US agency moves Norway-based Iyad el-Baghdadi to safe location after reported Saudi plot against the writer, who has harshly criticized Arab leaders

Since the release of the Mueller report, Democrats have gone on the attack against Attorney General William Barr.
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U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say that U.S. President Donald Trump favors Israelis more than the Palestinians, according to a Pew Research poll released on Monday.
Some 42 percent of American Jews complain that Trump is favoring Israelis too much over the Palestinians, while 47 percent of them say he has been striking the right balance between the two.
Meanwhile, 59 percent of U.S. Christians say Trump has been striking the right balance between the Israelis and Palestinians, while only 26 percent say the president is favoring Israelis more than the Palestinians.

In a video published for Memorial Day, soldier's mother says the national ethos is for all service members to be brought back from battle in every situation

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday told House Democrats he would not furnish President Donald Trump’s tax returns despite their legal request, the latest move by Trump administration officials to shield the president from congressional investigations.
Mnuchin, in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., said he had consulted with the Justice Department and that they had concluded that it would not be lawful for the Trump administration to turn over the tax returns because of potential violations of privacy.
Mnuchin added that requests from Congress “must reasonable serve a legitimate legislative purpose” and that the request from Democrats does not.

New York – Elected officials, community leaders and members of the criminal justice community gathered on Tuesday for the funeral of Richard A. Brown, a prosecutor and judge whose four-decade career stretched from the gritty “Mean Streets” era of the 1970s to the current opioid crisis. Brown was first appointed district attorney in 1991 by [...]

 No Evidence Of Illegal Spying On Trump CampaignFBI Director Chris Wray said Tuesday that he does not consider court-approved FBI surveillance to be “spying” and said he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election.
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 NYPD Officer Thrown Off Horse In QueensAn NYPD Officer from the “Mounted Division” was thrown off his horse in Queens on Tuesday.
Sources tell YWN that the bizarre incident occurred on Queens Boulevard near 78 Avenue.
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Jerusalem – The Israel Space Agency will put about $5.6 million toward Beresheet 2, a second attempt to land an Israeli spacecraft on the moon. The 20 million shekels is double the 10 million shekels, about $2.8 million, that the agency under the auspices of the Ministry of Science gave to the first Beresheet mission, [...]

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) got into a heated online exchange on Monday after Scott took a jab at the Green New Deal
“If you were a female candidate, maybe you’d be called ‘unlikeable,’ ‘crazy,’ or ‘uninformed,'” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to Scott making a jab at the Green New Deal. “But since you’re not, this inadequacy is accepted as normal.
“That a sitting US Senator can say something lacking so much critical thinking + honesty is embarrassing to the institution.”
Scott responded by claiming that he was being sarcastic about the Green New Deal, a progressive proposal that calls for radical reforms to combat climate change.

“Reb Shayala”, the name alone represents the tzaddik who cared for every yid. With his Yahrtzeit on Wednesday, you can submit your names (no minimum donation required) for the tefillah at the resting place of “Reb Shayala” of Kerestir zt”l in Kerestir, Hungary on his Yahrtzeit this Wednesday- CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT NAMES Talmidei Chachamim, messengers [...]

Washington – The U.S. State Department has appealed a federal district court decision that overturned its denial of citizenship to one of the twins born to a Jewish same-sex couple. Andrew Dvash-Banks, an American, and Elad Dvash-Banks, an Israeli, married in Canada in 2010. Their sons, Ethan and Aiden, were conceived with donor eggs and [...]

MDA Remembers Its Fallen On Memorial Day Including Rabbi Dr. David Applebaum HY”DAs Memorial Day approaches, MDA EMTs and paramedics are deployed all over the country in order to medically secure Memorial Day events, memorial sites and military cemeteries where memorial assemblies will be held.

Man says he brought Nazi symbol to Milwaukee campus to draw attention and start conversation about the rise in single mother homes, the opioid addiction and other issues

PA's UN envoy asks international community to preserve two-state solution; says that if not, Palestinians will 'accelerate their reproduction machines' and win demographic battle

President Trump’s approval rating reached new heights in the second half of April, according to the Gallup poll, as nearly half of voters gave him positive marks.
Trump’s approval rating ticked up to 46 percent, up slightly from 45 percent in the first part of April and the highest mark to date for Trump in the Gallup poll. Amongst Republicans, 91 percent gave the president positive marks, just short of the record high of the 92 percent approval  reached in a Gallup survey in November.
The jump comes on the heels of strong economic numbers and the largely favorable outcome of the Russia investigation.
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Foreign ministry describes comments by Sergey Glazyev regarding country's new Jewish president as 'conspiratorial and anti-Semitic'

Harrisburg, PA – Amid a rise of violent attacks against the Jewish community, students and staff members at Jewish day schools in the same neighborhood as the Pittsburgh synagogue that was the site of October’s mass shooting are asking state lawmakers for help paying for security measures. They went to Pennsylvania’s Capitol on Tuesday, along [...]

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