A British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail seven years ago and holing up in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Judge Deborah Taylor said it was hard to imagine a more serious version of the offense as she gave the 47-year-old hacker a sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody.

U.S. health officials will allow Philip Morris International to sell a cigarette alternative that heats tobacco without burning it.
But the Food and Drug Administration has not yet decided whether to allow the device, iQOS (EYE-kose), to be advertised as less harmful than cigarettes.

Rabbi Uriel Vigler of Chabad Israel Center on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, found himself at the receiving end of an anti-Semitic tirade Tuesday morning.
It started as Rabbi Vigler was heading off to Shachris just before 7:00AM.
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CNN's Don Lemon critiques President Donald Trump for his responses to questions on white nationalism after various acts of extremist violence.
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Playing the role of happy warrior, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that he expects to stay on in his current role through the 2020 election.
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Facebook is launching a major redesign of its app and website built around letting people connect with groups that share their interests — an attempt to shift its focus away from the untrammeled public sharing that has helped spread hate speech, extremism, misinformation and livestreamed video of massacres.

For seven decades, survivor testimony has been the centerpiece of Holocaust commemoration.
But with the world’s community of aging survivors rapidly shrinking and global understanding of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews declining, advocates of Holocaust remembrance are seeking new and creative ways to share witnesses’ stories with younger generations.

President Donald Trump and his national security team are weighing whether to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, the White House said Tuesday.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump was consulting with his advisers and leaders in the region who share his concern about the Islamist movement with followers across the Middle East.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump is not doing enough to protect the 2020 election in light of special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings.
In a letter to colleagues Tuesday, Schumer said Congress needs to “fill the vacuum” on election security.

On a rainy Monday morning on the heels of Pesach holiday 3 dozen Chabad Rabbis from throughout the state of Illinois, led by Head Shliach Rabbi Meir Moscowitz, gathered at the Thompson Center to meet with Illinois Governor, J.B.
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