating back to the summer of 2015, in which extremist right-wing Jews are believed to have firebombed the home of an Arab family in the PA (Palestinian Authority) village of Duma, leading to the deaths of members of the Darawshe family.

Eight burn victims sued the maker of Pam cooking spray Tuesday, saying they were severely injured when cans of the spray exploded in their kitchens.
The plaintiffs’ attorney, J.
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MK Yair Lapid and colleagues MKs Meir Cohen and Penina Tamanu of the Blue and White party visited the Phoenicia factory in Yerucham on Sunday.
The factory management explains that its glass burning ovens take too long to heat up and therefore, they cannot be shut down for Shabbos and as a result, the factory operates on Shabbos.