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In New York City, a 28-year-old American man is under arrest charged with planning a firebomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Israel and threatening the lives of President Trump and other Americans on social media.

Israel deported Joseph Neumeyer from Colorado yesterday, and he appeared in a Brooklyn courtroom today. He's being held without bond.

Prosecutors say the dual citizen of U.S. and Germany started making disturbing posts on social media in late March.

This comes at an uneasy time for embassy officials in the U.S. and Israel after two Israeli embassy employees were killed last week outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C.

The alleged gunman, Elias Rodriguez, is charged with first-degree murder,

and the FBI says he told them he did it for Palestine. President Trump's slashing of the federal

workforce is on pause at more than 20 agencies. A federal judge has ruled that Trump must have

the cooperation of Congress before undertaking a sweeping

overhaul of the government. And peers, Andrea Shoe, has more. U.S. District Judge Susan Ilston

has ordered the Trump administration to stop issuing new reorganization plans and new layoff

notices for now. She wrote that with the kinds of dramatic staff reductions that were afoot,

agencies would not be able to do what Congress had directed them to do. She said while the

president may set policy priorities for the executive branch, he cannot initiate any large-scale

reorganization without partnering with Congress. And agencies may not make changes that intentionally or negligently

flout the tasks Congress has assigned them. The Trump administration has appealed her decision

and has also asked the Supreme Court to intervene. Andrea Shue and PR News.

The Republican-led Texas State House of Representatives passed a law today, requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms in the state.

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