Month July 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — Another experimental Alzheimer’s drug can modestly slow patients’ inevitable worsening — by about four to seven months, researchers reported Monday. Eli Lilly and Co. is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval of donanemab. If cleared, it would… Continue Reading →
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JERUSALEM (JNS) – For several years, a Ramat Gan store owner has found himself under fire from the municipality for opposing LGBTQ flags adorning the city’s thoroughfares, including in front of his shop, during the annual Pride Month (June). Facing… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York City will pay nearly $2 billion to minorities who wanted to teach in public school but failed the “racist” teacher exam. As part of a lawsuit settlement, the city is compensating blacks and Hispanics… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Twitter is heavily slanted against Israel, research presented to the Knesset suggests. According to the study, titled “Antizionism, Antisemitism and The Polarization Pendulum” and carried out by the Network Contagion Research Institute in partnership with the Ruderman… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JNS) – The sages informed King David early one morning that the Jewish people required financial assistance. “Let them go and support one another,” the biblical king told them, as the Talmud states in Berachot 3b. That remark—Ze… Continue Reading →
MIAMI (AP) — A month after former President Donald Trump was charged with mishandling classified documents, the judge presiding over the case is set to take on a more visible role as she weighs competing requests on a trial date… Continue Reading →
A freight train derailment in southeast Pennsylvania early Monday spurred precautionary evacuations, but officials said no injuries were reported and there was no known hazard to the public. The 40-car CSX train, which was operating on tracks owned by Norfolk… Continue Reading →
GOP and FBI Are at Odds as Republicans Move to Stop the Agency’s New Headquarters After Trump Probes
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might stop the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the Washington suburbs, it was more than idle thinking about an office renovation. The nod… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Edward Caban, who joined the New York Police Department as a young patrol officer in 1991 and rose through the ranks, was sworn in Monday as police commissioner, becoming the first Latino to lead the 178-year-old… Continue Reading →
Ford Slashes Prices for F-150 Lightning Electric Vehicles Due to Cheaper Raw Materials, Efficiencies
The sticker price on Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup is being lowered by thousands of dollars due to increased plant capacity, falling costs for battery raw materials and internal efforts to scale production by the Detroit automaker. Ford Motor Co…. Continue Reading →
CAIRO (AP) — A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least nine people dead, authorities said, as rescuers searched through the rubble. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a… Continue Reading →
Crews in suburban Philadelphia on Monday intensified the search for a missing 9-month-old boy and his 2-year-old sister, swept away after weekend rains swelled the banks of a creek while they were driving to a barbecue with their family. Upper… Continue Reading →
Donald Trump Jr. addressed the attendees of the Turning Point Action Conference over the weekend, where he veered off-topic to discuss allegations of cocaine being brought into the White House. Responding to an audience member’s prompt, Trump Jr. talked about… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Scammers targeting investors are using fears of a recession and high inflation to put new wrappers on their ruses, but the underlying scams are still pretty much the same, says Andrew Hartnett. He is president of… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana is expected to sell for more than $50,000 at auction. The playfully patterned wool jumper featuring a single black sheep amid a… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met on Sunday with a senior official of an African Muslim country with no diplomatic ties to the Jewish state. The meeting took place under the condition that the name of the… Continue Reading →
AMITYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Detectives investigating the long-unsolved murders known as the Gilgo Beach killings searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend, police said. Suffolk County police confirmed Monday that detectives executed a… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday the appointment of Col. Sharon Itach as Israel’s first-ever military attaché to Morocco, which normalized relations with Jerusalem as part of the Trump administration-brokered Abraham Accords. Itach, who is of… Continue Reading →
A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least nine people dead, authorities said, as rescuers searched through the rubble. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance… Continue Reading →
HONG KONG (AP) — Schools and the stock market were closed in Hong Kong on Monday as Typhoon Talim sideswiped the city and headed toward landfall on the Chinese mainland and the island province of Hainan. Safety alerts were issued… Continue Reading →