Authorities in Panama are searching for two American women – one of them Jewish – who are missing after the light aircraft they were on crashed into the sea off
Months after requesting documents from more than a dozen social platforms, the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas targeting Twitter, Meta, Reddit and YouTube after lawmakers said the companies’ initial responses were inadequate. The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, demanded records Thursday from the companies relating to their role in allegedly spreading […]
More than 80 fact checking organizations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform. In a letter to CEO Susan Wojcicki published Wednesday, the groups say the Google-owned video platform is “one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide.” YouTube’s efforts to address the problem, […]
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s refusal to provide information to a bipartisan House committee about his call with then-President Donald Trump during the Capitol riot is deepening a standoff between the committee and GOP lawmakers, forcing investigators to consider whether they could subpoena one of their own. McCarthy joined two other Trump allies, Reps. Jim Jordan […]
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Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood is in agreement with Georgian Court University, also of Lakewood, to buy a large parcel of land in order to build apartment buildings, The Voice of Lakewood is reporting. According to The Voice report, BMG has entered into a contract with the University to buy 44 acres of its current campus, […]
All but acknowledging defeat, President Joe Biden said Thursday he’s “not sure” the Democrats’ major elections and voting rights legislation can pass Congress this year. He spoke at the Capitol after a key fellow Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, dramatically announced her refusal to go along with changing Senate rules to muscle the bill […]
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, and 10 other members or associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the violent attack on
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation’s largest school district to return to some form of virtual instruction as the city weathers a wave of coronavirus cases, a reversal from his pledge a week ago to keep children in schools. Adams said at a news conference Thursday that he still believes […]
The air conditioners hum constantly in the lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, countering the heat thrown off by rows of high-tech sequencing machines that work seven days a week
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky on Thursday sent a shliach to deliver handwritten divrei tanchumim from himself to HaRav Shmuel Kamenetzky, who is sitting shiva following the petirah of his wife,
Russia on Thursday sharply raised the stakes in its dispute with the West over Ukraine, with a top diplomat refusing to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States mount. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation in Monday’s talks with the U.S. in […]
The Lakewood Police Department is investigating an attempted luring that occurred at approximately 8 am Thursday morning. According to a report from The Lakewood Scoop, a nine-year-old boy was walking
Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight
With varying degrees of enthusiasm, senior British government ministers on Thursday expressed support for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and rejected demands he resign for attending a garden party during the country’s first coronavirus lockdown. Many other Conservatives held their tongues, waiting to see whether the crisis threatening Johnson’s premiership will fade or intensify. Johnson […]
HaGaon HaRav Yosef Efrati, who heads the Beis Medrash L’Halacha B’Hisyashvus, paskened on Tuesday that it’s forbidden to plant trees in the Negev during Shemita despite fears of the Bedouin
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana on Wednesday revealed the details of his giyur reform plan, which will be brought for a vote in the Knesset in three weeks. Although Kahana
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com You followed that crucial advice that your grandparents gave you to maintain three separate bank accounts – a checking account, a savings account, and a “stash” account. The stash account was only to be used for real estate. You listened to their wise, five-step advice and: You put 5 […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a crazy and highly experimental surgery conducted last week and first revealed this past Monday. 57-year-old David Bennet was ineligible for a human heart transplant. Instead, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine transplanted within him, a heart from a genetically modified pig. Six human […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom solicited donations totaling nearly $227 million from Facebook, Google, Blue Shield and other private California companies and organizations to combat the coronavirus pandemic and help run parts of his administration, according to a report Thursday by the state’s political watchdog agency. “Behested payments” are contributions solicited by an elected official to be […]
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