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The Justice Department explored whether it could pursue either criminal or civil rights charges against city officials in Portland, Oregon after clashes erupted there night after night between law enforcement and demonstrators, a department spokesperson said Thursday. The revelation that federal officials researched whether they could levy criminal or civil charges against the officials — exploring whether their rhetoric and actions may have helped spur the violence in Portland — underscores the larger Trump administration’s effort to spotlight and crack down on protest-related violence.

The Orange County Health Department visited the main Satmar Shul in Kiryas Joel on Wednesday morning and platstered a “cease and desist order” on the building. Viral photos on social media showed a man hanging up sign up from the Health Commissioner as a NY State Trooper stood nearby. The letter can be read below, but most interesting is what appears to be a veiled threat of “criminal charges” if the social distancing rules are not adhered to.

A looming U.S. ban on the Chinese app WeChat won’t target people who use the app to communicate, according to a government court filing Wednesday. President Donald Trump issued orders on Aug. 6 that targeted WeChat and TikTok as purported national-security threats and imposed a Sept. 20 deadline for the Commerce Department to draft specific measures for blocking “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the apps. The nonprofit U.S. WeChat Users Alliance and several people who say they rely on the app for work, worship and staying in touch with relatives in China sued to stop the ban in federal court in California. The suit says the ban violates its U.S. users’ freedom of speech, free exercise of religion and other constitutional rights.

Joe Biden said Wednesday that while he trusts what scientists say about a potential coronavirus vaccine, he doesn’t trust President Donald Trump. His comments come as the debate over a vaccine — how it will be evaluated and distributed when it’s ready — has taken center stage in the presidential race with seven weeks to go until the November election. Trump and Biden have been trading accusations that the other is undermining public trust in a potential coronavirus vaccine. Biden has expressed concerns that the vaccine approval process could be politicized, while Trump and his allies counter that such comments from Biden and other Democrats are turning off the public to a potentially lifesaving vaccine when it’s released.

New York City has again delayed the planned start of in-person learning for most of the more than 1 million students in its public school system. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that most elementary school students would do remote-only learning until Sept. 29. Middle and high schools would stay remote through Oct. 1. Pre-kindergarten students and some other special education students will be the only ones who resume in-person instruction on Monday, as originally planned. De Blasio and union leaders say the city needed more time to prepare for students to return to school buildings. It’s the MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER!! Every few weeks the Mayor makes some big declaration. New Yorkers rush to adjust their entire lives based on his announcement.

The newest episode of Inside ArtScroll features a full-length interview with Rabbi Binyomin Pruzansky, author of the new book,Chizuk for Your Heart. Rabbi Pruzansky knows how to find stories that give us chizuk, strengthening our hearts and reminding us of the greatness that exists around us – and inside of us. In this interview, Rabbi Pruzansky, with his contagious enthusiasm and joy, shares stories, insights and inspiration that will elevate your spirit.

Just two weeks after students started returning to Ball State University last month, the surrounding county had become Indiana’s coronavirus epicenter. Out of nearly 600 students tested for the virus, more than half have been positive. Dozens of infections have been blamed on off-campus parties, prompting university officials to admonish students. University President Geoffrey Mearns wrote that the cases apparently were tied not to classrooms or dormitories but to “poor personal choices some students are making, primarily off campus.” “The actions of these students are putting our planned on-campus instruction and activities at risk,” he said. Similar examples abound in other college towns across the nation. Among the 50 large U.S.

My neshoma is here on earth is to teach people Emunah and allow them to do mitzvos! With my recent TRACHEOTOMY, BROKEN FEMUR, AND BONES SO FRAGILE THAT I MUST BE TURNED OVER BY 2 PEOPLE LEST SOMETHING BREAKS, IMMA AND ABBA CRITICALLY NEED ROUND-THE-CLOCK NURSING HELP FOREVER, TO SAVE MY LIFE. I can’t live in the hospital. A child like me desperately needs to be home with loving family and parents if ONLY to ensure my SAFETY. A SLIGHT INATTENTION, OR WRONG MOVE, CAN CAUSE LIFE OR DEATH CONSEQUENCES. Hakadosh Baruch Hu did not give me the ability to speak, but Imma will tell you what happened: “Our precious daughter Maayan just underwent a TRACHEOTOMY SURGERY in order to allow her to breathe properly – as she had a COLLAPSED LUNG with SERIOUS ONGOING PNUEMONIA.

The first volume of former President Barack Obama’s memoir is coming out Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day. It’s called “A Promised Land” and will cover his swift and historic rise to the White House and his first term in office. The publication date for the second volume has not yet been determined. “I’ve spent the last few years reflecting on my presidency, and in ‘A Promised Land’ I’ve tried to provide an honest accounting of my presidential campaign and my time in office: the key events and people who shaped it; my take on what I got right and the mistakes I made; and the political, economic, and cultural forces that my team and I had to confront then — and that as a nation we are grappling with still,” Obama said in a statement Thursday.