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• Barr Says He's Starting an Inquiry Into ‘Spying’ on Trump Campaign

  10-04-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  “I think spying did occur,” Barr told a Senate Appropriations panel on Wednesday.The comments, confirming a report by Bloomberg News, indicate that Barr is looking into allegations that Republican lawmakers have been pursuing for more than a year -- that the investigation into President Donald Trump and possible collusion with Russia was tainted at the start by anti-Trump bias in the FBI and Justice Department.
  
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• JetBlue Airways announces flights to London from New York, Boston: 5 things to know

  10-04-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The airline plans to begin service between New York and Boston and London in 2021. Several airlines already offer flights on the route.
  
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• Lyft shares hit new low as Uber IPO chatter revs up

  10-04-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Shares of recently listed Lyft Inc fell to a fresh low and closed the day down almost 11 percent on Wednesday on news that rival Uber Technologies Inc was close to filing its own initial public offering.In ride-hailing company Lyft's ninth day of trading its shares clocked their lowest closing price since going public on March 29.Reuters reported late Tuesday that rival Uber would seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in an IPO, and file the offering with regulators as soon as Thursday.
  
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• What's actually going on in that cryptic black hole photo?

  10-04-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have now seen the unseeable." These were the words spoken by astrophysicist Avery Broderick on Wednesday morning, one of some 200 scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration who captured humanity's first image of a black hole — a zone in space so gravitationally powerful that whatever light falls in can't possibly escape. "Black holes are gravity run amok," said Broderick. Yet, we now have a picture of "the unseeable." More precisely, we can see a prominent ring of super-he
  
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• What's actually going on in that cryptic black hole photo?

  10-04-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have now seen the unseeable."These were the words spoken by astrophysicist Avery Broderick on Wednesday morning, one of some 200 scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration who captured humanity's first image of a black hole -- a zone in space so gravitationally powerful that whatever light falls in can't possibly escape. "Black holes are gravity run amok," said Broderick.Yet, we now have a picture of "the unseeable."More precisely, we can see a prominent ring of super-heated gas
  
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• Yahoo to pay $117.5M in latest settlement of massive breach

  10-04-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential restitution in a legal settlement valued at $117.5 million.
  
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• Texas debating bill allowing death penalty against women who have abortions

  10-04-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The bill, titled the "Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act," was originally introduced two years ago but failed to gain traction.
  
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• Trump news: President admits he has not even read Mueller report, as key aide branded a 'scumbag'

  10-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has told reporters he had not seen or read a report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Speaking on the White House lawn before departing for a trip to Texas, the president told media “I won” while claiming he did not care to read the conclusion from the special counsel’s findings. His comments arrived as Attorney General William Barr arrived on Capitol Hill for another day of testimony in
  
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• Nipsey Hussle memorial: Rules, schedule and procession route

  10-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Updated details have been released for the Nipsey Hussle memorial service scheduled for Thursday at Staples Center and the public procession route afterward.
  
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• Barr Sounds More and More Like Trump’s Roy Cohn

  10-04-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/ShutterstockAttorney General William Barr’s testimony before Congress on Wednesday highlighted the inherent contradiction in his letter about Robert Mueller’s investigation. The problem is not that Mueller did not make a charging decision about obstruction. The real problem is that Mueller did make a charging decision about conspiracy.Barr was asked questions about Mueller’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia rel
  
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• Attorney general says his Mueller report redactions may not cover President Trump

  10-04-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  William Barr says information on "public office holders" is not intended to be withheld from the released report, Bernie Sanders announces Medicare for All Act.
  
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• Owe the IRS? Here Are Your Options.

  10-04-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s never good news to find out you owe taxes to Uncle Sam. It’s even worse to find out you can’t afford to make the payment. Tax experts say that the most important thing to do if you owe the I...
  
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• Nielsen opens new headquarters on her final day

  10-04-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is welcoming employees to their new campus on her last day on the job. (April 10)
  
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• Ford Recalls Trucks Over Faulty Engine Block Heater

  10-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford Recalls Trucks Again Over Faulty Engine-Block HeaterFord is recalling more than 130,000 pickup trucks to repair components that could have been broken as the result of another recent recal...
  
