Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., lashed out at White House aide Kellyanne Conway after Conway accused her of being silent about the Sri Lanka “massacre of Christians.”

CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer initially tweeted that Conway said Ocasio-Cortez didn’t tweet anything about Saturday’s synagogue shooting, prompting Conway to correct the record and say that she was slamming the freshman congresswoman for her “silence about the Sri Lanka massacre of Christians (not Easter Worshippers” as Obama and Hillary oddly said). Try listening before spewing.”

Zelizer has since deleted his original tweet.

“I see officials who get a lot of airtime and ink, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congresswoman, who tweets many times about the mosque but never once about Sri Lanka,” said Conway appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.

“Hello Ms. Conway, On Easter I was away from tech visiting my grandmother in Puerto Rico, which continues to suffer from the White House’s incompetent disaster response,” responded Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter. “Are you trying to imply that I am less Christian? What was the point of you bringing this up on national TV?”

“I chose to use the word ‘incompetent’ when it comes to Trump’s response to Hurricane María & the 3,000 Americans who died on his watch, but that’s only because I had 280 characters,” she continued. “There are plenty of other words too: Negligent, Inept, Inhumane, Predatory. Take your pick.”

“Corrupt’ is a good one, too,” she added. “I’m curious, how do you spin ignoring and neglecting the largest mass death of people on American soil in decades, @KellyannePolls? After all, the official count of 3,075 people is much bigger than the 64 number your admin clung to for so long.”

Ocasio-Cortez called the series of bombings in Sri Lanka, which death toll has risen to 290, “horrifying.”

“Saying ‘Easter worshippers’ matters bc Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians, & to be targeted on Easter highlights how heinous the attack was – just as saying yesterday’s #SanDiego shooting was on Passover,” she tweeted.

“You are using this as an excuse to stoke suspicion around my Christianity + faith life, @KellyannePolls,” Ocasio-Cortex added. “The Sri Lanka massacre was horrifying. No one should be targeted for their religion. If you’re so moved, let’s do more to welcome immigrants fleeing religious persecution.

 

Conway was defending President Trump’s response to the summer of 2017 white nationalist rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., and his stance on hate crimes when she brought up Ocasio-Cortez.

“Whether they are Muslims in the mosque in New Zealand, whether they’re the worshipers in Charleston, South Carolina, at the AME church several years ago, whether you’re in Sutherland Springs at a Christian service, whether you’re our friends at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and now in California — we condemn it, and I’m glad that the president, as the leader of this country, is out there condemning, unequivocally, hate crimes,” she said.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks with colleagues during a State of the Union address by U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. President Donald Trump cast his fight against illegal migration to the U.S. as a moral struggle, and charged in his second State of the Union address that partisan investigations threaten economic progress under his administration. Photographer: Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Representative Nydia Velazquez, a Democrat of New York, from left, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat of New York, and Representative Judy Chu, a Democrat of California, speak prior to a State of the Union address by U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. President Donald Trump cast his fight against illegal migration to the U.S. as a moral struggle, and charged in his second State of the Union address that partisan investigations threaten economic progress under his administration. Photographer: Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, smiles as U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, delivers a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. President Donald Trump cast his fight against illegal migration to the U.S. as a moral struggle, and charged in his second State of the Union address that partisan investigations threaten economic progress under his administration. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 05: First row from left, Reps. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., are seen in the House Chamber as President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 05: First row from left, Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Alma Adams, D-N.C., pose for a group photo of House Democrats in the Capitol Visitor Center, who plan to wear ‘suffragette white’ to the State of the Union address to show solidarity for women’s agendas on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)




“He called it a hate crime, I think before the officials had in California. And we have to speak out about it; we have to be honest about it, and we have to condemn hate in all of its forms.”

“Was his response perfect?” asked “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper.

“That is darn-near perfection,” said Conway, “when you’re calling out KKK, neo-Nazis and you’re saying there were people there who hadn’t signed up for that. I think anytime a president is willing to condemn people who hate other people based on their race or their religion, it’s a great day for America and that’s what he did and he did it several times.”

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The rabbi who heroically survived the deadly shooting at Chabad of Poway on Saturday addressed members of the media and offered words of courage and inspiration. Speaking in front of Chabad of Poway on Sunday afternoon near San Diego, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said, “We need to battle darkness with light,” and thanked President Trump for giving him a personal phone call following the fatal shooting.

