Month January 2021
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a sweeping order late Friday requiring the use of face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation Monday as the… Read more » The post CDC Orders Sweeping U.S. Transportation… Continue Reading →
The World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central… Read more » The post WHO Team, on Tightly Controlled… Continue Reading →
Twenty-one firefighters have been taken to hospitals after a blaze tore through a Harlem apartment building Saturday, the fire department said. None of the injuries is considered life-threatening, and all the patients are in stable condition, the department said. Firefighters… Continue Reading →
The Mossad has become involved in investigating the bomb blast in New Delhi, Kan News reported Motzoei Shabbos. The report said the agency was checking the possibility of nationals from… Read more » The post Report: Mossad Involved in Probe… Continue Reading →
The pediatric intensive care unit at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Yerushalayim reported on Motzoei Shabbos the death of a two-month-old infant, z”l. The infant had been in… Read more » The post Infant Succumbs to COVID-19 at… Continue Reading →
Iran‘s Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected any new negotiations or changes to the participants in Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, after French President Emmanuel Macron said any new talks… Read more » The post Iran Rejects New Participants, Any… Continue Reading →
The government is expected to approve on Sunday the extension of the current lockdown by another week. The lockdown was scheduled to end on Sunday at midnight. Defense Minister Benny… Read more » The post Israel’s Lockdown Set to Be… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — A West Virginia news publisher has filed an antitrust suit against Google and Facebook, who together receive roughly half of all digital ad dollars in the U.S. and are facing antitrust charges from federal and state… Continue Reading →
The first one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides good protection against the illness, Johnson & Johnson reported in a key study released Friday, offering the world a potentially important new tool as it races to stay ahead of the rapidly mutating virus…. Continue Reading →
Two pipe bombs left at the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees, discovered just before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, were actually placed the night before, federal officials said Friday. The FBI said the investigation… Continue Reading →
Rattled by nationwide protests over jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Russian authorities are moving rapidly to block any new ones – from piling legal pressure on his allies to launching a campaign to discredit the demonstrations. Unprecedented mass rallies across… Continue Reading →
A bomb exploded outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India on Friday, damaging several cars parked near the embassy. Fortunately, no one was injured in the blast and the embassy building was not damaged. Indian Police found an envelope… Continue Reading →
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After opening itself to New Year’s revelers, Dubai is now being blamed by several countries for spreading the coronavirus abroad, even as questions swirl about the city-state’s ability to handle reported record spikes in… Continue Reading →
Pakistan is scrambling to manage the fallout from a decision by the country’s Supreme Court to free the Pakistani-British man accused in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The Sindh provincial government on Friday filed a review petition,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation for altering an email that the Justice Department relied on during its surveillance of an aide to President Donald Trump during the Russia investigation. Kevin Clinesmith apologized for doctoring… Continue Reading →
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A Woman is lucky to be alive, thanks to the bravery of a Toms River police officer. At approximately 11:30 PM, multiple Toms River Police, Fire and EMS units responded to Loxley Drive for a reported structure fire. Upon arrival,… Continue Reading →
RUSSIA (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill extending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States a week before the pact was due to expire. Both houses of the Russian… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two pipe bombs left at the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees, discovered just before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, were actually placed the night before, federal officials said Friday. The FBI… Continue Reading →
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the release of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh’s acquittal filed by… Continue Reading →