Israeli security forces uncovered a huge terror cell responsible for a series of deadly attacks in the Shomron, including the Dolev bombing which killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb HY”D in August, the Shin Bet reported on Wednesday morning.

Police have arrested a 58-year-old Netanya resident who allegedly disguised himself as a gas technician, entered homes of elderly Gush Dan residents, and defrauded them by charging sums of money to repair gas lines and gas leaks that did not exist.

A Chareidi girl from Israel, who smuggled a large amount of the Yemenite drug khat into Ireland three months ago together with a friend, was released on Tuesday. The girl, who is still a minor, was released without charge, a Chareidim 10 report said.

Billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg won’t have to file a mandatory financial disclosure until after Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest, under an extension granted by the Federal Election Commission this week.
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A New York judge threw out state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort, ruling Wednesday that the criminal case was too similar to one that has already landed President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman in federal prison.
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At least two dozen tornadoes hit the Southeast this week in a deadly outbreak of severe weather, assessments by the National Weather Service show.
Survey teams from regional weather service offices found evidence that twisters struck from western Louisiana to southern Georgia on Monday and Tuesday, with 10 tornadoes in Mississippi alone, according to reports issued online.

Falling ice has forced officials to close the following locations in NYC:
—The Upper Level of the George Washington Bridge to NY is closed due to an icing condition.
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Over 40 Israelis who flew on an El Al flight to Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on Wednesday were detained by Russian security officials and had their passports confiscated.
Most of the Israeli passengers on the flight, including children, were moved to a separate area from the other passengers and were fingerprinted and individually questioned.

President Donald Trump woke up in the White House Wednesday morning and expressed utter disbelief that he will likely become just the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Hatem Bazian, a lecturer at UC Berkley who has expressed support for Hamas, compared Israel to Nazi Germany and claimed that Jewish history in Israel is a “mythical past,” tried to boycott Trader Joe’s last week but it didn’t work out exactly as he had hoped, Ynet reported on Monday.