“I see a sight that is indescribable,” the rabbi recalled of running into the gunman. “Here is a young man with a rifle, pointing right at me. And I look at him. He has sunglasses on. I couldn’t see his eyes. I couldn’t see his soul. I froze.” Goldstein ended up losing a couple of fingers in the shooting, raising his bandaged hands to the camera throughout his press conference.

Police say the suspect, John Earnest, 19, opened fire on worshippers celebrating the last day of Passover at Chabad of Poway, leaving one woman dead and three others injured. The woman who was killed has been identified as Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, who friends said was shot while trying to protect the rabbi. She was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.

“For those of us who know Lori, she is a person of unconditional love,” Goldstein said. “I have known her for close to 25 years and she was a pioneer member of our congregation. She used to work for Wells Fargo … and she helped secure us the loan for [the synagogue]. She was the one who always went out of her way for those in need.”

“I walk into the lobby and I see Laurie laying on the floor unconscious,” the rabbi recounted. “And her dear husband, Dr. Howard Kay, who’s like a brother to me, is trying to resuscitate her and he faints, and he’s lying on the floor there next to his wife. And then their daughter Hannah comes out screaming, ‘Daddy, Mommy what’s going on?’ It’s the most heart wrenching sight I could have seen. I was frozen in time.”

Mourners and well wishers leave flowers at a make-shift memorial across the street from the Chabad of Poway Synagogue on Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif., one day after a teenage gunman opened fire, killing one person and injuring three others including the rabbi as worshippers marked the final day of Passover, authorities said.

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The shooting occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning, when Earnest allegedly entered Chabad of Poway and opened fire on worshippers with what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said Saturday. After engaging in a firefight with an off-duty Border Patrol agent, Earnest fled the scene and later called police to turn himself in, Gore said. 

“Miraculously, just miraculously, the gun jammed,” Goldstein said of Saturday’s attack. “After the shooter left, this terrorist left, I turn around to assess the situation … I said ‘I gotta do something’ — I got up on a chair, right there and I looked at our congregation and I said ‘We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall, we will not let anyone or anything take us down. Terrorism like this will not take us down. We just came from Passover at the savior table. We sang the song that God has protected us, that every generation they rise up against us but God will protect us. Yesterday this horrific terrible event that occurred here in my own interpretation, Laurie took the bullet for all of us, she died to protect all of us. She didn’t deserve to die.”

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein seen during a press conference Sun., April 28, 2019.

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Goldstein suggested that the United States possible take time to mandate moments of silence before each school day, so students can reflect on what makes life meaningful. 

“How does a 19 year old have the audacity the sickness, the hatred to publicize such anti-Semitism in his manifesto?” the rabbi said Sunday night. “How does he come here to our house of worship and do what he did? Perhaps we need to go back a little earlier and think about what are we teaching our children? What are we educating our children? We need to perhaps think about reintroducing in our public school system a moment of silence where children can start the day pausing and thinking, ‘Why am I created? Why am I here? And what am I going to do?'”

“It could’ve been a much worse massacre … we need to battle darkness with light, no matter how dark the world is we need to think of a little bit of light pushes away a lot of darkness,” Goldstein said. “A lot of light will push away a lot more. And the Rabbi would say we all need to teach everyone, we need to do random acts of kindness, we need to tilt the scale. There’s so much darkness now in the world but you and I have the ability to change.”

Rabbi Golstein said President Trump personally called him during his recovery period yesterday, offering support. Goldstein said he and the Mr. Trump spoke for over 10 minutes.

The mayor of the California city where a gunman opened fire at a synagogue Saturday called the shooting “an affront to humanity” that made him “sick to my stomach.” 

“This is an affront to our community and an affront to humanity for this to happen,” Steve Vaus, the mayor of Poway, California, said in an interview Sunday on CBSN. “Hate has no place in any community, least of all a community like Poway.”

Memorial grows for California synagogue shooting victims

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House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler has subpoenaed the Justice Department to provide an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. | Carolyn Kaster/AP File Photo

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The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is warning Attorney General William Barr not to try to dictate the terms of his testimony on the Russia investigation this week.

“The witness is not going to tell the committee how to conduct its hearing, period,” the chairman, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), told CNN on Sunday.

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Barr is scheduled to testify to the Judiciary Committee on Thursday about special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report on the investigation, a redacted version of which was released earlier this month. He is also expected to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Nadler wants to allow each committee member a five-minute round of questioning. A key point of contention has arisen over Nadler’s wanting to allow for another round of questioning of 30 minutes for each party’s committee counsels. The chairman also proposed that the panel go into closed session to discuss the redacted sections of the report.

