Month January 2020

Senators faced mounting pressure Monday to summon John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial even as Trump’s lawyers brushed past extraordinary new allegations from Trump’s former national… Read more » The post GOP Defends Trump as Bolton… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump is holding his next rally in a county with almost no factory jobs to save, a reliance on immigrant workers and an economy built in part by coastal elites who summer there. Cape May County on the… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON – (AP) U.S. health officials have changed their travel advice to American travelers planning to go to China. Previously, the agency advised travelers to avoid any non-essential travel to Wuhan or other parts of Hubei province, the center of… Continue Reading →

OSWIECIM, Poland – (VINnews) During his trip to Poland, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recommitted to fighting anti-Semitism in all its forms with actions that include passing a first-in-the-nation domestic terrorism law, enacting a diversity curriculum for schools and expanding the… Continue Reading →

The Islamic State group vowed in an audio message released Monday that the extremists will start a new phase of attacks that will focus on Israel and blasted the U.S. administration’s plan to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite carrying… Continue Reading →

The House on Monday passed the Never Again Education Act, which provides $10 million in funding over five years for the U.S. Holocaust Museum to provide Holocaust education materials to… Read more » The post House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill Boosting… Continue Reading →

House appropriators are considering lifting a nearly 10-year ban on congressionally directed spending, known as earmarks. While no decisions have been made, a House Democratic aide said lawmakers are in… Read more » The post House Members Considering Ending Ban… Continue Reading →

For the first time in years, Federal Reserve officials will hold their latest policy meeting this week feeling broadly satisfied with where interest rates are and with seemingly no inclination to change them anytime soon. Chairman Jerome Powell has expressed… Continue Reading →

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors filed bribery and tax charges on Monday against a former Illinois state senator who led the powerful transportation committee, alleging he accepted payments in exchange for supporting costly red-light camera programs across the state. The… Continue Reading →

The U.S. Senate is holding an impeachment trial on charges by the House of Representatives that President Donald Trump abused his powers and obstructed a congressional inquiry into his effort… Read more » The post FACTBOX-Key U.S. Senators in Battle… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office will no longer be involved with awarding the annual Genesis Prize, nicknamed the “Jewish Nobel,” in order to keep the honor from being seen as political. The prize was founded in… Continue Reading →

General Motors is spending $2.2 billion to refurbish an underused Detroit factory so it can build a series of electric and self-driving vehicles, eventually employing 2,200 people. GM said in a statement Monday that the factory will start building the… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JNS) — U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill on Friday that allocates $375 million over five years to synagogues and other houses of worship, as well as additional other nonprofits, to help protect themselves against terror attacks. The… Continue Reading →

Dr. Andrew Levin, a psychiatrist hired by the defense, has found Grafton Thomas incompetent to stand trial on federal hate crime charges stemming from a machete attack at a Chanukah… Read more » The post Lawyer: Man charged in Chanukah… Continue Reading →

Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: ___ Days to Iowa caucuses: 7 Days to general election: 281 ___ THE NARRATIVE After almost one year of primary drama, the Iowa caucuses… Continue Reading →

Health officials in New Jersey are investigating whether an individual in the state has been infected with the coronavirus, which has killed dozens and sickened over a thousand people across the globe. A patient at Hackensack University Medical Center has… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (JTA) – The United States will contribute $2 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The contribution, in coordination with Congress, is in addition to the $15 million provided by… Continue Reading →

MONSEY (VINnews) — A psychiatrist hired to evaluate Grafton Thomas, has declared that Thomas’ mental illness deems him incompetent to stand trial on federal hate crimes charges. Thomas is accused of using a machete to attack Jews attending a Chanukah… Continue Reading →

TLS recently reported on Yesodos Bais Yaakov high school that announced its permanent closure following this school year. The school had previously announced that it would not be opening this year due to a lack of funds, but after intervention… Continue Reading →

The lawyer for the suspect in the stabbing during a Chanukah party in Monsey has requested a federal competency evaluation. Attorney Michael Sussman says a psychiatrist concluded that Grafton Thomas is not competent to stand trial. Now the U.S. Attorney’s… Continue Reading →

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents. The new policy can be used to deny green cards to… Continue Reading →