Month April 2020
More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday.… Read more » The post 26 Million Have Sought U.S…. Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia’s Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses that had been shuttered to contain the coronavirus, saying, “It’s just too soon.” During the daily… Continue Reading →
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Reopening Florida’s theme parks, among the world’s most visited attractions and one of the state’s biggest economic engines, could be a long process fraught with logistical and public health considerations, an industry executive told a task… Continue Reading →
The Knesset Regulations Committee, chaired by MK Avi Nissenkorn (Blue and White) began on Thursday to promote legislation to anchor the agreement signed between the Likud and Blue and White,… Read more » The post Knesset Begins Dealing With Blue… Continue Reading →
While he continues to fight for more federal funding for New Jersey’s hospitals on the front line of the COVID-19 battle, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) said he welcomes the Trump Administration’s decision to direct $10 billion of the funding appropriated… Continue Reading →
China did not cover up the novel coronavirus outbreak and so the United States should not seek to bully the People’s Republic in a manner reminiscent of 19th-century European colonial… Read more » The post Chinese Envoy: There Was No… Continue Reading →
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A truck killed four police officers who had detained a drug-affected speeding driver in a collision on a Melbourne freeway, officials said Thursday. The 41-year-old driver of a Porsche 911 who had been pulled over by… Continue Reading →
KATMANDU, NEPAL (VINnews) — Chani Lifshitz, the Chabad representative in Katmandu, Nepal was slated to light a torch representing the diaspora communities on Israel’s 72nd Independence Day next week, but on Thursday she informed the Ministry Of Culture and Sport… Continue Reading →
Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv is carrying out a study to test the effect of cannabis on coronavirus patients. The doctors are investigating (and hoping) that cannabidiol (CBD), one of the active substances in cannabis, can slow down the inflammation… Continue Reading →
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned Thursday he ordered his forces to potentially target the U.S. Navy after President Donald Trump’s tweet a day earlier threatening to sink Iranian vessels. Iran separately summoned the Swiss… Continue Reading →
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Due to the continued lockdown on towns in Israel, many young people and children have lost their sense of night and day and have entered a routine of sleeping very late and getting up late, which… Continue Reading →
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Daily reports of giant meat-processing plants closing because workers tested positive for the coronavirus have called into question whether slaughterhouses can remain virus-free. According to experts, the answer may be no. Given that the plants employ… Continue Reading →
The United Kingdom’s economy is crumbling under the strain of the coronavirus lockdown and government borrowing is soaring to the highest levels in peacetime history, increasing pressure on the government… Read more » The post U.K. Economy Crumbles Under Coronavirus… Continue Reading →
Cabinet meetings that are held by phone conference are being leaked in real time to the media, and this has prompted Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to enter the picture and… Read more » The post Mandelblit Threatens Investigation After Journalist… Continue Reading →
Iran will destroy U.S. warships if its security is threatened in the Gulf, the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards told state media on Thursday, a day after President Donald… Read more » The post Guards Chief: U.S. Warships Will… Continue Reading →
The Trump administration has been quietly adding military surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus pandemic, though fewer people appear to be crossing illegally. It’s the latest move as operations at the U.S.-Mexico border have become… Continue Reading →
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic is “a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis.” The U.N. chief said in a video message… Read more » The post U.N. Chief: Pandemic Is Fast… Continue Reading →
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Thursday to show endurance and discipline to get through the coronavirus pandemic that is “still at the beginning,” and called for a bigger European… Read more » The post Merkel Urges Germans to Show… Continue Reading →
The idea of taking government money was once anathema to news organizations that guarded their independence, but attitudes change when survival is at stake. Axios disclosed to readers of its daily newsletter on Wednesday that it had received a small… Continue Reading →
The German government has condemned an anti-Semitic incident that took place during an online Holocaust memorial event organized by the Israeli Embassy in Berlin. Unknown persons interrupted the online meeting… Read more » The post Germany Condemns Anti-Semitic Disruption of… Continue Reading →
The House of Representatives expects to pass a nearly $500 billion coronavirus relief bill on Thursday but will put off any decision on changing its voting rules during the pandemic,… Read more » The post House Poised to Pass More… Continue Reading →