Barr has rejected both proposals, according to CNN, which cited an unidentified committee source.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, said Nadler’s proposed structure for the hearing was “not unprecedented.”

“It is not up to Attorney General Barr to tell our committee how to operate, and will I be puzzled if he actually decides not to show,” Dean said Sunday on “CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield.”

If Barr doesn’t appear on Thursday, Dean said, the committee is ready to “fully use our subpoena power.”

“The chairman has subpoena power, and we’ll have to go to a court of law and either hold him in contempt or have him come in, but I hope that cooler heads prevail,” Dean said.

Nadler has subpoenaed the Justice Department to provide an unredacted version of Mueller’s report, along with its underlying grand jury evidence and testimony, by May 1. He also sent a letter to Mueller asking the special counsel to testify before the Judiciary Committee by May 23.

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A suspect wanted by police in connection with seven homicides in northern Sumner County on Saturday has been taken into custody, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI).

Authorities located six homicide victims at a home in the 1100-block of Charles Brown Road near Westmoreland and one victim at a home in the 1500-block of Luby Brown Road, according to the TBI.

During the course of the investigation, authorities identified 25-year-old Michael Cummins as a suspect in both cases.

A coordinated search by law enforcement agencies from across the region eventually located Cummins in a creek bed approximately one mile from the first crime scene.

When Sumner County SWAT team members arrived, the situation escalated and resulted in at least one officer shooting Cummins in the leg, according to a TBI spokesman. Cummins was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one else was injured during the arrest.

Investigators are still working to determine Cummins’ relationships with the victims, according to the TBI.

No additional details about the homicides, including the identities of the victims, have been released.



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“What President Trump did here was completely cooperate in an investigation, a million documents, let everybody that the special counsel wanted to talk to be interviewed,” he said, although Trump refused to be interviewed by Mueller.

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Authorities say seven people have been shot, at least one fatally, in Baltimore.

Police department spokeswoman Chakia Fennoy said authorities received a call shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday reporting that multiple people had been shot.

Fennoy said one of the victims has died but that she had no information about the conditions of the others.

The shooting happened on a street in the western part of the city.

Fennoy says she has no immediate information on what prompted the shooting or of any suspect or suspects.

According to local media reports, the shooting happened while people were gathered for a cookout.

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(CNN)Gunfire shattered a neighborhood cookout in West Baltimore early Sunday night, leaving at least one person dead and seven injured, police said.

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    April 28 at 6:53 PM

    Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was preparing for his sermon during services Saturday morning, a series of ceremonies on the final day of Passover, when he walked into his synagogue’s banquet hall and heard the deafening bang.

    Only moments before, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, his friend of two decades and a pioneering congregant at Chabad of Poway, had stopped the rabbi to ask what time Yizkor would begin, a seasonal prayer meant to celebrate and remember those who have died. She and her husband were there with their 22-year-old daughter. They wanted to honor Kaye’s mother.

    “11:30,” the rabbi replied.

    So when he heard the bang, Goldstein thought Kaye may have fallen, or that perhaps a table had toppled. When he turned to look, though, he saw not Kaye, but a man wearing sunglasses and holding an assault rifle.

    “I couldn’t see his eyes,” the rabbi recalled later. “I couldn’t see his soul.”

    Soon there were more bangs moving in his direction, which Goldstein said he realized were gunshots. The rabbi raised his hands and bullets badly mangled his fingers. Shrapnel injured two others, both Israeli nationals, before the shooter’s gun “miraculously jammed,” the rabbi said. A 19-year-old man, identified by authorities as John Earnest, was chased from the synagogue and fled in a car, witnesses said. He was eventually arrested.

    Goldstein, bleeding badly from his hands, herded a group of young children outside, including his 4-year-old granddaughter. He made his way back into the banquet hall, where he finally found Kaye.

    She was lying on the ground, unconscious, he said. Beside her was her husband, a physician who had tried to save her but fainted. The couple’s daughter emerged, screaming.

    “It was the most heart-wrenching sight I could have seen,” Goldstein said. “I was frozen in time.”

    Ultimately, the rabbi and the Israeli nationals survived their wounds. Kaye did not.

    “In my own interpretation, Lori took the bullet for all of us. She died to protect all of us,” Goldstein said at a news conference Sunday afternoon. “This is Lori. This is her legacy, and her legacy will continue. It could have been so much worse.”

