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When Chad Johansen voted for Donald Trump in 2016, he hoped he was picking someone who could help small-business owners compete with bigger companies. But that hasn’t happened, and now the 26-year-old owner of NH iPhone Repair feels what he calls “Trumpgret.”

The Republican president has done little to address health care issues for a small employer, he said, and the Manchester man remains on edge about how Trump’s tariffs could affect his business, which employs fewer than 10 people.

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A chareidi man on Thursday won NIS 500,000 from a lottery ticket that he purchased in a Bnei Brak store, the first card that he ever bought, spending NIS 50 on the ‘Chish Gad’ scratch ticket.

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Democrat Beto O’Rourke rejoined the presidential race on Thursday following a nearly two-week pause — using a speech in his Texas hometown where a mass shooting killed 22 people to overhaul his White House bid and argue that President Donald Trump is morally unfit for a second term.

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The cabinet has decided to extend the tenure of Israel Police Acting Commissioner Moti Cohen, who assumed the post when Commissioner Roni Alshich stepped down in December 2018.

A phone poll of the cabinet ministers was conducted, and the extension of his post was approved.

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A van of Bochrim from a camp in Virginia overturned in North Carolina on Thursday night.

It happened at around 7:00PM, when a van carrying Bochrim part of Camp Chaburas Bain Hazmanim / Machaneh Richmond was involved in a crash while driving in North Carolina.

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Americans spent more at retail stores and restaurants in July, a sign that concerns over weakening economic growth and a persistent trade war that have roiled financial markets have yet to dampen consumer confidence.

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The prosecution on Thursday filed a murder indictment against a Bnei Brak resident who R”L murdered his mother on a Friday night a number of weeks ago.

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MK Moshe Arbel of Shas, an attorney by profession, led the charge to overturn the decision prohibiting the Moti Steinmetz concert with separate seating in Afula.

After the High Court of Justice on Wednesday evening overturned the Nazareth District Court decision permitting the separate seating event, the Shas MK referred to the High Court justice in an interview with Kikar Shabbos News as “The enlightened white (ashkenazi) judges”.

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Having drifted off to sleep on his living-room couch while preparing his sermons Thursday night for Tisha B’Av and Shabbat, Rabbi Raleigh Resnick was awakened at 1 a.m by a phone call from the police.

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China on Thursday threatened retaliation if Washington steps up their war over trade and technology by going ahead with planned Sept. 1 tariff hikes on additional Chinese imports.

Beijing will take unspecified “necessary countermeasures,” the Cabinet said in a one-sentence statement.

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United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center received an emergency phone call on Thursday afternoon regarding a Jet Ski that had stopped working in the middle of the Kinneret stranding two children and an adult family member.

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U.S. health officials are making a new attempt at adding graphic images to cigarette packets to discourage and Americans from lighting up. If successful, it would be the first change to U.S.

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A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.

Federal judge Royce Lamberth issued the sentence after a succession of friends and relatives requested leniency for Nicholas Slatten, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in December.

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Refuah Institute Trains Hundreds to Become Catalysts for Change in Their Communities

Refuah Institute’s unique Torah-based coaching program combines scientific methods with Torah wisdom, empowering graduates to enable others to achieve success and fulfillment in their work and life.

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MK (Blue & White) Moshe Ya’alon, who holds the third slot on the Blue & White party list, spoke out against “secular coercion”, prompted by the Moti Steinmetz concert in Afula on Wednesday night.

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Philadelphia police say at least five people were shot in the city’s Ogontz neighborhood Thursday.

Cops were called to the scene in the 5800 block of North 15th Street around 5:00 p.m.

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Yahadut Hatorah has launched its election campaign and there are already billboards around Israel showing Gedolei Yisrael, including HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita. Billboards have already been seen on the Ayalon Highway.

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The Yedidim organization has begun a nationwide campaign showing a small child saying “Mommy, daddy – don’t leave me alone!”.

The message is not to forget to take one’s child/infant out of a vehicle when parking, even for a short time, particularly now, during the summer months when a car heats up to a potentially lethal temperature in a relatively short time.

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