Month June 2021
Ukraine and the United States will start a military exercise involving more than 30 countries in the Black Sea and southern Ukraine on Monday, despite Russian calls to cancel the… Read more » The post U.S. to Start Black Sea… Continue Reading →
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday that 10,000 Islamic State fighters continue to be held in detention in camps run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),… Read more » The post Blinken: ‘Untenable’ for 10,000 IS… Continue Reading →
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday, the Egyptian presidency said, in their first call since Bennett took office. Sisi stressed Egypt’s support… Read more » The post Egypt’s Sisi and Israel’s Bennett… Continue Reading →
Iraq’s military spokesman on Monday condemned the U.S. airstrikes against militia targets on the border with Syria as a “breach of sovereignty” in a rare criticism of U.S. military action.… Read more » The post Iraqi Military Issues Rare Condemnation… Continue Reading →
Rescue workers digging feverishly for a fifth day Monday stressed that they could still find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo building, a hope family members clung… Read more » The post Rescuers Stay Hopeful About Finding… Continue Reading →
A town inspector had assured residents of a high-rise condominium in Surfside, Florida, that their building was sound a month after an engineering report warned of major structural damage that… Read more » The post Florida Town Official Said Building… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] When Rina Rubin took her son to the skin doctor for a harmless looking freckle on his face, she never thought that it would be the beginning of a long and arduous journey, one that she is still climbing… Continue Reading →
Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous. That’s how the National Weather Service described the historic heat wave hitting the Pacific Northwest, pushing daytime temperatures into the triple digits, disrupting Olympic qualifying events and breaking all-time high temperature records in places… Continue Reading →
Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could yet be alive somewhere under the broken concrete and twisted… Continue Reading →
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s top Democratic and Republican lawmakers reached agreement on the highlights of a public safety bill that includes police accountability measures, a day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2… Continue Reading →
Poland on Friday defended planned changes to its property restitution regulations, after Israel said the reforms were “immoral’ and will prevent Jewish claims for compensation or property seized during the Holocaust and communist times. Poland’s lower house of parliament on… Continue Reading →
CHICAGO (AP) — Two adults and a child were killed after a Metra train struck their vehicle Sunday in Chicago, officials said. A train heading north into the city struck a vehicle just after 5 p.m. on the city’s Far… Continue Reading →
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political star was dimmed by allegations he harassed women and misled the public about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes. But will that hurt him with campaign donors? Some of the Democrat’s most reliable political contributors — including… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is urging Israel’s teenagers to get vaccinated amid an increase in coronavirus cases due to an outbreak of the Delta variant. “I’m appealing directly to teenagers,” Bennett said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday. “We don’t… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Langley creator of the long-running TV series “Cops,” has died during a road race in Mexico, a family spokeswoman said. Langley died in Baja, Mexico, of an apparent heart attack Saturday during the Coast to… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military, under the direction of President Joe Biden, conducted airstrikes Sunday against what it said were “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups” near the border between Iraq and Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said… Continue Reading →
In Haiti and in other earthquakes and disasters, people were found alive after a week under the rubble, and in one case even after two weeks. Don’t stop Davening. Join in online Tehillim here.
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have identified four of the nine people confirmed to have died after the collapse of a 12-story beachfront condominium in Florida. About 150 others remained missing Sunday as rescuers painstakingly searched through the rubble of… Continue Reading →
In response to the tragic building collapse outside Miami and the uncertainty and fears surrounding this event, Project Chai, the Crisis Intervention, Trauma, and Bereavement Department of Chai Lifeline presents a webcast offering psychological and practical guidance on modeling healthy… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Yona Lunger, a community activist in Miami told Arutz Sheva that many more Jews would have been lost if the building had collapsed in the winter or last year. “Most of the building’s apartments were owned by Jews,” Lunger… Continue Reading →
The United States said on Sunday it carried out another round of air strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, this time in response to drone attacks by the… Read more » The post U.S. Carries Out Air Strikes… Continue Reading →