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Reacting to Attorney General William Barr’s testimony on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said the notion that the President can fire any prosecutor investigating him if he feels the accusations are false is “the road to tyranny.”
Clinton made the comments during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday evening. During the show, Maddow pointed to something Barr had said in his public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 On its official Facebook page, Fatah posted a story earlier this year according to the which during World War II Jews agreed to bury Russian civilians alive to save their own lives.
Upon seeing this, a Nazi soldier allegedly proclaimed to the Russians: “I just wanted you to know who the Jews are and why we are killing them!” (Official Fatah Facebook page, Feb. 27, 2019.)

Fatah presented the story as an extract from what it claimed was the authentic memoir of a Russian civilian:

Health officials on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia have quarantined a cruise ship after discovering a case of measles on board, the country’s top doctor said Tuesday.
Authorities confirmed the case on Tuesday morning, said Dr. Merlene Fredericks James, St. Lucia’s chief medical officer. The vessel was locked down later that day, an attempt to stymie any potential spread of the highly contagious disease that’s sickening people in the United States at a record pace, fueled by anti-vaccination misinformation.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters on Tuesday that he “doesn’t know what the alternative is other than a two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In a joint briefing with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) following their visit to the Middle East as members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Romney added that “no one articulated to us anywhere in the region an idea or a proposal for something other than a two-state solution.”

The New York Times is disciplining the editor who chose to publish an anti-Semitic cartoon in Thursday’s international print edition, the paper reported Wednesday.
The paper reported that it will also overhaul its bias training to have an emphasis on anti-Semitism, according to an internal note from the Times’s publisher, A. G. Sulzberger. According to the Times, it also will no longer run syndicated cartoons created by artists who do are not tied to the paper directly.
Sulzberger said the “offensive” cartoon was “downloaded and published by a single production editor working without adequate oversight.”
“Though I’ve been assured there was no malice involved in this mistake, we fell far short of our standards and values in this case,” he added.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sat down with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, sources tell The Hill.
Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who has been recently surging in the polls, requested the meeting, the sources say.
He’s the latest 2020 contender to meet with Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, as she offers advice on what she learned from her race. Others who have met with her include Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
Read more at The Hill.
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The 21st Knesset may have only been sworn in yesterday, but 900 bills have already been submitted to the Knesset secretariat.
The legislative blitz began at 4:01 PM yesterday when the Knesset Secretariat opened and the bills began to flow. It should be noted that this is mainly a cycle of bills from the previous Knesset that did not pass through three readings and were submitted again to advance them.
MK Elharar submitted 73 bills, MK Mickey Levy submitted 70 bills, and MK Uri Maklev submitted 100 bills submitted to the Knesset secretariat.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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An attorney representing Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann said Wednesday that he filed a $275 million defamation lawsuit against NBC Universal on Sandmann’s behalf.
“NBCUniversal’s attacks on Nicholas included at least fifteen defamatory television broadcasts, six defamatory online articles, and many tweets falsely accusing Nicholas and his Covington Catholic High School (‘CovCath’) classmates of racists acts,” the complaint states.
According to the lawsuit, Sandmann is seeking $75 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages.
Read more at The Hill.
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Sirens were sounded early Thursday morning in the Shaar Hanegev and Sdot Negev regional councils in southern Israel.
The IDF confirmed that two launches had been identified from Gaza toward Israel. The rockets appear to have exploded in open areas, without causing injuries or damages.
IDF Spokesman Ronen Manelis said that the Islamic Jihad was behind the rocket fire and that the attack was aimed at disrupting the agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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