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Arrests made during an outdoor worship service in Moscow....Idaho Wednesday evening. Coronavirus regulations cited regarding wearing of masks-muzzles and social distancing..... New York City authorities threatening a crackdown on Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods..... Coronavirus restrictions tightened and expanded in the north-west of England..... Two people stabbed in Paris today near the former offices of the "Charlie Hebdo" magazine. Those offices the site of a terrorist attack in 2015 when a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed was published...... The Proud Boys intend to go forward with their rally in Portland tomorrow......Late today Oregon Governor Kate Brown proclaiming a state of emergency.....Also Portland...

A strict three week national coronavirus lockdown for Israel will begin Friday afternoon. "Closure was planned in advance out of lack of appreciation for Jewish holidays" Israel's Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman resigning today over the coronavirus lockdown in Israel.... Thousands gathered in Montreal to protest restictions in Canada's province of Quebec. The Saturday protest came on the first day that police in the province were given authority to fine people who are not wearing a mask.... Armed citizens in Corbett, a community near Portland, set up roadbocks Friday after a fire was intentionally set using fireworks. The armed citizens were...

The price of eggs is going up. There's been a run on eggs and other commodities at grocery stores the law of supply and demand in play. Reports of higher egg prices in the last week but if you haven't seen it on the shelf, get ready, it is coming..... Those OPEC+ talks among oil producing nations aren't happening tomorrow as originally thought. That's the word from the oil minister of the Central Asian nation of Azerbaijan..... President Trump meanwhile continuing his efforts to keep the price of oil as high as possible with Russia and Saudi Arabia opening up...

For the fourth time in recent weeks we have an upwards revision of the number of Americans injured in the Iranian missile strike at the Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on January 8th. First the number was 11, then it was 34 and then it was 50. But now the number is 64..... The United States lifting sanctions against a unit of a Chinese company COSCO..... The impeachment trial of President Trump rolling forward on Newsdump Friday with a vote to not call any witnesses.... A woman who figured prominently in the House impeachment inquiry is retiring..... The United States...

Its been made official that there was a terrorist attack on the United States December 6th at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. The attack that killed three and wounded eight was perpetrated by Saudi Air Force Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrami who was undergoing military training. The confirmation today came not from the President of the United States, nor the Secretary of State nor the Secretary of Defense, but from Attorney General William Barr..... Special Commentary Back before 9/11 terrorism was seen as strictly a law enforcement matter in the days of President Bill Clinton. Now it looks like...

Three Americans killed, two wounded in an Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab attack on a military base in Kenya today but first..... Iran announcing the removal of all limits on uranium enrichment tonight..... Massive crowds in the hundreds of thousands in the Iranian city of Ahvaz today mourning the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani..... Legislation moving forward in Iraq's parliament that pushes for the withdrawal of US and other foreign forces.... President Trump tonight threatening Iraq with sanctions if it expels US troops from the country. Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi told lawmakers before the vote that General Soleimani had arrived...

Eight churches and hotels were targets of bombing attacks in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday with 290 reported dead and about 500 wounded. The acts of terrorism involved suicide bombers.... A report published on "Israel National News" says that 24 were hurt in Munich when a man shouting "Allahu Akhbar" entered a church.... The election results in Ukraine confirm the exit polls showing a landslide victory for Volodymyr Zelensky, actor and comedian.... The leader of Turkey's political opposition attacked at a soldiers funeral.... The FBI has arrested a man said to be part of militia group that was detaining people who...

The Battle of Brexit With News, Comment And Analysis... British Prime Minister Theresa May continues to bore into supporters of a real and meaningful exit from the European Union trying to get her plan for "Brexit" rejected three times back up for a fourth vote.... A prosecutor in Nice, France says that 73-year old Yellow Vests protester Genevieve Legay was knocked to the ground unconscious by police last Saturday. Jean-Michel Pretre made the admission Friday and said a formal judicial inquiry has been opened.... "We strongly caution actors external to the Western Hemisphere against deploying military assets to Venezuela......." Tough...

The Battle of Brexit with plenty of words from political leaders and talking heads pundits but in the end actions will speak louder than words... Armed gangs of Nicolas Maduro supporters gathered outside Venezuela's National Assembly Tuesday threatening those trying to enter the building to the day's session... There is no cease-fire following a rocket attack Monday from Gaza that wounded seven Israelis in a community 75 miles away north of Tel Aviv.... A prominent mosque leader in New Zealand has blamed Israel's Mossad spy agency for the recent mass murder attacks on mosques in Christchurch..... Austrian authorities raiding the...

