A 9-year-old boy was killed and 11 other people were injured in a fire in a residential building in Queens on Wednesday, authorities said. The fire started in the basement
By Rabbi Eliezer Sandler It was just four years ago, at a Shas Yiden farher on the entire Shas at the home of the Nasi of Shas Yiden, Maran Sar Hatorah, Hagaon Hagadol Harav Chaim Kanievski, shlit”a. “Rav Chaim” had made a request to the founder of Shas Yiden, Hagaon Harav Avrohom Eisen, the Pozna […]
The Texas Legislature sent a sweeping rewrite of the state’s election laws to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, dealing a bruising defeat for Democrats after a monthslong, bitter fight over voting rights. Abbott said he would sign the bill, which could happen in the coming days. Even the final vote did not escape a […]
Every neighborhood boasts boutiques displaying the season’s finest children’s clothing. There’s one store that’s different from the rest. Children and parents who enter Bobbie’s Place find so much more than
President Joe Biden glossed over his broken promise to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan until the last Americans are out and offered the faint assurance — even with the last U.S. planes gone — that it’s never too late for U.S. citizens to leave. “There is no deadline,” Biden said Tuesday. But with its forces […]
Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country’s notorious Evin prison, the judiciary reported on Tuesday, after footage showing the widespread abuse of detainees at the facility leaked out last week. The judiciary’s three-day investigation into mistreatment and grim conditions at Tehran’s Evin prison had landed “some” prison guards in detention, said […]
President Biden stressed the need for changing the “perception” of the Taliban’s progress in Afghanistan, “whether it is true or not,” during a phone call with former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani less than four weeks before Kabul collapsed, according to a new report. According to a transcript of the July 23 presidential call reviewed by […]
The remnants of Hurricane Ida pushed into the Tri-State area early Wednesday morning, with showers and periods of rain expected throughout the day. The roughest weather associated with this system
Hurricane Ida caused mass devastation on Grand Isle, a Louisiana town on a narrow barrier island that bore the full power of the Category 4 storm Sunday. About half of
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It was Nov. 13 , 2001. The sun had just begun to rise over the Hindu Kush Mountains when the Taliban disappeared from Kabul, the battered capital of Afghanistan. The
Addressing the nation, a defensive President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the U.S. airlift to extract more than 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20-year war an “extraordinary success,” though more than 100 Americans and thousands of Afghans remain behind. Twenty-four hours after the last American C-17 cargo plane roared off from […]
As Israel’s coronavirus rates surge to a record high level, with a study this week showing Israel leading the world in daily COVID cases, almost 2.5 million Israeli children began
Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January, in addition to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully
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A New Jersey woman calling herself the AntiVaxMomma on Instagram sold several hundred fake COVID-19 vaccination cards at $200 a pop to New York City-area jab dodgers, including people working in hospitals and nursing homes, prosecutors said Tuesday. For an extra $250, a second scammer would then enter a bogus card buyer’s name into a […]
Israel leads the world in the number of coronavirus cases per capita over the past week, an Oxford University study published on Tuesday shows. The Our World in Data study
Daf Yomi is a tough challenge to keep up with. Every day, no matter what, you have to sit down and focus on the day’s daf – while forgetting about
Rabbi Yossi Schwinger, director of the National Center for the Development of the Holy Places, which is responsible for the Kever Rashbi site, testified to the state commission of inquiry
United States Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) has reportedly gone missing while trying to enter Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover and chaotic U.S. departure. According to The Washington Post, the Republican
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