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The House on Tuesday approved a massive $1.4 trillion spending package that would stave off a looming shutdown and fund the federal government through September, acting in a burst of bipartisanship just a day before Democrats plan to impeach President Donald Trump.
The legislation would also remove three controversial taxes from the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law that was a top legislative achievement of President Barack Obama.
The package passed in two pieces, one focused on GOP national security priorities including the Pentagon, the other on domestic agencies dear to Democrats such as the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote on the national security package was 280 to 138. The vote on the domestic agencies was 297 to 120.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is serving a federal prison sentence for crimes related to his lobbying work in Ukraine, has been hospitalized since Thursday and is in stable condition, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Attorney Todd Blanche said he and his client’s family first learned about Manafort’s medical condition from a reporter at ABC News and have been unable to get information from the Bureau of Prisons.
“Of course, his family and friends are extremely concerned about his health and still do not have a full understanding of his medical condition or well-being,” Blanche said. “We were relieved to learn this afternoon that Mr. Manafort’s condition is stable, and we are hopeful that he makes a speedy recovery.”

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An armed terrorist approached the fence in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening. The terrorist was shot by an IAF pilot and reportedly killed while attempting to infiltrate into Israel.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Rav Baruch Hager of Seret-Viznitz, the Imrei Baruch (1892). The son of Rav Menachem Mendel Hager,  Rav Baruch was Rebbe for only eight years, and was niftar at a young age. His son, Rav Yisrael Hager (the Ahavas Yisrael), was born when Rav Baruch was only 15 years old.

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The mayor of Jersey City is calling for a Board of Education trustee to resign after she wrote a Facebook post blasting the “brutes in the Jewish community” after last week’s shooting at a Jewish market, Politico reports.
Joan Terrell Paige, a Jersey City Board of Education member, unleashed an anti-Semitic, conspiracy-laden Facebook rant appearing to justify the shooting rampage there that left a cop and three hostages in a Jewish market dead.
“Where was all this faith and hope when Black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the jewish community?”  Paige began her screed, which was apparently deleted but captured by the Reagan Battalion conservative outlet.

President Donald Trump on the eve of his expected impeachment lit into congressional Democrats for what he deemed a “perversion of justice” and an “attempted coup,” predicting Tuesday in a rambling and rageful letter that voters would punish Democrats and history would vindicate him.
The president’s written diatribe was delivered as the House set the stage for a historic floor debate and impeachment vote Wednesday – a momentous act that is nonetheless likely to be devoid of suspense as tribal partisanship in the Capitol has made the outcome a near-certainty.