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The Senate intelligence committee subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. after he backed out of two scheduled interviews as part of the panel’s Russia investigation, the chairman of the committee told his Republican colleagues last week as he tried to stem criticism from the move.
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Video of garbage piled up on a subway car has gone viral on social media. Subway riders are livid after seeing the dirty conditions and now want to see accountability.
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A Jewish woman was in critical condition after she was stabbed multiple times in the city of Helsingborg in Sweden, Swedish media reported Tuesday.
According to an eyewitness which spoke to Maariv news, the approximately 60-year-old victim was heard screaming “Help me!

Fresh out of his job as deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein said Monday that the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian election interference was “justified,” that he would have never allowed anyone to interfere with it and that closing it had not been an option.

Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.

Four oil tankers anchored in the Mideast were damaged by what Gulf officials described as sabotage, though satellite images obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday showed no major visible damage to the vessels.
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Dear Neighbor,
As you may know, there is a Special Election today, May 14th, for the 45th City Council District to replace Jumaane Williams.  Although every election is important, we cannot overstate the extreme importance of this one and the direct impact it will have on the Flatbush community — probably for the next decade.

The Annual Congressional Tribute event marking May as Jewish American Heritage Month will take place on Wednesday, May 15, in the US Senate, and  feature an impressive roster of US Senators and House members, government officials, diplomats and national Jewish leaders.
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Just weeks after the horrific anti-Semitic shooting attack at Chabad of Poway that took the life of a congregant and injured three others, the synagogue’s rabbi, himself injured in the shooting, visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where more than a million Jews and others were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.