Month August 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — A commuter bus slammed into a divider at New York City’s main bus terminal on Saturday, injuring 16 people including one critically, the fire department said. The New Jersey Transit bus crashed on an upper ramp… Continue Reading →
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fights broke out in downtown Portland Saturday night as a large caravan of supporters of President Donald Trump drove through the city, clashing with counter-protesters. Oregon’s largest city has been the site of nightly protests for… Continue Reading →
LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — Fresh off accepting the Republican Party’s nomination, President Donald Trump said Friday he was the only thing standing between “democracy and the mob,” as he lashed out at protesters who accosted his supporters as they left… Continue Reading →
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nurses on the front lines of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections. Health care industry leaders, though, warn that passing such a… Continue Reading →
ROME (JTA) – The Vatican both fought efforts efforts to reunite two Holocaust orphans with their relatives and urged Pope Pius XII not to protest the Nazi deportation of Italian Jews, Brown University historian David I. Kertzer has found. Kertzer… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said on Saturday that as president, he would never use the military “as a prop or private militia” and accused President Donald Trump of employing U.S. forces to settle “personal vendettas” and violate citizens’ rights…. Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top intelligence official has informed Congress that his office will no longer give in-person election security briefings on Capitol Hill, a move that raised concern among lawmakers Saturday about the public’s right to know about… Continue Reading →
A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times’ bid to dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting.… Read more » The post Judge: Sarah Palin Can Sue… Continue Reading →
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko banned foreign journalists from covering the street protests in Belarus as he ratchets up the crackdown following his contested landslide victory in the Aug. 9 elections.… Read more » The post Belarus Bans Foreign Journalists as… Continue Reading →
In the city that’s lost about 20,000 people to COVID-19, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is staking his legacy on a bet that he can safely open the largest… Read more » The post NYC Schools Reopening Faces Threat… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Please join us on August 30th at 8pm EST, AT Yeshiva Ketana Hall, 210 2nd Street, Lakewood, NJ For Men & Women Presentation By: Harav Elya Brudny shlita Dr Shmuel D. Mandelman Moderated By: Duvie Kessner, Director, Operations at Relief Q & A SESSION… Continue Reading →
An attorney for Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man shot by a police officer in Kenosha, Wis., earlier this week, said Friday that his client is no longer handcuffed in… Read more » The post Jacob Blake is No Longer… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump traveled to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast on Saturday to assess the damage from Hurricane Laura and to promise federal support for the region. Coastal communities in Louisiana… Read more » The post Trump Tours Storm-Battered Gulf States… Continue Reading →
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Kenosha police union on Friday offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers’ perspective of the moments leading up to police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back, saying he had a knife… Continue Reading →
Wuhan, Ground Zero for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chinese city hardest hit by the coronavirus, will reopen all its schools and kindergartens on Tuesday, local authorities said. As many… Read more » The post China’s Wuhan Says All Schools… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Three of the four residents of New York City public housing whose criticisms of Mayor Bill de Blasio were used in a video at the Republican National Convention said they were never told their comments were… Continue Reading →
Dear friends, It’s not often that I write a letter like this one. But we live in unprecedented times, and we need your help. You know that the Agudah has been my life for nearly four decades. You know that I truly believe… Continue Reading →
A white 17-year-old who says he went to protests in Wisconsin to protect businesses and people has become a flashpoint in a debate over anti-racism demonstrations that have gripped many American cities and the vigilantism that has sometimes met them…. Continue Reading →
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A Republican student group at Arizona State University is receiving backlash for donating money to the 17-year-old gunman who fatally shot two protesters in Wisconsin. College Republicans United announced this week that half of any funds… Continue Reading →
Far-right activists burned a Quran in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, sparking riots and unrest after more than 300 people gathered to protest, police said Saturday. Rioters set fires and threw objects at police and rescue services Friday night,… Continue Reading →