Month July 2019
A top executive for Juul Labs said that his company never intended its electronic cigarettes to be adopted by underage teenagers, as House lawmakers on Thursday accused the company of fueling the vaping craze among high schoolers. Read more on… Continue Reading →
Paralimni, Cyprus – A Cyprus court on Friday extended the detention of seven of the 12 Israeli teenagers initially arrested as suspects in the rape of a 19-year-old British woman. The court ordered the suspects to remain in police custody… Continue Reading →
New York – Stocks are notching more record highs on Wall Street thanks to big gains in Google’s parent company and others reporting strong second-quarter results. Alphabet soared 9.6% Friday, its biggest gain in four years, after reporting earnings late… Continue Reading →
Washington – Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., explained why he backed a resolution upholding the right to boycott “at home and abroad” — even though he also voted to condemn the boycott, divestment and sanction movement aimed at… Continue Reading →
Beetles are not a kosher food, and now the hometown of the Beetles, Liverpool, England is now less kosher as well. A few weeks ago, Rosemans, a store that was supervised under the Liverpool Kashrut Commission (LKC), was caught with… Continue Reading →
A new takeoff and landing path for planes at Ben-Gurion International Airport is driving residents of the chareidi city of Modi’in Illit crazy. Transportation Minister Betzalel Smotrich promises residents the current reality is temporary. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Raleigh, NC – An explosion has injured two North Carolina bomb squad agents, one of them badly, while they were trying to neutralize what authorities said were bomb-making materials. A State Bureau of Investigation news release says two of its… Continue Reading →
Ocean County Sheriff Michael G. Mastronardy is urging residents to hang up if they suspect that a phone call is a scam. Ocean County officials were previously warning residents of scam calls that were threatening fines and jail time for… Continue Reading →
California – Consumers affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach (that’s most U.S. adults who have credit) can get their names on the list to get free credit monitoring and/or monetary compensation. You can see if you’re included by visiting… Continue Reading →
Mueller Testifies – Seeming weary and confused, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees for nearly six hours regarding his two year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. While Democrats had been… Continue Reading →
A massive breach at credit monitoring firm Equifax in 2017 compromised the private information of over 147 million Americans, including social security numbers, birth dates and addresses. The Federal Trade Commission subsequently slapped Equifax with a $700 million settlement, with… Continue Reading →
Ruckersville, VA – Automakers are accelerating the rollout of technology designed to avoid crashes, but insurance companies are waving a caution flag at consumers eyeing discounts for buying collision-avoiding brakes or automated cruise control. The global market for advanced driver… Continue Reading →
An investigation into Marines accused of helping smuggle migrants into the United States led to the arrest Thursday of 16 of their fellow Marines at California’s Camp Pendleton, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Read more on Yeshiva World News
NPGS announced the following today: NPGS has been serving the Lakewood community for more than thirty years, with great prices, convenient locations, and advanced Kashrus. NPGS began when Lakewood consisted of but a few hundred families, when there were no… Continue Reading →
Apple is paying Intel $1 billion for the chip maker’s smartphone modem division in a deal driven by the upcoming transition to the next generation of wireless technology. The agreement announced Thursday comes three months after Apple ended a long-running… Continue Reading →
The temperature’s dropping but Europe’s troubles aren’t over: A record-busting heat wave gave way Friday to thunderstorms and hailstorms, bringing the Tour de France to a dramatic halt and causing… Read more » The post Heat, Then Hail: Weather and… Continue Reading →
“This is CNN. The most trusted name is news.” A photo editor for CNN resigned on Thursday night after vile, anti-Semitic statements that he tweeted prior to landing a gig at CNN resurfaced. Read more on Yeshiva World News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is downplaying any differences with high-profile progressive lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying she had a “nice meeting” Friday with the social-media dynamo who’s made some tart observations… Read more » The post Pelosi Downplays Differences With Ocasio-Cortez… Continue Reading →
Washington – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’s not “running out the clock” on impeachment as lawmakers start a six-week summer recess without having delivered on a top liberal priority. Pelosi said the House would only take action against President… Continue Reading →
A powerful video of the Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Harav Yeruchem Olshin shlita’s bracha to a little girl at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was shown to a crowd of thousands last night at the Chai Lifeline dinner in Ateres Chana… Continue Reading →
Motorists will not need to reach into their pockets for money when they cross the Hudson River from New Jersey into New York City. The Port Authority on Thursday approved… Read more » The post Port Authority Approves Cashless Tolls… Continue Reading →