New details are surfacing from the ongoing police investigation into the death of 17-year-old Miriam Peretz A”H, the off-the-derech girl from a chareidi family, whose lifeless body was found in the home of 55-year-old Majid Ilan, in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Amazon is protesting the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft, citing “unmistakable bias” in the process.
Amazon’s competitive bid for the “war cloud” project drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals.

Indictments were handed down in the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday, November 14, 2019, against three Arab residents of the capital, ages 15-17, for attacking a chareidi man who was walking to Kever Shimon HaTzaddik on November 2, 2019 as well as three other chareidim.

It’s been easy for majority Democrats to keep Republicans from shifting the focus of the House impeachment hearings. Yet GOP leverage to do just that will grow should the battle reach the Republican-run Senate.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants to see Congress pass President Donald Trump’s revamped North American free trade deal this year.
In a news conference Thursday, the California Democrat said an agreement on the pact is “imminent.”
The United States, Mexico and Canada last year agreed to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement with a new version designed to encourage more investment in factories and jobs in the U.S.

A second U.S. Embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing a need for Ukrainian officials to pursue “investigations,” The Associated Press has learned.
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The number of vaping illnesses in the U.S. is still rising, but at a slower pace.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said another 121 cases have been reported, bringing the total of confirmed and probable cases to 2,172.
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Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is being investigated by federal prosecutors for possible campaign finance violations and a failure to register as a foreign agent as part of an active investigation into his financial dealings, according to three U.S.

The father of the family, a 50-year-old avreich, was hospitalized in the beginning of the week as he battles a difficult illness which was diagnosed a year ago. His condition worsened and he was hospitalized this week in Tel Hashomer Hospital.

Jury deliberations will extend into a second day in the trial of Roger Stone, a veteran Republican political operative charged with lying to Congress and other charges stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
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