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JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump is defending Israel's decision to bar two Democratic congresswomen from visiting the country, even as he claims he didn't "encourage or discourage" the move. Trump said Thursday that he "did speak to people over there" regarding the decision but he claims he was only "involved from the standpoint that they're very anti-Jewish and very anti-Israel." Israel said earlier Thursday that it was barring a visit by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar over their criticism.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — At a rally in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump tried to reassure his supporters about the state of the economy and told them that their financial security depends on his reelection. Trump said Thursday that "whether you love me or hate me, you have to vote for me." His rally came just a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 800 points, fueled by a slowing global economy and a development in the bond market that has predicted previous recessions.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say the criminal history of a man suspected of barricading himself inside a Philadelphia rowhome should have prevented him from legally owning the firepower he used to wound six police officers in a standoff that carried deep into the night. Maurice Hill, who authorities say had at least a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun when he opened fire on officers Wednesday, has on his record arrests in Philadelphia and adjacent Delaware County between 2001 and 2012.
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. will take the weekend off from broadcasting to be with his wife and daughter after the three were involved in a plane crash as the family landed Thursday near Bristol Motor Speedway. The television analyst and retired driver was taken to a hospital for evaluation after the crash in east Tennessee.
UNDATED (AP) — Investors rode out another turbulent day on Wall Street Thursday that kept stock indexes flipping between gains and losses until a late-day bounce gave the market a modest gain. Major U.S. indexes spent much of the day reacting to big moves in U.S. government bond yields, which fell sharply in the early going and then recovered some of their decline by mid-afternoon. Bonds have been among the loudest and earliest to cry out warnings about the economy.
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