U.S. Vice President Mike Pence paid homage Thursday to the suffering of the Jewish and Polish people under German occupation during World War II with visits to memorials honoring their suffering and heroism. The heavily symbolic visits to a city destroyed by Adolf Hitler’s forces were gestures of friendship to two of America’s closest allies, […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law Thursday long-sought legislation that gives the victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to seek criminal charges or file lawsuits against their
European plane maker Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world’s biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry’s most ambitious and most troubled endeavors. Barely a decade after the double-deck, 500-plus-seat plane started carrying passengers, Airbus said that key client Emirates is […]
President Donald Trump has put on some pounds and is now officially considered obese. The White House on Thursday released results of his most recent physical, revealing that his Body Mass Index is now 30.4. That’s based on the fact that he’s now carrying 243 pounds on his 6-foot, 3-inch frame. That’s up from 236 […]
The following is via Chabad.org: It’s a quiet, upper-middle-class suburb just east of the Everglades, —a place where people live for its quality of life: picturesque homes abutting wetlands, superior schools and tree-lined streets. On Sundays, moms and dads cheer their kids on at little league games. Everybody knows everybody in Parkland, Fla. So when […]
A small fire caused by an overheated vape pen battery delayed a Houston-bound flight from New York’s LaGuardia airport. The incident occurred on Wednesday during the boarding of a SkyWest flight operating as s Delta Connection. Video posted online shows a flight attendant using a fire extinguisher on a flaming bag, which was in an […]
A combined Yisrael Hayom/i24NEWS poll released on Thursday, February 14, 2019, reveals some interesting information; as Yahadut Hatorah has nine seats, while the Shas party rides the minimum threshold to
Five passengers suffered minor injuries Wednesday when a Delta Air Lines flight headed from Southern California to Seattle encountered severe turbulence in a winter storm and was forced to make
Amazon abruptly dropped plans Thursday for a big new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversing course after politicians and activists objected to
After a smashingly successful inaugural year, Camp S.O.U.L (S.O.U.L – Summer Of Your Life) is proud to announce that registration for the upcoming summer 2019 camping trip is now open
Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise that would avert a second painful government shutdown. But a new confrontation has been ignited — this time over President Donald Trump’s plan to bypass lawmakers and declare a national emergency to siphon billions from other federal coffers for his wall on the Mexican boundary. Money in the […]
Traffic was brought to a halt in Kikar Shabbos, Thursday night, as hundreds of Chareidim protested. Dumpsters were set ablaze as the protesters closed the streets. Hundreds of people were
Odds may still favor the eventual construction of former President Barack Obama’s $500 million museum and library in a public park along Chicago’s lakeshore, but it’s no longer a sure thing in the face of a formidable legal challenge by a parks-advocacy group. U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey hears arguments Thursday in Chicago on […]
A suspicious individual was shot at a Chabad girls high school in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon. Police and paramedics responded to the Ohel Chana High School, located inside Etz Jacob Congregation on the 7600 block of Beverly Boulevard, at 12:24PM. In an email to parents, the school said it’s security guard observed the man “canvassing” […]
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview that aired Thursday that he moved quickly after his boss was fired to protect an investigation into President Donald Trump’s
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The former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, her brown hair now hidden underneath a mandatory hijab, stood before an Iranian ayatollah as a television camera filmed behind her. It was 2012 and Monica Elfriede Witt offered Ayatollah Hadi Barikbin the pledge of faith all Islam converts must recite: “There is no god but God and […]
After conducting a recount in the 587 election polls for the Likud primaries held last week, Gideon Saar moves into the third place. Saar, who is making his comeback into
The Trump administration lashed out at some of America’s closest traditional allies on Thursday, accusing Britain, France and Germany of trying to bust U.S. sanctions against Iran and calling on European nations to join the United States in withdrawing from the Iranian nuclear deal. In an unusually blunt speech to a Middle East conference in […]
It’s not just about President Donald Trump’s border wall. The border security issues that sparked a 35-day government shutdown are but one element of a massive $330 billion-plus spending measure that wraps seven bills into one, funding nine Cabinet agencies, including the departments of Justice, State, Agriculture and Commerce. End-stage fights over unrelated policy provisions […]
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