Following pressure to let female fans attend World Cup qualifiers, Iranian sports ministry reported to tell soccer organization it will allow women at national team game next month

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday ended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
De Blasio struggled to gain traction in a sprawling field of Democrats seeking the presidency.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday he is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic primary, ending his campaign after struggling to gain traction in the race. De Blasio’s polling hovered at the one percent mark.
“I feel like I contributed all I can to this primary election and it’s clearly not my time,”  the Democrat said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “So I’m going to end my presidential campaign, continue my work as mayor of New York City and I’m going to keep speaking up for working people.”
De Blasio entered the presidential race in May, running as a proud progressive. But his campaign never caught fire: He qualified for the first two rounds of Democratic presidential debates but has failed to make the cut for the others.

Home-sharing company Airbnb Inc. said Thursday it plans to go public in 2020.
It’s a long-awaited move for the San Francisco company, which was founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, who needed some extra cash so they put air mattresses on their apartment floor and charged $80 per night.
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New York- A man suspected of being an operative in New York for the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hezbollah was recently arrested. Alexei Saab, 42, of Morristown, N.J., has been in federal custody since July, facing charges for scouting dozens of targets for the terrorist entity, including the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and […]

After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urged Blue and White Chairman MK Benny Gantz to parley on formation of a unity government, MK Yair Lapid accused Netanyahu of “trying to drag the country into a third election.”
At a Blue and White faction meeting, Lapid said: “One person is preventing the formation of a liberal unity government. One person. When faced with the choice between what’s important for the country and what’s important for one person, the country comes first.”

Temple Ahavat Shalom daubed with slogan referencing both the Holocaust and the stereotype of Jews and money

School buses will show up Friday morning after all. A deal struck in the eleventh hour saved 37,500 Lakewood private school students from losing school transportation at least for now, Mayor Raymond Coles told the Asbury Park Press.
“The LSTA (Lakewood Student Transportation Authority) agreed to keep the buses running,” he said. “It’s a big relief knowing that kids will be able to get safely to school tomorrow.”