Connecticut’s Attorney General gave state lawmakers the legal go-ahead Monday to pursue legislation that would prevent parents from exempting their children from vaccinations for religious reasons, a move that several states are considering amid a significant measles outbreak.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller was expected to step down days after concluding his investigation in March. Yet he remains a Justice Department employee — and the department won’t say why.
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New York and New Jersey want to know how the Internal Revenue Service decided to stop requiring donor information from certain nonprofit organizations — among them big political spenders.
Monday’s lawsuit against the tax agency, from New York Attorney General Letitia James and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, comes as Montana and New Jersey are challenging the policy change itself in a separate case.

After a long trend toward greater safety in air travel, there has been an uptick in airline accidents and deaths in 2018 and 2019.
Many aviation experts regard that recent increase as a statistical blip, however.
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Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a girl while walking on a Boro Park street on Chol Hamoed Pesach
The NYPD says that on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at approximately 5:50PM, a 13-year-old girl was walking home in the vicinity of 47th Street and 12th Avenue, when she was approached from behind by an unidentified male.

There was an fire at the Skulener Bais Medrash in Boro Park, early Tuesday morning.
The FDNY was on the scene just after 2:00AM for a fire in the basement of the building, located at 1315 54th Street – just off 13 Avenue.
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Accusing Beijing of “reneging” on commitments it made in earlier talks, the nation’s top trade negotiator said Monday that the Trump administration will increase tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods Friday, a sharp escalation in a yearlong trade dispute.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has made it official: The administration won’t be turning President Donald Trump’s tax returns over to the Democratic-controlled House.
Mnuchin told Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., in a Monday letter that the panel’s request “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose” as Supreme Court precedent requires.

Hate is on the rise. Anti-Semites and Neo-Nazis are everywhere and coming out of the woodwork. YWN is not in the business of exposing every last Jew-hater out there, but this one is extremely disturbing,
On Friday a video circulated on social media of a man filming Orthodox Jews using a park in Brick Township, NJ, located near Lakewood.

Microsoft announced an ambitious effort it says will make voting secure, verifiable and more transparent with open-source software. Two of the three top U.S elections vendors have expressed interest in potentially incorporating the software into their voting systems.
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