Month June 2023

BEIJING (AP) — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up a trip to China Friday after seeking economic aid and voicing support for Beijing’s repressive policies toward Muslim minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. During his four-day visit, Abbas met… Continue Reading →

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government on Friday rejected as “far-fetched and unprofessional” a report by a U.S. security firm that blamed Chinese-linked hackers for attacks on hundreds of public agencies, schools and other targets around the world. A foreign ministry… Continue Reading →

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yoseph, a Baal Teshuvah who was studying in Kollel, had a somewhat strained relationship with his non-observant father.  At a bris for Yoseph’s son, the Mashgiach of the Yeshiva approached his father and said,… Continue Reading →

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — The suspect charged with fatally stabbing an ex-con who punched his friend on a subway this week was released without bail. The presiding judge refused a request by Assistant DA David Ingle to slap a $100,000 bail on… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Make that one less legal headache for Donald Trump. A suburban New York prosecutor said Thursday that she has closed a multiyear investigation that focused in part on whether the twice-indicted former president or his company… Continue Reading →

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Amazon unveiled the first phase of its new headquarters complex in Virginia Thursday, a pair of gleaming, amenity-packed office towers that its leaders hope will persuade employees accustomed to working from home during the pandemic to… Continue Reading →

TORONTO (AP) — A bus carrying mostly seniors collided with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection in a rural part of the province of Manitoba on Thursday, killing 15 people and injuring 10 more, Canadian police said. Rob Hill,… Continue Reading →

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A federal judge in Argentina has called on Interpol to detain four Lebanese citizens, so they can be questioned for their suspected role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — According to a bombshell report, there are 17 secret recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly taking bribes from Ukraine. The source of this bombshell is not some crazy right-winger. It’s Senator Chuck Grassley, who… Continue Reading →

US CAPITOL (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Rockland Congressman Mike Lawler was one of 20 House Republicans who voted not to censure and fine Adam Schiff on Wednesday. In a tweet explaining his reasoning for going against the majority of… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Bayer, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, has agreed to pay $6.9 million to settle allegations by New York’s attorney general that its Monsanto unit made false and misleading claims about the safety of the weedkiller Roundup…. Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a man who put an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal chokehold, prosecutors confirmed Thursday. Daniel Penny was initially charged with manslaughter last month in the May 1… Continue Reading →

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations launched a tirade against fossil fuel companies Thursday, accusing them of betraying future generations and undermining efforts to phase out a product he called “incompatible with human survival.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres… Continue Reading →

NEW YORK (AP) – The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today’s vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic — even though that was long ago supplanted by… Continue Reading →