20-year-old James Reardon allegedly threatened Jews with rifle in Instagram post; police find weaponry, anti-Semitic material, gas mask at his house

New York – Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier’s fortune. Court papers filed last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands list no details of beneficiaries but valued the [...]

74 Percent Of Economists In Survey See US Recession By End Of 2021A strong majority, 74%, of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S.
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Most economists believe the United States will tip into recession by 2021, a new survey shows, despite White House insistence the economy is sound.
Nearly 3 out of 4 economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics expect a recession by 2021, according to results released Monday. The outlook reflects growing skepticism among economists and investors that the U.S. economy will be able to withstand a protracted trade war with China without serious harm amid the weakening global outlook.
Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, told CNBC last week that he now believes there’s a 40 percent chance of a recession before the 2020 election. In February, he had estimated that figure to be 35 percent.

Oil ship Adrian Darya 1, previously named Grace 1, sails east after monthlong detainment in Gibraltar and 11th-hour attempt by United States to re-seize it

Trump’s ‘Deal Of The Century’ On Hold Until Following Election For 22nd KnessetUnited States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his peace plan for Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority) known as the ‘deal of the century’ will not be revealed until following Israel’s election for 22nd Knesset, which is scheduled for Tuesday, September 17, 2019.

Sioux Falls, IA – Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren offered a public apology Monday to Native Americans over her past claim to tribal heritage, directly tackling an area that’s proved to be a big political liability. “Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made mistakes,” the Massachusetts senator said at [...]

Historical drama 'The Mover' tells the story of Žanis Lipke, who managed to hide and transport 60 Jews with limited means, while risking execution by occupying Nazi forces

Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been fundraising off her canceled trip to Israel last week after being granted a humanitarian request to visit her grandmother, following her and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) being barred from Israel due to their support of the anti-Israel BDS movement.
A fundraising email sent by left-wing political action committee Democracy for America calls on people to “chip in whatever you can to stand with her and Ilhan now as they continue to fight for justice for all.”
Despite the humanitarian request, the email states that the freshmen congresswomen “were banned from traveling to Israel and Palestine,” the latter of which is not an actual country.

Detained Immigrants Sue Over Conditions, Medical CareImmigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities.
In the suit filed by disability and civil rights advocates in U.S.
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Washington – The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said. The test off the coast of California on Sunday marked the resumption of an arms competition that some [...]

The cooperation between the Jewish community and local law enforcement agencies leading to the arrest of a white supremacist who appeared to threaten the Youngstown Jewish Community Center is a “situation where everything went right,” Bonnie Deutsch Burdman — the community relations director of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation — said in an interview with The Algemeiner on Monday.
James Patrick Reardon was arrested on Friday night by the New Middletown police. Weapons, ammunition, body armor, and a gas mask were found at this home at the time of his arrest.
Burdman told The Algemeiner that the Federation had been contacted at 5:30 this past Friday by police from nearby New Middletown.

Court papers value estate at over $577 million, list no beneficiaries, raise new questions about final days of disgraced financier

Israeli Professor, Artists Call To Boycott Israeli-Sponsored International FestivalProfessor Eyal Sivan, a lecturer in Sapir College’s graduate program for filmmaking, signed an open letter last week calling to boycott the international Berlin Pop-Kultur Festival due to its sponsorship by the Israeli embassy.

Orlando – Foreign-born residents had higher rates of being employed full-time than those born in the United States last year, and naturalized immigrants were more likely to have advanced degrees than the native-born, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The new figures show that the economic gap between the native-born and [...]

Fired NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo will sue Police Commissioner James O’Neill in a bid to win back his job, his lawyer said Monday.
Pantaleo will file a suit under Article 78 of the state Civil Practice Law and Rules, lawyer Stuart London said. Pantalei was fired in the aftermath of an internal probe into the choking death of Eric Garner, whose demise led to the rise of the BLM movement.
The provision allows people to appeal decisions by government officials or agencies through the courts on grounds that they were “arbitrary and capricious.”
If successful, Pantaleo would get reinstated to the NYPD and be awarded damages for lost wages.

 Yeshiva Bochur Injured In North Carolina Crash Remains CriticalThe condition of one of the Yeshiva Bochrim injured in last week’s crash in North Carolina remains critical, and Tehillim is needed.
Eliyahu Avrohom ben Keren was the most seriously injured passengers in the van that overturned while on a camp trip in North Carolina.

Mohammed al-Emadi scheduled for multi-day visit as border tensions spike following violent confrontations between IDF and armed Palestinians

Washington – Twitter says it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were linked to the Chinese government and a disinformation campaign targeting the protests in Hong Kong. The company also says it will prohibit ads from state-backed media companies that have amounted to propaganda. A senior Twitter official tells The Associated Press [...]

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