The Lebanese Army has reportedly open fire on an Israeli drone flying over Lebanon’s airspace, according to Arab media on Wednesday.
Tensions between Jerusalem and its northern neighbor have soared in recent days after Beirut claimed to have confiscated two Israeli drones flying over the country.
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel for violating Lebanese sovereignty, with the group’s leader, Hassan Narallah, warning Israeli residents in the north that they should prepare for an assault.
Israeli Defense Forces are currently investigating the incident.
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Apple announced Wednesday that it will end its default practice of retaining audio recordings of the requests users make to its virtual assistant Siri.
The privacy rule change comes a month after Apple paused the Siri grading program where humans would listen to audio recordings to determine if Siri was successfully completing requests.
The company said it will continue to keep a computer-generated transcript of Siri requests.
Read more at The Hill.
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Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, 46, the father Rina Shnerb, who was killed in a bomb attack last week, is set to be released from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
Rabbi Shnerb and his children, 17-year-old Rina and 19-year-old Dvir, were hiking on Friday morning near the Ein Buvin spring near the town of Dolev when an IED was remotely detonated by Arab terrorists, killing Rina and critically wounding Dvir.
From his hospital bed on Friday, the rabbi told reporters that Rina had saved him and Dvir, absorbing the worst of the blast from what he described as a “very big roadside bomb.” After “everything went black,” he said, he “looked down and saw [Rina] was not alive.”

Bitbean is proud to once again receive recognition as a top developer in New Jersey by Clutch.co. Ranked as the #1 developer on Clutch’s Leaders Matrix out of over 70 New Jersey developers, Bitbean is also ranked as a top developer on Clutch’s 2019 B2B report. In addition, Bitbean is named a top developer in the “Top Custom Software Developers in New York.” 

The first bands of rain showered Puerto Rico’s eastern island community, where residents have hunkered down inside their homes bracing for the possible landfall of Tropical Storm Dorian this afternoon in what could be the first major test since the U.S. territory saw widespread suffering and thousands of deaths in the aftermath of the last cyclone to make a direct hit.
Puerto Rico, still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria two years ago, has been watching closely as Dorian’s path shifted northward overnight. Its new trajectory puts it on track to strike Puerto Rico’s eastern coast and the islands of Vieques and Culebra, following a similar path as the destructive Hurricane Maria, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Arab al-Aramshe, August  28th, 2019 – United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Fyza Djuma who lives in the Bedouin town of Arab al-Aramshe on Israel’s northern border was called on Wednesday to assist in a different type of medical emergency then he had ever come across. He was called to help birth a sheep.
 
“My friend raises sheep,” recounted Fyza, who has been volunteering with United Hatzalah for more than two years. “One of his ewes was due to give birth and went into labor early in the morning. He called the veterinarian who usually assists him in these instances but the veterinarian didn’t answer the phone. My friend then called me and asked if I could come and help.”
 

President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Fox News, accusing the conservative network of “heavily promoting the Democrats” and urging his nearly 64 million Twitter followers to “start looking for a new News Outlet.”
“The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down!” Trump wrote in a series of tweets. “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!”
His tweets followed an interview of Xochitl Hinojosa, the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, in which she discussed next month’s Democratic presidential debate, among other things.
In his tweets, Trump said Hinojosa had been “spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback” from anchor Sandra Smith.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ask Queen Elizabeth II to suspend the U.K. Parliament from mid-September to mid-October — a move that could hamper lawmakers’ efforts to block a no-deal Brexit and even trigger a constitutional crisis.
The pound fell as much as 1.1% to $1.2157.
“This is a new government with a very exciting agenda,” Johnson said in a pooled TV interview. “We need new legislation, we’ve got to be bringing forward new and important bills and that’s why we’re going to have a Queen’s Speech and we’re going to do it on Oct. 14.”

Hasbro, makers of the classic Monopoly board game is rolling out a board based on socialism.
With the tagline “Winning is for capitalists,” the new game intentionally goes against the point of the original, in which players try to grab up real estate and force their competitors into complete bankruptcy.
Previously, the company had made a Monopoly spoofing Millennials.
Read more at Fox News.
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Hamas has declared a state of emergency and on Wednesday morning began arresting supporters of the Islamic State and other Salafist organizations in the Gaza Strip en masse, hours after three policemen were killed in a series of blasts in the coastal enclave, according to Palestinian reports.
An unnamed security source told the BBC that the two explosions that hit police checkpoints near Gaza City on Tuesday evening were the result of suicide bombings carried out by IS and that one of the attackers had previously been detained by Hamas.