Crown Heights

A delegation of ten Chabad Shluchim were on hand at the White House when President Donald Trump signed a proclamation declaring Yud Alef Nissan, the birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A. 2018.”   Continue reading “Trump Declares “Education and Sharing Day” with Shluchim on Hand”

Breitbart – by John Binder

An illegal alien accused of murdering an elderly woman could “possibly” be a serial killer and involved with multiple other deaths of elderly people in the Dallas, Texas area, a report states.

According to the FOX 4 News, 45-year-old illegal alien Billy Chemirmir from Kenya was chased down and arrested by police for allegedly murdering 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris.
Continue reading “Report: Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Elderly Woman ‘Possibly’ a Texas Serial Killer”

Reuters

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland signed the largest arms procurement deal in its history on Wednesday, agreeing with the United States to buy Raytheon Co’s (RTN.N) Patriot missile defense system for $4.75 billion in a major step to modernize its forces against a bolder Russia.

“It is an extraordinary, historic moment; it is Poland’s introduction into a whole new world of state-of-the-art technology, modern weaponry, and defensive means,” President Andrzej Duda said during the signing ceremony.  Continue reading “Poland signs $4.75 billion deal for U.S. Patriot missile system facing Russia”

Axios – by Jonathan Swan

Capitol Hill wants Facebook’s blood, but President Trump isn’t interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon, according to five sources who’ve discussed it with him. “He’s obsessed with Amazon,” a source said. “Obsessed.”

What we’re hearing: Trump has talked about changing Amazon’s tax treatment because he’s worried about mom-and-pop retailers being put out of business.

Continue reading “Trump hates Amazon, not Facebook”

Daily Mail

Mobile phone giants and banks are using private companies to root through customers’ social media profiles before issuing contracts and loans.

A major Money Mail investigation found that firms are using data from Facebook and other social media websites such as Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter to find out about customers’ spending habits and earnings as well as to confirm their age, address and employment.   Continue reading “Why your Facebook profile could stop you getting a mortgage”

Yahoo News

At least 12 states have responded with a wave of fury and legal action this week after the Trump administration announced it would add a question to the 2020 census asking respondents whether they are U.S. citizens.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he would lead a multistate coalition to block the decision the Commerce Department announced on Monday. The addition of a citizenship question is highly controversial, and civil rights groups have long claimed it could jeopardize the accuracy of the census.  Continue reading “At Least A Dozen States Plan To Sue Over New Census Citizenship Question”

RT

American stocks could see a significant decline in the coming months due to a number of trends that point to a downturn in the global economy, according to Saxo Bank Chief Economist Steen Jakobsen.

Citing several factors including growing credit loans and a widening fiscal deficit in the US, he expressed doubts over infrastructure spending plans and a potential global trade war.   Continue reading “Third of US stock market may be wiped out as consumer spending ‘maxed out’”

RT

Russia must confess to the Salisbury ‘chemical attack’ in order to mend relations with the US and NATO, said the US State Department, adding that the only evidence the US needs for Moscow’s culpability was the word of its UK ally.

“If Russia wants to improve relations, it needs to first acknowledge its responsibility for this attack and cease its recklessly aggressive behavior,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters on Tuesday.  Continue reading “‘Russia has lots of tentacles’: US says it needed no proof, only UK’s word to expel diplomats”

Mail.com

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A blinding national spotlight is shining on the family of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old unarmed black man killed by Sacramento police last week. “You don’t know what it’s like until you experience it,” Clark’s uncle, Curtis Gordon, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. “You can see it on TV, it’s totally OK to deal with those realities when it’s just through a television and they’re not in your home. It’s different now.”  Continue reading “Family of Sacramento man slain by police skeptical of change”

Courthouse News – by Adam Klasfeld

MANHATTAN (CN) – At an hour-long hearing Tuesday morning, the Second Circuit sent a loud and clear warning that New York City could face liabilities for police using sound weapons against protesters.

Whether the officer who turned on the devices will have to pay is less clear.   Continue reading “NYPD Defends Sound Cannons in Appeal of Protest Case”

Complex – by Danielle Corcione

The Lost Boys and Goonies actor Corey Feldman says he was stabbed Tuesday night by a stranger.

TMZ reports the stabbing was inflicted in the 46-year-old’s abdomen. Three men approached Feldman’s car while driving in Los Angeles‘s San Fernando Valley. Feldman had a security guard present in his own car, but the guard was distracted by the three men when another car pulled up and the attacked jumped right out.   Continue reading “Corey Feldman Stabbed in Possible Homicide Attempt”

The Organic Prepper

Recently, the news has been all abuzz with teen activists who want to take away our guns but refuse to use clear backpacks, the Facebook privacy scandal, and how someone bit Beyonce in the face. But there are three recent events that aren’t getting much press which tell us it is entirely possible that we could be headed toward World War III at worst and toward an economic collapse at best.   Continue reading “3 Recent Events That Could Send the US Hurtling Toward World War III”