Sen. Bernie Sanders has begun framing his advanced age as an asset in the presidential race, an effort to counter concerns about his health with a pitch for voters to consider his decades of activism as they compare him with younger candidates.
On his first extended campaign swing since his Oct. 1 heart attack, the 78-year-old Vermont independent is being unusually candid about his age. At a town hall meeting Thursday, Sanders, unprompted, told voters, “I’ve been criticized for being old. I plead guilty. I am old. But there are advantages to being old.”

President Donald Trump announced big news tonight, Motzoei Shabbos — but did not give any details.
“Something very big has just happened!” Trump announced at 9:23 east coast time.
Something very big has just happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019
The internet quickly wondered if we were in a new war, or if aliens had been discovered, or if the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was captured. None of the theories have been confirmed just yet.
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From the tropical shores of Honolulu and Puerto Rico, to the badlands of Utah and backwaters of Louisiana, New York City has sent local homeless families to 373 cities across the country with a full year of rent in their pockets as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Special One-Time Assistance Program.”
Usually, the receiving city knows nothing about it.
City taxpayers have spent $89 million on rent alone since the program’s August 2017 inception to export 5,074 homeless families — 12,482 individuals — to places as close as Newark and as far as the South Pacific, according to Department of Homeless Services data obtained by The Post. Families, who once lived in city shelters, decamped to 32 states and Puerto Rico.

A 23-year-old young man was lightly wounded from stones thrown at the vehicle he was driving at the Yakir Junction in Shomron.
Magen David Adom (MDA) staff evacuated him to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Congregation B’NAI Israel in Bridgeport was evacuated on Friday after two bomb threats were reported.
Two bomb sniffing K9 units out of Yale New Haven who are with the bomb team out of Stamford cleared the building.
As a precaution, officers remained on site for tefiilos, and throughout the city.
Read more.
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Passengers on an El Al flight from Geneva that was scheduled to land at Ben Gurion airport on Friday afternoon were forced to remain in Switzerland until Motzei Shabbos due to the foggy conditions in Geneva, according to a Israel Hayom report.
The pilot on the El Al plane which was supposed to land in Geneva to pick up the passengers wasn’t authorized to land in the thick fog present in Geneva at the time and instead was forced to land in Lyon, France until the fog cleared.
However, by the time the plane arrived in Geneva, it was too late to fly to Israel and land in Ben Gurion before Shabbos. El Al arranged for the passengers to stay at a nearby hotel over Shabbos and fly them out after Shabbos.

John Kelly, former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, said Saturday he warned the president before he left the White House not to replace him with a “yes man” because it would lead to Trump’s impeachment.
Kelly also said he believed he could have prevented the current impeachment inquiry against Trump if he had stayed in the job. Kelly said the inquiry could have been avoided if president had surrounded himself with people who could rein in his worst instincts.
His candid remarks, made during an interview at a political conference hosted by the Washington Examiner, suggests he blames acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and others in the West Wing for not doing more to stop Trump’s behavior.

Turkey will clear northeast Syria of Kurdish YPG militia if Russia does not fulfill its obligations under an accord that helped end a Turkish offensive in the region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
Under the deal hammered out by Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Russian military police and Syrian border guards are meant to clear the YPG fighters from within 30 km (19 miles) of the border over a period of six days ending on Tuesday.
From Tuesday, Russian and Turkish forces will start to patrol a narrower, 10-km strip of land in northeast Syria.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with Blue and White leader Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv on Sunday, the Likud and Blue and White parties said in a joint statement on Saturday.
The meeting will take place Sunday afternoon at the PM’s office at the Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv following an invitation by Gantz, who has been tasked with forming a government, the parties said.
Gantz received the mandate to form a government from President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday evening and has already begun speaking with party leaders and sending out invitations to meet to negotiate their potential entry into the Blue and White-led coalition he hopes to establish.

The IDF released its new five-year plan of operations on Thursday, with its chief of staff warning, “The situation is fragile in the north and south — and may deteriorate into a confrontation.”
The news site Mako reported that the publication of the plan was delayed as a result of the continuing political uncertainty in Israel, with coalition talks still underway and a caretaker government in charge. The army concluded, however, that it had “no choice but to move forward” in light of recent developments.
The IDF said the plan was intended to address “the multiplicity of events and the multiplicity of activities” on the security front.