When Syria’s Kurdish fighters, America’s longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash.
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The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year — and it may keep getting more expensive, according to a study released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries.
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Authorities say they are proceeding with the extradition of a former Lithuanian judge and parliamentarian jailed in Chicago after the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal.
A Tuesday court filing by Chicago federal prosecutors says there are no longer any hurdles to extraditing Neringa Venckiene.

European Union officials were hoping Tuesday that — after more than three years of false starts and sudden reversals — a Brexit deal with Britain might be sketched out within hours.
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בעת אמירת הושענות
היוצאים בקדושה ובטהרה ובהשתפכות הנפש
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העומד ומהפך בזכותן של ישראלכמלאך מיכאל לפני כסא הכבוד

Three youths have been seriously injured by lightning on the Zikim Beach in southern Israel on Tuesday afternoon, the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos. The beach is located in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council.
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Jerusalem police face a challenge on Yomim Tovim, as they bring many visitors to the capital, an event accompanied by increase concern of terror attacks, along with the task of maintaining the flow of traffic, public transportation and the light rail to name some of the challenges.

Jerusalem fire stations on Tuesday, the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos in Eretz Yisrael, are preparing for stormy weather and resulting flood conditions. The stormy weather is expected to begin during the evening hours.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday stood behind personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, one of his highest-profile and most vocal defenders, amid reports that federal prosecutors in the city Giuliani led as mayor are eyeing him for possible lobbying violations.
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