The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the Democrats’ extraordinary legal battle with the Trump administration over access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report .
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A group of Yeshiva students posing for a class photo were the victims of the latest hate incident in NYC.
On Wednesday (May 8), the students and faculty of Mesivta Shaarei Chaim were posing for a group photo in front of the yeshiva, which is housed at the Young Israel of Far Rockaway, located at 716 Beach 9th Street.

The Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., calling him in to answer questions about his 2017 testimony to the panel as part of its probe into Russian election interference.
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North Korea fired two suspected short-range missiles toward the sea on Thursday, South Korean officials said, its second weapons launch in five days and a possible warning that nuclear disarmament talks with Washington could be in danger.
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CNN’s Tom Foreman and tax expert Richard Pomp analyze President Donald Trump’s response after the New York Times obtained some of his tax information that shows he lost over a billion dollars from 1985-1994.
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President Trump has exerted executive privilege over all aspects of the Mueller report
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Walmart said Wednesday that it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores to 21 amid growing pressure from regulators to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.
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Just two weeks ago, Lori Gilbert Kaye HY”D was shot and killed in a shul in Poway, California on the seventh day of Pesach.

US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, said it was “stunning and unprecedented” that the Jewish identity of Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky played no role in the elections and that Ukraine is the only country other than Israel to have both a Jewish President and a Jewish Prime Minister.

A hit-and-run driver struck a pedestrian at Lee Avenue  and Middleton Street in Williamsburg on Wednesday afternoon.
The car was then seen driving on the sidewalk at Franklin and Park Avenues to avoid being caught.