Travelers on airplanes and public transportation like buses and subways will be required to wear face masks starting next week to curb the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a mask-wearing rule late Friday that builds on an order announced Jan. 21 by President Joe Biden. The rule “will […]
The government’s top infectious disease expert said Friday he hopes to see some kids starting to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in the next few months. It’s a needed step to securing widespread immunity to the virus. Vaccines are not yet approved for children, but testing already is underway for those as young as 12. If […]
The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden’s ability to bridge Washington’s partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory. Biden called for a $15 hourly minimum wage […]
They’ve endured a financial crisis. Two deep recessions. Mounds of student debt. Stagnant pay. Costly health care. Dim job prospects. They’ve seen the uber-rich grow richer while a pandemic threw tens of millions of people out of work and left many more isolated and vulnerable at home. Now, they feel, it’s payback time. Nearly a […]
President Joe Biden is warning of a steep and growing “cost of inaction” on his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as the White House searched for “creative” ways to win public support for a package that is getting a cold shoulder from Senate Republicans. In the age of the coronavirus, it’s not as simple as […]
I cannot put into the words the pain that we suffered. My mother died of cancer and left me and my four siblings as yesomim Still, I must move on.
Counting down to go to school. Happy students, happy parents. Cheerful sounds filling the halls. That’s Nachlas Bais Yaakov. With Lakewood growing rapidly each year, Nachlas came onto the scene
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One of the people to die as a result of the coronavirus was a 2-month-old baby who passed away while hospitalized in the ICU for children and infants in Hadassah
Heath officials in Israel says that people R”L died over the weekend. 6,435 Israelis tested positive for the virus on Friday, and as of Motzei Shabbos, another 1,538 tested positive
Twenty-one firefighters have been taken to hospitals after a blaze tore through a Harlem apartment building Saturday, the fire department said. None of the injuries is considered life-threatening, and all
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced stricter restrictions on travelers in response to new, likely more contagious variants of the novel coronavirus — including making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all Caribbean destinations until […]
The first one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides good protection against the illness, Johnson & Johnson reported in a key study released Friday, offering the world a potentially important new tool as it races to stay ahead of the rapidly mutating virus. The pharmaceutical giant’s preliminary findings suggest the single-dose option may not be as strong as […]
Two pipe bombs left at the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees, discovered just before thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, were actually placed the night
Rattled by nationwide protests over jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Russian authorities are moving rapidly to block any new ones – from piling legal pressure on his allies to launching a campaign to discredit the demonstrations. Unprecedented mass rallies across Russia on Jan. 23 demanding Navalny’s release from jail resulted in thousands of arrests, and […]
A bomb exploded outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India on Friday, damaging several cars parked near the embassy. Fortunately, no one was injured in the blast and the
Pakistan is scrambling to manage the fallout from a decision by the country’s Supreme Court to free the Pakistani-British man accused in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The Sindh provincial government on Friday filed a review petition, asking the same court to revisit its decision. But even the lawyer for the Pearl […]
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The United Nations chief called Thursday for global rules to regulate powerful social media companies like Twitter and Facebook. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he believes it shouldn’t be a company that has the power to decide whether, for example, then-president Donald Trump’s Twitter account should be closed, as a questioner asked. Rather, he said, a […]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the release of a Pakistani-British man convicted and later acquitted in the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh’s acquittal filed by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government. A minister in the Sindh province where Sheikh is […]
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