President Joe Biden announced Thursday that hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children will be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Acts health insurance exchanges. The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to access government-funded health insurance programs. […]
Tova Gutstein was born in Warsaw the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. She was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched the first act of collective defiance against the Nazis in Europe. Now 90, she is among the few remaining witnesses of the ghetto uprising and a vanishing […]
The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits filed by two people who said former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into their
China sanctioned a United States lawmaker Thursday for his visit to Taiwan, saying he violated the One China principle that says Beijing has sovereignty over the island. The mainlands ruling Communist Party says Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949 amid a civil war, must be reunited with China by force if necessary. Beijing […]
Israels national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing Israeli school trips to Poland, saying it recommends a number of problematic sites that distort history. Yad Vashem issued its statement weeks after Israel and Poland announced a breakthrough agreement meant to repair ties that had been badly damaged due to disagreements over how to […]
Thousands of people participated in the sichas haChag of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein on Monday, Chol Hamoed Pesach, which was shared in many locations via live broadcast. The Rosh Yeshivah
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped NPRs account with labels the news organization says are intended to undermine its credibility. Twitter labeled NPRs main account last week as state-affiliated media, a term also used to identify media outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian […]
Montana lawmakers moved one step closer Thursday to passing a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move thats bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned. Montanas proposal, which has backing from the states GOP-controlled legislature, is […]
The Israeli woman killed in South Korea in a bus accident on Thursday was identified on Friday as Rita Schwartzberg, a’h, 60, from Hadera. According to a statement from the
Beit Shemesh resident Yisrael Levinstein, z’l, 22, was killed on Tuesday evening, Chol Hamoed Pesach, in an ATV accident in Beit Shemesh. The Levinstein family was enjoying a Chol Hamoed
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Former President Donald Trump answered questions for nearly seven hours Thursday during his second deposition in a legal battle with New Yorks attorney general over his companys business practices, reversing an earlier decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and remain silent. The Republican met all day with lawyers for Attorney General Letitia […]
The water was rising around her car, and Amanda Valentine thought she was going to die. She had just gotten a warning on her phone about flash flooding, and now it was all around her. I called my parents like, Im going to die. Like Im going to drown. Theres no way for me to […]
More than a dozen vehicles were damaged or destroyed in a big fire at the parking lot of the Armon Hotel in Stamford Connecticut where the “Chop A Nosh” Pesach
A tech consultant was arrested and charged with murder Thursday in the stabbing death of the gregarious and popular Cash App founder Bob Lee last week in downtown San Francisco,
Holding up his family history as an example, President Joe Biden on Thursday told lawmakers in a packed parliament building that the story of Irish immigrants setting sail for the U.S. is at the very heart of what binds Ireland and America together. Like so many countries around the world, though perhaps more than most, […]
The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature on Thursday approved a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a proposal supported by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares for an expected
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a roughly $6 billion legal settlement to go forward that will cancel student loans for hundreds of thousands of borrowers who say they were
North Korea said Friday it has successfully test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile powered by solid propellants, a development that if confirmed could possibly provide the country with a harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States. North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency issued the report a day after its neighbors detected the launch from […]
A Massachusetts Air National Guard member was arrested Thursday in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues, an alarming breach that has raised fresh questions about Americas ability to safeguard its most sensitive secrets. The guardsman, an IT specialist identified as 21-year-old Jack […]
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