The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation said in a […]
Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday. Nguyen Thanh Long said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients, and found the new version of the virus. He said lab tests […]
The Biden administration is urging a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that could stand in the way of Florida and other states importing prescription drugs from Canada. In a
Falsehoods about the election helped bring insurrectionists to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and now some who are facing criminal charges for their actions during the riot hope their gullibility
Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, more U.S. cities and states are shrugging off lingering COVID-19 restrictions as vaccination rates rise and the number of infections falls. Massachusetts lifted
The White House says it believes U.S. government agencies largely fended off the latest cyberespionage onslaught blamed on Russian intelligence operatives, saying the spear-phishing campaign should not further damage relations with Moscow ahead of next month’s planned presidential summit. Officials downplayed the cyber assault as “basic phishing” in which hackers used malware-laden emails to target […]
President Joe Biden is proposing a $6 trillion budget for next year that’s piled high with new safety net programs for the poor and middle class, but his generosity depends on taxing corporations and the wealthy to keep the nation’s spiking debt from spiraling totally out of control. Biden inherited record pandemic-stoked spending and won […]
Senate Republicans blocked creation of a bipartisan panel to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, displaying continuing party loyalty to former President Donald Trump and firm determination to shift the political focus away from the violent insurrection by his GOP supporters. The Senate vote on Friday was 54-35 — six short of […]
Two-thirds of adults in New York have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the latest federal data. At the same time, hospitalizations statewide are down to 1,143 patients, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. The total is the lowest since Oct. 31. “Our numbers have been trending in the right direction […]
Rosh Yeshivah HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein was hospitalized in Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital on Friday shortly before Shabbos on the advice of his doctors. HaRav Edelstein felt unwell on Erev Shabbos
A relative of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been hospitalized in an Israeli hospital for over a month, including during Operation Guardian of the Walls, Channel 12 News reported
Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett has reached a final agreement to form a government with Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, Channel 12 News reported on Friday. Bennett made his decision despite
Arab threw Molotov cocktails at a Jewish building in the Chabad neighborhood of the mixed Arab-Israeli city of Lod on Thursday night at 1 a.m., sparking a loud explosion and
Kids at summer camps can skip wearing masks outdoors, with some exceptions, federal health officials said Friday. Children who aren’t fully vaccinated should still wear masks outside when they’re in crowds or in sustained close contact with others – and when they are inside, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Fully vaccinated kids […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Earlier this week, it was reported that there have been a spate of robberies in the Far Rockaway, neighborhood. The picture of the robber was posted and tens of thousands of people viewed the story. B’Chasdei Hashem, the robber has been caught. He had broken into a number of […]
U.S. orders for big-ticket manufactured goods dropped unexpectedly in April for the first time in 11 months as a shortage of computer chips disrupted auto production. The Commerce Department reported
President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal for next year would run a $1.8 trillion federal government deficit despite a raft of new tax increases on corporations and high-income people designed to pay for his ambitious spending plans. Biden had already announced his major budget initiatives, but during a rollout Friday, he will wrap them […]
A New York high school is recalling copies of its yearbook because a graduating senior listed Adolf Hitler’s autobiography as his favorite book within its pages. Cambridge Junior-Senior High School stopped distributing the yearbook two days after it had started when it came to their attention that a student had cited “Mein Kampf” as his […]
NYC Mayor DeBlasio says Jewish Community will see increased NYPD presence at least until after Shabbos.
U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies
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