Month September 2022

Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she… Continue Reading →

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search Monday afternoon for nine people, including a child, who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. The body of a 10th person was recovered by… Continue Reading →

At least 46 people were reported killed in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a… Continue Reading →

The Israeli army said Monday there was a “high possibility” that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in the West Bank last May, as it announced the results of its investigation into the incident. In a briefing to… Continue Reading →

Europe’s largest nuclear plant was knocked off Ukraine’s electricity grid Monday after its last transmission line was disconnected as a result of a fire caused by Russian shelling, the facility’s operator said. Russian forces have kept up “intensive shelling” of… Continue Reading →

A court in Moscow on Monday found a former journalist guilty of treason and sentenced him to 22 years in a maximum security prison, concluding a trial that has been widely seen as politically motivated. The sentence handed to Ivan… Continue Reading →

A 21-year-old yeshiva bochur was critically injured on Sunday evening after his car collided with the back of a truck on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. Rescue services extricated the victim from his car, which was trapped underneath the truck and… Continue Reading →

A popular kosher Chinese restaurant in Manalapan, NJ, has suddenly closed its doors to business after serious allegations against the eatery surfaced on Monday morning. Video of an individual who is ostensibly the owner of the restaurant shows the man… Continue Reading →

As a child, Liz Truss marched in demonstrations against Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As an adult, she came to admire Britain’s first female leader — and now she is about to enter No. 10 Downing St. with a Thatcherite… Continue Reading →

If the Agudah Won’t Stand Up for Chaim, Who Will? Ensuring a Torah-true education for our children Teaching is in my blood. My mother was a teacher, my grandmother was a teacher, my great-grandmother was a teacher, and I’m certain… Continue Reading →

One person was killed and nine people remained missing after a float plane crashed in the Puget Sound in Washington state on Sunday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The agency said via Twitter Sunday afternoon that the plane was flying… Continue Reading →

OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, cut their supplies to the global economy by 100,000 barrels per day, underlining their unhappiness with crude prices that have sagged because of recession fears. The decision Monday by energy ministers means the… Continue Reading →

Four IDF soldiers were lightly injured on Sunday night after Arab terrorists opened fire on an IDF post near the yishuv of Chalamish in Binyamin with a hunting rifle. The soldiers received emergency medical aid at the scene and one… Continue Reading →

China has locked down 65 million of its citizens under tough COVID-19 restrictions and is discouraging domestic travel during upcoming national holidays. Across the country, 33 cities including seven provincial capitals are under full or partial lockdown covering more than… Continue Reading →