Days after taking over Twitter and a week before the U.S. midterm elections, billionaire Elon Musk has positioned himself as moderator-in-chief of one of the most important social media platforms in American politics. Musk has said he won’t make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts before setting up a “content moderation council” with […]

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration signaled a willingness to hand over power, two days after a nail-biting election loss to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and amid speculation the far-right incumbent might fight the result. Bolsonaro reportedly told members of Brazil’s Supreme Court Tuesday that his election battle against da Silva has come to […]

Air raid sirens sounded in South Korea after the North fired about a dozen missiles in its direction Wednesday, at least one of them landing near the rivals’ tense sea border. The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible […]

The Republican candidate for Arizona’s secretary of state position has had his Twitter account restored after his complaints reached Elon Musk, who directly intervened. Mark Finchem’s account was temporarily suspended

At the conclusion of an investigation by the Jerusalem District Police and the Shin Bet, a prosecutor’s statement was submitted in preparation for an indictment against the terrorist who carried

YWN has already published numerous videos of impersonating NYC employees ripping down Lee Zeldin for Governor signs all over Jewish communities in NYC. But now YWN has footage of NYC

An IDF officer was seriously injured on Wednesday morning in a ramming attack on Route 443 between the yishuv of Beit Horon and the Maccabim checkpoint, near the city of

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Mrs. Chaya Felder, the rebbetzin of Harav Tzvi Mordechai Felder of K’hal Bais Aharon (“Felder’s Shul”) on 18th Ave. in Boro

Two Newark police officers were in stable condition Tuesday after being wounded in a confrontation with a gunman being sought in connection with another shooting, authorities said. The afternoon shooting

An Arab man tried to force a Chareidi woman in her 20s into his car on a street in Tiveria on Tuesday. B’Chasdei Shamayim, she managed to escape from him

Two new polls have found that with just a week to go before Election Day, Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is either barely leading or a smidge behind incumbent Democratic Gov.

The vast majority of Americans will find multiple options for health insurance coverage for 2023 on HealthCare.gov after open enrollment began Tuesday under the Affordable Care Act. People searching for

A chassan in Ashdod went to the polls to be mekayeim the mitzvah of voting moments before his chuppah. A video circulated on social media showing the chassan at his voting station dressed in his shtreimel and kapota. The chasunah is taking place in Bnei Brak. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)  

President Joe Biden’s education secretary has tested positive for COVID-19. Miguel Cardona, who has been vaccinated and boosted against the virus, tested positive Tuesday and has mild symptoms, the Education Department said in a statement. He tested positive the morning after he attended Halloween festivities at the White House. Biden and his wife, Jill, hosted […]

SpaceX launched its mega Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than three years Tuesday, hoisting satellites for the military and then nailing side-by-side booster landings back near the pad. Thick fog shrouded NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as the rocket blasted off at midmorning. The crowd at the launch site couldn’t even see […]

With Election Day just a week away, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin, NY-17 Congressional candidate Mike Lawler, and former NY Gov. George Pataki, met with various leading rabbanim and

Bucking the trend of nearly every major Orthodox Jewish voting bloc giving their full-throated support to Lee Zeldin, who has vowed to protect yeshivas, in the New York governor’s race,

North Korea issued a veiled threat Tuesday to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history,” an escalation of its fiery rhetoric targeting the ongoing large-scale military drills between its rivals. Animosities on the Korean Peninsula have been running high in recent months, with North […]

Russia reinforced its fighting force Tuesday with an annual fall draft of 120,000 men, and doubled the number of civilians it’s trying to evacuate in anticipation of a major Ukrainian push to recapture the strategically vital southern port city of Kherson. Russian military officials have assured that conscripts to be called up over the next […]

Exit polls in Israel on Tuesday indicate that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies may have won enough seats to return to power in a nationalist and religious

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