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Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Wednesday night during a CNN interview that “a lot of people” would love to pay more in taxes if it meant that they got government-run health care.
“I suspect that a lot of people in the country would be delighted to pay more in taxes if they had comprehensive health care as a human right,” Sanders responded. “I live 50 miles away from the Canadian border. You go to the doctor any time you want. You don’t take out your wallet. You have heart surgery, you have a heart transplant and you come out of the hospital and it costs you nothing.”

With Iran threatening to resume uranium enrichment after its self-imposed July 7 deadline, and with the Trump administration focused on increasing economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran, tensions are escalating in the Persian Gulf. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s trip to Tehran appears to be for the sole purpose of reducing tensions between the US and Iran and encouraging Iran’s leaders to engage in direct negotiations with the U.S.
“There is possibility of an accidental conflict and a military conflict should be prevented at all costs,” Abe said during a press conference in Tehran on Wednesday.

In just over a month, New York City’s speed camera program will get a dramatic expansion—not just in absolute numbers, but in how they track speeding drivers throughout the city.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the new speed camera program will go into effect on July 11, with about 40 cameras installed every month through the end of the year. By this time next year, the city will have just about reached its ultimate target of getting 750 speed cameras in school zones.
Those cameras will also have expanded hours, tracking vehicles from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and a wider range of enforcement.
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Sirens went off in the Eshkol region tonight as terrorists from Gaza launched a projectile towards Israel.
A rocket fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip appears to have struck a building in the town of Sderot, causing damage.
There are no immediate reports of injuries.

A newly-elected member of the Dutch Parliament has apologized for remarks in a media interview in which he described Jews exterminated during the Nazi Holocaust as having gone to “the gas chambers like meek little lambs.”
Dutch Senator Toine Beukering — a former brigadier general in the Dutch military who took up his seat in the upper house of the parliament this week — made the comment in an interview with the De Telegraaf newspaper published last Saturday.
Beukering is a representative of the right-wing nationalist FvD party, which scored a major political victory in provincial elections last March when it became the largest party in the Senate.
Beukering told the newspaper that as “a young child, I read a whole cabinet of books about the Holocaust.”

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said Wednesday that he has a new plan to replace ObamaCare.
Romney did not provide any details of what his replacement plan entails. His office also declined to elaborate.
Even if Senate GOP leaders were interested in Romney’s plan, it has no chance of becoming law this year or next, given Democratic control of the House.
Asked when he will release his plan, Romney indicated he is seeking to gain support from his colleagues first.
Read more at THE HILL.
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Colorado has generated more than $1 billion by selling marijuana.
The state legalized weed in 2014. Since then, total sales have exceeded $6.56 billion, according to the state’s department of revenue.
The marijuana industry is creating jobs in the state, with 2,917 licensed businesses and 41,076 individuals licensed to do such work, according to the department of revenue.
Read more at ABC News.
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The Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration foiled the smuggling into Gaza of mail parcels containing military equipment that could have been used for terrorist activities.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the transfer of 220 mail parcels containing thousands of packages ordered from sites like “AliExpress” and “Amazon” was coordinated. 167 of these packages contained “dual-use” military items that could serve both military and civilian purposes, including: drones and spare parts, cameras, weapons equipment, military face masks, lasers, airbag mechanisms, communication equipment, electronic components, radio wave disruptors and weapons eyepieces.
Officers at the border seized and confiscated the suspect equipment that was ordered online.

Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin said Wednesday that he is considering entering a partnership with Yemin Hachadash leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked for Israel’s September election, but isn’t interested in such a partnership with the United Right party.
Feiglin wrote on Facebook that his party is “making a sincere effort to join a technical bloc with Bennett and/or Shaked, but is not interested in joining with [United Right leaders] Rabbi [Rafi] Peretz and MK [Bezalel] Smotrich.”

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that Israel’s security is paramount in the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century,” in an interview Yisrael Hayom published on Thursday.
The former ambassador has already read the American peace deal and told Yisrael Hayom that she believes both sides were taken into consideration.
When asked in the interview if Israelis should be worried about a quid pro quo situation after the US recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, Haley answered, “When the peace team came up with this plan, one of the main goals of Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt was to prevent harm to Israel’s national security interests.”