Month August 2022

A tragic incident unfolded in White Lake, Sunday afternoon, when three people drowned in the water. Sources tell YWN that it appears that one victim fell off a pontoon, and two other people jumped off the same boat to assist… Continue Reading →

A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years. The rare Mantle… Continue Reading →

Famed Israeli singer Yishai Ribo released a new song on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Elul aptly named: “Soon It Will Open”. However, Ribo actually wrote the song, the first one he ever wrote with a partner, quite a while ago. During… Continue Reading →

The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy…. Continue Reading →

The infamous “knockout game,” in which mentally twisted people would approach random strangers and slug them in the face or back of the head is making a comeback, experts are warning. Following four recent such unprovoked attacks on New Yorkers,… Continue Reading →

HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Machpud, the Gaavad of Badatz Yoreh Deah, was hospitalized on Motzei Shabbos. Rav Machpud, 81, is also the leading Rav of the Yemenite community in Eretz Yisrael. According to family members, the Rav was feeling ill and… Continue Reading →

Chaz Andrews has wanted to join the Army since he was 19, but he has failed the service’s academic test more than 10 times over the past decade. Now, at age 29, Andrews thinks he has a real shot to… Continue Reading →

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Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.” Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as… Continue Reading →

After decades of failed attempts, Democrats passed legislation that aims to rein in the soaring costs of drugs for some in the United States. It will take years for people to realize some of the most significant savings promised in… Continue Reading →

Kneeling in a patch of yellow wildflowers, a Chechen soldier carefully attaches an explosive device to the bottom of a small drone. Seconds later, it is released. It explodes next to two old storefront mannequins set up 200 meters (yards)… Continue Reading →

A heatwave began throughout Israel on Sunday, with meteorologists saying that the temperatures over the next few days will be the hottest of the summer. There will be very hot and dry conditions and heavy to extreme heat stress in… Continue Reading →

Tens of thousands of children, bochurim and avreichim returned to their mosdos Torah on Sunday, Rosh Chodesh Elul in Eretz Yisrael. B’Chadrei Chareidim reported on what’s new in the Olam HaTorah and yeshivos. At Yeshivas Mir in Beis Yisrael, the largest… Continue Reading →

The brazen assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a handmade gun shocked a nation unused to high-profile political violence. But there has been another surprise in the weeks since the murder as details have emerged about an… Continue Reading →

Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood, testimony… Continue Reading →