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• Wall Street ekes out gains as investors shrug off Fed minutes

  10-04-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The blue-chip Dow, held back by industrial stocks, squeaked into positive territory at the closing bell.The three major U.S. indexes were relatively unchanged following the release of the Fed's minutes, which reaffirmed the central bank's patience regarding future interest rate hikes."The Fed notes were kind of a nothing, exactly what the market was expecting" said Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco.
  
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• Sanders unveils 'Medicare For All' bill backed by 2020 rivals

  10-04-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  US Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled his updated "Medicare for all" plan Wednesday with several rival Democratic presidential hopefuls jumping onboard, spotlighting his 2020 campaign call for a national health insurance program."The American people want -- and we are going to deliver -- a Medicare for all, single-payer system," Sanders said at a Capitol Hill press conference."Together we are going to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America, our great country, being the
  
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• Trump's Homeland Security purge continues as acting ICE director leaves his post

  10-04-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s purge has continued at the Department of Homeland Security with yet another top official’s apparent removal being announced this week. Ron Vitiello, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would be leaving his post by Friday, a department spokesperson confirmed. The longtime border official’s nomination to oversee the agency was withdrawn last week as the president and his administration sought to clamp down on an increase in undocumented immi
  
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• Sanders relaunches 'Medicare for All' with Dems divided

  10-04-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a revamped "Medicare for All" plan on Wednesday, highlighting a divide among Democrats over one of their bedrock 2020 campaign issues — the future of health care in America.
  
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• The Latest: Ohio heartbeat abortion ban heads to governor

  10-04-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on an Ohio bill to ban abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat (all times local):
  
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• Netanyahu win gives US peace plan 'better chance:' Trump

  10-04-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election victory improved the chances of a forthcoming US peace plan, despite deep skepticism from the Palestinians.Trump, who had enthusiastically backed the right-wing premier's bid for a fifth mandate, said that he telephoned Netanyahu to offer congratulations as results gave Netanyahu a narrow parliamentary majority."The fact that Bibi won, I think we'll see some pretty good action in terms of peace," Trum
  
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• States pushing near-bans on abortion, targeting Roe v. Wade

  10-04-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Emboldened by the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, anti-abortion lawmakers and activists in numerous states are pushing near-total bans on the procedure in a deliberate frontal attack on Roe v. Wade.
  
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• Candace Owens fumes at Rep. Ted Lieu's use of her Hitler comments

  10-04-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  "I think it's pretty apparent that believes that black people are stupid," Owens said in response to Lieu playing a clip of her comment on Hitler.
  
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• 'We have seen what we thought was unseeable': First photo of a black hole revealed

  10-04-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronomers released the first picture of a black hole. What we see in the image is gas and dust circling the hole, far enough away to be safe.
  
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• New Bentley Flying Spur Teased with a Retractable Hood Ornament

  10-04-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The third-generation of Bentley's "small" Flying Spur sedan will be revealed later this year.
  
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• New York City Is Requiring Some Residents to Get Vaccinated Against Measles. Is That Legal — And Ethical?

  10-04-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  New York City is requiring some Brooklyn residents to get vaccinated against the measles. Is mandatory vaccination legal and ethical?
  
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• Republicans falsely claim Ilhan Omar denied 9/11 attackers were terrorists

  10-04-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  US representative Dan Crenshaw fuels wave of abuse picked up by GOP chair and Fox News hostIlhan Omar called the attacks against her ‘dangerous incitement’. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA Republican congressman has spread false allegations that the US representative Ilhan Omar denied the September 11 hijackers were terrorists, as part of a new wave of abuse directed at her by some conservatives.Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas shared a tweet falsely reporting that Oma
  
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• Big bank chiefs spar with Democrats at US Congress hearing

  10-04-2019 21:41
  CEOs quizzed on topics including safety, Russia and gun-industry ties
  
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• Israeli PM Netanyahu poised for 5th term as rival concedes

  10-04-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival conceded defeat Wednesday, promising to wage a robust battle from the opposition after the ruling Likud party and its nationalist allies won a solid majority in parliamentary elections.
  
