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Authorities in Minnesota say a 2-year-old child is OK after tumbling from the back seat of a moving vehicle while still strapped in a car seat.

Dashcam video captured the moment the car seat and toddler rolled out of the vehicle on Monday as the vehicle turned a corner on a street in Mankato.

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Four masked men ranging in age from 19-22 were apprehended by police while trying to break into a Meah Shearim store. They were apprehended after a short chase, carrying a knife, screw driver, hammer, pepper spray, their masks and other items.

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When Sen. Elizabeth Warren took the stage earlier this month at this city’s ornate Orpheum Theatre, Tricia Currans-Sheehan posed a pointed question to the expected presidential contender.

“Why did you undergo the DNA testing and give Donald Trump more fodder to be a bully?” the Iowa college professor asked, referring to a genetic analysis the Massachusetts Democrat released last fall to rebut President Donald Trump’s repeated jabs about her Native American ancestry.

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Now that the euphoria surrounding the United States moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has passed, we are beginning to learn the price that will be paid for US President Donald Trump’s so-called “deal of the century”, his vision of a US-brokered peace agreement between Israel and the PA (Palestinian Authority).

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A senior North Korean official arrived in Beijing on Thursday, reportedly en route to the United States for talks ahead of a possible second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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Ramat Givat Zeev is expanding and now features 40 additional housing units.
The finest neighborhood built in the last decade for new immigrants is expanding.
Construction of two additional buildings, containing 40 new housing units, has been approved and, when at full capacity, will now be able to house 500 families.

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Australian police were looking Thursday for at least one attacker who killed an Israeli woman as she was walking on a city street speaking to her sister by phone.

Aiia Maasarwe, a 21-year-old student who had been studying at La Trobe University in the city of Melbourne, was slain at 12:10 a.m.

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After CNN’s Chris Cuomo condemned President Trump’s lack of response to Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) racist comments, Don Lemon shifts the responsibility back to Trump supporters, asking them, “How much money is it worth to you that you have someone who is a racist in office?”

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Checking in with Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein after his first week in office.

Just one week on the job, Assembly Member Simcha Eichenstein sat down exclusively with YWN to discuss some highly important proposed legislative matters that are expected to be voted on during the 2019 legislative session.

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Ocean County’s measles outbreak is considered to be over.

The number of cases remained at 33 since since Nov. 30 with no new confirmations for two incubation periods, or 42 days, according to Dan Regyne, the public health coordinator for the Ocean County Health Department.

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A graduate of a Chasidic Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York has received the highest grade on Israel’s difficult CPA audit exam.

Menachem Abramovitz, a Gerrer Chosid who currently lives with his family in Beit Shemesh, began studying accounting with his Rabbis’ blessings and advice.

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A day after she jumped into the presidential race from a glimmering Manhattan television studio, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand returned Wednesday to her upstate New York hometown to preview a campaign that is expected to put gender front and center.

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There is a lot of fake news out there. We get it. We do our best to get the word out about what we do and sometimes that involves news articles like this.

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On a large billboard on the Ayalon Highway, the new election campaign of the Zehut party was seen on Wednesday morning under the heading “Zehut (Identity) – for your freedom.”

In a unique and first campaign of its kind, the party campaign will describe the main ideas of Zehut on the signs.

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Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked reached an agreement with MK Miki Zohar, MK Osnat Mark and the Israel Bar Association, according to which the passing grade for the Bar Association qualification will be 60 instead of the current passing grade of 65.

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Malaysia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that the government will not budge over a ban on Israeli athletes in a para swimming competition and has decided that the country will not host any events in the future involving Israel.

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According to a new poll conducted by the Midgam Institute Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reason to be proud of his decisions up until now. His party would garner 32 seats in the election were it held today.

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President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, claimed Wednesday night that he “never said there was no collusion” between members of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian officials — but he did say that Trump himself never colluded with Russian officials.

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A grand Washington ritual became a potential casualty of the partial government shutdown Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to postpone his Jan. 29 State of the Union speech.

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On Tuesday, January 15, 2019, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu advised Iranians in Syria to get out for their own safety. Mr. Netanyahu explained that failure to leave Syria would result in an intensified Israel Air Force campaign.

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