Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., advertised a news conference Thursday to announce a resolution condmening the House impeachment inquiry as partisan rancor continued to escalate over the Ukraine scandal.
After two dramatic days of closed-door depositions, House investigators are pausing in honor of the late congressman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the former House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman who will lie in state in the Capitol.
But debate over the fairness of the inquiry is continuing unabated, with President Donald Trump praising House Republicans for storming a secure room where dispositions are being held and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accusing GOP lawmakers of “covering up” for a president abusing his power.

Rep. Tim Ryan announced Thursday that he is ending his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and will run for a ninth term in the House.
Ryan, D-Ohio, who pitched himself as the candidate best poised to talk to working-class people and take back Rust Belt states from President Donald Trump, failed to qualify for the third and fourth Democratic debates. He has a Dec. 11 deadline to file to run for reelection in his Ohio district.
“I am announcing today that I am withdrawing from the presidential campaign,” Ryan said in a video posted on Twitter. “After seven long months of hard work, I’ll be returning home to my family and friends and community in Ohio to run for reelection for my congressional seat.”

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally abandoned his promise of an October Brexit and pinned his hopes on a December election. Two days after lawmakers stymied Johnson’s latest attempt to pass his European Union divorce deal, he said Thursday that the only way to break Britain’s Brexit impasse was a general […]

MICHIGAN (JNS) — The sukkah at the Hillel at Michigan State University was destroyed by two males on Saturday, according to surveillance footage. In a Facebook post, MSU Hillel said that the two men appeared to be “extremely inebriated.” MSU Hillel executive director Cindy Hughey noticed the damage on Monday morning when she stopped at […]

Temperatures across Israel continue to drop, as it appears summer is behind us and we are experiencing a first taste of winter during the autumn period. There are storm and flood warnings in effect for the coming weekend in Eretz Yisrael.
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Harel Wiesel, owner of Fox Group, is in talks to establish a food partnership with brothers Ari and Yoram Yerzin, veteran restaurateurs who own several successful restaurants.
Yediot Aharonot reported that the three began to look into the possibility of obtaining a franchise for Starbucks, the coffee chain that failed in Israel 20 years ago.
This time Starbucks may succeed in Israel after changing its image in recent years, upgrading its types of coffee and expanding its range of baked goods and food, and the increase in the number of tourists coming to Israel who are used to the chain adds to its attractiveness.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.

A Northern California wildfire exploded in size early Thursday amid dangerous winds that prompted the state’s largest utility to impose electrical blackouts to prevent fires.
Authorities ordered the entire community of Geyserville to evacuate after the fire in the Sonoma County wine region north of San Francisco grew to more than 15 square miles (39 square kilometers).

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bernie Sanders was one of only two Democratic presidential candidates to address the Islamic Society of North America Convention in August, the largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans in the country. Organizers invited the 10 highest-polling contenders at the time to the Houston event, but the Vermont senator and Julian Castro were […]