Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who pitched himself to Democratic voters as a campaign finance reformer who could win in red states, is ending his bid for the party’s presidential nomination.
“While there were many obstacles we could not have anticipated when entering this race, it has become clear that in this moment, I won’t be able to break through to the top tier of this still-crowded field,” Bullock said in a statement. “I leave this race filled with gratitude and optimism, inspired and energized by the good people I’ve had the privilege of meeting over the course of the campaign.”

As the impeachment inquiry moves into a critical week, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are debating the degree to which the president should participate in a process they have spent more than two months attacking.
On Sunday evening, White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the House Judiciary Committee in a five-page letter that Trump would not participate in its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for Wednesday. The invitation from Chairman Jerrold Nadler “does not begin to provide the President with any semblance of a fair process,” Cipollone wrote.

New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, joins Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday.’
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A Jewish man davening At Rebbe Nachman’s Tziyon In Uman was stabbed over Shabbos.
Emergency first responders from United Hatzalah were quickly called to the scene, and treated the victim, who was on the verge of losing consciousness. The victim was then evacuated to a local hospital.
Local Jewish officials say this is not the first time the assailant has attacked visitors in Uman. After this weekend’s attack, however, local Jewish officials “have lost their patience, and this time they will put an end to this.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Rav Eliyahu Kubo, av beis din of Saloniki, author of Aderes Eliyahu and Sheni Hame’oros Hagedolim (~1628-1688). The Kubo family had immigrated to Greece from Spain during the Spanish expulsion. Rav Eliyahu became Chief Rabbi in Salonika.
Rav Tzvi Hersh Margulies of Lublin (1805)

Dozens of cartel gunmen attacked a town hall in northern Mexico, triggering a running battle with security forces that left 19 dead by Sunday in a fresh sign of the deteriorating security around the country.
The assault started about noon on Saturday, the eve of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first anniversary in office. Polls show that Mexicans regard the failure to curb violence as the greatest weakness of the generally popular leftist leader.
López Obrador is also under pressure from President Donald Trump, who revealed last week that he wants to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The Mexican leader told a rally on Sunday that he had no intention of returning to the kind of “war on drugs” led by the army in past years.

Former congressman Joe Sestak, D-Pa., ended his presidential campaign on Sunday, a little over five months after he launched his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination.
The move brings the number of Democratic contenders to 17, with the Iowa caucuses roughly two months away.
On Twitter and in an email to supporters, Sestak voiced his gratitude for “this priceless opportunity as I end our campaign together.”