The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former White House staff secretary Rob Porter as part of its investigation into President Donald Trump’s conduct in office and whether he should be impeached.
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Rockland County Legislature Aron Wieder called out an anti-Semite to his face last week, and the video has since gone viral.
YWN spoke to Wieder who tells us that he was attending a press conference from YAFFED where an individual named Michael Hull attended.

A moving event took place during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s official visit to Kiev last week, which was the first state visit of a foreign leader to Ukraine since the election of the Jewish president Vladimir Zelensky, and the first by an Israeli prime minister since 1999.
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Overdose deaths in New York City declined slightly last year after years of alarming increases, health officials say.
There were 1,444 fatal overdoses citywide last year, down 2.6% from 2017, according to data the city Health Department is releasing Monday.
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Brushing off concerns about global economic instability, President Donald Trump on Monday defended the way he is trying to squeeze a trade deal out of China, saying it’s what worked for him in business.
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Only six frum Jews made the cut on “City & State’s” Power 100 list of the one hundred most powerful and influential residents of Brooklyn’s 2.65 million people in the annual City & State list published this week.

Iran on Monday announced that the 2.1 million barrels of crude aboard an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. has been sold to an unnamed buyer as the ship, at the center of a crisis roiling the region, continued its voyage in the Mediterranean Sea.
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This week Tuesday, August 27th through Thursday, August 29rd, Met Council will be giving away thousands of FREE kosher lunches in Boro Park and Williamsburg for kids. Grab a free box lunch for your kids aged 18 and under catered by Lou G.
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Stocks marched broadly higher on Wall Street in early trading Monday after President Donald Trump claimed China was willing to reopen talks on the costly trade war that has roiled markets and dimmed the outlook for global economic growth.
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A powerful bloc in Iraq’s parliament called on Monday for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, following a series of airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Shiite militias in the country that have been blamed on Israel.
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