Month June 2020
A Yerushalayim court early on Sunday ordered the release of a leading activist opposed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s rule and whose arrest prompted hundreds to protest outside the prime… Read more » The post Court Releases Anti-Netanyahu Activist After… Continue Reading →
China National Biotec Group (CNBG) said on Sunday that early human test results for a coronavirus vaccine candidate suggested it could be safe and effective, the second vaccine candidate from… Read more » The post Chinese Firm Says Coronavirus Vaccine… Continue Reading →
U.K. counterterrorism police have charged a 25-year-old man with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder for a stabbing attack in an English park that killed three… Read more » The post U.K. Police Charge Suspect With… Continue Reading →
Mainland China on Sunday reported 17 new coronavirus cases, mostly in the Chinese capital of Beijing. The National Health Commission said 17 new infections were confirmed on Saturday, down from… Read more » The post China Reports 17 New COVID-19… Continue Reading →
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad and its military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, won’t sit idly by in the fight against plans that seek to eradicate the Palestinian issue, sources affiliated with… Read more » The post Report: Islamic Jihad Threatens Israel… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump is entering the final four-month stretch before Election Day presiding over a country that faces a public health crisis, mass unemployment and a reckoning over racism. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, is raking in… Continue Reading →
PHOENIX (AP) — They saw the ominous photos: Crowded hospitals, exhausted nurses, bodies piling up in morgues. It was far away, in New York, northern Italy and other distant places. Now, after three months of anxiously waiting and preparing, Arizona… Continue Reading →
Parents of children that are enrolled in non-public schools in New York City are required to fill out a form every year in order to guarantee that their child is… Read more » The post Reminder for Parents to Fill… Continue Reading →
PARIS (AP) — French cosmetics giant L’Oreal said Saturday that it will remove words like “whitening” from its skin care products, a move that comes amid global protests against racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United… Continue Reading →
The statewide coronavirus numbers continued to trend downward, with more than 99% of the most recent tests coming back negative, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday. Only 703 of the 73,262… Read more » The post Cuomo: Latest COVID-19 Numbers Still… Continue Reading →
Federal authorities have charged four men in connection with a failed effort last week to pull down the statue of President Andrew Jackson near the White House. In a complaint… Read more » The post 4 Men Charged in Attack… Continue Reading →
Spectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into cheers and applause Saturday as lawmakers took a big step toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that… Read more » The post Mississippi Takes Step Toward Dropping… Continue Reading →
Attorney General William Barr on Friday ordered the establishment of a task force to counter what he called “anti-government extremists” committing violence as protests against police brutality convulse the United… Read more » The post Attorney General Barr Forms Panel… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of protesters camped outside City Hall are demanding that lawmakers slash the New York City police budget. The encampment in City Hall Park in lower Manhattan began forming earlier this week following weeks of street… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – Forgive the American people if they’re in a fog about face masks. President Donald Trump and the federal government have done a number on them. First there was the don’t-do-it phase. Then the nice-but-not-for-me dissonance. Followed by… Continue Reading →
The White House on Saturday denied that President Donald Trump was briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that Russia’s military offered bounties to Taliban-linked terrorists to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan,… Read more » The post Biden Criticizes Trump for Inaction… Continue Reading →
An explosion that rattled Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photographs showed Saturday.… Read more » The post Satellite Image: Iran Blast Was… Continue Reading →
Facebook said Friday that it will flag all “newsworthy” posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump. Separately, Facebook’s stock dropped more than 8%, erasing roughly $50 billion from its market valuation, after the European… Continue Reading →
After prodding from Democratic lawmakers, the Trump administration has agreed to give Congress — but not the public — complete data on the millions of small businesses that received loans from a $600 billion-plus coronavirus aid program. Senior administration officials… Continue Reading →
Members of the Lakewood Police Department Special Response Team, supported by the Patrol Division, Detectives Bureau and Strategic Response Unit descended upon the downtown area Friday, making numerous arrests. Operation ‘Clean House’ began Thursday evening and lasted into Friday evening…. Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to protect monuments, memorials and statues facing new scrutiny amid fresh debate over the nation’s racist beginnings. Trump had promised to take action earlier this week after police thwarted… Continue Reading →