Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June. It accelerated. For the 12 months ending in June, the government’s consumer price index rocketed 9.1%, the fastest year-over-year jump since 1981. And that was nothing next to what energy prices did: Fueled by heavy demand and by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, energy costs shot up nearly […]
A Twitter employee told the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that people might die the next day during a rally that former President Donald Trump regularly promoted with angry rhetoric on his social media accounts. The Twitter employee’s worst fears […]
A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In Portugal, Civil Protection commander André Fernandes said that multiple fires have caused the evacuation of more than 600 people. About 120 […]
Yitzy Birnbaum is not your average teenager. Right before his Bar Mitzvah he was diagnosed with leukemia, and for the past three years, the once fun-loving and friendly boy has
After a successful pilot run this past Shabbos, a sit-down Shalosh Seudos will be available for mispallelim at the Kosel each week, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation announced on Wednesday.
In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol for what turned into the deadly riot, the House Jan. 6 committee […]
With Donald Trump gearing up to mount another bid for the White House, a new poll shows Republicans’ waning interest in the former president and his stock significantly weakened among
Bill Gates, concerned about the “significant suffering” caused by global setbacks including the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Wednesday that he will donate $20 billion to his foundation so it can increase its annual spending. The donation, combined with longtime board member Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s $3.1 billion gift last month, brings The Bill and Melinda […]
Three people have been arrested on hate crime charges for blanketing a small upstate New York city with white supremacist pamphlets, authorities said. The racist, antisemitic literature was left at locations including a synagogue and a largely Black church in Hornell, in New York’s Southern Tier, Police Chief T.J. Murray said Monday in a Facebook […]
Two candidates were knocked out of the race to replace U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, leaving six lawmakers battling to lead a Conservative Party — and a country — hoping to move on from months of scandal and division. Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi failed to reach the […]
An Orthodox Jewish man was the victim of a brutal attack in Crown Heights on Wednesday afternoon on Schenectady Avenue and Montgomery Street. The victim, Yossy Hershkop, who is a
For many years, US President Joe Biden has enjoyed retelling the story of his meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Gold Meir in 1973, when Biden was a 30-year-old newly elected
A protest against US President Joe Biden’s planned visit to east Jerusalem on Friday was banned by Israel Police. Biden will not only be the first US president in history to visit east Jerusalem, a violation of the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, but he has also denied Israel’s request to be […]
A Maryland man who used a lacrosse stick attached to a Confederate battle flag to shove a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Wednesday to five
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Poland and Israel have taken a step toward normalizing diplomatic ties, the Polish president said Tuesday, as the Israeli ambassador officially presented his credentials in Warsaw. President Andrzej Duda tweeted that he and Israeli President Issac Herzog have “agreed that it’s time to return to normal relations.” He said the “first step” was taken when […]
A bomb threat at City College, a Jewish-owned school in Hollywood, Florida, caused a frantic evacuation at the institution on Tuesday, with dozens of law enforcement officers converging at the
An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano’s crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and the association of Vesuvius park guides said. The tourist and family members were cited by Carabinieri police because they went off the authorized path […]
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