After Eric Garner died following a confrontation with New York City police five years ago, one officer involved in the struggle wrote up paperwork that exaggerated the seriousness of the dead man’s suspected crime, according to testimony Tuesday.
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Former Israeli spy, who is still confined to U.S. soil, gave a rare interview on Tuesday in which he accused the Israeli government of not caring about him or his fate.
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A Polish official said his country is entitled to seek World War II reparations from Germany, arguing Tuesday that no documents or records show Poland ever renounced its right to do so.
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Newly released recordings from Hebrew University’s international graduate program in human rights reveal how international students are subjected to extreme anti-Israel content.
In recordings obtained from a course given by senior professor Daphna Golan, co-founder of the far-left NGO “B’Tselem,” she can be heard bringing an array of anti-Israel guest speakers to talk with the students.

The Justice Department said Tuesday it is willing to provide the House Intelligence Committee with documents from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, as long as the panel agrees not to take any action against Attorney General William Barr.
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New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio does not seem to be bothered to the onslaught of late-night roasts over his presidential bid.
The 2020 Democratic long shot was greeted on CNN’s “New Day” with footage from comedians Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, who cracked jokes at his expense on their respective shows last week.

Top leaders of both parties in Congress made better-than-expected progress Tuesday on two must-do items on the legislative agenda: averting automatic budget cuts and meeting a deadline later this year to increase the government’s borrowing limit.
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May 2019 has been named the first National Stop the Bleed month ever.
The goal is to teach & train as many people, in the event of any type of major incident, as in most cases the bystanders ARE the first people on-scene.

Dozens of Israeli academics tried to prevent Germany from passing its landmark “BDS is anti-Semitic” law last Friday.
In an open letter addressed to the German government prior to the vote, over 60 Jewish and Israeli academics stated that they “reject the deceitful allegation that BDS as such is anti-Semitic.”

A group of Shiur Beis bochurim from Yeshivas Betzel Hachochmo – Adass Yisroel Melbourne were returning late Motzoei Shabbos this past weekend from an uplifting Shabbos Hizchazkus at a campsite in Fosters Victoria, when the van drove over a plastic jerry can (full of fuel) that was in the middle of the South Gippsland Highway, causing the engine to catch fire.