A privately funded organization called “We Build the Wall” began work this weekend on a project to erect a section of border wall in the El Paso sector.
Former Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, said on “Fox & Friends” Monday that the project was undertaken because there is a “ridiculously large gap” near Mount Cristo Rey, and drug and human smugglers have been taking advantage of it.

E-cigarettes aren’t considered as risky as regular cigarettes, but researchers have found a clue that their flavorings may be bad for the heart.
Longtime smokers who can’t kick the addiction sometimes switch to e-cigarettes, in hopes of avoiding the cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke.

Vice President Mike Pence paid tribute to fallen members of the U.S. armed forces Monday, thanking their loved ones in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and acknowledging that for them “every day is Memorial Day.”
Pence placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to remember dead service members whose remains haven’t been identified and observed a moment of silence.

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All the pomp and pageantry in the world couldn’t paper over the tensions between President Donald Trump and Japan’s Shinzo Abe on two of their most pressing issues: North Korea and trade.
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Dovy stands on the curb, watching the school bus pull away without him. Again. A few minutes ago, the bus pulled up to his home with twenty empty seats. But while his brother, Yossie, climbed aboard, Dovy was not allowed to get on.
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This past Wednesday evening, Lag B’Omar, the Syrian community of Flatbush held a historic event entitled “The Mishnathon”. A project of Yeshivat Shaare Torah of Brooklyn, The Mishnathon saw nearly 600 participants partake in the remarkable achievement of completing Shas Mishnayos in one single night.

A 55-year-old woman fell down some stairs and was moderately injured on Monday morning, in an educational institution on Bnei Brak’s Chidushei HaRim Street.
MDA and Hatzolah Bnei Brak responded and she was transported by paramedics to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer listed in moderate condition with injuries to her extremities.

In Iowa, one of the whitest states in the nation, more than 100 black Democrats who expect to attend the 2020 caucuses crammed into a tiny community center in the capital city to position themselves as a force in the most wide-open presidential campaign in a generation.
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After serving almost two years in prison, former Member of Knesset Basel Ghattas was released. He was convicted of smuggling cell phones to imprisoned terrorists.
Ghattas was released from prison on Monday morning, May 27, 2019, after almost two years in prison.