US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Saturday that conversations with Saudi Arabia on a nuclear program are going forward.
The world’s top oil exporter had said it wanted to use nuclear power to diversify its energy mix. It wants to go ahead with a full-cycle nuclear program, including the production and enrichment of uranium for atomic fuel.
In order for US companies to compete for Saudi Arabia’s project, Riyadh would normally need to sign an accord on the peaceful use of nuclear technology with Washington.
Reuters has reported that progress on the discussions has been difficult because Saudi Arabia does not want to sign a deal that would rule out the possibility of enriching uranium or reprocessing spent fuel — both potential paths to a bomb.

Hillary Clinton mulling over a 2020 presidential run.
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The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek reports. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.

The Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh announced on Facebook plans to reopen its building following the deadly shooting almost one year ago on Oct. 27, 2018, when 11 Jewish worshippers were shot and killed during Shabbat-morning services by a lone gunman.
The congregation will continue to use the building as a place of worship, but will also utilize the space for classrooms, exhibits, a memorial to commemorate the lives lost in the mass shooting, education and social events.

Russia’s defense ministry on Saturday attacked US plans to maintain and boost the American military presence in eastern Syria as “international state banditry” motivated by a desire to protect oil smugglers and not by real security concerns.
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that Washington would send armored vehicles and troops to the Syrian oil fields in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of Islamic State militants.
His comments came after President Donald Trump earlier this month pulled some 1,000 US military personnel out of northeast Syria, a move that prompted Turkey to launch a cross-border incursion targeting the Kurdish YPG militia, a former US ally against Islamic State.

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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