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• Barr says U.S. intel spied on Trump's 2016 campaign, Democrats push back

  10-04-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr, who was appointed by Trump, is already facing criticism by congressional Democrats for how he has handled the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into the Russia probe and his comments about surveillance brought more derision from Democratic senators.Earlier on Wednesday, Trump levied a harsh attack on the launch of the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, which he described as "an attempted coup" and treason.
  
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• Free IRS software for filing taxes to be banned by US Congress in win for TurboTax

  10-04-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Congress is poised to pass a bill that would hand a major policy victory to the for-profit tax preparation industry, just in time for Tax Day in America.The bill, titled the Taxpayers First Act, is a wide-ranging bill that includes a provision that would ban the US government from developing a free electronic tax filing system, and is supported by companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block.Those companies have lobbied Congress for years now to block the Internal Revenue Serv
  
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• A look at the winners and losers in Israel's election

  10-04-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — After a campaign widely seen as a referendum on his rule, Benjamin Netanyahu is the winner of Israel's election as he heads toward a record-setting fifth term as prime minister.
  
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• Galaxy Fold hands-on video hints that AT&T will sell Samsung’s first foldable phone

  10-04-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Samsung's first foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold is coming soon to various markets. Samsung confirmed as much weeks ago when it finally gave the handset a proper launch. Samsung then showed the Galaxy Fold to the world at Mobile World Congress, but nobody was actually allowed to touch it.All you could do was look at the handset, placed behind a glass window, playing a Galaxy Fold presentation video on loop. But the phone's launch is only getting closer, as hands-on clips have started popping up o
  
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• Amid DHS Chaos, Ron Johnson Pleads for Honest, Policy-Focused Immigration Debate

  10-04-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  With Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s departure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week, the future of the Trump administration’s immigration policy has been thrown into uncertainty, even as the situation at the southern border becomes increasingly unstable.According to a New York Times report, Nielsen’s relationship with the president worsened in recent months as he repeatedly blamed her for the ongoing surge in apprehensions at the border. The breaking point appa
  
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• Bernie Sanders's Bold Health Plan Puts Democrats in a Bind

  10-04-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders, an early front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, had initially called for phasing out America’s employer-based insurance system in favor of universal government coverage that’s free for patients (that is, outside of the higher taxes they’d pay to finance it).
  
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• Mnuchin Says He Didn’t Recommend ‘Wrong Person’ in Fed’s Powell

  10-04-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was right to recommend Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman despite President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the central bank leader.“I don’t feel like I picked the wrong person,” Mnuchin said Wednesday in an interview on CNBC.The Fed’s interest rate increases in 2018 outraged the president, who went so far as to discuss firing Powell with his advisers late in the year.
  
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• Worst day of fighting as rebel army advances on Tripoli

  10-04-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting in Tripoli intensified drastically on Wednesday as rival armies brought tanks and multiple rocket-launch systems to bear in the deadly struggle for control of the Libyan capital. The escalation came as Fayez al-Sarraj, the prime minister of the internationally recognised Government of National Accord, issued an address to the nation urging Libyans to defend the capital city from renegade general Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army.  In an address distribute
  
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• In leaky White House, Trump team keeps Middle East peace plan secret

  10-04-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  With Trump having delighted Israelis and angered Palestinians by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2017 and moving the American Embassy to the holy city last May, a U.S.-brokered peace deal may seem farther away now than when talks collapsed five years ago.Then on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election, only days after proposing to annex Jewish West Bank settlements, traditionally viewed as illegal by much of the world.The Trump admini
  
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• Investors stage largest two-week retreat from U.S. stocks since July

  10-04-2019 20:25
  Investors pulled nearly net $7.5 billion out of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that hold U.S. stocks last week, capping the largest two-week retreat from the domestic stock market since July...
  
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• Braves' Markakis loses cash, guns in home break-in

  10-04-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The hunt continues for the person responsible for the theft of five firearms and $20,000 from the home of Atlanta Braves outfielder Nick Markakis.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that someone broke into Markakis' home in the Buckhead section of Atlanta on March 29 and walked off with the money, weapons and a luxury watch.The Braves were in Philadelphia that night.
  
