WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s personal assistant unexpectedly stepped down Thursday after the President learned she was leaking information to the media.
According to the New York Times, Madeleine Westerhout is accused of leaking private information about Trump’s family and Oval Office operations.

Descendants of Kitchener Camp men to unveil plaque at former military base in Kent that housed 4,000 Jewish refugees at the start of WWII

For nearly a year, Paul Steber had been planning, prosecutors say.
The 19-year-old from Massachusetts had chosen a university in North Carolina to begin his freshman year because, he told authorities, it was easier to get guns there. Since last Christmas, prosecutors said, Steber had been thinking about committing violence: He studied past mass shootings and had stocked his dorm room with weapons.
But the plan never came to be.

Montgomery, AL – Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologized Thursday for wearing blackface decades ago, becoming the latest politician to face scrutiny over racially insensitive photos and actions from their university days. Ivey, 74, issued the apology after a 1967 radio interview surfaced in which her now-ex-husband describes her actions at Auburn University, where she was […]

Caught in the crossfire of a trade war, American businesses operating in China say they’ve been hurt by the hostilities between the world’s two biggest economies and are facing increasingly unfair competition from Chinese firms.
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As the Sept. 17 elections draw here, a flurry of activity among the various political parties continues to be a game-changer. Israel is holding a second round after the April 9 elections because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government, mainly due to Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman’s refusal to sit in a government with the ultra-Orthodox parties. Now, those same parties may prove the sleeper of the election and might provide Netanyahu with the 61 mandates he needs to succeed.
Yitzchak Pindrus, a Knesset member from the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism, told JNS that his party will win more seats than the polls indicate “because the anti-religious rhetoric in this campaign will inspire more of our voters to come out.”

Washington – Declaring space crucial to the nation’s defense, President Donald Trump said Thursday the Pentagon has established U.S. Space Command to preserve American dominance on “the ultimate high ground.” “This is a landmark day,” Trump said in a Rose Garden ceremony, “one that recognizes the centrality of space to America’s national security and defense.” […]

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. plans to reduce the number of American troops in Afghanistan by more than half to 8,600 and then will determine further drawdowns.
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Tel Aviv – The Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv has denied that Russians are behind the hacking of the cellphone of Benny Gantz, the head of the Blue and White Party, and Gantz called the finding a political attack. CGI Group, which Gantz hired to investigate a series of leaks from the party, said it […]