A prolific political fundraiser who donated large sums to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has agreed to plead guilty to multiple federal charges, including tax evasion and concealing his work as a foreign agent as he lobbied high-level U.S.
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Two University of Connecticut students have been charged with shouting a racial slur outside a campus apartment complex in an episode that was caught on video and has led to protests at the school.
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California and New York City sued the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday to stop tens of thousands of cigarette packages from being mailed from foreign countries to U.S. residents, saying the smugglers are engaging in tax evasion while postal workers look the other way.
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Facebook’s latest foes: nearly every U.S. state.
A state-level antitrust investigation into the social networking giant now has the backing of a bipartisan group of 47 attorneys general, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begins his second term facing an increasingly divided Parliament and country, with his rock-star appeal from four years ago diminished by scandal and unmet expectations.
Trudeau was re-elected in a stronger-than-expected showing in Monday’s national elections.

President Donald Trump triggered outrage Tuesday by comparing the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry to a lynching, assigning the horrors of a deadly and racist chapter in U.S. history to a process laid out in the Constitution.
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Former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor provided lawmakers Tuesday with a vivid, detailed and what some lawmakers called “disturbing” account of the way President Donald Trump wanted to put the new Ukraine president “in a public box” by demanding a quid pro quo at the center of the impeachment probe.

The Kretchnif (קרעטשניף) Rebbe Shlita, who was released from a hospital on erev Yomtov and he was hospitalized again during Simchas Torah. Now he is medically sedated and intubated.

The forecast in Israel calls for partly cloudy skies in Yerushalayim today, Tuesday, isru chag Simchas Torah. Rainfall is expected on Wednesday throughout the country.
Today’s forecast, Tuesday, October 22, 2019, calls for partly cloudy skies and local rainfall, possibly accompanied by thunder and lightning.
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Tens of thousands are expected to attend the levaya of HaGaon HaRav Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz ZT”L, 93, which will begin on Tuesday, isru chag, at noon.
Tens of thousands are expected to participate in the levaya of HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz ZT”L, which is expected to begin at noon Tuesday at the intersection of Rabbi Akiva and Rosenheim Streets in Bnei Brak.