North Korea rejected any new peace talks with South Korea and test-fired another round of missiles early Friday morning—the sixth such test in month—in reaction to continuing joint military drills by the South and the United States.

Joe Tsai, the co-founder of Alibaba, is expected to purchase the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center in a record $3.3 billion total Friday. Tsai agreed to pay $1 billion last year for 49 percent of the Nets from owner Mikhail Prokhorov, and $1.35 billion in three years for the remaining stake in the team. However, the team transfer is reportedly occurring two years ahead of schedule, according to the New York Post.

The gunman who killed nine people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, had cocaine, Xanax and alcohol in his system at the time of the shooting rampage, the county coroner said on Thursday.
Dayton police announced the findings at a press conference and on Twitter and said that two victims of the massacre were struck by gunfire from law enforcement officers responding to the scene.
“While it weighs heavily on us that our response caused harm to these victims, we are comforted that none of our rounds caused the death of any of these innocent people,” Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said on Twitter.

Allies to Joe Biden have been floating the idea of altering the former vice president’s schedule in an effort to reduce the gaffes he has made in recent days. The allies, growing increasingly nervous about Biden’s verbal flubs, have said it’s an approach that’s been suggested to campaign officials on the heels of the former vice president’s stumbles, THE HILL reports.

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Lakewood police seized five guns in six-day stretch during narcotics investigations that led to the arrests of four people, police said Wednesday.
Tony Olden, 33, of Barnegat; Shawn Craighead, 32, of Lakewood; Razuan Russell, 19, of Jackson, and Brando Tucker, 46, of Lakewood, all were arrested between Aug. 6 and Aug. 12, Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith said.
Craighead, Russell and Tucker all remained in the Ocean County Jail as of Wednesday.
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The software firm NICE, based in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana, has won a 10-year contract to enhance airline response and investigations by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company announced on Wednesday.
The $137 million deal will provide the FAA Air Traffic Organization with software systems to speed up incident response and improve visibility into incident data, including voice, radar, CCTV video and other data, at more than 770 sites across the country.
The company’s air-traffic solutions are already installed in hundreds of control centers and airports worldwide, according to NICE.
The technology helps record multimedia communications and other information from air traffic systems, enabling it to be quarantined as well as shared.

A trial program to replace the New York City MetroCard reached 1 million rides in just 2 1/2 months, the Metropolitan Transit Authority announced Tuesday. But whether this latest effort to bring Gotham’s dysfunctional, 115-year-old underground into the 21st century can work system-wide is another matter entirely.
Modeled on payment technology used in London and Chicago, the $540 million OMNY system allows New York commuters to scan credit or debit cards (as well as smartphones and smartwatches) instead of using the ubiquitous yellow card. The frustration of swiping and reswiping as your train leaves the station will be a thing of the past. Or at least that’s the hope.

A total of 242 new olim from North America landed on Tuesday at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Nefesh B’Nefesh’s 60th specially chartered EL AL flight, with the 60,000th new immigrant onboard.
They came from a variety of backgrounds culturally, demographically, religiously—hailing from 22 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The group includes 103 children under age 17; some 21 medical professionals; three sets of twins; and a 28-day-old baby, who officially became the youngest to make aliyah this summer through Nefesh B’Nefesh.
Before departure, 23-year-old Daniel Gross from Baltimore quipped that he was making aliyah to “find a nice Israeli girl … and for the food.”

US Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Thursday said he would create a White House office to combat white supremacy and hate crimes if elected, becoming the latest Democratic presidential candidate to call for action after a racially motivated massacre in Texas.
Booker said he would also require the FBI and the Justice Department to allocate the same level of resources and attention to white supremacist-inspired violence as they devote to international terrorism.
Booker announced his plan less than two weeks after a gunman in El Paso, Texas, killed 22 people inside a Walmart after posting an anti-immigrant screed online that echoed some of President Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric. The attack was among three mass shootings in the span of a week that killed 34 people in all.