Month June 2021
In a recent ‘Ask The Mayor’ question, Mayor Ray Coles announced that a turning light is coming to the intersection of Route 9 and Kennedy Boulevard. Here was the question and answer. Mr Mayor, Is there any projected date of… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pedestrian bridge collapsed over a highway in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, sending five people to the hospital. Traffic was expected to be snarled for hours. The collapse happened just before noon along Interstate 295 in… Continue Reading →
Wall Street’s big investment banks are sending a message to their employees this summer: Get back into the office, and bring your vaccination card. New York-based Morgan Stanley said this week that all employees will be required to attest to… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — On June 18, Professor Jeffrey Lax, resigned from the CUNY’s professor’s union over the passage by an overwhelmingly number of colleagues on an anti-Israel resolution. In a recent column from The Jewish Press, the opening paragraph… Continue Reading →
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke by phone on Tuesday with US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “The two had a warm and positive conversation and discussed the importance of bipartisan support for Israel in the United States,” the Foreign… Continue Reading →
The post NYPD Commissioner Discusses Policing With Jewish Officials appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: A Taste of Things to Come Chanukas Habayis for Yeshivas Mevakshei Hashem Rebbetzin Malka Hager, A”h Perpetrator in Boro Park Attack Charged With Hate… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration has forced out the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, clearing a path for a leadership overhaul at an agency strained by a 20-year-high in… Read more » The post Biden Administration Removes Rodney Scott… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration has agreed to a longer pause between rounds of negotiation with Iran in order to allow time for Israel to make its case, The Jerusalem Post said… Read more » The post White House to Pause Iran… Continue Reading →
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas broke silence on Wednesday regarding the new Israeli government, well into it second week in power. Abbas said he is willing to work with “whoever… Read more » The post Abbas Breaks Silence on Bennett-Lapid… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A hungry elephant foraging for food crashed into a kitchen in Thailand in a vain search for food. The elephant can be seen in this clip vainly rolling its trunk around some of the kitchenware while… Continue Reading →
Iranian authorities have thwarted what they called a “sabotage attack” targeting a civilian nuclear facility near the country’s capital, Iranian media reported Wednesday, as details about the incident remained scarce. Nournews, a website believed to be close to Iran’s Supreme… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Supreme Court again tightened the reins on organized labor on Wednesday, declaring in a case brought by two fruit companies that a decades-old California regulation that let union… Read more » The post U.S. Supreme Court Limits Union… Continue Reading →
When it was new, the window sticker price on a typical 2019 Toyota Tacoma SR double cab pickup was just under $29,000. Two years later, dealers are paying almost $1,000 more than that to buy the same vehicle, even though… Continue Reading →
MADRID (AP) — John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Hours earlier, a Spanish court issued a… Continue Reading →
Democrats in the U.S. Congress and at the White House nudged Republicans on Wednesday to join them in forging an agreement on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan by the end… Read more » The post Democrats Set 24-Hour Target for… Continue Reading →
New Jersey lawmakers advanced Tuesday a record $46.4 billion budget, a 15% increase over last year, boosting the state’s public pension payment, allocating hundreds of millions for tax givebacks and… Read more » The post NJ Lawmakers Advance $46.4B Budget,… Continue Reading →
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that private industry needs better safeguards to avoid calamitous consequences in the event of cyberattacks like the ones that have targeted American infrastructure and corporations. “You have to have a secondary method if your… Continue Reading →
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that private industry needs better safeguards to avoid calamitous consequences in the event of cyberattacks like the ones that have targeted American infrastructure and corporations. “You have to have a secondary method if your… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – An Indiana woman on Wednesday became the first of nearly 500 defendants to be sentenced for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and she avoided time behind bars. Anna Morgan Lloyd of Indiana was ordered… Continue Reading →
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Israel’s new Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Italy over the weekend, a senior State Department official and Israel’s foreign ministry said… Read more » The post Lapid to Meet Blinken in… Continue Reading →