Washington – President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than an hour Friday about extending an existing nuclear arms agreement and potentially starting a new one to include China. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders also discussed “very, very briefly” the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller [...]

The U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in April, notching a record 103 straight months of job gains and signaling the current economic expansion shows little sign of stalling.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the Labor Department said Friday, the lowest since 1969. The official unemployment rate has been at or below 4% for more than a year.

Berlin – European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Three German men, ages 31, 22 and 29, were arrested after the raids in three southern states on allegations they operated the so-called [...]

New York – The U.S. State Department allowed seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, in what some experts say could be a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause. The 90-story Manhattan [...]

It is an argument that often happens when the Rav is not there for Maariv.  Often people are unaware of his particular ruling for Sefiras HaOmer when Ma’ariv ends well before sunset.
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Mir, Belarus – For the first time in decades, a Holocaust commemoration event was held in this town, which used to be one of Europe’s main hubs of Jewish learning. Attending the event in Mir, a town of some 2,000 residents southwest of Minsk, was Nobuki Sugihara, the son of Japan’s only Holocaust-era savior of [...]

Washington State man reportedly makes 'extremely serious' threats against Shapiro and his family

Q: Can you explain to me why some some synagogues do not observe the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) observance for the Holocaust victims?

Andrzej Jeż appears to refer to Jews during Easter speech, saying 'certain nation' plotted in 1937 to slander Catholic Church by controlling media