Month July 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to impose new sanctions on Cuba on Friday as President Joe Biden meets with Cuban-American leaders at the White House to discuss a U.S. response to recent social protests on the island…. Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is the first country to start giving a third dose of the COVID vaccine shot to its population in an effort to stem the spread of the Delta variant. Those older than 60 are the first… Continue Reading →
Heading to Costco in Brick? Take along a quarter, as they started the $0.25 requirements again for shopping carts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call, according to handwritten notes from one of the participants in the conversation. “Just say the election was… Continue Reading →
In another dispiriting setback for the nation’s efforts stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first flight evacuating Afghans who worked alongside Americans in Afghanistan brought more than 200 people, including scores of children and babies in arms, to new lives in the United States on Friday, and President Joe Biden… Continue Reading →
UNESCO added to its list of world heritage sites the former Jewish cultural centers located on the Rhine river in Germany. The cities of Speyer, Worms, and Mainz, which were all very active centers of Jewish culture and learning have… Continue Reading →
Congress to get Trump’s Tax Returns – The income tax returns of former President Donald Trump must be released by the IRS to Congress, the Department of Justice said Friday. The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel in a written opinion said that the House Ways… Continue Reading →
The National Weather Service says it has confirmed that a pair of tornados touched down in Ocean County during Thursday evening’s violent storm. The twisters touched down in the Waretown and Cedar Bridge area in Barnegat Township, approximately 30 minutes… Continue Reading →
New evidence showing the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be more dangerous than other versions has prompted U.S. health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation fights the coronavirus, internal documents show. Recommending masks… Continue Reading →
Former channel 13 news presenter and journalist Oshrat Kotler published a letter thsi past week castigating Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for his claims that unvaccinated people are endangering public health. In a public post on Facebook that was written as… Continue Reading →
Interim NYC Transit president Sarah Feinberg is stepping down from her position after leading the agency that runs New York City’s subways and buses through the crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, she told the New York Post. But… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump pressed senior Justice Department officials in late 2020 to declare the election corrupt, even as those officials pushed back, warning the president that many of the claims… Read more » The post Former AG’s Notes Say Trump… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and private employer, is reversing its mask policy and will require all its workers including vaccinated ones in areas with high infection rates to wear masks. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based company says… Continue Reading →
An Illinois jury found that Johnson & Johnson isn’t responsible for the cancer that killed a woman whose family blamed the illness on the company’s talc-based powders. Jurors in St.… Read more » The post Johnson & Johnson Cleared of… Continue Reading →
According to a public opinion poll conducted by the Midgam polling organization and publicized by Channel 12 News, the public believes that there has been a drastic decline in how well the government handled the recent Coronavirus outbreak. 52 percent… Continue Reading →
A Hong Kong court sentenced the first person convicted under a Beijing-drafted national-security law to nine years in prison, a ruling that illustrates the high stakes facing dozens of pro-democracy… Read more » The post Hong Kong Jails Activist for… Continue Reading →
Gov. Murphy is in Toms River, visiting a park for the disabled which he allocated funds for.
Illinois could become the first US state to divest from Unilever over the decision of its subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s to stop ice cream sales in the West Bank. The Israeli Boycott Restrictions Committee of the Illinois Investment Policy Board is… Continue Reading →
Sharon Schechter escaped the South Florida condominium tower collapse with just the nightclothes she was wearing, so she cried shortly after when the Global Empowerment Mission gave her an electric toothbrush, a phone charger and a $500 gift card to… Continue Reading →
The National Weather Service on Friday confirmed at least one small tornado touched down in New Jersey, as forecasters examined whether there were others that followed a line of thunderstorms… Read more » The post Forecasters Confirm 1 Tornado in… Continue Reading →