Authorities say an off-duty police officer was killed and a woman’s foot was severed in a single-car crash in New York City.
Police say the 25-year-old officer was speeding on the northbound FDR Drive at about 2:30 a.m.

Due to an unseasonal dry spell that is expected to blow over Israel this week, the Fire Department has issued a warning against any open flames in the country, including bonfires and mechanical or construction work that could create sparks as there is a real and present danger for large-scale wildfires should any shrubbery or wooded areas catch flame Fire Commissioner Dedi Simchi has put the fire departments around the country on high alert.

President Donald Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical.
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People with severe but stable heart disease from clogged arteries may have less chest pain if they get a procedure to improve blood flow rather than just giving medicines a chance to help, but it won’t cut their risk of having a heart attack or dying over the following few years, a big federally funded study found.

Transcripts released Saturday in the impeachment inquiry show Ambassador Gordon Sondland playing a central role in President Donald Trump’s effort to push Ukraine to conduct political investigations as a condition for receiving needed military aid.
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New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is deciding whether to launch a Democratic presidential bid, is pouring $100 million into an online advertising campaign attacking President Donald Trump.
The campaign, which targets voters in four general election battleground states — Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — begins running on Friday, according to Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter.

Tehillim is needed for a United Hatzalah volunteer who was involved in a serious crash in Holon on Friday.
United Hatzalah President Eli Beer tells YWN that the volunteer was responding to an emergency on his Ambucycle, when a vehicle struck him.

Government health experts on Thursday recommended broader use of a prescription-strength fish oil drug to help many more patients at risk for heart attack, stroke and related health problems.
Currently the drug, Vascepa, is approved for a relatively narrow group of patients with extremely high levels of triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood linked to heart disease.

Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, was found guilty Friday of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.
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Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, pointed her finger at President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani while detailing her sudden removal from her diplomatic post during Friday’s nationally-televised impeachment testimony, as the president fired back in realtime and said every place she worked “turned bad.”