Month January 2020

An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to burst through the symbolic $1 trillion barrier this year despite a healthy economy. Tuesday’s Congressional Budget Office report follows a burst of new spending last year and the… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team argued forcefully against the relevance of testimony from Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday as they concluded their defense and the Senate braced for debate on whether to summon… Continue Reading →

TOKYO (AP) — Panic and pollution drive the market for protective face masks, so business is booming in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is straining supplies and helping make mask-wearing the new normal. Demand for face masks… Continue Reading →

U.S. health officials offered a reality check Tuesday about the scary new virus from China: They’re expanding screenings of international travelers and taking other precautions but for now, they insist the risk to Americans is very low. “At this point… Continue Reading →

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped short Tuesday of saying he’d support Bernie Sanders if the progressive Vermont senator wins the Democratic presidential nomination. “I’m not going to make judgments now,” Biden told reporters in Muscatine,… Continue Reading →

French President Emmanuel Macron was criticized by senior French judicial officials on Monday for implying that the murderer of Sarah Halimi should face a new trial in a speech he delivered in Israel last week. “Even if, in the end,… Continue Reading →

Moving on several fronts toward shoring up support for his reelection bid, President Donald Trump capped off a busy Tuesday by heaping praise on the newest Republican member of Congress… Read more » The post Trump Shores Up Support for… Continue Reading →

A meeting was held this week in Beit Shemesh’s City Hall to launch a pilot program that will incorporate solar power to generate electricity on the roofs of 60 public buildings throughout the city. The buildings will be equipped with… Continue Reading →

BEIJING (AP) – This should be peak season for a 12-room hotel near the train station in the Chinese industrial hub of Wuhan. The Chinese New Year usually brings in plenty of travelers and delivers profits of around $3,000 a… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Shortly before the release on Tuesday of details on the Mideast peace plan by U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu withdrew his request for immunity on the three indictments he currently faces…. Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pompeo’s battle with National Public Radio and tweeted out more media criticism, one target familiar and the other less so. Trump introduced Pompeo at an East Room announcement… Continue Reading →

[SEE MORE ON OUR INSTAGRAM PAGE] #TrumpRallyWildwood pic.twitter.com/GlfgRE13vA — The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) January 28, 2020 .@RikMehta_NJ, the Republican opponent of Cory Booker, spotted at the #WildwoodRally pic.twitter.com/A4ZQiGROlP — The Lakewood Scoop (@LakewoodScoop) January 28, 2020 Now at the #TrumpRallyWildwood… Continue Reading →

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told senators privately Tuesday he does not yet have the votes to block new witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. McConnell convened a closed-door meeting of GOP senators shortly after Trump’s legal team made… Continue Reading →

Members of the Jewish community of the West Side of Manhattan met with officers of the New York City Police Department to discuss the recent rise in anti-Semitism in the region.… Read more » The post West Side Community Meets With… Continue Reading →

SAUDI ARABIA (JNS) — Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud on Monday denied an earlier Israeli report that Israeli citizens could now visit the country, stressing that Saudi policy remained unchanged on the issue. “Our… Continue Reading →

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U.S. forces on Tuesday recovered the remains of two American service members killed in the crash of an Air Force plane in Afghanistan, the U.S. military command in Kabul said. They also retrieved what they believe is the plane’s flight… Continue Reading →

On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Congressman Max Rose, Member of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, issued the following statement announcing that Holocaust survivor and Staten Island resident Rabbi Avraham… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A painting by Jewish modernist Marc Chagall sold at auction for $130,000, the lowest estimated bid suggested by the auction house. The buyer, from Tel Aviv, wishes to remain anonymous, a spokesman for the Tiroche Auction House… Continue Reading →

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and eastern Cuba on Tuesday, shaking a vast area from Mexico to Florida and beyond, but there were no reports of casualties or heavy damage. The quake was… Continue Reading →