    Just weeks before, Kaye and her husband had flown to New York to celebrate the wedding of Goldstein’s daughter. And she had been there for the rabbi decades ago, too, when he wanted to build his house of worship and needed financial support. She helped him secure a loan.

    In her honor, and to combat anti-Semitism, the rabbi called on everyone to attend synagogue next week. “We need to fill up those rooms, we need to show them that terrorism and evil will never prevail,” he said. “Let’s fill up the synagogue, let’s stand tall, lets dance together.”

    In a Facebook post later published in the Jewish Journal, Audrey Jacobs wrote that Kaye was “a jewel of our community a true Eshet Chayil, a Woman of Valor.”

    “You were always running to do a mitzvah (good deed) and generously gave tzedaka (charity) to everyone,” Jacobs wrote.

    The third shooting victim, Almog Peretz, was visiting from Israel. He was attending the Chabad synagogue with his family, who moved to San Diego eight years ago from the town of Sderot, along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, to escape the onslaught of rocket fire there.

    Peretz, who still lives in Israel, told the local TV station Channel 12 that dodging rocket fire has become instinctual — and that those instincts helped him flee the bullets Saturday morning.

    “A person with a big rifle, like an M16, entered the synagogue and started shooting everywhere,” Peretz told Channel 12 from his hospital bed. “At first we thought the ceiling had collapsed, but then I turned around and saw he was aiming his weapon at me.”

    There were children next to him, Peretz said, so he took his three nieces and another girl and rushed them to a building in the back of the campus. As he scooped up one of the girls, the gunman fired toward Peretz, he said, hitting him in the leg.

    One of Peretz’s nieces, Noya Dahan, 9, was injured in the face and leg by shrapnel and was treated at a hospital, her father told CNN.

    “We’re shocked, it’s a little bit scary,” Israel Dahan said. “We’re all over the place.”

    The family moved to the United States nearly a decade ago to escape violence and worship in peace. Then, a few years ago, their home was spray-painted with swastikas, Dahan told CNN. Now, the shooting.

    Dahan told CNN that his children asked him Saturday, “Why are we staying here?”

    At the news conference Sunday afternoon, the rabbi stood before reporters with his hands wrapped in bright blue bandages. The index finger on his right hand was missing, a permanent reminder he’ll have of the shooting, he said. He thanked the mayor of Poway and the sheriff’s department, and he thanked President Trump, too, for a 15-minute phone call that he said made him feel supported.

    Then the rabbi took the opportunity, before a captive audience, to deliver the sermon that gunfire cut short Saturday morning.

    “The prophecy of Isaiah,” he said, “is that the world is going to see a better day.”

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    Source Article from https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/chabad-poway-lori-kaye-killed-protecting-rabbi-poway-chabad.html

    Mr. Chernow described Hamilton as “an immigrant who arrived, thank God, before the country was full.” He noted that John Adams, who took steps to outlaw criticism of the government, failed to earn a second term. “Campaigns against the press don’t get your face carved into the rocks of Mount Rushmore,” he said, “for when you chip away at the press, you chip away at our democracy.” He concluded his remarks by quoting Mark Twain: “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

    A year ago, Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, stormed out in the middle of Ms. Wolf’s raucous set. On Saturday, he stuck around to the end, though he stopped short of endorsing Mr. Chernow’s remarks. “I had a lot of college professors who said the same thing,” Mr. Schlapp, whose wife, Mercedes, is a top White House adviser, said as he left the Hilton ballroom.

    Another Trump associate in attendance gave better marks. “It was perfectly spot-on for the time and for where we are in the world,” Gary Cohn, the president’s former chief economic adviser, said afterward. “It sort of hit the spot.”

    The writer and director Judd Apatow defended Ms. Wolf last year. But on Sunday, he praised Mr. Chernow’s performance as “a refreshing new approach.”

    “On the surface, one might think it is a safe choice, a retreat,” Mr. Apatow wrote in an email. “But having someone who actually reads and understands the lessons of history, as opposed to our president, makes a very strong, even aggressive statement about the dangers of having a president with no grasp of history or the true spirit of our country.”

    Once a high point of the Washington social calendar, the dinner has lost some of its glamour since Mr. Trump came to town. Hollywood agencies still threw parties the night before, but the big celebrity attraction this year was the actor Michael Kelly, who played Doug Stamper on the now-canceled political drama “House of Cards.” Sean Spicer, the former press secretary, showed up to an event with a camera crew from “Extra,” his current employer.

