U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranking Republican leader in the Senate, announced Saturday he is seeking reelection to a fourth term in 2022. Thune, who turned 61
Fully vaccinated and mostly masked, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical Friday of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers. The court seemed more open to a separate vaccine mandate for most health care workers. The arguments in the two cases come at a time of spiking […]
Federal prosecutors want convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to use a $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus payment he received as well as other money held in his inmate trust account to help pay the millions of dollars he was ordered to pay his victims. In a filing Wednesday, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston asked a […]
The U.S. trade deficit surged to a near-record high of $80.2 billion in November as exports slowed at the same time that imports jumped sharply. The November deficit was 19.3%
A deeply divided Congress is showing the world a very unsettled view from the U.S. Capitol: Rather than a national crisis that pulls the country together, the deadly riot on
A New York man has been arrested on charges that he worked as a secret and unregistered agent of the Egyptian government, including by sharing information with American law enforcement
Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago. The outburst of instability is causing significant concern in Kazakhstan’s two powerful neighbors: Russia and China. The country sells most of its oil exports to China and is a key strategic ally of Moscow. A sudden spike in […]
French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of
A Jerusalem municipal planning committee approved a plan on Wednesday for 3,557 new housing units in Jerusalem. A new Jewish neighborhood being planned between Givat HaMatos and Har Homa will
Two Israeli six-year-olds passed away on Thursday in the pediatric intensive care unit at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. Both children had serious preexisting illnesses and their condition worsened after
Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan (Meretz) excoriated Jews who remained in Homesh after the terror attack last month that killed Yehuda Dimentman, h’yd , calling them “subhuman.” Dimentman, z’l, learned
Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman filed a complaint on Wednesday to the Ombudsman for Public Complaints against Chief Rabbi HaRav Lau for his letter threatening to freeze giyur if the head
The World Health Organization said Thursday that a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71% increase from the previous 7-day period that the U.N. health agency likened to a “tsunami.” However, the number of weekly recorded deaths declined. “Last […]
A Jewish man niftar some 75 years ago and buried in a non-Jewish cemetery was brought to kever yisroel by Chesed Shel Emes, who invested immense efforts into helping the
Europe’s sky is filling up with near-empty polluting planes that serve little other purpose than safeguarding airlines’ valuable time slots at some of the world’s most important airports. The highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 has put many off flying, and because of it, getting people and goods from point A to point B has […]
New York City’s new mayor says he picked Keechant Sewell as the city’s first female police commissioner partly because of her poise in handling a mock crisis he threw at her in the interview process. Within hours of her Jan. 1 swearing-in, Sewell was confronted with a real one: an officer shot outside a police […]
Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million, officials said. The Wisconsin Lottery said Thursday the winning ticket in its
North Korea claimed Thursday to have conducted the second successful test flight of a hypersonic missile, days after leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his military forces despite pandemic-related difficulties. Wednesday’s launch, the North’s first known weapons test in about two months, indicates the country will press ahead with plans to modernize its nuclear […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com During the period of shovevim tat, and of Tu B’shvat, it might be appropriate to go back to basics . Reciting brachos properly and with the correct intent are certainly “the basics.” Yet, it is amazing what these “basics” can accomplish. Some of us learned these fundamentals in school […]
Hundreds of thousands of Chicago students remained out of school for a second straight day Thursday after leaders of the nation’s third-largest school district failed to resolve a deepening clash with the influential teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols. The Chicago Teachers Union, which voted to revert to online instruction, told teachers to stay home […]
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