The Facebook page of the Republican Party in Rockland County caught the attention of New York’s top prosecutor with a video message against a multi-family development that has been deemed as anti-Semitic by members of the Jewish community and others.

After the United States and other nations that recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, another country joins, albeit a small island country: The island country of Nauru in the South Pacific.
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Struggling Democratic presidential candidates are facing the bad news that they are not among the 10 who have qualified for the next debate, a predicament that is likely to spell doom for their campaigns.
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A vehicle overturned into a lake in the Catksills, Thursday morning.
It happened at around 11:20AM on the Harris-Bushville Road.
Sources tell YWN that the driver swerved to avoid a vehicle which had crossed the double-yellow lines – directly into his lane.

The top U.S. military officer said Wednesday it’s too early to talk about a full American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, injecting a cautionary note as U.S. peace talks with the Taliban appear to be near a final agreement.
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New York softened penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and created a process for erasing certain past offenses in a state law that went into place Wednesday.
The maximum penalty for possessing less than an ounce of pot has been lowered to $50.
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James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump in the weeks before Comey was fired as bureau director, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Thursday.
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Lebanese army gunners opened fired at two of three Israeli reconnaissance drones Wednesday after they entered Lebanese airspace, a security official and the state news agency said, amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
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U.S. health officials on Wednesday tried to reassure patients that they face very low risks from ongoing contamination problems with widely prescribed blood pressure drugs.
Drugmakers have issued more than 50 recalls since last July linked to low levels of a probable cancer-causing chemical found in generic drugs taken by millions of Americans.

Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign said Wednesday that it ejected a Breitbart News reporter from an event at a South Carolina college because it wanted to ensure that students felt “comfortable and safe.”
The Texas Democrat’s campaign found itself in a public confrontation with the aggressive conservative web site a day after its senior editor-at-large, Joel Pollak, said he was booted from an O’Rourke speech.