Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its sixth day on Tuesday, with a huge convoy of Russian tanks and armored vehicles inching closer to the capital of Kyiv and fighting intensifying there and in other big cities. Russia stepped up shelling of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, and pounded several civilian buildings. More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers […]
Many Chabad Rabbanim who until now have faithfully remained in Ukraine and tended to local Jews, had no choice but to flee Ukraine overnight Monday as the danger in the
In an overnight rescue operation, dozens of yeshivah bochurim from a Chabad yeshivah in Dnipro, Ukraine’s third-largest city, began a three-part journey to continue their learning on safer grounds outside
President Joe Biden sat through many State of the Union speeches as a senator and vice president. On Tuesday night, he’ll deliver the address himself. But it comes at a challenging time for Biden, who is weighed down by public disapproval of his handling of the economy and the pandemic. The address also comes days […]
A man shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls Monday at a church in Sacramento, California, authorities said. Deputies responding
In the dust, debris and the dead lying in Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square, Ukrainians on Tuesday saw what might become of other cities if Russia’s invasion isn’t countered in time. Not long after sunrise, a Russian military strike hit the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, badly damaging its symbolic Soviet-era regional administration building. Closed-circuit television […]
Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday. A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer’s shipment of onions on Sunday and officers found nearly 1,200 small packages of meth, […]
For two decades, Vladimir Putin has struck rivals as reckless, impulsive. But his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether the Russian president has become dangerously unstable. In recent days, Putin has rambled on television about Ukraine, […]
All day long, the trains and buses taking people from Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns are carrying large numbers of citizens of other countries whose lives have
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A senior Western intelligence official briefed by multiple intelligence agencies estimated Tuesday that more than 5,000 Russian soldiers have been captured or killed so far, and that Ukrainian forces have
Oil prices soared Tuesday and investors shifted more money into ultra-safe U.S. government bonds as Russia stepped up its war on Ukraine. Stocks fell following a volatile day for major
Apparently once wasn’t enough for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff has confirmed that Russian airstrikes have struck and damaged the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial
The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia and the resulting crash of the ruble have the Kremlin scrambling to keep the country’s economy running. For Vladimir Putin, that means finding workarounds to the Western economic blockade even as his forces continue to invade Ukraine. Former Treasury Department officials and sanctions experts expect Russia to try to […]
Schoolchildren in California, Oregon and Washington will no longer be required to wear masks as part of new indoor mask policies the Democratic governors of all three states announced jointly on Monday. “With declining case rates and hospitalizations across the West, California, Oregon and Washington are moving together to update their masking guidance,” the governors […]
The Syrian Jewish community in the United States held an emergency meeting on Monday afternoon to raise funds for Ukrainian Jews living under the cloud of war and to coordinate
Conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity didn’t mince words on Monday night, stating that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be removed from power “by whatever means necessary.” Hannity said that
From a tent in the rebel-held pocket of Syria, Ahmad Rakan has closely followed news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. More than two years ago, a Russian airstrike destroyed his house in a nearby village during a months-long Syrian government offensive backed by Moscow’s firepower that drove him and tens of thousands of others from […]
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