Iran’s president sent a bill to parliament Wednesday that would cut four zeroes from the value of the Islamic Republic’s sanctions-battered currency, the rial, as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington.
Iran’s rial has been battered by escalating U.S. sanctions on the country since President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers over a year ago.
On Wednesday, the rial traded 116,500 to $1. At the time of the 2015 nuclear deal, the rial traded 32,000 to the dollar.
Read more at ABC News.
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Officials in two rural Nevada counties have signed a state of emergency declaration ahead of the ‘Storm Area 51’ event; William La Jeunesse reports.
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Terrorists from Gaza launched a rocket at Israeli territory this evening.
A “Code Red” alarm was heard in a community in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council.
According to the IDF, no one was injured and no damage was caused.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) condemned on Wednesday a group of 10 or so members of the boys’ water-polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, Calif., which is part of his district, who were caught on camera doing a Nazi salute and singing a Nazi song last year during an awards ceremony.
“This disturbing incident saddens me greatly,” Lowenthal, who is Jewish, told JNS. “We as a community must face uncomfortable facts, and ask hard questions about hatred and ignorance in our midst. I can only hope that this can become a teaching moment—not just for the students who participated, but for the entire student body on the horrors of the Holocaust and the evils of the Third Reich.”

Joseph Rubino was hauling guns through northwestern New Jersey when his white Chevy van left the road and slammed into a tree.
His passenger was seriously injured and airlifted to a hospital after the July 24 crash. But what Rubino, a felon, had as cargo piqued the interest of state police: a small trove of firearms, court records show.
That find led to a search of his residence, and an even bigger cache, including a grenade launcher, more than a dozen other firearms, “numerous silencers,” an armored vest, drugs – and a box stuffed with neo-Nazi and white supremacist propaganda, the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey said Tuesday.

A Mexico City court ruled on Wednesday that cocaine is legal, although just for two people.
The ruling means the unidentified pair can use small amounts of cocaine, but cannot sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD), an NGO.
The organization filed legal papers in the case as part of its goal of changing Mexico’s drug policy, a strategy that argues criminalizing consumers causes violence. If the ruling is ratified by a higher court, it would be the first time any cocaine use has been legal in Mexico.
No other details about the two people in the case were provided.
Read more at The Hill.
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Members of the Likud and Otzma Yehudit parties submitted a petition to the High Court of Justice on Tuesday requesting that the Joint Arab List be barred from running in the upcoming elections on Sept. 17.
They presented evidence that members of the Joint List have supported terrorism and have called for releasing terrorist prisoners. Therefore, the petition argues that the Joint List should be disqualified for incitement, support for a terrorist organization and the denial of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.
The High Court is unlikely to grant the motion, having in the past rejected such petitions.
The Joint List is made up of the Communist Hadash, the Arab nationalist Balad, Ahmad Tibi’s Ta’al and the southern branch of the Islamic Movement’s Ra’am.

Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen calls out Democrat lawmakers and 2020 candidates for defending Reps. Tlaib and Omar on Israel.
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An Illinois teenager is suing e-cigarette maker Juul and tobacco giant Philip Morris claiming the companies use illegal and deceptive marketing to prey on young people.
The lawsuit was brought by Christian Foss, a 19 year old who states in the complaint he started “juuling” at the age of 16, and argues that Juul and Philip Morris are “mimicking Big Tobacco’s past marketing practices” to “market and advertise JUUL to youth and teenagers” so that they will become addicted to the nicotine in the product at an early age.
E-cigarette use among U.S. middle and high school students jumped 900% from 2011 to 2015, according to an advisory from the surgeon general.

The mother of a US citizen murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack slammed Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday for her comments on Israeli security checkpoints, saying, “checkpoints prevent terrorism — save lives.”
Frimet Roth, whose 15-year-old daughter Malki was killed in a Yerushalayim terror attack in 2001, cited Tlaib’s statement on checkpoints at a press conference following Israel’s decision to bar her from entering the country.
A teary-eyed Tlaib recounted, “As a young girl, visiting Palestine to see my grandparents and extended family, I watched as my mother had to go through dehumanizing checkpoints — even though she was a United States citizen and proud American.”