Month August 2021
Tropical Storm Ida prompted a hurricane watch for New Orleans and an emergency declaration for the state of Louisiana as it pushed across the Caribbean toward an anticipated strike on… Read more » The post Tropical Storm Ida a Hurricane… Continue Reading →
A man charged with stabbing a rabbi outside a Jewish school in Boston was ordered held without bail Thursday pending a dangerousness hearing as his attorney described him as suffering… Read more » The post Man Charged With Stabbing Rabbi… Continue Reading →
A vehicle flipped at the intersection of Carey and Madison. The patient was extricated and being transported by Hatzolah to JSUMC with paramedics.
Texas Republicans brought back their voting bill Monday with no changes as some Democrats returned to the Capitol for the first time since ending their holdout, making it clear that… Read more » The post With Democrats Back, Texas GOP… Continue Reading →
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ended the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions imposed by President Joe Biden’s administration in a challenge to the policy brought by a coalition… Read more » The post Supreme Court Ends CDC’s Pandemic… Continue Reading →
There is a big question on the minds of many people in Lakewood over the past few long weeks. Who comes up with the school calendar? The schools seem to be completely in sync with each other, but don’t seem… Continue Reading →
An Israeli citizen who runs a kosher restaurant in the Moroccan city of Tangier was murdered on Wednesday. A homeless man stabbed the Israeli, 36, in broad daylight as he was providing him food. He was rushed to the hospital… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. The court’s action late… Continue Reading →
Kentucky and Texas joined a growing list of states that are seeing record numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a surge that is overwhelming doctors and nurses and afflicting more children. Intensive care units around the nation are packed with… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there two years ago…. Continue Reading →
A video of a Blackhawk helicopter moving on the ground at the Kandahar airport has surfaced triggering the speculation whether the Taliban have trained pilots among them. The video, however, does not show who was controlling the helicopter and the… Continue Reading →
Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, the head of the Health Ministry’s Public Health division, told Kikar H’Shabbat in an interview on Wednesday that the reason for the rise in the infection rate in the Chareidi sector is due to the opening of… Continue Reading →
In the twilight hours before Shmitah begins, join Keren Hashviis for a historic asifa on mitzvas Shmitah When the new year begins, so does the farmer’s impossible task. Despite having a family to support and bills to pay, he will… Continue Reading →
The attorney for parents suing to overturn Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order banning strong student mask mandates told a judge Thursday that it violates the authority of school districts to decide health issues on their campuses — something the… Continue Reading →
Illinois health care workers and educators from kindergarten through college will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday in announcing new safety protocols that also include a fresh statewide mandate… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan despite the deadly suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport. He also promised to avenge the deaths, declaring to the extremists… Continue Reading →
President Biden told reporters Thursday that he bears responsibility for the “messy” evacuation and consequential suicide bombings in Kabul. “I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that’s happened,” Biden told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy following a press briefing. “You know… Continue Reading →
Mexico’s president again sidestepped questions Thursday about the reinstatement of the U.S. “Remain in Mexico” policy. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Mexico will continue helping the United States on immigration. But he noted “it can’t go on forever,” and… Continue Reading →
The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light. The federal Bureau of… Read more » The post U.S. Closing Metropolitan Correction Center… Continue Reading →