Ahead of weekly clashes, UN envoy speaks with Hamas chief on implementing understandings with Israel to prevent renewed violence; 3 Palestinians said wounded in riots

‘Life, Liberty and Levin’ host Mark Levin weighs in on the FISA scandal and Democrats’ inability to accept the outcome of the Mueller report.
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'We need the Haredim with us,' says senior source in the centrist party after Yesh Atid leader slams Haredi draft law, stipends

Mexico City – Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum — a seaweed-like algae — piling up on beaches and turning turquoise waters brown, and experts are warning that it may be the new normal. Mexico’s Riviera Maya [...]

Gazan protesters are expected to return to the border on Friday for the first time since the temporary ceasefire and with less than a week before marking the Nakba (or “catastrophe”) where Palestinians commemorate the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled in the 1948 war that followed Israel’s creation.
Palestinian militant factions have threatened to resume fighting if protesters are shot on the border or if the ceasefire deal is not implemented, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned repeatedly that the campaign in Gaza has not ended.

Israeli law enforcement, including police and border police, are deployed throughout East Jerusalem and the Old City as security precaution some 135,000 Muslim worshipers travel from the West Bank and throughout Israel to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque for the first Friday of Ramadan.
Some streets in East Jerusalem have been shut down to accommodate traffic to the conflict-embroiled area at the Har Habayis compound.
Police warned that they would “act decisively against anyone who tries to disrupt the peace,” and encouraged worshipers to adhere to police orders.
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Israel eases restrictions on travel from West Bank; police deploy hundreds of officers to ensure worshipers can mark the holy month at the Jerusalem flashpoint

Frankford Township, NJ – Spring was in the air when a New Jersey homeowner found two black bears battling in his yard. Corey Bale tells NJ.com he went outside to investigate last week after a neighbor told him there was a bear behind his Frankford Township home. But when he stepped outside, he heard a [...]

 US Hikes Tariffs On $200 BILLION Chinese Goods, Beijing Vows RetaliationPresident Donald Trump’s latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China’s technology ambitions and other trade tensions.
The Trump administration raised duties on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25% from 10%.

 Indict Trump AFTER He Leaves OfficeFormer FBI Director James Comey suggested at a televised town hall Thursday that President Trump could be indicted after he leaves office — as the president fired back, calling Comey a “disgrace.”

 Nice Save! Bus Driver Grabs Student Stepping Into Car’s PathA fast-acting school bus driver is being lauded for grabbing a student by the back of his jacket as he was about to step out into the path of a car.
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Former Trump Campaign Advisers Say Biden Would Be Tough FoeTwo of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign members said Thursday that former Vice President Joe Biden would present the toughest 2020 challenge for the president, though they disagreed on whether Biden can first win his party’s nomination.
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 Trial Of White NYPD Officer In Chokehold Death Of Black Man Can ProceedA judge cleared the way Thursday for a disciplinary trial to begin next week for the white New York City police officer accused in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose pleas of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against police brutality.

Trump Deficits Projected To Be Worse Than PromisedPresident Donald Trump’s budget plan would produce significantly larger budget deficits than promised when it was released in March, mostly because its estimates of economic growth are too rosy, according to a new nonpartisan analysis Thursday.
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Israel is set to begin easing restrictions in place on the Gaza Strip on Friday, in a test of the fragile calm on the border a week after a deadly escalation that nearly brought the sides to the brink of an all-out war.
A statement from COGAT, the defense ministry liaison responsible for affairs in the Palestinian territories, said that a 12-nautical mile fishing zone off Gaza’s coast would be re-opened Friday.
Border crossings in and out of the Strip were re-opened at midnight, at the end of Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day. Such closures are standard around Israeli public holidays.
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40 years after her death, and as the 2019 Biennale opens, how the Venice-based collector jump-started the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with a remarkable donation

Oświęcim, Poland – The Auschwitz museum in Poland accused Israeli politician Yair Lapid’s rhetoric on Poles’ alleged complicity in the Holocaust Poland feels like denial on the genocide. Lapid, who has adopted extremist rhetoric in speaking about Poland and the Holocaust, was quoted as telling the Polish news site Onet earlier this week that, “the [...]

Man in the Hague assaulted after he objected to group of 50 chanting about gassing Jews; police reportedly stood idly by

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