It was one of the more memorable moments in the New York City mayor’s race: Eight Democratic candidates were asked at a debate earlier this month if they would accept an endorsement from Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Only one, Andrew Yang, raised his hand.

When the candidates each gave the mayor a letter grade, their consensus was that Mr. de Blasio had failed on a variety of subjects, including solving the city’s homelessness crisis and his handling of protests against police brutality last year.

Parshas Shelach teaches us about the mitzvah of tzitzis, and how they’re intended to remind us of Hashem and his mitzvos. To this end, the cheder yingelech of Boyan, Ohr Moshe, Ch’san Sofer, Spinka, and Tzehlimer yeshivas visited the headquarters of Judaica giant Mefo’ar to take a closer look, connecting with the mitzvah on a deeper level.
Mefo’ar, one of the most prominent names in the Judaica industry, has their headquarters on Fourteenth Avenue near Fortieth Street—where a riveting display exhibits the making of tzitzis from start to finish, from the time the wool is shorn off the sheep, and every step of its manufacturing, until the wool tzitzis are tied into the woolen begged.

The Justice Department said Saturday that it no longer will secretly obtain reporters’ records during leak investigations, a policy shift that abandons a practice decried by news organizations and press freedom groups.
The reversal follows a pledge last month by President Joe Biden, who said it was “simply, simply wrong” to seize journalists’ records and that he would not permit the Justice Department to continue the practice. Though Biden’s comments in an interview were not immediately accompanied by any change in policy, a pair of statements from the White House and Justice Department on Saturday signaled an official turnabout from an investigative tactic that has persisted for years.

A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget sold for nearly $100,000 on eBay on Friday because of its uncanny likeness to a video game character.
The nugget came from a meal package that was done in partnership between McDonald’s and the South Korean pop band BTS. The seller found it resembled a character from Among Us, an online multiplayer game.
The user, who goes by the name Polizna, told CNET the nugget has an “unmistakable correlation with the actual character, even including an odd bump on the back that would represent the backpack.”
Originally listed for only $0.99, after 184 bids, it sold for $99,997.

Former President Donald Trump returned to the political stage on Saturday with a speech at the North Carolina Republican Convention, where he railed against his successor and predicted the GOP would triumph in the 2022 midterm elections.
After a nearly four-month break from public speaking, Trump took the stage as “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood blared from speakers, praising local and federal officials and candidates — and blasting “radical Democrats.”
Trump, 74, struck a more subdued tone than the one that marked his more than five years of political rallies, though he still went after the country’s current leadership, assailing rising inflation rates, the cancelation of the Keystone pipeline and foreign relations.

More than 100 passengers were evacuated when a ferry ran aground in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
The SeaStreak boat was traveling along the East River from Highlands, NJ, to the East 35th Street pier when, shortly after 4 p.m., it “experienced a mechanical issue that caused the vessel to lose power and steering,” the ferry line said in a statement.
The boat — with 118 passengers and seven crew members — began to drift toward Bushwick Inlet Park where it ran aground and began to take on water, the FDNY said.
The FDNY and NYPD responded within four minutes because the agencies already had boats in the water from an earlier jet ski incident, FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Michael Gala said.

President Biden on Friday said he’s “very confident” in his chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, despite the release of emails that exposed Fauci’s knowledge of and efforts to tamp down the Wuhan “lab leak” theory to explain the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin.
“Yes, I’m very confident in Dr. Fauci,” Biden told reporters as he departed Rehoboth Beach, Del., to return to the White House.
The longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is under fire after reporting this week on an email trove acquired by news outlets using the Freedom of Information Act.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has said Iran is enriching uranium to levels that only countries seeking to make atomic weapons reach, and that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program can no longer be returned to where it stood when a landmark 2015 deal was struck with world powers.
“A country enriching at 60 percent is a very serious thing — only countries making bombs are reaching this level,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday and cited by the Reuters News Agency.
“Sixty percent is almost weapons-grade, commercial enrichment is 2, 3 [percent],” he said. “This is a degree that requires a vigilant eye.”