    At a charity brunch on Saturday hosted by the Washington doyenne Tammy Haddad, Jay Leno was the featured guest — and even he seemed unimpressed. “We’ve pretty much reached the bottom of the barrel here,” the former “Tonight Show” host quipped of his appearance. Mr. Leno’s next joke, which compared the event’s “spring garden” dress code to a feminine hygiene product, did not exactly kill.

    Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/business/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner-ron-chernow.html

    Attorney General William Barr is reportedly threatening to pull out of a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee this week.

    A committee source told CNN that Barr objects to the format planned for Thursday’s hearing, which is focused on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., wants two rounds of questions, one for members and a second in which each counsel for the Democratic Party and Republican Party would have the opportunity to ask questions. He also proposed a closed session to discuss redacted sections in Mueller’s report.

    Barr objects to the added sessions and the closed session. The Justice Department has signaled that Barr may not show up unless Nadler backs off.

    “Discussions are still ongoing, to be picked back up tomorrow,” a Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner. “Our position is that it’s a congressional hearing, therefore members do the questioning.”

    Nadler told CNN that Barr would not “dictate the format of the Judiciary Committee.”

    Barr is also scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, which is still expected to happen.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-warns-nadler-that-barr-wont-stand-for-protracted-hearing-report

    A doctor whose wife was killed in Saturday’s synagogue attack had started emergency CPR on her — unaware of who he was helping, according to a family friend.

    Shooting victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, had been with her husband celebrating Passover at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San Diego when authorities say gunman John T. Earnest, 19, burst in and opened fire with “an AR-type weapon.”

    Unaware that his wife had been fatally wounded when she leaped in front of Brooklyn-born Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, saving his life, her physician-hubby raced over to help victims of the bloodbath.

    He started emergency CPR on one woman — unaware she was his wife, family friend Dr. Roneet Lev told The San Diego Union-Tribune.

    The doctor fainted when he realized the victim was his spouse, Lev said.

    Lev said Gilbert-Kaye, the mom of a 22-year-old daughter, had gone to the synagogue also to say Kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead, for her own mother who had recently passed away.

    “The irony is people will be saying it for her now,” Lev, director of emergency operations at San Diego’s Scripps Mercy Hospital, told the paper.

    “God picked her to die to send a message because she’s such an incredible person.

    “He took her for a higher purpose to send this message to fight anti-Semitism.”

    Earnest was arrested after the shooting, which also injured three others, including the rabbi and an 8-year-old girl.

    An online manifesto suggests he was inspired by the mass shooting at a New Zealand mosque that killed 50 Muslims on March 15.

    Source Article from https://nypost.com/2019/04/28/doctor-performed-cpr-on-synagogue-victim-not-knowing-it-was-his-wife/

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    (CNN)Rescuers are trying to reach a group of men trapped inside a cave in southwest Virginia who are battling exhaustion and threats of hypothermia.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/28/us/virginia-cave-rescue/index.html

    Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-fed-pick-stephen-moore-embarrassed-past-writings-n999271

    Top-performing fund manager who takes big risks says buy tech and…

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    A shooting at a synagogue outside San Diego where worshippers were celebrating the last day of Passover sent four people to the hospital Saturday, but the extent of their injuries was not clear, officials said. (April 27)
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    The woman killed during Saturday’s San Diego synagogue shooting stepped in front of the bullets aimed at her longtime friend and rabbi as he raced to evacuate children, according to her friends and authorities.

    Authorities said Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was killed at Chabad of Poway when a nursing student opened fire with an AR-style rifle. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein suffered defensive wounds to his hands but survived the attack and then gave a sermon to the huddled congregation before going to the hospital, Audrey Jacobs, a friend, said in a Facebook post.

    Kaye leaves behind a husband and adult daughter.

    “Your final good deed was taking the bullets for Rabbi Mendel Goldstein to save his life,” Jacobs wrote in a post she said had been approved by the other victims and their families. “Tragically the rabbi was still shot in the hand and he gave a sermon telling everyone to stay strong.”

    Kaye’s husband, a doctor, was with her at the synagogue and rushed to help the victims, not knowing one was his wife, Dr. Roneet Lev, a family friend, told the San Diego Union Tribune.  

    “God picked her to die to send a message because she’s such an incredible person,” Lev, who is the director of emergency medicine at San Diego-based Scripps Mercy Hospital, told the Union Tribune. “He took her for a higher purpose to send this message to fight anti-Semitism.”

    Goldstein was in the synagogue’s banquet hall when he heard loud noises and became “face-to-face with this murderer, this terrorist” when he turned around, he said during a phone interview on “Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist.” Goldstein said he put his hands up to protect himself and lost one of his fingers in the shooting.

