In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. While it’s too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the […]
IDF soldiers in a religious battalion of the Golani Brigade refused to donate blood due to the omission of “mother” and “father” from the MDA donation forms, Arutz Sheva reported on Monday. Many Dati Leumi Rabbanim have banned their talmidim from donating blood since Magen David Adom replaced the words “father” and “mother” with “parent […]
Aviran Yael fetched rapid antigen kits from a pharmacy in Tel Aviv’s busy center, placed them in the light blue bag strapped to the back of his motorbike and headed off to deliver them. With that, Yael on Monday joined a growing army of couriers toting Wolt delivery boxes around Israel, a sight that has […]
Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild
A young woman was the victim of an attempted assault in Boro Park, Tuesday night. Sources tell YWN that the suspect approached a 16-year-old girl on 60th Street near 18th
Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash on Tuesday evening announced that the quarantine period for Israelis with COVID has been shortened to seven days from ten, as long as they
It started as just another January morning, the damp chill prompting a family on the third floor of a drafty Bronx apartment tower to run a space heater for extra
A lucky man has a group of police officers to thank after they dragged him from his crash-landed plane just second before a train blasted the aircraft to pieces. The
A group of eight House and Senate lawmakers have launched the Abraham Accords Caucus in Congress, which seeks to support and promote the normalization agreements between Israel and Arab States.
Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein, a contributor to the British BBC news outlet for three decades, said he is cutting off his relationship with the media giant over its skewed and slanted
Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen, who is a talmid muvhak of HaGaon Rav Yitzchak Berkovits and is a founder of Hilchos Bein Adam Lchaveiro Program, will be giving a Zoom Shiur on
Two men on Oklahoma’s death row — at the prodding of a federal judge — agreed to choose execution by firing squad as a way to delay their upcoming lethal injections, one of their attorneys told the judge. The two inmates, Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle, want U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot to grant them […]
The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department’s top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an “elevated” threat from violent extremists in the United States. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, testifying just days after the nation observed the one-year anniversary of the violent insurrection at the […]
The United States on Tuesday announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban
BRAZIL – The scorching Amazon sun beats down as a group of agents inspect the body of a black helicopter. Nearby, in the backyard of the federal police headquarters in the city of Boa Vista, sit more than twenty aircraft — all seized. Some bear signs of violent crashes: caved-in cockpits with wings broken off. […]
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Bank of America is slashing the amount it charges customers when they spend more than they have in their accounts and plans to eliminate entirely its fees for bounced checks. It’s the latest move by the nation’s biggest banks to roll back the overdraft fees they long charged customers, fees that often amount to hundreds […]
Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday
Russian officials on Tuesday sounded the alarm about a looming surge of coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious omicron variant, but stopped short of announcing new restrictions in a hard-hit country where very few limits are in place. Russia already has by far Europe’s highest pandemic toll at over 317,000 dead. The warning on […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly lashed out at Republican senators during a testy hearing on Tuesday, during which he accused Senator Rand Paul of inciting harassment against him and called Senator Roger Marshall a “moron” on a hot mic. “What happens when he gets out and accuses me of things that are completely untrue,” Fauci said […]
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