Month January 2020

JERUSALEM (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles on Friday paid a solemn visit to the tomb of his grandmother, who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust and whose tumultuous life was marked by exile, mental illness and a religious devotion to serving… Continue Reading →

MILAN (AP) — Anti-Semitic writing was scrawled overnight on the door of a now-deceased member of the Italian anti-Fascist resistance who survived a Nazi concentration camp, a family friend and historian wrote Friday on Facebook. ‘’Juden Hier,’’ German for ‘’Jew… Continue Reading →

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting the registry of domain names up for sale, and the nonprofits that often use the suffix in their websites are raising concerns about the move. Nonprofit… Continue Reading →

Emergency personnel were on the scene of an overturned bus in Sullivan County, Friday afternoon. Catskills Hatzolah along with multiple ambulances from MobilMedics were on the scene just of Route 17 at Exit 114 by Bloomingburg Road and Mamakating Road…. Continue Reading →

London police will start using facial-recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises concerns about automated… Read more » The post London Police to Use Facial-Recognition… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just four years ago that a political committee supporting one of Donald Trump’s Republican rivals unveiled an ad slamming his views on abortion, complete with footage from a 1999 interview in which he declared, “I… Continue Reading →

Firefighters toiled all night and were still putting out pockets of fire Friday morning at a building in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown. Nine people were hurt, eight of them… Read more » The post Fire Rages in Building in… Continue Reading →

A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the dangerous new virus from China, health officials announced Friday. The woman in her 60s returned from China on… Read more » The post Chicago Woman Is 2nd U.S…. Continue Reading →

An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a 2016 bombing in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood was sentenced Friday to an additional life term for a shootout with police… Read more » The post Convicted Chelsea Bomber Gets Life… Continue Reading →

MOSCOW (AP) — The 75 years since Yevgeny Kovalev was a teenage prisoner in Auschwitz have been marked by tormented memories and a wonder that he’s still alive. “Remembering all that is always like torture for me, can you imagine… Continue Reading →

LONDON (AP) — London police say they will start using live facial recognition cameras in operational deployments, in a major advance for the controversial technology. The Metropolitan Police Service said Friday it will use the cameras to automatically scan the… Continue Reading →

An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to an additional life term for a shootout with police in New Jersey as he attempted to avoid arrest in 2016…. Continue Reading →

Impeachment Underway In Senate – President Trump’s trial in the US Senate began in earnest this week with House managers, led by Adam Schiff, making the case for why Senators should remove the president from office. White House lawyers will… Continue Reading →

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has brushed off criticism and mockery from the U.S. Treasury chief, saying Friday his comments have “of course no effect” on her and fellow campaigners. The 17-year-old Swedish star’s comments marked… Continue Reading →

Two people died after a massive explosion Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston, damaging nearby buildings and homes and rousing frightened people from their sleep miles away. The explosion happened… Read more » The post 2 People Dead After Warehouse… Continue Reading →

Stocks fell slightly in early trading Friday as a blowout earnings report from chipmaker Intel propelled technology shares higher and offset declines in health-care and financial companies. The technology sector… Read more » The post Stocks Fall Slightly as Banks… Continue Reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Dershowitz was in line at Mar-a-Lago’s lavish Christmas Eve buffet last month when President Donald Trump stopped to chat. The retired Harvard law professor had already been asked by Trump’s legal team to assist with the… Continue Reading →

BEIJING (AP) — China announced Friday that it is swiftly building a 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new virus that has killed 26 people, sickened hundreds and prompted unprecedented lockdowns of cities during the country’s most important… Continue Reading →

MIAMI (AP) — A DNA match has led to a Florida man prosecutors suspect is the “pillowcase rapist” responsible for numerous sexual assaults of women in the Miami area during the 1980s. Robert Koehler, 60, was arrested over the weekend… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP- The Conversation) – The Chinese government has quarantined Wuhan, a port city of 25 million people, and it has restricted travel to and from several other cities, including Beijing, to contain the coronavirus that has sickened more… Continue Reading →

As first seen on our Status, trash cans lined up on the grass near the road at a local Yeshiva were thrown down by a man yelling anti-Semitic words, according to bystanders. The incident was caught on the Yeshiva’s security… Continue Reading →