A top aide to Melania Trump will be the next White House press secretary and communications director, the first lady has announced on Twitter.
Stephanie Grisham, who serves as the first lady’s deputy chief of staff and communications director, will fill the vacancy left by Sarah Sanders, who announced her resignation from the post earlier this month.
“I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country,” Mrs. Trump wrote on Twitter.
 
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Don’t envy NBC News executive Rashida Jones, who is behind this week’s inaugural Democratic presidential debate and will have to juggle 20 candidates, five news personalities and, it’s likely, one tweeting president.
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The authority that operates New York’s airports and many of its bridges and tunnels is proposing fare and toll hikes across a broad swath of its facilities, some potentially taking effect as early as this fall, to keep pace with inflation and help fund more than $30 billion in capital projects over the next decade.

Shendishov: A Spiritual Home for Every Yid! 
It’s Friday night. The Tish of the Rebbe has been going on for many hours. The entire room is elevated to a different realm where the Kedusha of Shabbas permeates throughout and the materialistic world around is but an illusion.
But something is noticeably different here. The tish is an authentic Chasidsh one, but the gathered crowd includes Yidden of all backgrounds; baalei teshuva at their first tish yeshiva boys in their Shabbas attire, chasidim with tall shtreimlach and baalei batim in their suit and ties. This place is special. This is Shendishov, a place where every Yid is at home and the Rebbe’s radiant face illuminates the lives of all.

Despite crash landing of Beresheet in April, organization behind project says repeat of mission 'isn’t challenging enough' and eyes more ambitious goals

China hopes a meeting later this week between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will help build trust and resolve “outstanding issues,” a foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
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House Democrats on Tuesday passed a $383 billion spending package, finishing work on three-quarters of the annual appropriations bills on its docket ahead of the July 4th recess.
The package of five funding bills passed in a vote of 227-194, largely along party lines. It includes funds for Commerce and Justice; Agriculture, Interior and Environment; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development.
The legislation’s passage means Democrats have successfully completed work on nine of the 12 annual appropriations bills in their chamber. They are set to pass a 10th bill, covering financial services and general government, this week.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reassured Afghans on Tuesday that the United States will not negotiate behind their backs even as it seeks to fosters a peace deal with the Taliban leading to the withdrawal of 14,000 U.S. troops.
After meeting with President Ashraf Ghani on an unannounced visit to Kabul, Pompeo declared to reporters that after 18 years of war, “the hour has come for peace.”

A 35-year-old chareidi man fell from a cliff near the Netanya beach on Tuesday morning. A United Hatzalah ATV responded to the call, treated the victim and he was transported him to a hospital, reportedly in moderate condition.
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