Oscar Stewart, a 51-year-old Iraq War veteran, was standing at the back of the room when shots rang out during Krias HaTorah at the Chabad of Poway on Shabbos. His actions, described by San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore as an “act of courage,” resulted in the shooter fleeing the scene before more damage was done.

The U.S. has little interest in joining other countries in a multi-nation effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday.
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A few months after he turned 17 — and more than two years before he was arrested — Vincent Vetromile recast himself as an online revolutionary.
Offline, in this suburb of Rochester, New York, Vetromile was finishing requirements for promotion to Eagle Scout in a troop that met at a local church.

Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year’s midterms. Women won two of the state’s most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, Washington’s odd couple, have a limited set of mutual legislative interests in a capital beset by dysfunction and awash in presidential politics.
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A Jet Blue flight at JFK Airport has been placed into quarantine, after two passengers showed possible signs of having the highly contagious measles virus.
Sources tell YWN that JetBlue Flight 410 from Santo Domingo Republic is carrying dozens of Orthodox Jewish passengers who are returning from a Pesach program.

Two-day delivery is going out of style.
Amazon, which hooked shoppers on getting just about anything delivered in two days, announced Thursday that it will soon promise one-day delivery for its U.S.
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The Justice Department has informed the House Judiciary Committee that Attorney General William Barr may skip a Thursday hearing on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report if committee lawyers seek to question him.
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As presidential campaign season gets into higher gear, candidates are starting to pile up the gaffes, or rather, expose the true nature of their proposals. Bernie Sanders, a Jewish candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 is the latest to show his cards.

York Regional Police say they are investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a Vaughan home – just outside of Toronto – on Shabbos.
Police said they were made aware of the graffiti after receiving a call Saturday morning.
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