The Rev. Al Sharpton and an attorney for George Floyd’s family are speaking at the memorial Tuesday for a white Arkansas teenager shot dead by a deputy, a case that civil rights activists say highlights the need for interracial support to address police shootings. Seventeen-year-old Hunter Brittain was shot and killed by a Lonoke County […]
The Chofetz Chaim opens this letter with heartfelt words of encouragement to the recipient who, apparently, had little success selling his sefarim. He writes: “as for his disappointment due to the small profit, it is without reason, since everything is from Hashem’s hand, and one doesn’t know in what manner he would gain his earnings, […]
A plane carrying 28 people crashed Tuesday, apparently as it came in for a landing in bad weather in Russia’s Far East, and everyone aboard was feared dead. Wreckage from the An-26 was found on a coastal cliffside and in the sea near the airport in the town of Palana, according to officials. The plane […]
Israel’s new prime minister spoke for the first time with his Russian counterpart on Monday and the two have agreed to meet soon, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office tweeted. Bennett’s office said he thanked Vladimir Putin for Russia’s contribution to stability in the region and that the two spoke of the bridge between the two […]
The weather was getting worse in southern Florida on Tuesday morning as Tropical Storm Elsa began lashing the Florida Keys, complicating the search for survivors in the condo collapse and prompting a hurricane watch for the peninsula’s upper Gulf Coast. In addition to damaging winds and heavy rains, the Miami-based U.S. National Hurricane Center warned […]
A mysterious explosion broke out at a state-owned factory or warehouse near Tehran on Monday evening, causing a large fire, Iranian media reports said. It is not yet clear what
The IDF’s Home Front Command delegation in Miami will continue assisting with rescue efforts at the site of the Champlain Towers disaster for another week, the Defense Ministry announced on
Rep. Don Bacon: “I Committed to Rabbi Hofstedter That We in Congress Will Do Everything in Our Power to Ensure the Safety of the Jewish People” By Chaim Gold Who would have believed that the millions of people watching C-Span would hear words of the deepest praise and value for limud haTorah, from the […]
A 21-year-old driver and his passenger were critically injured when their speeding BMW crashed into a city a bus on Staten Island, police said Tuesday. The crash happened shortly after 9:30 p.m. on Richmond Avenue, a police spokesperson said. The BMW was traveling “at a high rate of speed” when it hit the rear of […]
Iran’s outgoing president offered a rare apology Tuesday for the country’s most severe summer power outages in recent memory, as blackouts cripple businesses and darken homes for hours a day. In a government meeting broadcast live on state TV, President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged that chronic power outages over the past week have caused Iranians “plenty […]
Even as the search continues over a week later for signs of life in the mangled debris of the fallen Champlain Towers South, the process of seeking answers about why it happened and who is to blame is already underway in Florida’s legal system. Authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the collapse of […]
Israel has officially offered humanitarian aid to Lebanon, which is on the verge of financial collapse, Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated on Tuesday. The offer of aid from the IDF’s Liasion Unit was transmitted through the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). “As an Israeli, as a Jew and as a human being, my […]
The discovery of four more victims in the rubble of a collapsed condominium building raised the death toll to 32, a fire official said Tuesday as a ramped-up search effort
The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said. Afghanistan’s army showed off the sprawling air base Monday, providing a […]
The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. airstrike along the Iraq-Syria border last
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO on Monday, handing over the reins as the company navigates the challenges of a world fighting to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. Andy Jassy, who ran Amazon’s cloud-computing business, replaced Bezos, a change the company announced in February. Bezos, Amazon’s biggest shareholder with a stake worth about […]
As crews peel away layer after layer of the collapsed condo tower in South Florida, the death toll increases — and so does the burden of collecting and identifying the dead, as rescuers and pathologists balance the rigors of their duties with relatives’ desperate need for closure. Nobody has been found alive since the first […]
The single biggest ransomware attack yet continued to bite Monday as more details emerged on how a Russia-linked gang breached the exploited software company. The criminals essentially used a tool that helps protect against malware to spread it globally. Thousands of organizations — largely firms that remotely manage the IT infrastructure of others — were […]
Israel is sending 700,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to South Korea in exchange for a future shipment of vaccines from South Korea to Israel. Under the deal, Israel will transfer the Pfizer vaccines to South Korea in an effort to inoculate more of the Asian nation’s citizens this month. South Korea will send the same number […]
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