Officials in the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing a discredited COVID-19 treatment, according to a congressional investigation that provides new evidence of that administration’s efforts to override Food and Drug Administration decisions early in the pandemic. The report Wednesday by the Democratic-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis […]
The National Unity party reached an understanding with former religious affairs minister Matan Kahana regarding the kashrus “reform” he advanced under former prime minister Naftali Bennett, Army Radio reported earlier this week. As YWN reported, Kahana joined the National Unity party, comprised of Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party and Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party, along with […]
Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli ordered the chairman of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Mass Transit System to carry out an analysis of the operational and budgetary implications of operating the Tel
U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about the way it determines how many fake accounts are on its platform. The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about its methodology for calculating false or spam accounts and “the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management.” Twitter says it has 238 million active monthly […]
Stories of two mofsim attributed to the late Rosh HaYeshivah, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen, z’tl, were the talk of the Chareidi community this past Nissan, Kikar H’Shabbat reported. The first
Russian forces Wednesday launched a rocket attack on a train station in central Ukraine on the embattled country’s Independence Day, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 50, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after warning for days that Moscow might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week. The lethal attack took place in Chaplyne, a town […]
First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again in an apparent “rebound” case, after she tested negative for the virus over the weekend. President Joe Biden, who spent three days with his wife at their Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, vacation home, continues to test negative, the White House said. He also suffered a rebound […]
As the media reports that the US is drawing closer to signing a nuclear deal with Iran, Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Tuesday that he will be flying to the US on Thursday morning to meet with US defense officials. “We’ll do everything we can to influence the agreement,” Gantz said at a meeting […]
A 30-year-old Israeli was kidnapped on Tuesday by a local gang in the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil and was released overnight after his family paid a ransom. The
Laura Loomer, a far-right agitator who became infamous for expressing her explicit support for white nationalism and calling mass shootings false flags, lost her Republican primary on Tuesday to represent
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The retiring Dr. Anthony Fauci is hoping you have memory loss, because he doesn’t want you remembering the fact that he pushed for nationwide shutdowns in the early days of
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to deliver on his campaign promise to provide $10,000 in debt cancellation for millions of Americans — and up to $10,000 more for those with the greatest financial need. Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible […]
Tens of thousands of Jews from all walks of life streamed into Kiryas Joel Tuesday to mark the 43rd Yahrtzeit of the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder
Uvalde’s embattled school police chief on Wednesday could become the first officer to lose his job over the hesitant response by hundreds of heavily armed law enforcement personnel during the May massacre at Robb Elementary School. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District was set to make a decision on Pete Arredondo’s future, three months to […]
Hello, My name is Nachman and I live in Yerushalayim. I supported my family, which grew to nine children, through my work as a Sofer. We owned our own apartment,
Ukraine nervously braced for what President Volodymr Zelenskyy warned could be especially brutal Russian attacks Wednesday as the country observed its Independence Day — and marked the war’s six-month point — under conditions considered too dangerous to allow any major public celebrations in the capital. Residents of Kyiv woke up to air raid sirens, but […]
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools of government and public health. De Blasio, a Democrat who served as mayor from from 2014 to 2021, will take part in “a variety of discussions, events, and programming” at the Institute of […]
Millions of Americans were waiting to learn the fate of their federal student debt on Wednesday as President Joe Biden prepared to deliver on his campaign promise to provide up
US National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said on Tuesday that US President Joe Biden understands Israel’s concerns about the nuclear deal with Iran but nevertheless, remains determined to rejoin
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