Allies of Joe Biden on Wednesday launched their super-PAC supporting his presidential candidacy, arguing it’s needed to help him fight attacks from President Donald Trump as his campaign focuses on the Democratic primary.
In a press release announcing its formal launch on Wednesday, Unite the Country says Biden has the best chance to beating Trump, and the group will focus its efforts on getting that message across to voters. It plans to push back against attacks on the Democratic primary front-runner by Trump and his allies.
“We will not sit idly by while Trump spreads lies about a man who has served this country with honor and dignity,” said Steve Schale, the group’s strategist.

President Donald Trump today posted a picture drapeing the Medal of Honor around the f the dog he said ran down Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a Syrian tunnel before Baghdadi killed himself.
The picture originally showed James McCloughan, who was credited with saving the lives of 10 men in a brutal, days-long battle in Vietnam. Trump told the former Army medic that “we are in awe of your actions and your bravery.”
On Wednesday, Trump posted a photo of that moment with McCloughan’s image replaced by that of a dog.
“AMERICAN HERO!” Trump tweeted.
The distinctive star of the medal was replaced with a paw print.

Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the move in a series of tweets, stressing that paying for political speech has the effect of “forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people.” The ban marks a break with Twitter’s social-media peers, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, which have defended their policies around political ads in recent weeks.

The body of disgraced money man Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell in August, bore telltale signs of homicide despite an official ruling that he killed himself, a pioneering forensic pathologist revealed to “Fox & Friends” in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

Twenty-four years after the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, about 40% of Israelis believe there will be a moderate to high likelihood of political murder in the coming years, according to a survey conducted by the Roshink Research Institute for Rabin Memorial Organizers, which will take place on Saturday night.
The data shows that 39% believe that a political murderer is likely to come from the right-wing camp and target a left-wing politician, while 21% believe a left-wing murderer will target a right-wing politician. 16% stated that they think a murderer on political grounds would actually come from the Arab sector and target someone on the right.
 

Fox News contributor and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on resolution formalizing impeachment probe.
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The Volkswagen Group is set to begin testing an autonomous version of its electric vehicle I.D. Buzz in Tel Aviv in 2022, Alexander Hitzinger, senior vice president of autonomous driving at the Volkswagen Group, told Calcalist in a Monday interview. As part of the plan, Volkswagen is looking to test 50 to 100 vehicles, first with backup drivers and later fully autonomously, Hitzinger said.
On Monday, Volkswagen announced the foundation of autonomous vehicle subsidiary Volkswagen Autonomy, led by Hitzinger. The subsidiary will have offices in Munich and Wolfsburg, with a Silicon Valley office planned for 2020 and a China office for 2021.

The American NGO Alums for Campus Fairness released a comprehensive report last week that documents what ACF describes as “systemic anti-Semitism and an ingrained delegitimization of Israel” at Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College.
The 33-page dossier documents more than 100 incidents that have made Columbia and Barnard “a hotbed for hate” since the 2016-17 academic year.
The catalogue categorized each act into one of these categories: anti-Semitic expressions, meaning language, imagery or behavior that would be considered anti-Semitic according to the guidelines outlined by the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism; incidents targeting Jewish students and staff; or activity related to the anti-Israel BDS movement.

Within a decade, about 75% of all lawsuits will be litigated online, according to Orna Rabinovich-Einy, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa. Rabinovich-Einy focuses on online dispute resolution (ODR), which employs algorithms to solve civil disputes, such as divorce cases, neighbor quarrels, and small claims. Algorithm-based legal proceedings are already being used to settle such cases in the US, the UK, Canada, and several European countries, speeding up the justice process, making it more accessible, and gradually pushing judges and lawyers aside.

 Israeli fighter jets were scrambled late Tuesday afternoon to intercept an unauthorized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) over the Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reported.
The interception was ordered because the UAV was flying at the very unusual altitude of four kilometers (some 12,000 feet).
Tuesday’s drone interception was not the first such incident. On Oct. 17, military personnel intercepted a drone en route to Israeli airspace from Gaza before it crossed the border fence.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
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