A New York school district has finished installing a facial recognition system intended to spot potentially dangerous intruders, but state officials concerned about privacy say they want to know more before the technology is put into use.
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As YWN has been reporting, Flatbush is scheduled for another epic Chillul Hashem by the anti-vaxxer cult and its guest speaker, dishonest conspiracy-theorist William Handler of Boro Park, who seems to be the Rabbi of the cult.

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has been arrested outside NY Gov Cuomo’s office during a “Housing Justice 4 All” protest with a coalition of activists.

New claims that a Republican redistricting expert was influential in adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census to aid his party were described by Justice Department lawyers Monday as false and designed to block the Supreme Court from ruling on challenges to the question.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel.
The Treasury Department said in a statement that the U.S.
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A federal judge sentenced a New York man to 18 months in prison on Monday for threatening to kill two U.S. senators who supported Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S.
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China issued a pair of travel warnings for the U.S. on Tuesday and slammed what it called “interference” in its internal affairs.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang accused the U.S.
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Concerned individuals have an important message to all those planning on attending the anti-vaxxer event at Ateres Chynka in Flatbush tonight:
DRESS NICELY.
A team of 4 photographers has been hired and will be photographing every individual attending this event, and will be publishing every image on social media.

A top Democrat announced Monday that the House will vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas.
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Russia’s leading internet company says it’s committed to data privacy as it responds to reports that the national intelligence agency is pressuring it into handing over encryption keys.
Yandex, which runs Russia’s most popular search engine and email service, among other things, on Tuesday did not refute or deny the reports of pressure from Russian authorities.