Anxiety about the safety of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant grew Sunday after the Moscow-installed governor of the Ukrainian region where it is located ordered civilian evacuations, including from the city where most plant workers live. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi has spent months trying to persuade Russian and Ukrainian officials to […]
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that there are “no good options” for the United States to avoid an economic “calamity” if Congress fails to raise the nation’s borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion in the coming weeks. She did not rule out President Joe Biden bypassing lawmakers and acting on his own to try to […]
I’m somewhat shocked at the way YWN has been covering the Jordan Neely story. Instead of describing what truly happened and who Neely really was, you seem to have been
The Arab League agreed Sunday to reinstate Syria, ending a 12-year suspension and taking another step toward bringing Syrian President Bashar Assad, a long-time regional pariah, back into the fold. Some influential league members remain opposed to reinstating Syria, chief among them Qatar, which did not send its foreign minister to Sunday’s gathering. Thirteen out […]
Tucker Carlson, former host at Fox News, is reportedly planning a battle with the network as he seeks to break his contract prior to its January 2025 end date. Carlson has been telling friends he wants to get out “quiet and clean”, but according to Axios, he is about to change tactics and escalate his […]
Two oil tankers recently seized by Iran are anchored off the coast of one of its key port cities on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, according to satellite photos analyzed
A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll has revealed that US President Joe Biden is facing a challenging re-election campaign, as the majority of American adults do not believe he has
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com For the refuaah shleima of Maayan Tikvah Bhatia, a 9 year old girl, who needs a refu’ah shleimah bim’heira We never lose when we take a few extra seconds to put more emphasis in our brachos. Putting more kavana in our brachos instead of mumbling them can have enormous […]
A 96-year-old World War II veteran who had not merited to receive his bris at its proper time, finally had the procedure performed at the Chabad-led Jewish Russian Community Center
The leaders of the left-wing protests against the Netanyahu government discussed the dwindling number of people at recent protests and the difficulty in recruiting new ones in a closed Zoom
The California Reparations Task Force has voted to recommend that qualifying black residents receive payments of up to $1.2 million from the state, and that California should issue a formal
The Israel Police’s crisis negotiation unit aided the Romanian police on Friday in ending a 30-hour hostage crisis in Bucharest involving a young child. The incident began on Thursday morning
The boycott against Angel Bakery that began on Thursday continued on Sunday but as of yet there has been no official response from the company. However, Yoel Spiegel, the grandson of the founder of Angel Bakery, responded to the boycott by inciting against the Chareidi sector in a post that was later removed by Facebook […]
Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper has been suspended after uttering what sounded like a racial slur while describing a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. NBC Sports California said in a statement Saturday that Kuiper will remain off the air until a review of what happened during Friday night’s broadcast is completed. In a […]
On motzai shabbas, Lakewood Shomrim held its annual Shabbos In Halacha Training led by Rabbi Moshe Rotberg focusing on ensuring halachically compliant emergency response on shabbos. Amid Lakewood’s growing population,
At this mornings COJO of Flatbush’s 44th annual community legislative breakfast. It was held at the Kol Yaakov hall on McDonald Avenue. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
Thousands will be gathering Sunday evening in Lakewood and Flatbush, at two kinus hisorerus and tehillim gatherings, for the refuah shelemia of HaRav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlit”a. Rav Shmuel suffered a
The Israeli government on Sunday approved the first phase of a national plan for energy storage in the urban area: the construction of an electricity storage facility in Bnei Brak.
What’s the best way to protest the tragic death of a man infamous for harassing and inconveniencing subway riders? Harassing and inconveniencing more subway riders, of course. Protesters gathered Saturday
A jury is to resume deliberations Monday with only 11 members in the trial of a former Philadelphia police officer seen on video lowering the face covering of at least
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