Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday reached a short-term deal to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over the president’s demands for money to build his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump announced the agreement to break the 35-day impasse as intensifying […]
As President Donald Trump’s approval rating falls, the Republican Party is grasping him ever tighter. Gathering in New Mexico, the Republican National Committee’s governing body will take the unusual step Friday of voting to declare the party’s “undivided support” for Trump and his “effective presidency.” Amid concerns about the political fallout from the government shutdown […]
Shouting “FBI, open the door,” authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton. The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” with a […]
The Federal Aviation Administration reported delays in air travel Friday because of a “slight increase in sick leave” at two East Coast air traffic control facilities. The delays come as a partial government shutdown threatens to undermine the nation’s air travel system. Air traffic controllers and airport security agents have been working without pay since […]
More than 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch women emissaries and communal leaders from around the world are arriving in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., this week for multiple days of activities at the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries (Kinus Hashluchos). This year’s Kinus takes place from Thursday, Jan. 24, to Sunday, Jan. 27. A […]
A New York man who spent 19 years in prison after being accused as a teenager of stabbing his mother to death has been cleared of the charges. Huwe (hyoo)
Much like the true beauty of a diamond is revealed after being polished by expert hands, participants at Agudath Israel of America’s Yerushalayim Yarchei Kallah are finding themselves mesmerized by the brilliance of the sugya d’kallah unfolding before their very eyes under the guidance of the luminaries of the Torah world. Drawn deeper and deeper […]
United Airlines on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit by a passenger who claims he suffered bodily injuries and emotional distress from a “terrifying” incident last year, which “nearly resulted in the loss of all life aboard.” California resident Theodore Liaw said his “close brush with death due to United’s negligence” caused him to suffer […]
While Earth was a tad cooler last year than the last couple of years, it still was the fourth warmest on record, a new analysis shows. With the partial U.S. government shutdown, federal agency calculations for last year’s temperatures are delayed. But independent scientists at Berkeley Earth calculate that last year’s average temperature was 58.93 […]
President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday, January 24, 2019, visited a French Air Force base, escorted by IAF Commander Maj-Gen Amikam Norkin and the commander of the French Air Force General
(VIDEO AND PHOTOS IN EXTENDED ARTICLE) Last month representatives of a Magen David Adom mission arrived to Santiago, the capital of Chile, in order to hold a joint drill of
Authorities say a third person has died more than a week after a hammer attack in a New York City restaurant. WABC says the death of restaurant manager Tsz Mat
Jim Acosta has some follow-up comments on the Trump administration. The CNN Chief White House Correspondent, who has frequently clashed with President Donald Trump and members of his administration, has a book coming out June 11. He’s calling it “The Enemy of the People,” Trump’s inflammatory insult for the cable network and others whose reporting […]
Digital media company BuzzFeed is cutting 15 percent of its jobs, or about 200 people, to trim costs and become profitable. BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti wrote employees Wednesday that the
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against a 16-year-old teen from the Binyamin Regional Council region in Shomron, charging him with manslaughter under circumstances of terror, stone throwing
Israel Consul General to New York, Dani Dayan walked out of a Bezalel Academy of Art and Design event taking place in NYC on Wednesday night, in a deliberate act
A Chicago suburb has tentatively agreed to pay a former doctoral student $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit alleging police officers tackled him to the ground and arrested him for
A federal judge on Wednesday let stand an Arkansas law requiring state contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, ruling that such a boycott is not protected by the First
A splintered Senate voted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 35-day partial government shutdown, but the twin setbacks prompted a burst of bipartisan talks aimed at temporarily
It all began when Dov Hikind’s granddaughter, a 16-year old high school student, was perusing AliExpress.com for products of interest and came across an entire section of swastika-themed symbols. As the great-granddaughter of Holocaust survivors who saw the number-tattooed arm of her great-grandmother OBM, she was shocked and mortified. Equally horrified was Dov who sprung […]
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