Robinhood, the company that blazed onto Wall Street after turning millions of novices into investors by making trading fun, is now setting its sights on a more staid corner of
At least two dozen people are on hunger strike over conditions at a maximum-security prison in rural eastern Nevada, prison officials and an advocacy organization said Tuesday. The strike was
Time Magazine on Wednesday named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its person of the year, awarding him the accolade “for proving that courage can be as contagious as fear.” Editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said the choice of Zelenskyy — alongside “the spirit of Ukraine” — was “the most clear-cut in memory.” “Whether the battle for Ukraine fills […]
UTJ leaders Yitchak Goldknopf, chairman of Agudas Yisrael, and Moshe Gafni, chairman of Degel HaTorah, signed an interim agreement with the head of the Likud negotiations team Yariv Levin late
Expedited drug approvals slowed this year as the Food and Drug Administration’s controversial accelerated pathway came under new scrutiny from Congress, government watchdogs and some of the agency’s own leaders. With less than a month remaining in the year, the FDA’s drug center has granted 10 accelerated approvals — fewer than the tally in each […]
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, bowing to the Biden administration’s insistence that the prince was legally immune in the case. District of Columbia U.S. District Judge John D. Bates heeded the U.S. government’s motion to shield […]
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s current term and capping an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year. With Warnock’s second runoff victory in […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman A reminder: This past December 5th – we started saying vesain tal umatar in the bracha of Baraich Aleinu. In Eretz Yisroel, it began on the 7th of Cheshvan. Generally speaking, the actions of leaders of foreign religions do not affect what Orthodox Jews do, but here, one Pope’s actions did. […]
Thousands of police officers carried out raids across much of Germany on Wednesday against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the government in an armed coup. Officials said 25 people were detained. Federal prosecutors said some 3,000 officers conducted searches at 130 sites in 11 of Germany’s 16 states against adherents of the […]
In what was perhaps the coldest Hachnasas Sefer Torah in history, Jews gathered last week in Novosibirsk, a Siberian city in southern Russia to rejoice with a new Torah. The festive event began when Rav Shneur Zalman Zaklos, the Chief Rabbi of Novosibirsk, wrote the last letters in the Sefer Torah. Afterward, despite the -18°F […]
China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign. China has enforced some of the world’s strictest curbs, disrupting […]
A panel on Tuesday called for changes at the federal agency that oversees most of the nation’s food supply, saying revamped leadership, a clear mission and more urgency are needed to prevent illness outbreaks and to promote good health. But the report stopped short of recommending specific steps to take, instead offering several scenarios such […]
About 100,000 babies and children in Israel aren’t fully vaccinated against polio and some aren’t vaccinated at all, Kan News reported on Tuesday. There are about 20,000 babies between the
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said Tuesday it will be “forced to consider” removing news content from its platform if Congress passes legislation requiring tech companies to pay news outlets for their material. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, if passed, would allow news companies to collectively negotiate with social platforms over the terms on […]
Qatar’s Al Jazeera television channel on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague against “those responsible for killing veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.” In a statement issued on Tuesday, Al Jazeera claims that an investigation by the channel’s legal team shows that IDF soldiers deliberately fired at Abu […]
Members of the Jewish kehilla in Moldova, the poorest country in Europe, say that the electricity supply to the Kishinev and other cities in the country has been severely affected by the damage to the power plants in Ukraine, Kikar H’Shabbat reported on Tuesday. “There’s a major power outage of 10 to 14 hours at least three […]
After more than half a century, Boeing is set to roll its last 747 out of a Washington state factory on Tuesday. The jumbo jet — which has taken on numerous roles as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers and as the Air Force One presidential aircraft — debuted […]
Members of a Jerusalem family who were refused entry to a hotel in Italy they booked through the global travel reservation site Booking.com won a lawsuit against the company, Kikar
The baal tefillah at the Caulfield Bais Medrash in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday night strode up to the amud with vim and vigor, his energy giving onlookers no impression that
The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a nearly $4 billion sale of advanced tanks, other combat vehicles and a large amount of assorted weaponry to NATO ally Poland at a
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