Month February 2021
The first case of the South African coronavirus variant has been discovered in a New York state resident, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. The South African variant case involved a resident of Long Island’s Nassau County, Cuomo said in a… Continue Reading →
New York State Senate Democrats are pushing nursing home accountability bills after Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration has been accused of covering up coronavirus death tolls and shielding nursing home owners… Read more » The post NY State Senate Pushing for… Continue Reading →
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (JNS) – A group of former heads of state and high-ranking ministers on Friday sent a letter to newly-appointed International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him against launching a war-crimes investigation against Israel. Such an investigation,… Continue Reading →
A Polish historian resigned Monday from the government’s historical institute after controversy erupted over his past ties with a far-right organization and photos of him making the stiff-armed fascist salute.… Read more » The post Polish Historian With Far-Right Past… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is targeting federal pandemic assistance to the nation’s smallest businesses and taking steps to further equity in what is known as the Paycheck Protection Program. The administration is establishing a two-week window, starting on… Continue Reading →
A former attorney general believes Governor Andrew Cuomo’s botched response to nursing home deaths could warrant federal charges. John Daukas, former acting attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights… Read more » The post Prosecutor Warns Cuomo Could Face… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and other financial records as part of a… Read more » The post Supreme Court Allows Release of… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Energy Minister Yuval Steintz met on Sunday in Jerusalem with Egyptian Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Tarek el-Molla, the first member of the government in Cairo to visit Israel the arrival… Continue Reading →
The IDF and the Shin Bet arrested a suspected terrorist cell believed to be behind an attempted attack targeting IDF soldiers in January near the village of Ya’bad in northern… Read more » The post Terrorists Arrested for Attempted Attack… Continue Reading →
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Lakewood Township Police Chief Gregory Meyer this morning identified the victim of last night’s fatal shooting in Lakewood. As first reported on TLS, at approximately 7:40 p.m., Lakewood Township Police were summoned to… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is declining to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The court’s action Monday is the… Continue Reading →
Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all of 777s with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver this weekend, as U.S. regulators ordered United Airlines to step up inspections of those planes. Several airlines, including United,… Continue Reading →
As first reported on our Status, new video obtained by TLS shows the victim in last night’s shooting just moments before and after being shot. Towards the beginning of the clip, the victim can be seen running from the top… Continue Reading →
Drug developer Novavax Inc said on Monday it has completed enrolling 30,000 volunteers in a late-stage study of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico. The company said… Read more » The post Novavax Completes Enrolling 30,000 People… Continue Reading →
President Joe Biden will mark the U.S. crossing 500,000 lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation is expected to pass the grim milestone on Monday, just over a… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A number of yeshiva students from a well known yeshiva in Bnei Brak were canvassing passersby for donations to the yeshiva fund which supports bridegrooms and provides them with accessories for their wedding, as is customary before… Continue Reading →
Seventeen local authorities announced Sunday that they will resume in-person classes later this week for grades 7-10, in defiance of government orders and coronavirus restrictions. These grades are the last… Read more » The post 17 Cities Prepare to Reopen… Continue Reading →
The British government declared Sunday that every adult in the country should get a first coronavirus vaccine shot by July 31, at least a month earlier than its previous target, as it prepared to set out a “cautious” plan to… Continue Reading →
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab said on Monday he was following up on an oil spill that may have originated from a ship passing near the Israeli coast and… Read more » The post Oil Spill Off Israel Reaches… Continue Reading →
TEHRAN (JNS) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday said that the unilateral sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country have cost the Islamic Republic’s economy more than $1 trillion. Tehran expects to be fully… Continue Reading →
In a special vaccination operation that took place on Friday among the Belzer community, some 1,500 people, mostly yeshiva students and avreichim, arrived at the main Belzer Beis Medrash in Yerushalayim in order to receive the COVID vaccine. The would-be… Continue Reading →