By Shiryn Ghermezian

President Trump on Thursday took aim at special counsel Robert Mueller and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview at the American cemetery in Normandy, France, where he was marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Speaking to Fox News’s Laura Ingraham just before a ceremony commemorating the storied invasion, Trump asserted that Mueller made “a fool out of himself” in his public comments last week on the Russia investigation and called Pelosi a “disaster” over her handling of a possible impeachment inquiry.
“Nancy Pelosi, I call her ‘Nervous Nancy,’ Nancy Pelosi doesn’t talk about it,” Trump said. “Nancy Pelosi is a disaster, OK? She’s a disaster. Let her do what she wants, you know what? I think they’re in big trouble.”

The Brooklyn Eagle reports: A Crown Heights man was sentenced to 24 years to life today for the 2014 botched kidnapping and murder of Menachem Stark Hy”d.
Erskin Felix was convicted of kidnapping, murder and tampering with evidence for masterminding and carrying out the fatal kidnapping of Menachem, whose murder roiled Williamsburg’s Jewish community.

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters Fred and Jeannette Bogart of Boca Raton, Fla., and New York donated $60,000 to rebuild the shul on the Israel Defense Forces’ Kissufim Base, home to the 414th Nesher Field Intelligence Battalion and a rotation of infantry units.
The shul, along with a sefer Torah used by IDF soldiers, was destroyed by a Hamas rocket in early May in a barrage of rocket fire into Israel that caused the deaths of four civilians.
Following the attack, FIDF launched a campaign on May 29 to raise $60,000 to rebuild the shul and an additional $43,000 to dedicate a new sefer Torah. Upon hearing of the campaign, the Bogarts donated the full amount needed to repair the shul.

Uber Technologies Inc. is testing a helicopter service in New York City, according to documents outlining the program obtained by Bloomberg.
Passengers will be able to use the Uber app to book a flight through the service, called Uber Copter, the documents show. Tests flights took off from a Manhattan heliport near Wall Street to John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Dear Matzav.com,
As a musician who has played at our chasunos for many years, I want to say that I was gratified to see the letter from rabbonim regarding the spirit of the music at our chasunos. I have been an advocate for a long time for bringing the right taam back into wedding music.
However, I want to say the following.
Firstly, the large majority of weddings I have played at are beautiful and Yiddish. Ironically, it’s at some of the more “with-it” chassidishe weddings that I find more of the disco style music. But whatever the case, let’s remember that the majority of our chasunos are really beautiful.

Undercover police officers arrested a man with a knife at the Toava Parade in Yerushalayim on Thursday afternoon.
The officers noticed the suspect acting suspiciously at the side of the parade. They searched the man, who refused to identify himself, and found a knife in his shoe. The suspect was arrested and detained for questioning.
Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir dismissed the police’s report about the arrest, calling it an effort to delegitimize those protesting the parade.
“The same message came out of the police spokesman last year, two years ago and three years ago, and it is interesting that no indictment has been filed so far,” Ben Gvir said.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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In the past year alone, Gaza’s terror factions fought eight rounds of conflict with Israel, signaling a collapse of the four-year period of quiet. Yet despite the frequent flare-ups, Israel stayed clear of launching a ground operation so far.
Southern Israeli cities and towns repeatedly came under mass rocket attacks, yet Israel made due with air power in its responses, unleashing waves of precision airstrikes. The Israeli Air Force destroyed assets and killed operatives of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but when the dust settled, nothing significant had changed.

President Trump on Thursday threatened to hit China with tariffs on “at least” another $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, escalating tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
There have been no face-to-face meetings between U.S. and Chinese officials since May 10, the day Trump initially increased tariffs on a $200 billion list of Chinese goods, Reuters reported. Beijing retaliated by raising tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods.
“Our talks with China — a lot of interesting things are happening. We’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters in Ireland before departing for a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France.

Amid heightened recent tensions between the US and Iran, a number of former Obama administration officials have been advising the Tehran regime to avoid escalation with the Trump administration, The Daily Beast reported on Friday.
“Their message to Iran: Don’t take Trump’s bait. Stay calm,” the report said.
While the unnamed ex-officials – whose goal is to preserve the July 2015 nuclear deal, one of Obama’s major foreign policy initiatives — told The Daily Beast their contacts with the Iranians were “normal,” a Republican congressional aide quoted in the report said, “It’s not just about what they were saying to the Iranians. It’s about what they were saying to their political allies back here in the US.”