Mob threatens Mitch McConnell outside his home as Joaquin Castro lands in hot water for targeting Trump donors on Twitter.
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Israel’s Defense Ministry has authorized plans for the construction of more than 2,300 homes in Jewish communities in Yehuda and Shomron, following sessions of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee on Monday and Tuesday.
According to reports, 838 homes passed all stages of construction approval, with another 1,466 approved in the early planning stage. The majority were approved for smaller Jewish communities as opposed to major blocs.
The permits will provide retroactive legalization to Givat Salit in the northern Jordan Valley; Ibei Hanahal in the Judean Desert southeast of Bethlehem; and Haroeh Ha’ivri east of Yerushalayim, which was approved for an educational campus.

Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, whose congressional district includes Dayton, where nine people were killed in a mass shooting over the weekend, endorsed a ban on military-style weapons Tuesday, going further than many of his GOP colleagues on stricter gun laws.
The mass shooting, which came some 13 hours after a deadly mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was personal for Turner, not only because it occurred in his district but because his daughter and a family friend were at a bar across the street from where the shooting began.
“As they ran home, I followed their progress & prayed for them & our community. Thank you to @DaytonPolice for their bravery in stopping this evil,” Turner tweeted Sunday morning.

President Trump on Tuesday morning addressed former President Obama’s statement about the mass shootings last weekend, tweeting a quote from “Fox & Friends” co-anchor Brian Kilmeade criticizing the former president’s response to mass shootings during his presidency.
Trump tweeted the quote shortly after Kilmeade expressed dismay with Obama’s statements regarding the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend that left at least 32 people dead. The former President said that Americans should “reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred and normalizes racist sentiment” in a statement that appeared to be a less than subtle jab at President Trump.”

The FBI said Tuesday it had launched a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting rampage last week at a Gilroy, California, food festival, which left three dead and more than a dozen others injured.
Investigators say they found that the 19-year-old shooter had delved into “violent ideologies” and held a list of possible targets across the country, including religious institutions, political organizations linked to both major parties, federal buildings and courthouses, said John Bennett, special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco office, at a news briefing Tuesday. He declined to identity them.

With the mass shootings still fresh on the minds of so many around the nation, protesters locally are making sure Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hears them loud and clear.
Between 20 to 30 people demonstrated outside of his Highlands home Monday night after they say the senator hasn’t been answering his phone and protesting is the only way.
One protester told WHAS11 News that this just isn’t a response to El Paso and Dayton but about a variety of issues ranging from gun control, immigration and minority rights.
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In the wake of the shootings, Obama on Monday issued a lengthy statement urging Americans to reject leaders who feed “a climate of fear and hatred.”
“We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred and normalizes racist sentiment,” he said. “Leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people.”
Obama did not mention Trump by name, but his words amounted to an implicit rebuke of Trump.

The 44 names Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, tweeted late Monday have at least two things in common: they’re all constituents in his district, and moreover, they all donated the maximum amount to President Donald Trump’s campaign this year.
The congressman and brother of presidential hopeful Julián Castro said the people listed – including retirees, business owners and other individuals whose names are public record – were “fueling a campaign of hate.”
“Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump – the owner of ⁦@BillMillerBarBQ⁩, owner of the ⁦@HistoricPearl, realtor Phyllis Browning, etc..,” Castro wrote. “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as invaders.”

Judge Steven (Shlomo) Mostofsky has won the endorsement of the Kings County Democratic Executive Committee for New York State Supreme Court justice, effectively securing the nomination for the position opening this November.
Mostofsky, 61, is a graduate of Yeshiva College and New York Law School. A Midwood resident who grew up in East Flatbush and has lived in Brooklyn all his life, Mostofsky served as president of the National Council of Young Israel from 2000-2012.
The Supreme Court justice position is a 14-year-term, but with mandatory retirement at age 70.
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Ever wonder how mosquitoes find you?
Whether you’re playing soccer at the park, hiking in the woods or taking a walk along the beach, everyone knows the tiny buzz next to your ear means that a mosquito is probably near. But have you ever wondered how an insect no bigger than a pea is able to track you down?
Mosquitoes don’t just use one sense to look for dinner. They have evolved a sort of Swiss Army knife of tools that tells them when fresh blood is close by.
“The first thing is that they smell us,” said Clément Vinauger, a scientist who studies mosquitoes at Virginia Tech.
When humans and other animals breathe, they exhale a gas called carbon dioxide, and mosquitoes have sensors that can detect this scent, like a pie cooling on a windowsill.