Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans. The stunning move comes after House Republican leaders pushed ahead with a health care bill that does […]
House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a GOP health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums millions of Americans will soon endure as pandemic-era tax credits for people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act expire at year’s end. Speaker Mike Johnson had discussed the prospect of allowing more politically vulnerable GOP […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded his administration’s travel ban, barring holders of Palestinian Authority passports from entering the United States and adding five more nationalities to a list of countries facing full entry prohibitions. The new restrictions, announced in a White House social media post and detailed in an accompanying fact sheet, are scheduled […]
A Queens Republican councilwoman is facing intense political backlash after posting — and later deleting — remarks calling for the “expulsion of Muslims” from Western countries in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attack at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney. Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who represents parts of northeastern Queens, wrote on social media following the […]
A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, saying she was illegally fired for warning that abrupt research cuts were endangering patients and
The Knesset on Wednesday approved a bill enshrining the right to express Jewish identity in public spaces in a preliminary reading, with 49 in favor and 35 opposed. The bill, entitled “Realization of Jewish Identity in Public Spaces,” legislates the right to express Jewish identity in public spaces and state?funded institutions, protecting the practice of […]
Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats. Moore said in his veto letter in May that it was a difficult decision to veto the bill, which […]
From scraped knees to unexpected emergencies, parents deserve to know their children are in the best hands. The all-new Pediatric ER at Maimonides Children’s Hospital combines specialized pediatric expertise with
A prominent Jewish bakery in Sydney has closed its doors, citing years of antisemitic harassment and a deteriorating security environment in the aftermath of the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack that killed 15 people. Patrons arriving Tuesday morning at Avner’s Bakery in Surry Hills were met with the shop’s small blue door firmly shut and […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul has handed Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani an early—and controversial—assist, vetoing legislation that would have stripped New York City’s next mayor of a powerful tool to sideline City Council–backed ballot proposals. The veto, issued quietly earlier this month, killed a bill that would have curtailed the mayor’s ability to “bump” City Council–approved charter amendments […]
To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ. In fact, they doled out millions for the final pennies circulated in the
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday night that antisemitism is growing inside Congress, using a White House Chanukah party to sound an alarm about waning support for Israel in Washington. Speaking
Agudath Israel of America has filed an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief in a federal appeals case alleging that the Town of Forestburgh engaged in discrimination to block an Orthodox Jewish housing development, citing concerns about antisemitism in local land-use decisions. The case, Lost Lake Holdings, LLC v. Town of Forestburgh, is […]
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for
A woman who allegedly pushed razor blades into loaves of bread at two Biloxi, Mississippi, Walmart stores was arrested on Tuesday. Camille Benson, 33, of Texas, has been charged with
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January, insisting he won’t allow operations in the airspace over the nation’s capital to revert back to the way they were before the crash. Administrator Bryan Bedford gave […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning halted his testimony in his ongoing court trial on Wednesday morning to speak with Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, the father-in-law of Rabbi Eliyahu Schlanger,
Sydney terrorist Naveed Akram, 24, who carried out Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach together with his father, was charged on Wednesday with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of murder. Following
Hundreds of people flocked to Chabad of Bondi on Wednesday morning to attend the levaya of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, H’yd, a 41-year-old Chabad shliach murdered in Sunday’s massacre while hosting a Chanukah celebration “We kept hoping over the last three days that we would wake up and somehow realize that this was all just a […]
At approximately 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday, FDNY firefighters and multiple other emergency personnel responded to a massive fire at the Boro Park Matzah Bakery, located at 1285 36th Street. Upon
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