Lawmakers in New York are seeking to sharply narrow a proposal that would grant congressional committees access to state tax returns filed by President Donald Trump to address concerns that it could jeopardize the privacy of anyone who pays taxes in the state.

Iran quadrupled its uranium-enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s atomic program, nuclear officials said Monday, just after President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister traded threats and taunts on Twitter.
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg used a Fox News town hall to slam two of the network’s primetime opinion hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.

….who got them there.
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Ordered by the White House to the Persian Gulf, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has become a 100,000-ton barometer of the tensions between Iran and the U.S.
So far, the Lincoln and its accompanying ships have yet to enter the gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.

Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert is starting a ballot drive as a “failsafe” in case Michigan’s Republican-led Legislature and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer don’t enact legislation to cut the country’s highest auto insurance premiums.
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More than 100 children helped make a Kiddush Hashem as they participated in the “Keep Rockland Clean” event on Sunday. The children helped clean the area around Lake Suzanne.
Every child that filled a bag with garbage, received an ice cream.

A man was taken into custody after he walked into the NYPD’s 40 Precinct wearing a ski mask and armed with to knives on Saturday.
The man, identified as 26-year-old Monti White, is seen on the attached surveillance video footage, calmly walking into the Precinct, and opening a locked gate and walking behind the desk.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place a ruling for a California museum in a dispute over ownership of two German Renaissance masterpieces seized by the Nazis in World War II.
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From liberal firebrands Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to moderates Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper, nearly the entire 2020 Democratic presidential field agrees that the federal minimum wage should be more than doubled, to $15 an hour.
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The following is via Washington Free Beacon:
Outrage is mounting in the Jewish and pro-Israel communities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee after a student at the school protested an event celebrating Israeli Independence Day with signs displaying swastikas and calls for Jewish students to be gassed, speech the university says is protected and cannot be stopped.