A man carrying a “tactical rifle” and clad in body armor sparked chaos when he walked into a Missouri Walmart on Thursday, police said — less than a week after a gunman stormed a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
The man, who is in his 20s, sent terrified shoppers running from the Springfield store when he showed up around 4 p.m.
He was detained by an armed off-duty firefighter and later placed under arrest, according to police. No shots were fired and no injuries were reported.
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U.S.-based Chase Bank is forgiving all outstanding debt owed by users of its two Canadian credit cards: the Amazon.ca Rewards Visa and the Marriott Rewards Premier Visa. The bank retired both cards last year and said it’s wiping out cardholders’ debt to complete its exit from the Canadian credit card market.
Affected customers can’t believe their luck.
“I was sort of over the moon all last night, with a smile on my face,” said Douglas Turner of Coe Hill, Ont., after learning he’s off the hook for the $6,157 still owing on his now-defunct Amazon Visa. “I couldn’t believe it.”
After 13 years in the Canadian market, Chase decided to fold its two Visa cards in March 2018.

Two top-dollar fundraisers set to take place Friday in the Hamptons are reportedly expected to raise an estimated $10 million for President Trump’s reelection campaign and the GOP.
Republican officials told The Washington Post on Thursday that the fundraisers are expected to go on as planned, despite facing backlash, and Trump is set to make an appearance.
According to the Post, several senior officials within the Trump administration, campaign and GOP are scheduled to attend the fundraisers. Members of Trump’s family are also reportedly scheduled to attend.
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The ever-increasing number of stray dogs on Har Hazeisim has prompted the International Committee for Har Hazeisim (ICHH) to appeal to the Jerusalem Municipality to intervene. Jeff Daube, the co-chairman of the ICHH Israel Chapter has reached out to Councilman Don Ilouz (Hitorarut Party) to take action against the dogs who may pose a threat to mourners and visitors who come to Har Hazeisim. Mr. Ilouz informed Mr. Daube that he had reached out to the City Council and to Mayor Moshe Lion to tackle the stray dog problem.

The terrorists behind the suicide-bombing at a Sbarro pizzeria 11 years ago have received $910,823 from the Palestinian Authority, according to a Palestinian Media Watch report released on Thursday.
The bombing killed 15 people, including two Americans, and injured around 130 others.
The family of the suicide-bomber behind the Aug. 9, 2011, attack, Izz Al-Din Al-Masri, has been one of the recipients of P.A. rewards.
According to the report, Al-Masri’s family has received $53,689 overall, while the bomb-maker Abdullah Barghouti has collected $213,848.
Ahlam Tamimi, who planned the attack, has shown no remorse, saying she has “no regrets.”

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
America needs a national day of introspection, reflection – and yes, repentance.
Will the barbaric bloodbath murders in the United States never end?
Nine people were killed and 27 were injured Sunday morning in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio, the latest such incident in a grim week of mass shootings across the nation. The attack came less than 24 hours after a man with an assault-style weapon killed 20 people in El Paso at a Walmart and a week after a gunman fired on a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding 12.

Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI director who authorized an investigation into President Donald Trump for ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice, filed a lawsuit against the bureau and the Justice Department on Wednesday, alleging he was illegally demoted and fired as part of a plot by Trump to remove those who were not politically loyal to him.

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon urged the world body to condemn the murder of an Israeli teen in an apparent terrorist attack in the West Bank on Thursday.
In a letter addressed to Poland’s U.N. ambassador Joanna Wronecka, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, Danon pushed the body to condemn the stabbing to death of Dvir Sorek, 19, a yeshivah student and Israel Defense Forces’ recruit, and stop the payment of salaries to Palestinian terrorists.

The Lithuanian Jewish community reopened the Vilna shul on Thursday, after top politicians vowed to guarantee security there in response to a spate of threats that led to its closure earlier this week.
Jewish community leader Faina Kukliansky praised Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday for their security assurances and messages of support.
“We do not see the threat at this moment and we trust the state leaders who offered security assurances,” she told AFP, confirming that both the shul and the Jewish community headquarters had been reopened.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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American Airlines has announced that it will offer nonstop flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Tel Aviv starting on Sept. 9, 2020.
It will be the first time the carrier has flown to Ben-Gurion International Airport since it dropped its Philadelphia to Tel Aviv route in 2015, losing $20 million annually.
“It’s a huge validation of the tremendous economic growth in North Texas and its immense potential,” said Vasu Raja, the airline’s vice president of planning. “When you look at the marketplace, Tel Aviv is really the largest underserved destination in the American Airlines network.”