President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring. Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka, Florida, Trump expressed frustration that the surging cases of the virus that has killed more than 231,000 people in the United States this year remains prominent in the news.

Tens of thousands of Muslims marched in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital on Monday in the country’s largest protest yet against the French president’s support of secular laws that allow caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The protesters, organized by the Hefazat-e-Islam group, a network of teachers and students at thousands of Islamic schools, gathered outside the main Baitul Mokarram Mosque in downtown Dhaka. They chanted “Down with France” and “Boycott French Products” and burned effigies of French President Emmanuel Macron. The group, the largest Islamist group in the country, demanded that the government cut all diplomatic ties with France within 24 hours, Reuters reported. Police stopped the thousands of protesters from storming the French embassy.

It’s an awkward moment when a presidential candidate greets the audience at a rally and names the wrong state. Fortunately for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, that didn’t happen to him this week, despite a widely shared video that appears to show him saying “Hello, Minnesota” to a crowd in Florida. It turns out he was, indeed, in Minnesota. The video that was shared had been altered to change the text on a sign and the podium to refer to Tampa, Florida, instead of Minnesota. What you need to know about this edited video and the falsehoods spreading around it: CLAIM: Video shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden mistakenly saying “Hello, Minnesota” at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.

Supporters of President Trump riding in trucks surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway Friday, prompting alarmed staffers to call 911 and cancel at least two stops scheduled later that day, according to reports. People in several trucks formed a so-called “Trump Train,” waving flags and honking horns while surrounding the bus as it traveled down Interstate 35, bound from San Antonio to Austin, videos show. Biden campaign officials said afterward that they feared the Trump devotees might run their bus off the road. The FBI is investigating the incident, according to the Texas Tribune.

Dozens of Israeli Druze snatched the body of Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi from Ziv Hospital in Tzfat after he died from COVID-19 on Friday. The “body-snatchers” were opposed to the plan for a restricted funeral for Halabi that the Israeli authorities were discussing with Druze leaders and were angered by the hospital’s plans to wrap the sheikh’s body in nylon as is standard for transferring a COVID-19 victim. They decided to take matters in their own hands – quite literally. Although an Israel Police riot unit (Yasam) was present at the scene, the police officers stood by and didn’t try to prevent the Druze from entering the hospital and taking the body, although hospital security officers attempted to stop them.

Firefighters were battling multiple homes on fire on Sunday morning, after a an apparent  gas explosion in Meadowmere – located near JFK Airport. The explosion was reported at 15 West Avenue at around 6:00AM. It was not yet clear how many injuries were reported, but it appeared that some people did need medical attention. On person – possibly a firefighter was airlifted (see video below). Several surrounding agencies responded, including the FDNY, to quickly put out the flames. Several homes were reduced to rubble. Rockaway Turnpike is closed in both directions between Brookville Boulevard and Peninsula Boulevard. JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status.

President Donald Trump reacted furiously to the announcement by former Whitehouse employee Miles Taylor that he was the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed about an internal “resistance” to Trump within the administration, with the president calling for him to be prosecuted and disparaging details of his career despite claiming minutes earlier to have “never heard of” him. Trump took aim at Taylor during a campaign rally in Goodyear, Ariz., referring to him as a “low-level staffer, a sleazebag, who’s never worked in the White House.” Taylor revealed his identity as “Anonymous” in a blog post on Wednesday afternoon. Trump again blasted Taylor on Thursday at a rally in Florida, where the president said “He should be prosecuted. Are you listening to me back in Washington?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he believes Democratic nominee Joe Biden will beat President Trump but that he’s “nervous” about what Trump will do after the election. “I believe Joe Biden is going to win the election. I’m just a little nervous about what Mr. Trump does post-election,” the governor said. “You know, the president winds up forecasting where he’s going. And he’s been talking for months about ‘election fraud’ and ‘Democratic fraud.’ And he actually said the other day, ‘The only way we lose is if there’s fraud,’” Cuomo said. “So I hope he takes the defeat with some honor and doesn’t try to go into the courts and play games that way.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Power has just gone out in Israel in multiple locations around the country. Reports of power out in Yerushalayim, Tel Aviv, Holon, Ashdod, Ohr Akiva, Netanya, Haifa, Rechovot and many other locations. The Israel Electric Company says all power should be restored in around 30 minutes. No reason was given for the outages. Video below from Ashdod JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be added to an official YWN WhatsApp Group. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

A dangling crane shut down several streets in Midtown on Thursday evening. It happened at 111 West 57th Street near 6th Avenue. The FDNY received a report of debris falling from a building just after 6:40 p.m. The building is an 84-story condo tower on what is referred to as “Billionaires Row.” The city is shut down 55th to 59th streets from Madison to 8th avenues. #BREAKING: huge construction crane swinging wildly at top of mega high rise under construction on 57th and 6th. Reports of debris in street. Lots of streets closed. #abc7ny pic.twitter.com/fwWS21E8h7 — Josh Einiger (@JoshEiniger7) October 29, 2020 JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status.