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Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlit”a, the zkan roshei yeshiva in the US, was released to a rehab facility on Friday after a bout of pneumonia...

Fort Bragg will shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty in a Friday ceremony that some veterans view as a small but important...

Republican 2024 candidate Ron DeSantis drew laughs from an Iowa crowd after he mocked Trump's criticism of his handling of the Covid pandemic, pointing...

During the routine White House press briefing on Wednesday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby found himself at a loss for words when a...

Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at roughly two dozen newsrooms run by Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in...

Dear YWN, I was shocked and appalled to see that "Der Yid Newspaper," which is directly controlled by the "Reb Zalman Leib" faction of Satmar,...

Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando,...

The Biden administration wants to buy Israel's silence about a renewed Iran nuclear deal in exchange for brokering a Saudi-Israel normalization deal, Yisrael Hayom...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that there can be no cease-fire in the war in Ukraine unless it is part of...

Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be...

A group of volunteers from Chaveirim and Shomrim of Boro Park returned a suitcase containing a man's tallis and tefillin to its rightful owner...

A Syria-backed Palestinian terrorist group Thursday held a funeral for five of its members who died in a blast under mysterious circumstances. The group has...

David Spitzer and his wife Sarah visited Maimonides Medical Center, on Thursday, to thank Dr. Alexandra Dadrat for CPR that saved his life after...

President Trump, 76, was campaigning in Iowa when he heard about Biden's stumble at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday. “He actually fell down?...

The U.S. government is turning up the pressure on ARC Automotive to recall 67 million potentially dangerous air bag inflators by ordering the company...

It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastlines to make sure their storm plans are in place as the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season...

President Joe Biden fell on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday and the White House said he was “fine” after tripping...

The latest round of corporate earnings is leaving Wall Street with a confounding sense of relief and lingering anxiety. Companies are in the midst of...

Republican Congressman Mike Lawler from New York is introducing legislation aimed at preventing universities that allow "antisemitic events on campus" from participating in student...

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of HaRav Ezeriel Bergman ZT"L, the son of Hagaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman shlit”a. He...

A man who briefly worked as an aide to U.S. Rep. George Santos says he got his job after sending a series of payments...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use off-brand versions of the popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy because they...

The hottest thing in technology is an unprepossessing sliver of silicon closely related to the chips that power video game graphics. It’s an artificial...

Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived...

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday accused the United States of “gangster-like” hypocrisy for criticizing her country’s failed...

Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, H'yd, passed away at the age of 52 on Wednesday, 22 years after she was critically injured in the Sbarro...

Former President Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Thursday as his chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is...

The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that it would once again delay the release, and narrow the scope, of some of the most detailed...

Leading Federal Reserve officials are sending out stronger signals that they will forego an interest rate increase at the central bank’s next meeting in...

Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from after he left office in which he talks about holding...

NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings. The space agency televised the hourslong hearing...

Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on individual cigarettes. The move was first announced last year...

Former Vice President Mike Pence will officially launch his widely expected campaign for the Republican nomination for president in Iowa next week, adding another...

Twitter may now be worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago. Financial services company Fidelity has...

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