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JERUSALEM AP 鈥?A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before he was shot and killed by police, officials said. It was the deadlies vaso stanley t attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of more bloodshed.The attack, which occurred as residents were observing the Jewish sabbath, came a day after an Israeli military raid killed nine people in the West Bank. The shooting set off celebrations in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, where people fired guns into the air, honked horns and distributed sweets.The burst of violence, which also included a rock stanley cup et barrage from Gaza and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes, has posed an early challenge for Israels new government, which is dominated by ultranationalists who have pushed for a hard line against Palestinian violence. It also cast a cloud over a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region Sunday.Addressing reporters at Israel s national police headquarters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had held a security assessment and decided on immediate actions. He said he would convene his Security Cabinet on Saturday night, after the end of the sabbath, to discuss a further response.Netanyahu declined to elaborate but said Israel would act with determinat stanley quencher ion and composure. He called on the public not to take take the law into their own hands.White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Qstl Milwaukee DMV adds Saturday hours ahead of presidential election+ |7 Z9 M( e( v
House Republicans have formally approved Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as the House Republican Conference Chair, according to the Associated Press.The private vote affirming Stefaniks place in stanley cup congressional leadership took place Friday morning.Earlier this week, Republicans voted to remove Cheney 鈥?the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney 鈥?from her role in House leadership. Cheney is a staunch critic of former President Donald Trump and was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him following the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.Even though House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy backed Cheney shortly after the impeachment vote, Cheney has continued to break with the mainstream Republican party, especially when it comes to spreading false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Cheney has consistently criticized Trump and her Republican colleagues for continuing to push such falsities.Following her ouster from leadership on Wednesday, Cheney stanley thermoskannen said she remained committed to purging Trump s influence from the Republican party. I am absolutely committed, as I said last night and as I said just now to my colleagues, that we must go forward based on truth, Cheney said following the vote. We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution. By contrast, Stefanik, currently serving in gourde stanley her fourth term in office, entered Congress as a moderate in 2015 but rose to national prominence via her defense of Trump during his |
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