    Goldstein said Kaye was one of his oldest friends and earliest supporters of the Chabad of Poway. He said he was in the synagogue’s banquet hall when he heard a loud noise and turned, thinking Kaye had fallen.

    “As soon as he saw me, he started to shoot towards me and that’s when I put my hands up and my fingers got blown away,” he told TODAY. “Then he continued on and killed Lori Kaye right there on the spot.”

    Also injured in the shooting were Noya Dahan, 8, and her uncle, Almog Peretz, 34, who was visiting from Israel, authorities said.

    More: What we know about the California synagogue shooting

    Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, Naftali Bennett, on Sunday morning called Kaye a hero, the Jewish Press reported: “She sacrificed her own life, throwing herself in the path of the murderer’s bullets to save the life of the Rabbi. But it is clear that such heroism and good deeds are not only characteristic of dear Lori in death, but this is the way she lived her life – at the heart of her community, constantly doing charity and good deeds for those in need.”

    And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for an end to anti-Semitism. “I condemn the abhorrent attack on a synagogue in California; this is an attack on the heart of the Jewish people,” he posted on Twitter. “We send condolences to the family of Lori Gilbert-Kaye and our best wishes for a quick recovery to the wounded.”

    More: ‘Face to face with this murderer’: Security boosted at mosques, synagogues after shooting; rabbi recalls terror

    Witnesses said it appeared the shooter’s gun jammed during the attack. An off-duty Border Patrol agent attending services shot at the suspect as he fled, hitting his car. The suspect surrendered to police nearby.

    “Anti-Semitism is real and is deadly. Hate crimes are real and are deadly. Lori would have wanted all of us to stand up to hate. She was a warrior of love and she will be missed,” Jacobs posted. “May Lori’s memory be a blessing.”

     

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    Attorney General Bill Barr will be a no-show at a long-awaited hearing on Thursday before the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee based on current negotiations over his appearance, a source on the committee told Fox News on Sunday.

    The emerging spat comes after Barr has endured withering attacks from congressional Democrats, who have outright accused him of sacrificing his integrity to appease President Trump. Barr shepherded the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report in recent weeks, and he has largely become a punching bag for progressives frustrated that Mueller’s probe found no evidence to back up claims that the Trump team colluded with Russians.

    Fox News has learned that Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., wants to have Judiciary Committee staff — rather than members of Congress — question Barr on his handling of Mueller’s report. But DOJ officials say members should conduct the inquiry.

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    “The attorney general agreed to appear before Congress; therefore Congress does the questioning,” a DOJ official told Fox News.

    Justice officials also told the committee that they are opposed to the panel’s plan to go into a closed session if members want to discuss redacted portions of Mueller’s report, a Democratic senior committee aide told The Associated Press.

    U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    Discussions about Thursday’s hearing are ongoing, and expected to resume again Monday. Barr is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and the House panel on Thursday. The GOP-led Senate committee is expected to have normal rounds of member questioning.

    “Attorney General Barr wasn’t asked to testify before the committee—he offered,” a spokesperson for House Judiciary Committee Republicans told Fox News. “He provided the Mueller report voluntarily. He invited Democrat leaders to view the less redacted report in person. Yet the only thing, apparently, that will satisfy Democrats, who refuse to read the less redacted report, is to have staff pinch hit when a cabinet-level official appears before us.”

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    The spokesperson added: “What actual precedent is there for our committee making such demands of a sitting attorney general as part of our oversight duties? The attorney general isn’t a fact witness, and this committee’s investigations—as Democrat leadership reminds us daily—don’t constitute impeachment, so Democrats have yet to prove their demands anything but abusive and illogical in light of the transparency and good faith the attorney general has shown our committee.”

    It is unusual for committee counsels to question a witness. But committees can generally make their own rules, and other panels have made similar exceptions. In a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year, for example, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee hired an outside prosecutor to question a witness who had accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

    At a fiery House hearing earlier this month — prior to the release of the complete Mueller report with only limited redactions — Barr faced a grilling from Democrats, who said it was “unacceptable” that he had released a 4-page summary of Mueller’s findings.

    FILE – In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, White House counsel Don McGahn listens as Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed McGahn for testimony following the release of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

    The new dispute comes as tensions have escalated sharply between House Democrats and the Trump administration over full access to Mueller’s report and government witnesses who have defied congressional subpoenas to testify. Democrats have been eagerly anticipating the hearing with Barr as they try to build on Mueller’s findings with their own investigations into the president.

