Month February 2020

Hoboken, one of the areas in New Jersey hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, is making progress toward completing a large public park that will double as a reservoir for nearly… Read more » The post Hoboken Gets Boost for Park… Continue Reading →

Approximately 4,700 students between preschool-5th grade of the Lakewood School District will be sending ‘get well’ cards to Governor Phil Murphy. The letters come after the Governor announced that doctors found a tumor on his left kidney. The cards are… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Palestinian Islamic Jihad announced a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Monday evening after two days of heavy fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror group. In a statement, the terrorist group said it had… Continue Reading →

By C.B. Weinfeld Ira was taking his family on a mini-summer trip to a fair in Lancaster County, PA, home of the Amish. There was a bearded man, dressed as an elf, with a bright red t-shirt and adorable elf… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 1,000 points Monday in the worst day for the stock market in two years as investors worry that the spread of a viral outbreak that began in China will… Continue Reading →

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SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld Trump administration rules that bar health care providers in the federal family planning program for low-income women from referring patients for abortions. The 7-4 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit… Continue Reading →

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Watching a car entering a dead end and getting lost in the process is frustrating, but watching an entire political system plunging towards a dead end for the third consecutive time is not just frustrating but dispiriting… Continue Reading →

The U.S. will sign military deals worth more than $3 billion with India on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said at the start of a two-day state visit to the South… Read more » The post Trump Says U.S.-India to Sign… Continue Reading →

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared open to reinstating $4.3 billion in punitive damages against Sudan in lawsuits accusing it of complicity in the 1998 al-Qaida bombings of two… Read more » The post U.S. Supreme Court Open to… Continue Reading →

The US stocks indexes took sharp falls today as investors began really worrying over the impact the spreading coronavirus would have on the global economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,031 points, or 3.6%, its worst drop in two… Continue Reading →

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By the fall of 2018, when Democrats were promoting a slate of centrist candidates to topple Republicans in Congress, Bernie Sanders was seeing a very different picture. The Vermont senator and avowed democratic socialist was convinced his most fervent supporters… Continue Reading →

MALAYSIA (JTA) — Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has described Jews as “hook-nosed” and blamed Israel for the unrest in the Middle East, has resigned. Mohamad, the world’s oldest leader at 94, submitted his resignation to the country’s king… Continue Reading →

A reported 10 p.m. ceasefire did not take hold on Monday night as Gaza terrorists fired another salvo of rockets at Sderot at about 10:20. B’chasdei shamayim, there were no… Read more » The post Ceasefire Fails, Gaza Fighting Continues… Continue Reading →

Bernie Sanders has praised Fidel Castro’s ‘massive literacy program’, standing by comments he made praising the dictator’s rule of Cuba in the 1980s. The Democratic frontrunner and socialist, 78, defended the Communist regime as ‘not all bad’ during a wide-ranging… Continue Reading →

It baffles the mind. Israel is actually holding another election. If the prospects for the upcoming campaigns would vary, even slightly, from the first two, perhaps there’d be some motivation to get involved. But for the third time in a… Continue Reading →

Two California bald eagle eggs have passed their normal incubation time and may never hatch, experts said. The eggs in a nest at Big Bear Lake have been seen daily… Read more » The post Experts Say California Bald Eagle… Continue Reading →

A Lakewood resident says she wants more police patrols in her neighborhood, after her vehicle’s windows were shattered – allegedly by two kids with bats. The Raintree neighborhood resident tells TLS she spotted two kids wearing masks walking around her… Continue Reading →

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Walgreens, turning away an appeal by a fired former Florida employee of the pharmacy chain who asked not to work… Read more » The post U.S. Supreme Court Turns Away… Continue Reading →

CHICAGO (AP) — Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Monday to restored charges that accuse him of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself last year in Chicago and falsely reporting to police that the phony attack was… Continue Reading →