An 18-year-old Breslov Yeshiva Bochur R”L drowned in the Kinneret, on the last day of Chol Hamoed (Thursday).
Ariel Dovid Koslovsky Z”L, a resident of Mintz Street in Jerusalem, reportedly went swimming with two other boys in an unsupervised area of the Shikmim Beach.

FBI and IRS agents raided the homes and offices of Baltimore’s embattled mayor on Thursday amid widening probes to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.
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With the entrance of former Vice President Joe Biden into the 2020 Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, the field is largely set, with all the big names included.
The sprawling Democratic field features candidates ranging from 37 to 77 years old; liberals and moderates; senators, governors and mayors; and an unprecedented number of women and minorities.

In news that is sure to excite the community, editors have announced the launch of a new Yiddish periodical titled Boro Park B’vinyana, a magazine which will offer in-depth insight and information behind the latest building projects undertaken by Mosdos and Shuls in the neighborhood.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times)
INTRODUCTION
Urgent reminder:  Do an Eruv Tavshilin today.
Whenever any day of Yom Tov comes out on a Friday – an Eruv Tavshilin must be made before the Yom Tov begins.

Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, declaring the “soul of this nation” at stake if President Donald Trump wins re-election.
In a video posted on Twitter , Biden focused on the 2017 deadly clash between white supremacists and counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A California motorist told investigators Wednesday that he deliberately drove into a crosswalk in a quiet Silicon Valley suburb, hitting seven people and injuring eight, but did not say why.
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IDF forces working with border police and the Civil Administration destroyed the apartment of 19-year-old terrorist Omar Abu Layla of Kfar a-Zivya in the Ephraim District. The heinous terrorist was responsible for the Ariel Junction/Gitai Avissar Junction attack that claimed the lives of Rabbi Achiad Ettinger HY”D of Yishuv Eli and IDF soldier First-Sgt.

President Donald Trump renewed his threat Wednesday to send more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border following an incident in which Mexican soldiers confronted U.S. personnel. Mexico blamed the incident on confusion, and said it was not looking for confrontation with the U.S.