Good Morning. The developments regarding Robert Mueller's investigation will be noted later in this Newsdump summary. But first, the shakeup at a group hostile to supporters of President Trump and a broad range of conservative, religious and libertarian people and organizations continued Friday. The President of the Montgomery, Alabama based Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announced in an email that he's leaving taking responsibility for unspecified "problems"...... The French government's crackdown policies in force this Saturday for Week 19 of the Yellow Vests protests.... British Prime Minister Theresa May releasing a letter to MP's Friday evening specifying her plans...

"Its no longer called a protest. All those who were there were complicit in this" French President Emmanuel Macron Speaks At Interior Ministry Meeting Late Saturday 3/16/2019 French President Emmanuel Macron was not in Paris durin the protests Saturday. He returned from the mountains for a late night crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry. BFM-TV headlines the notion that Macron wishes 'strong decisions' be made in response to the Paris protests. The official government estimate is that 32,200 Yellow Vests protested nationwide Saturday with 10-thousand in Paris. But in Paris the Yellow Vests included the "black blocs" with police waiting...

Coverage of the 2018 Election is ahead but first. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has played his cards on the world stage pointing the finger of blame for Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's October 2nd murder in Istanbul on the highest levels of the Saudi Arabian government..... Now Netanyahu has come out publicly Friday saying that the stability of Saudi Arabia must be maintained because it is important for the stability of the region and world..... New York City police says two Saudi Arabian sisters found duct taped together in the Hudson River were not involved in any act of foul...

<p>President Trump was in Columbia, Missouri last night on his pre mid-term election tour speaking at an airport rally.....</p> <p>Among the other US Senate races an unusual one in Mississippi where there's an "open primary special election" being held next Tuesday. Two Democrats and two Republicans are running with the top two finishers set for a runoff three weeks later.....</p>

President Trump spoke at a campaign rally for the midterm elections in Las Vegas last night, urging everyone there to vote in November saying: "America is winning again, because we are putting America first again". Trump urged votes for Republicans saying: "We need to have more Republicans in office."...... There was a restitution hearing in Las Vegas yesterday in connection with the Bunkerville Standoff case for Todd Engel, convicted in May 2017 and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Engel came to the defense of the Bundy Ranch in Nevada in April 2014..... The latest from the lawyer for the...

President Donald Trump is taking his "Make America Great Again" mid-term election tour to Las Vegas today. The President is banking on his own personal popularity and persona to boost Republican candidates, even ones backed by those known for opposing his immigration policies like the "Cheap Labor Express" US Chamber of Commerce. In Nevada's race for governor there's a third force present with the candidacy of Ryan Bundy...... President Trump says: "I don't have an Attorney General".... An Israeli delegation is in Russia led by its air force chief to explain Israel's side of the Monday night incident in Syria...

There is Breaking News from Syria overnight with 15 Russian servicemen dead after their plane was shot down by Syrian air defenses during a sudden Israeli air attack. Russia's Defense Ministry says 4 Israeli F-16's used the larger Russian IL-20 plane as a decoy for their attack on the northern Syrian city of Latakia. Russia says it reserves the right to an "adequate response".... US UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is in a knot accusing Russia of "cheating" on North Korea sanctions. Haley spoke at the UN Security Council yesterday..... South Korea's President Moon Jae In arrived in North Korea today...

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault. The alleged victim had contacted Democratic members of Congress months ago anonymously with Democrats revealing the matter after Kavanaugh's nomination hearings ended.... In Sochi, Russia today President Vladimir Putin is meeting the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss Syria..... Over the weekend a Russian general said that militants have moved canisters of chlorine into a village in Idlib in preparation for a false flag chemical attack that would be used to justify an attack on Syria by the US and allied nations..... Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman...

A meeting at the UN Security Council today will discuss the nerve agent incidents in the Salisbury region of England earlier this year that killed one and sickened three others. The UN Security Council will discuss Syria on Friday..... The United States is chairing the Security Council this month and Nikki Haley has already chaired a meeting on the crackdown against opposition protesters by the government of Nicaragua.... "TREASON?" President Trump tweeted last evening in response to an anonymous op-ed piece in the "New York Times" said to be from a top Administration official.... In Sweden, the final poll from...