Amazon’s Jeff Bezos challenged other retailers to raise wages and improve benefits for their employees, saying the competition will help everyone.
Bezos covered a wide range of topics in his annual letter to shareholders Thursday that was released on Twitter and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission .

Authorities say a flight to Los Angeles returned to New York’s Kennedy Airport shortly after takeoff because it had struck a sign and light on the runway.
American Airlines Flight 300 was carrying 101 passengers when it took off at 8:40 p.m.
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Hamas terrorists imprisoned in Israel last week announced they are beginning a hunger strike in protest over harshening of conditions. However, it appears that they are eating in secret, News12 reported on Wednesday.
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NYC Councilman Kalman Yeger got fed up with ConEd blocking a street in his district and tossed their barricades aside. Then he got into it with ConEd on Twitter.
The incident occurred Wednesday at 44th street and 15th Avenue in Borough Park.
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A Satmar beis medrash located on Nechemia Street in Bnei Brak was targeted by vandals on Wednesday evening, apparently surrounding an election-related machlokes.

The acting defense secretary is making a renewed pitch to Congress for authority to create a Space Force as a separate branch of the military.
Patrick Shanahan, who’s been heading the Pentagon on an interim basis since Jan.
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Infant Shalom Dov Ber Rosen Z”L was niftar on Thursday morning after being transported to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Rishon L’Tzion.
An ambulance was summoned to Tzemach Tzedek Street in Kfar Chabad on Wednesday morning, after the 6-month-old infant was found unconscious.
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The Der Yid Newspaper (affiliated with the Satmar community of Williamsburg) printed a strong editorial against the anti-vaxxers. The newspaper also took the rare step of printing it in English.

Three of New York’s biggest hospital systems have reached a tentative agreement with nurses.
The New York Times says the four-year contract agreement reached on Tuesday would affect the Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian and Montefiore hospital systems.
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Elections for 21st Knesset are over, and the question remains is how much did the election cost the nation? The various political parties entering the 21st Knesset will now receive funding based on their size.
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