Month August 2020
Facebook is pushing back on new Apple privacy rules for its mobile devices — and putting app developers in the middle. Apple will soon require apps to ask users for permission to collect data on what devices they are using… Continue Reading →
CALIFORNIA (AP) — Google’s own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn’t want to be followed until a 2018 Associated Press investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, according to unsealed documents in… Continue Reading →
Hundreds of Mir bochurim from the United States and other countries recently arrived in Eretz Yisroel for the Elul zeman. The bochurim are required to enter quarantine for two weeks and since Israel’s Health Ministry requires the bochurim to be… Continue Reading →
DALLAS (FBI PR) – Yaser Abdel Said, a capital murder suspect wanted in connection with the homicide of his two teenage daughters, Amina and Sarah, was taken into custody without incident today in Justin, Texas, by the FBI’s Dallas Field… Continue Reading →
U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people. The new guidance was posted earlier this week on the website… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who ambushed a New York City police officer in June — stabbing him in the neck and stealing his gun to shoot other officers — had an interest in violent Islamic extremism and punctuated… Continue Reading →
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Speakers at the third night of the Republican convention include Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Kellyanne Conway.
Hamodia is saddened to report the petirah of Rebbitzen Rochel Leah Rosenbloom, a”h, the almanah of Hagaon Harav Yosef Rosenbloom, zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Bais Hamedrash Shaarei Yosher in Boro Park. The levayah is scheduled… Read more » The post BD’E – Rebbitzen Rochel Leah… Continue Reading →
In the most violent skirmish in months between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria, a vehicle collision in the eastern part of the war-torn country left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said Wednesday. One official said Russian vehicles… Continue Reading →
In the most violent skirmish in months between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria, a vehicle collision in the eastern part of the war-torn country left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said Wednesday. One official said Russian vehicles… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sent letters to the governors of New York and three other Democratic-led states, seeking data on whether they violated federal law by ordering public nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients… Continue Reading →
The US Department of Justice is requesting the data from the governors of four states – New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan – regarding “orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents,” during… Continue Reading →
Vice President Mike Pence was set to make an economic pitch to re-elect President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. The convention’s first two nights featured grim… Read more » The post Pence to Make Economic Pitch… Continue Reading →
The NYPD is asking the public’s assistance identifying the following individual depicted in the attached surveillance video and photo regarding an assault that occurred in Willliamsburg. The NYPD tells YWN that at round 6:00AM on Tuesday, August 25th, a 46-year-old… Continue Reading →
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin officer who shot a Black man, Jacob Blake seven times in the back has been identified as a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha Police Department, the state Department of Justice said Wednesday. Officer Rusten… Continue Reading →
Ukrainian authorities detained 113 Israeli citizens at the airport in Kiev on Tuesday and deported twelve of them back to Israel, Ynet reported. The Israelis, who had flown into the country on a Ukrainian Airlines flight, were detained and questioned… Continue Reading →
The Trump administration said Wednesday it is imposing sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for Beijing’s military build-up in the South China Sea. The move is the latest salvo in the U.S. pressure campaign against China that has picked up steam… Continue Reading →
The Trump administration said Wednesday it is imposing sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for Beijing’s military build-up in the South China Sea. The move is the latest salvo in the U.S. pressure campaign against China that has picked up steam… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – If New York City’s mayor won’t stop weddings in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods from happening, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said Wednesday that he will. “If the mayor is not doing any enforcement actions, then the state… Continue Reading →