Month January 2020

Working against the clock in freezing temperatures, Turkish rescue teams pulled more survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the country’s east. Authorities said… Read more » The post Turkish Teams Hunt for Quake… Continue Reading →

Israelis who returned from the Far East in recent days and have taken sick do not show signs of having contracted the coronavirus that is plaguing China, health officials said… Read more » The post El Al to Allow Free… Continue Reading →

The coronavirus transmission ability is getting stronger and infections could continue to rise, China’s National Health Commission said on Sunday, with more than 2,000 people globally infected and 56 in… Read more » The post China Says Virus Ability to… Continue Reading →

A bus carrying 20 bachurim from the Yeshiva Gedolah in New Square for a Shabbos in the mountains overturned on Route 17 near Exit 114 in the vicinity of Bloomingburg,… Read more » The post Bus From New Square Overturns… Continue Reading →

Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Blue and White head Benny Gantz left for Washington Sunday, each for their respective meetings with President Donald Trump. Netanyahu had originally been set… Read more » The post Netanyahu, Gantz Leave for Washington… Continue Reading →

BEIJING (AP) — The new virus accelerated its spread in China with 56 deaths so far in what the country’s leader called a grave situation, and the government stepped up efforts to restrict travel and public gatherings while rushing medical… Continue Reading →

The Trump administration is joining a lawsuit filed by Ocean County against New Jersey’s Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. The lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of certain policies put into place by Grewal, with the blessing of Governor Phil Murphy, that… Continue Reading →

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is not ruling out negotiations with the United States even after an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, the country’s foreign minister said in an interview released Saturday. Mohammed Javad… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — As tensions between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren rose earlier this month, Sanders found himself with an unusual ally: President Donald Trump. During a raucous campaign rally in which Trump critiqued some of his… Continue Reading →

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, giving a recent campaign speech to a suburban Republican club, recalled his 2016 decision to endorse then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a time when many party members were uncertain about… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. “How long would… Continue Reading →

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Europe’s Catholic bishops are marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a statement denouncing anti-Semitism and the “manipulation” of the truth for political aims. The statement was released on Saturday, also in a… Continue Reading →

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the formation of three Neighborhood Safety Coalitions (NSCs) in Brooklyn neighborhoods that have experienced recent disturbing incidents against Jewish community members. The City plans to… Read more » The post Mayor de Blasio Launches Anti-Hate… Continue Reading →

President Donald Trump and White House officials are looking for at least one Senate Democrat to vote against removing the president from office at the end of his impeachment trial,… Read more » The post Trump Wants Democratic Senator Vote… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Bronia Brandman pulls up a sleeve on her leather jacket and shows the blue tattoo inked on her forearm that is a muted witness to her pain under the Nazis at Auschwitz. For 50 years, she… Continue Reading →

The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop… Read more » The post ‘This is huge’: Locust Swarms… Continue Reading →

[COMMUNICATED] There are just so many stories that just pull on my heart, needing to be told. Allow me to share one of them, as an example of the diversity of situations, an insight into the many different families that… Continue Reading →

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will fly to Poland to attend the 75th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, he announced Saturday. Cuomo, a Democrat, will join leaders from around the world at Monday’s ceremony marking… Continue Reading →

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that 298 R179 subway cars that had been removed from service have been returned to operation when the cars were deemed fit for… Read more » The post MTA Returns R179 Subway Cars… Continue Reading →

The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate entered a new phase on Saturday as Trump’s legal team began to lay out its defense on the fifth… Read more » The post Quotes From the Fifth Day… Continue Reading →

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Saturday that Britain and America would be able to conclude a trade deal this year, despite lingering disagreements on a digital services tax and whether… Read more » The post U.S. Treasury Chief Says Trade… Continue Reading →