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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday canceled her plans to travel by commercial plane to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying President Donald Trump had caused a security risk by talking about the trip.

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President Trump came up with a new idea to make sure Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have no choice but to listen to his border wall plan.

The following was sent out by the trump campaign on Friday afternoon:

We have set a goal to send 100,000 BRICKS to their offices to prove that WALLS WORK!

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YWN is viewed each day by hundreds of thousands across our many platforms, including the YWN Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook – and for the past year – YWN has been publishing news on WhatsApp.

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President Donald Trump met with a North Korean envoy Friday as the two sides worked to resume stalled efforts to end the North’s nuclear weapons program by arranging a second summit with leader Kim Jong Un.

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The Skverer Rebbe returned from a two-week visit to Pressburg on Thursday, and was escorted home from the airport in a motorcade of around a dozen vehicles all blaring lights and sirens.

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The new IDF Chief of Staff sat in the front row of his class. He entered the military in 1982, joining the paratroopers. In officers’ training, he was voted ‘most likely to become chief of staff’.

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She imperiled his State of the Union address. He denied her a plane to visit troops abroad.

The shutdown battle between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing out as a surreal game of constitutional brinkmanship, with both flexing political powers from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue as the negotiations to end the monthlong partial government shutdown remain stalled.

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With Tu B’Shevat days away, a leading Sephardi posek HaGaon HaRav Bentzion Mutzafi instructs his followers in a letter to distance themselves from dried fruits, explaining he has learned from well-informed experts contain dangerous additives.

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The Gerrer Rebbe Shlita, who is currently in the United States, accompanying his rebbetzin who is receiving medical care in a Manhattan hospital, will be spending Shabbos in Boro Park.

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The Trump administration is weighing what could become the most serious tightening of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba in more than two decades — a move that could unleash a flurry of lawsuits against foreign companies that have invested on the island.

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Have you always dreamed of moving to an, “Out of town,” community? Do you want to make a difference in a place where every Jew counts? Norfolk, VA may be the place for you.

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The U.S. Constitution mandates in Article II, Section 3 that presidents “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”

But the Constitution offers no specifics on how that should be done.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has defended a 2012 tweet in which she accused Israel of “evil doings” and said that Israel had “hypnotized the world.”

“Those unfortunate words were the only words I could think about expressing at that moment,” Omar said in an interview aired on CNN on Wednesday night.

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U.S. long-term mortgage rates held steady this week, after falling for six straight weeks to reach their lowest levels in nine months.

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the benchmark 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage was unchanged from last week at 4.45 percent.

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The Justice Department is appealing a New York judge’s ruling stopping the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

A government lawyer filed a one-page notice of appeal Thursday in Manhattan federal court.

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Gedolei Yisroel joined lomdei Dirshu for a deeply inspiring Shabbos at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stamford Connecticut, at Dirshu’s International Convention. The overwhelming feeling throughout the Shabbos by lomdei Dirshu and their wives, was one of simcha, joy and ecstasy, thanking Hashem for a life permeated by ol Torah!

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As he continues efforts to bring all of the chareidim under one umbrella ahead of Knesset elections on April 9, 2019, Yanki Kanievsky, a grandson of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita, met with R’ Eyal Moshiach, known as the ‘Nagid HaShalom’.

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Consumer advocates and the data-hungry technology industry are drawing early battle lines in advance of an expected fight this year over what kind of federal privacy law the U.S. should have.

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Shas party officials are still concerned that party chairman, Minister Aryeh Deri, will be criminally indicted before Knesset elections on April 9, 2019 or once again, Likud will take votes from the party at the polls, a senior official in Agudas Yisrael states in response to reports that Shas may still join a united Agudas Yisrael and Degel Hatorah ticket in the race.

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Facebook said Thursday it removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news.

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