Democrats ran into a setback on Tuesday in Virginia to fight back against President Donald Trump’s congressional redistricting efforts, but they took a step forward in Maryland, though obstacles remain for enacting a new congressional map there. A Virginia judge ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment letting Democrats redraw the state’s Congressional maps was illegal, […]
A young baal teshuva in Sunnyvale, California, was miraculously spared when a car crashed directly into his living room — just feet from where he had been sitting and bentching. The young man had recently become a baal teshuva and works at Google. He rents a townhouse in Sunnyvale and frequently comes to nearby Palo […]
A woman of about 70 was killed on Wednesday after a crane attached to a truck fell on her on a sidewalk in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem. MDA paramedics
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will unveil plans to further bolster its nuclear program at the upcoming ruling party congress, as he observed the North’s latest
“Itzik, Talik, Omri, Shira, the wonderful Gvili family. I will say this in the language of the Bible, on behalf of my wife Sara and myself: Our souls are bound
A man who authorities say was involved in a human smuggling operation was shot Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with the U.S. Border Patrol and after firing at a
President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) staged an incident at her town hall on Tuesday night, during which a man was arrested for spraying the lawmaker with an unknown substance. “I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud,” Trump told ABC News. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing […]
A new report warned that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides of Russia’s war on Ukraine could hit 2 million by the spring, with Russia suffering the largest number of troop deaths recorded for any major power in any war since World War II. The report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies […]
Three Texas siblings who perished in an icy pond were among several dozen deaths in U.S. states gripped by frigid cold as crews scrambled Tuesday to repair hundreds of thousands of power outages in the shivering South and forecasters warned the winter weather is expected to get worse. Brutal cold lingered in the wake of a massive storm that dumped […]
The Hatzolah world is mourning the loss of one of its quiet giants, R’ Efrayim Segal Z”L, known in Hatzolah as “ES-28”. A member of Chevra Hatzolah for decades, Efrayim Segal was among the pioneers of volunteer emergency response in Brooklyn’s Kensington neighborhood. Though he carried an “East Side” response number, he lived near Yeshiva […]
A private plane carrying a senior state official crashed in western India on Wednesday, killing all five people on board, aviation authorities said. The Learjet 45 was en route from India’s financial capital of Mumbai to Ajit Pawar’s home city Baramati when it crash-landed and burst into flames in an open field near the runway, 254 kilometers […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans on Wednesday to warn that the Trump administration is ready to take new military action against Venezuela if the country’s interim leadership strays from U.S. expectations. In prepared testimony for a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio says the U.S. is not at war with Venezuela and that […]
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that 23 states have formally opted in to the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, a key school-choice initiative that could dramatically assist with tuition for private Jewish schools nationwide. The milestone brings the program within reach of nearly half the country, administration officials said, with additional states — including Colorado — […]
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed defiance Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw Washington’s support for Iraq if he returns to power. “We reject the blatant American interference in Iraq’s internal affairs and consider it a violation of its sovereignty,” al-Maliki, who is nominated by the country’s dominant political bloc to […]
A late-night phone call last week set in motion a remarkable overnight mission of chesed shel emes, as a group of devoted Chevra Kadisha members traveled hundreds of miles to ensure that a niftar received a proper taharah. A longtime Chabad shliach in New Hampshire, who has served the state’s Jewish community for more than […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday softened his initial response to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, backing away from early administration claims that labeled Pretti a “terrorist” and an “assassin” as public outrage and video evidence undercut those assertions. Trump initially echoed that posture, posting a lengthy social media […]
Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months. The tech giant has said it plans to use
Congressman Pat Ryan, who serves as the U.S. representative for New York’s 18th congressional district, sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asking him to intervene on the sanctions
The wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 months in prison for corruption, as her husband awaits a verdict on a high-stakes rebellion charge that could result in the death penalty or life imprisonment. Seoul Central District Court sentenced Kim Keon Yee for receiving luxury gifts like a Graff diamond […]
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