Police entered Meah Shearim at 3:30AM Monday morning in the hope of making arrests.
Police say they were looking for the suspects who attacked firemen last Thursday, Independence Day, because the firetruck was displaying an Israeli flag, and drove through the area.

Eli Avidar recently penned a novel about leadership set in the reigns of three emperors, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, and Septimius Severus. Does he see modern parallels?

Albany, NY – The last section of the old Tappan Zee Bridge has been hauled away for disassembly. Crews began lowering the 600-foot (185-meter), 5,500-ton (5,590-metric ton) section on Thursday. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office says Monday that barges were used to transport the final piece of the bridge offsite where it will be broken [...]

The legal age to buy tobacco and nicotine products in Maryland will be raised from 18 to 21, and the state will add vaping devices to the list of tobacco products, under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Larry Hogan (R).
The law was passed in response to an uptick in teen vaping, which federal officials have declared an “epidemic.” The law will take effect in October.
“There is no more important job than protecting the health and safety of Marylanders,” Hogan said in a statement.
Read more at The Hill.
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Los Angeles – Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the news media, according to lawyers who told The [...]

President host iftar dinner at the White House for ambassadors from Muslim-majority nations.

ISIS extremists are using Instagram to promote jihad and incite support for terror attacks on the West, an investigation by The Telegraph has found.
The terrorist group are circumventing the platform’s security checks to post images and text celebrating the killings of “kafir” (unbelievers) accompanied by images of dead soldiers and beheadings as well as threatening terrorist atrocities on the scale of the Sri Lankan suicide bombings that claimed 253 lives.
Some posts brazenly use ISIS’s logo or images of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as their profile pictures and urge followers to join jihad.
 

Toronto, Canada – Billionaire Gerry Schwartz pounced on Canada’s WestJet Airlines on Monday as his private equity firm Onex Corp offered to buy the struggling airline for C$3.5 billion ($2.6 billion), betting it can turn around its recent decline by taking the company private. The surprise offer for C$31 a share, a 67% premium to [...]