    TRUMP THROWS GAUNTLET: ‘NO REASON’ TO HONOR DEMS’ ‘VERY PARTISAN’ SUBPOENAS

    House Democrats have subpoenaed the Justice Department for the unredacted version of the Mueller report and underlying material gathered from the investigation. In response, the Justice Department has said they will make the full report, minus grand jury material (which legally must be withheld), available to a limited group of members — an offer that Democrats have so far refused. The dispute could eventually end up in court.

    Democrats have criticized Barr for drawing his own conclusion that Trump did not obstruct justice after Mueller found he couldn’t exonerate the president on that point, and punted to Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said Barr is involved in a “staggering public effort” by the Trump administration to put a positive face on Mueller’s findings.

    Nadler has also invited Mueller to testify and subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn. McGahn was a vital witness for Mueller in the report, which recounted the president’s outrage over the Mueller investigation and his efforts to curtail it. The White House has asserted it will fight the McGahn subpoena.

    Trump, for his part, told Fox News last week that he didn’t assert executive privilege to shield any aspect of the Mueller report — and that now, it’s time to move on.

    Even liberal comedian Bill Maher seemed to agree on that point, telling Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that Democrats appear to be “stalking” Trump by fixating on a discredited narrative that his campaign colluded with Russians.

    Meanwhile, a former White House staffer who was at risk of being held in contempt of Congress has agreed to testify, potentially averting a separate showdown between Democrats and the White House.

    The House Oversight Committee has scheduled an interview for Wednesday with Carl Kline, who worked as the White House’s personnel security director.

    The panel subpoenaed Kline after a former subordinate told the panel that dozens of Trump administration officials were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds. Kline defied a subpoena to appear, prompting Democrats to threaten contempt action against him. The White House then said Kline could appear voluntarily on May 1 to discuss “personnel security policies and practices.”

    Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings suggested contempt action against Kline is still possible if he refuses to answer questions.

    Fox News’ Mike Emanuel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    (CNN)When a gunman opened fire in a synagogue in California, killing one and injuring three others, Lori Kaye jumped between the shooter and the rabbi.

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      • Southwest Airlines and FAA officials overseeing the carrier never knew that Boeing turned off a standard safety feature on its 737 Max jets when Southwest brought the model into its fleet, reported Andy Pastzor of The Wall Street Journal.
      • FAA officials contemplated grounding Southwest’s Max fleet on two separate occasions, but both times, the discussions were quickly dropped, according to a new WSJ investigation.
      • Boeing has yet to specifically address why the feature was turned off, but in March, it unveiled a software fix and updated training procedures for the 737 Max.
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      Southwest Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials who monitor the carrier were unaware that a standard safety feature, designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors, on Boeing 737 Max jets was turned off when Southwest began flying the model in 2017, reported Andy Pastzor of the Wall Street Journal.

      In earlier 737 models, the safety feature alerted pilots when a sensor called the “angle-of-attack vane” incorrectly conveyed the pitch of the plane’s nose, according to Pastzor. In the Max, it functions as such while also signaling when the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) — a new automated system linked to both October’s Lion Air crash and March’s Ethiopian Airlines crash — could misfire; but these alerts were only enabled if carriers purchased additional safety features, Pastzor wrote.

      Like other airlines flying the Max, Southwest didn’t learn about the change until the aftermath of the Lion Air crash, Pastzor reported.

      According to WSJ’s investigation, which reviewed documents, the carrier then asked Boeing to reactivate the alerts on its Max fleet, causing FAA inspectors to contemplate grounding the Max fleet until it was determined whether or not pilots needed additional training — but the idea was quickly dropped.

      Once the feature was reactivated, some FAA officials again considered grounding Southwest’s 737 Max fleet to determine whether pilots needed new training — and again, the discussions, which happened via email, were dismissed after a few days, Pastkor reporter.

      Read more: Boeing just unveiled how it’s going to fix the 737 Max that was grounded after 2 fatal crashes in recent months

      Boeing has yet to specifically address why the feature was turned off, but in March, it unveiled a software fix and updated training procedures for the 737 Max, reported Business Insider’s Benjamin Zhang.

      Most of the updates will be to the MCAS, which will “provide additional layers of protection if the AOA sensors provide erroneous data,” Boeing said in a release. The updates are also geared toward reducing the workload on pilots during emergency situations, Zhang reported.

