A gas explosion that partially collapsed a North Carolina building and set it ablaze Wednesday morning killed one person and injured more than a dozen others, police said.
Police cars blocked the streets near the explosion in downtown Durham and a thick, acrid smoke hung over the shopping district created from remodeled tobacco warehouses.

A passenger on El Al flight LY001 traveling from Israel to JFK opened one of the plane’s emergency doors and attempted to jump off the plane on Wednesday. The plane had just landed in New York.
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A fast moving fire has totally destroyed a Kiryas Joel (Monroe) home on Wednesday morning.
The fire department received calls reporting the blaze just after 9:00AM, at 250 Schunnemunk Road.
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As the Pesach season nears and the streets fill with pre-Yom Tov preparations, the staff at Boro Park Center provided patients with an opportunity to join in the holiday festivities by baking Matzohs in the nursing and rehab facility.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says US President Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence have called to congratulate him on his election win.
Netanyahu’s office issued a statement Wednesday saying Trump called from Air Force One.

The House has passed bill Wednesday to restore Obama-era “net neutrality” rules, but the legislation faces slim odds of making it through the Republican-controlled Senate.
The Save the Internet Act passed the Democrat-controlled House 232-190 Wednesday, with only one Republican vote in favor.
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A former journalist from St. Louis who terrorized his ex-fiance and made bomb threats in her name to Jewish groups must be resentenced.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan cited a legal flaw Wednesday in ordering Juan Thompson’s resentencing.
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Rose Marie Bentley was an avid swimmer, raised five kids, helped her husband run a feed store, and lived to the ripe age of 99. It was only after she died that medical students discovered that all her internal organs — except for her heart — were in the wrong place.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont unveiled a new version of his “Medicare for All” plan on Wednesday, shaking up the 2020 presidential race by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private health insurance.
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