Month January 2023
Wisconsin and North Carolina have joined at least 22 other states in banning the popular social media app TikTok on state-owned devices, including Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana and South Dakota. Congress also recently banned TikTok from most U.S. government-issued devices over… Continue Reading →
(AP) – Apple CEO Tim Cook will take a more than 40% pay cut this year from a year earlier as the company adjusts how it calculates his compensation partly based on a recommendation from Cook himself. Apple Inc. said… Continue Reading →
The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department probes into the discovery of classified documents at the home and former office of President Joe Biden has focused renewed attention on the role such prosecutors have played in… Continue Reading →
DOWNLOAD FOR SHABBAS READING By: Chaya Chazan While looking into various options for shlichus, we were seriously interested in one specific place. We spent a couple of weeks there – and loved it. As per the Rebbe’s instructions, we spoke… Continue Reading →
Talks between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia are continuing and could eventually restore diplomatic relations that were severed years ago, Iran’s foreign minister said Friday. Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters in Beirut Friday that he met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Friday that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default. In a letter to House and Senate… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW (AP) – As Russian troops wage a ferocious house-to-house fight for control of strongholds in eastern Ukraine, a parallel battle is unfolding in the top echelons of military power in Moscow, with President Vladimir Putin reshuffling his top generals… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — With its sales slowing and its stock price tumbling, Tesla Inc. slashed prices dramatically Friday on several versions of its electric vehicles, making some of its models eligible for a new federal tax credit that could help… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Rabbi Ephraim BranderSon Rabbi Aaron BranderSon Rabbi Moshe BranderSon Mrs. Rochel DowekDaughter Mrs. Shifra WeisenfeldDaughter Mrs. Aliza DinerDaughter
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chaos? In the House of Representatives? Republican Kevin McCarthy wrapped his first full week as House speaker in the most outwardly orderly way, with hardly a hint of the chaotic, rebellious fight it took for the Republicans… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it’s just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking… Continue Reading →
PARIS (AP) — Paris authorities are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl who was found in the washing machine of her family’s apartment, prosecutors said. An investigation was opened Friday into the cause of death after the child was… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s outgoing army chief on Friday warned against plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s new coalition to grant more control to pro-settler lawmakers and make other changes to the Israeli security establishment, joining a loud chorus of criticism against… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday as punishment for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an… Continue Reading →
Family getting up: Thursday (1/19/23)Morning R’ Julse KunofskySon R’ Velvel KunofskySon
WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — In a stunning twist, left-leaning CNN quoted a source who said that part of what prompted AG Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel was the White House misleading the public and withholding key… Continue Reading →
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mega Millions players will have another chance Friday night to end months of losing and finally win a jackpot that has grown to $1.35 billion. Plenty of people have won smaller prizes in the lottery… Continue Reading →
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Crews worked through the night searching for people trapped after a deadly storm system spawned tornadoes across parts of the U.S. South, killing at least seven people and causing substantial damage in the historic city of… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three youths aged 16, 17 and 18 were killed and two other people moderately injured after a late-night collision between two cars near the community of Beit Hillel in the northern Galilee. Initial police investigations of the… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 6tjt.com Two young women—by the initials of HM and AM—have been arguing over the same issue since they were in the third grade; they are now in high school. HM always wanted the window open,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In what has been viewed by many as a media gimmick, former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak was photographed by the Mishpacha magazine wearing Tefillin. At the end of a stormy interview with journalist Aryeh… Continue Reading →