      “Boeing will also change the training process for pilots to add increased focus on the understanding of the 737 Max control system, MCAS functionality and related crew procedures, and the associated software changes,” Zhang wrote, adding that the training will also highlight differences between the previous generation 737 NG and the new 737 Max.

      As of March, Boeing was still working with regulators to complete the certification of the software and training updates.

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      Author and historian Ron Chernow speaks at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

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      Separate events held Saturday evening in the nation’s capital and a Wisconsin arena painted two divergent pictures of the press.

      In Washington, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, an annual comedic event, was light on jokes and replete instead with warnings about the consequences of attacks on the free press.

      Meanwhile, President Trump rallied supporters in Green Bay, touting economic growth and repeating familiar calls of “fake news” to a cheering crowd.

      He also disparaged special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, mocked Democratic presidential contenders Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and boasted about the media presence at his rally. “Can you imagine Sleepy Joe, Crazy Bernie. … Can you imagine any of those people up here doing what I’m doing?” he said.

      “I think, Pocahontas, she’s finished, she’s out, she’s gone,” he said as well, using his preferred nickname for Warren.

      The president’s decision to skip the glitzy, annual event in favor of a campaign rally came as no surprise. Trump has avoided the dinner every year since he became president, breaking with more than three decades of tradition.

      And while some White House officials had planned to attend as guests of the various news organizations that the event honors, the administration announced last Tuesday that it would completely boycott the celebration.

      Olivier Knox, WHCA president, asked attendees of the dinner to turn their attention to journalists who are “suffering for their craft” around the world and to advocate for the release of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist kidnapped while reporting in Syria in 2012.

      “This is not [Trump’s] dinner — it is ours,” said Knox. “And it should stay ours.”

      In another break with tradition, the evening’s keynote address was delivered by historian Ron Chernow. The dinner has typically featured a comedian cracking jokes at the expense of the president, who has also usually offered up his own roast of other politicians and the media.

      The change in format followed a controversial performance last year by comedian Michelle Wolf, who faced criticism for her remarks — mostly about the Trump administration — which were called “harsh” and “risqué.”

      Knox said he had asked Chernow to speak as part of an effort to focus the event more on journalism itself. The WHCA has previously faced criticism of the event, including that it seems extravagant, excessively cozy with the White House and removed from its stated purpose of supporting scholarships, as Politico reports.

      In his speech on Saturday night, Chernow narrated the history of journalists in the White House — touching on everything from how the press once shielded the private lives of presidents to Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in elevating female correspondents — as he made a case for the free press and the First Amendment.

      “Relations between presidents and the press are inevitably tough, almost always adversarial, but they don’t need to be steeped in venom,” he said.

      Chernow also offered a defense of comedians, quoting comedian Will Rogers in saying that the United States has arrived at a point where “people are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as a joke.” In that spirit, he cracked more than a few jokes to varying degrees of success, the subjects of which included the Mueller report, Alexander Hamilton (“an immigrant who arrived, thank God, before the country was full”) and his own speech (a “20-minute sedative” for the evening).

      President Trump disparaged Democratic presidential candidates and the news media during a rally in Green Bay, Wis., on Saturday.

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      Shortly before Chernow and Knox spoke about public mistrust of journalism and a tide of misinformation, a crowd at the president’s rally in Wisconsin chanted “CNN sucks” as the president joked about the network.

      “I’ll tell you, you know what sucks? Their ratings suck,” he said. “Because people don’t believe them.”

      Trump spent much of the night promoting the U.S. economy and talking about “unfair” trade practices from countries like India and China. He pointed to the 3.2% annualized GDP growth in the first quarter that showed the economy gaining steam — and cited job gains in Wisconsin, a state that served as a tipping point in the 2016 presidential election.

      He also discussed immigration and the detention of undocumented migrants, telling the crowd that “illegal immigrants” arriving at the border have placed “a massive strain on communities and schools and hospitals and public resources, like nobody’s ever seen before.”

      At one point he brought press secretary Sarah Sanders on stage and showered her with praise. Sanders told the crowd she was proud to work for the president.

      “Last year, this night, I was at a slightly different event, not quite the best welcome, so this is an amazing honor,” she said, referring to her attendance at the 2018 WHCA dinner, where she was the subject of several of Wolf’s controversial cracks.

      Trump also took time at the start of his rally to offer condolences to the victims of Saturday’s synagogue shooting near San Diego and to denounce anti-Semitism. “Our entire nation mourns the loss of life, prays for the wounded and stands in solidarity with the Jewish community,” he said.

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