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• The 2019 Audi TT RS Gets Some New Colors and Air Scoops, Starts at $67,895

  10-04-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Minor exterior and interior updates for the world's only five-cylinder sports car in production.
  
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• Sudanese woman who became symbol of revolution says women at heart of protest

  10-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Sudanese woman who became an emblem of the uprising against the rule of Omar Bashir has said women are likely to play the decisive role in the outcome of the country's protest movement.  Alaa Saleh, a 22 year old architecture student, shot to fame when she was photographed standing on a car in a long white dress and addressing a vast crowd of demonstrators earlier this week.  "Sudanese women have always participated in revolutions in this country. If you see Sudan's history, all ou
  
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• Fox News Hosts Back Mnuchin in His Testy Exchange With Maxine Waters

  10-04-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin engaged in a tense and fiery exchange with House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Fox News hosts Pete Hegseth and Katie Pavlich wholeheartedly backed the Trump cabinet official and called for a law limiting the length of congressional hearings.During a Monday committee hearing in which he was grilled over Democrats’ demand for President Trump’s tax returns, Mnuchin bickered with Waters over time constraints, c
  
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• US government 'spied' on Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, attorney general says

  10-04-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign was spied on by the US government, the country’s attorney general said on Wednesday, as he vowed to investigate whether rules were broken in the process.  William Barr, who took up the job in February, said he would look at how the FBI and US intelligence agencies set up the Trump-Russia probe before the 2016 presidential election.  “Spying did occur”, Mr Barr said during a hearing on Capitol Hill, noting at a
  
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• Princess Diana and Madonna both turned down offers from JFK Jr. to appear in George magazine

  10-04-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  According to his friends and colleagues, John F. Kennedy Jr. was turned down by both Madonna and Princess Diana, when he asked them to appear in his magazine publication George. Kennedy had suggested Madonna, who famously portrayed his late father's reported mistress Marilyn Monroe in her 'Material Girl' music video, pose as his mother, former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu set to win fifth term as Israeli prime minister, opposition party concedes

  10-04-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon weighs in on what it Benjamin Netanyahu's likely reelection means for the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
  
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• Trump basks in Netanyahu's victory by highlighting their personal alliance

  10-04-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  US president tweeted a picture of people waving Trump banners at the Israeli leader’s election celebrations Donald Trump shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on 25 March.Photograph: Leah Millis/ReutersDonald Trump welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory by underlining the personal alliance between the two men, tweeting a picture of people waving Trump banners at the Israeli leader’s celebrations. As it became clear that Netanyahu would win a fifth term
  
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• Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu headed for record 5th term as Benny Gantz concedes

  10-04-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a record fifth term after a neck-and-neck finish in parliamentary elections.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Raises $6M, Cooling Talk of a Stalled Campaign

  10-04-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Carlos Barria/ReutersSenator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) presidential campaign, much rumored to be in need of defibrillation, has found itself on solid footing in recent weeks after enjoying a wave of grassroots financial support.The Massachusetts Democrat announced on Wednesday that she had raised more than $6 million in the first quarter of 2019. Of that total, more than $1.4 million came in the last week of the quarter, suggesting that her policy-heavy messaging had broken through with vo
  
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• Hirono: Backers of Pain-Capable Abortion Ban Should Focus on Kids ‘Here Already’

  10-04-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Mazie Hirono said Tuesday that supporters of a ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy -- the point at which an unborn child can feel pain -- should instead focus on those kids "very much here already.""The word hypocritical does even begin to cover what is happening to women and children across our country," the Hawaii Democrat said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act introduced by Republican Lindsey Graham. "I hope supporters
  
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• New York mandates vaccine to contain Brooklyn measles outbreak

  10-04-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  New York's mayor declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn on Tuesday, ordering all residents to be vaccinated to fight a measles outbreak concentrated in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.The order concerns all people living or working in four zip codes of Williamsburg, northwest Brooklyn, where some residents oppose vaccines on religious grounds -- although neither Jewish texts nor local Jewish authorities advise against vaccination."It was time to take a more muscular approach
  
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