The NYPD are being pelted with concrete-filled tennis balls during George Floyd protests, the NYPD warned its members this week, the NY Post reports.

The Big Apple will enter Phase One of reopening Monday amid the coronavirus — with retail shops set to start curbside or in-store pickup service as construction and manufacturing rev up again.
“It’s a big day for New York City,’’ Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, adding that the Apple “has met all the [health] metrics,’’ including the one involving its number of new infections, which dropped to 781 cases, or around 1 percent of those tested, Saturday — the lowest rate since March 16.
The city’s subways should be at 95 percent of their pre-pandemic service by Monday to help get people around, officials have said. Masks are required and will be handed out to straphangers as needed, although ridership is expected to be no more than 15 percent of its usual level.

The Gulf Coast prepares for Tropical Storm Cristobal while taking the coronavirus pandemic into account; reaction and analysis from Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee.
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A major Iranian cyber-attack on Israel’s water infrastructure was part of a year-long campaign of similar attacks, Israeli news website Walla revealed on Sunday.
In April, Israel narrowly headed off the massive cyber-attack, which was later attributed to Iran.
In a statement released shortly after, Israel’s National Cyber Directorate described “attempted attacks on command and control systems of wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, and sewage.”
A few weeks later, a cyber-attack shut down the Iranian port of Shahid Rajaee. The incident was widely seen as an Israeli retaliatory attack.

The Israel Defense Forces have arrested the killer of Israeli soldier Amit Ben-Yigal, who died last month in a stone-throwing incident in the West Bank.
“We can confirm that after a large-scale operation with Israel’s security services, our soldiers have arrested the assailant who killed 21-year-old Staff Sgt. Amit Ben Ygal during operational activity last month,” the IDF’s official Twitter page stated on Sunday.
“We will continue in the fight against terror,” it added.
Ben-Yigal was on an anti-terror operation in the West Bank town of Yabed with his unit of the elite Golani Brigade when he was struck by a large stone thrown from a rooftop.

Former New York Gov. George Pataki slams New York leadership, citing bail reform as a huge issue.
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, on Sunday became the first Republican senator known to march in one of the District of Columbia’s anti-racist demonstrations after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis nearly two weeks ago.
Wearing a mask and garnering little overt notice from fellow protesters, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee marched alongside hundreds of evangelicals at the head a column of demonstrators that eventually swelled to more than 1,000 people.
Romney said in an interview that he wanted to find “a way to end violence and brutality, and to make sure that people understand that black lives matter.”

Sol Schulman, a hematologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, wrote recently to tell me about some new clues to an ominous connection emerging between covid-19 and strokes. The new clues came from autopsies.
These autopsy studies used only a few subjects – 11 in one and 14 in another. Why so few when there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world dying from covid-19? Experts say the once-standard practice had declined before the pandemic as paperwork and consent become more burdensome. Now extra precautions are needed to protect the pathologists from infection.
But the few autopsies that have been done have revealed that covid-19 is no ordinary respiratory disease. The virus is killing people by ravaging the circulatory system.

Joe Biden is planning to meet privately Monday with George Floyd’s family in Houston, offering condolences in the aftermath of a killing that launched nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism.
Biden is also recording a video message that will play at the funeral service, according to his campaign. He is not planning to attend the service himself, citing his Secret Service detail and not wanting to disrupt the service.
The trip to Houston came after several days of internal discussions over what role the former vice president should play in the funeral services. Over the course of his career, he has delivered eulogies for a wide variety of people.

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