President Donald Trump has again broached the idea of freeing former Illinois governor and one-time “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Rod Blagojevich from a Colorado federal prison, where he is in his seventh year of a 14-year prison term for political corruption.
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Capital One is working to resolve a service outage affecting direct deposits and account access, officials announced Friday.
The service outage was announced on Capital One’s Customer Service Twitter account shortly after 9 a.m.

The apartment in which Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L lived before moving to Har Nof, located at 8 Elkana Street in Jerusalem, is up for sale for a cool NIS 4.5 million.
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A miraculous story took place recently in Jerusalem, which highlights the power of kavana during davening. An avreich, Yair ben Sara, was completely healed from a fatal illness. The details of the story have been confirmed by Yair himself as well as his wife.

A Jerusalem Arab resident who works as a taxi driver showed a 17-year-old yeshiva bochur illicit videos as the young man was trying to return home to Beit Shemesh on Wednesday.
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Oxford – Yesterday evening around 8:51 P.M. at 609 North Dan Patch Drive in Oxford, IN a 911 call was received by the Benton County Dispatch of a woman found unresponsive with a Reticulated Python wrapped around her neck.
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Teveria Mayor Ron Kobi has adopted an aggressive attitude towards religious observance in Israel in general and towards one of the leading Rabbonim of the city of Teveria Mekubal HaRav Dov Kook in specific.

The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria.
In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad’s Quraysh tribe.

A criminal indictment has been handed down against a 48-year-old suspect in Jerusalem who was arrested a week ago on suspicion of attacking and abusing an 89-year-old woman R”L, leaving her injured and as a result, she had to be placed in a nursing home.
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An international operation conducted by the agunah department of the Rabbinical Court returned an Ethiopian woman to Israel who had been abducted by missionaries, according to a Kikar HaShabbat report.