The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles immunization has dropped significantly since the coronavirus pandemic began, resulting in a record high of
HaRav Gerami, who as the Rav of Iran, has to tread carefully, generally avoids talking to the press. However, he made a rare exception during his stay in New York
Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection, defeating Donald Trump-endorsed GOP rival Kelly Tshibaka. Murkowski beat Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 ranked choice election. The results were announced
Tamar Ben-Chaim, the great-granddaughter of HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef, z’tl who was attacked by a drunk US secret service agent in July, filed a civil lawsuit against the agent in a DC federal court on Monday, the New York Post reported. The agent, who was in Israel in preparation for President Joe Biden’s visit, punched Ben-Chaim […]
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New York is planning tight security around the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the wake of mass shootings elsewhere in the U.S., police said Wednesday, while stressing that there’s no known, credible threat to the famed event itself. The holiday tradition, which draws throngs of participants and spectators, this year comes two days after six […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday officially rejected a Trump bid to block the House Oversight Committee from obtaining his tax returns from the IRS, prompting a furious response from the ex-president. “Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It is […]
Mortgage rates are more than double what they were a year ago, so many homebuyers are looking for ways to put off some of the pain for a few years.
Iran was reeling Tuesday from the humiliation of starting the World Cup with a lopsided 6-2 loss against England in a match overshadowed by protests on and off the field.
Consumers holding out for big deals — and some much-needed relief from soaring costs on just about everything — may be disappointed as they head into the busiest shopping season of the year. While retailers are advertising sales of 30%, 50% and 70% off everything from TVs to gadgets, many items will still cost more […]
Newly sworn-in Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzchak Waserlauf gave his first speech to the Knesset plenum on Monday. “I want to use this time, which is the first time I am speaking to the plenum, to read a few numbers,” he began. ”I came to the Knesset to help as many as people possible…I heard a story […]
Most Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting favored reducing the size of their interest rate hikes “soon”— just before raising their benchmark rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a fourth straight time. The central bank’s policymakers saw “very few signs that inflation pressures were abating.” Still, a “substantial majority? of the […]
The organizations and yeshivas challenging the State Education Department’s new regulations filed a motion with the Albany Supreme Court seeking a preliminary injunction. PEARLS, Torah Umesorah and Agudath Israel told the court in their papers that the regulations “were designed so that yeshivas will be subject to their inspection and curricular requirements while almost all […]
Don’t accuse the TSA of catnapping on the job. When an alert agent at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport noticed tufts of orange fur poking out of a slightly unzipped suitcase, it gave him pause. As the bag went through the X-ray unit Nov. 16, the Transportation Security Administration agent was in for a […]
A yeshivah bochur’s life was saved by his hat as the shrapnel that he found after the attack penetrated his hat rather than his head. The bochur, a resident of
Mojtaba Fada, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Isfahan said on Sunday that Iran will kidnap Netanyahu and bring him to Iran in
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions against three more Iranian security officials in response to the Tehran government’s continued crackdown on protests after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while being held by the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. Hassan Asgari, Alireza Moradi and Mohammad Taghi Osanloo were the latest […]
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate has edged lower for the second time in as many weeks, though it remains more than double what it was a year ago —- a significant hurdle for many would-be homebuyers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Wednesday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate fell to 6.58% from […]
Are Hamas and the Taliban terror organizations? Well, it depends on who you ask. That is the position of ABC co-host and prominent liberal Whoopi Goldberg. On Tuesday’s The View, co-host Sunny Hostin claimed that after a tweet invoking anti-Semitic tropes, Nancy Pelosi pulled aside Rep. Ilhan Omar and demanded that she apologize. Hostin said that […]
The U.S. is sending another $400 million in ammunition and generators to Ukraine, the White House announced Wednesday, and is pulling the gear from its own stockpiles to get the support to Kyiv as fast as possible as Russia continues to target Ukraine’s energy sources and winter sets in. Including the latest aid, the U.S. […]
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