Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to appease Republican hard-liners and get the House moving again after a recent party rebellion on the floor has some Democrats warning of a difficult road ahead when it comes to passing legislation that will keep the government running. Republicans teed up votes this past week on guns and on censuring […]
DUANESBURG, N.Y. – A state trooper was shot and wounded during a traffic stop on an upstate New York highway Friday by a suspect who is believed to have later
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The collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks, Pennsylvania’s governor said Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical segment of the highway closed to East Coast traffic since last weekend. “We are getting it done here in Philly,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a […]
At least 15 people were injured Saturday when a mass transit bus crashed with two cars before hitting a building in Baltimore, authorities said. Baltimore police said officers in the city’s central district responded to a Maryland Transit Administration bus crash at about 10:20 a.m. A preliminary investigation showed that the bus crashed with a […]
Communities from Houston to New Orleans opened cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settled across a broad swath of the U.S. South on Saturday, and beachgoers fled
Unionized UPS workers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a potential work stoppage if the package delivery company and Teamsters can’t come to an agreement before their contract expires next month. The Teamsters said 97% of unionized workers voted for the authorization, which the union urged for in order […]
Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday. “This is the broadest cyber espionage campaign known to be conducted […]
The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds of victims from industry to higher […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday claimed that Jews think Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t Jewish. “I have a lot of Jewish friends,” Putin said at an economic forum in Saint Petersburg. “They say that Zelensky is not Jewish, that he is a disgrace to the Jewish people.” “This is not a joke and not […]
Yamam counterterrorism officers and Shin Bet operatives detained a terrorist on the way to carry out a terror attack in Lod on Friday morning. The arrest was made following intelligence
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was ordered Thursday to pay $475,000 by a city ethics board that found he misused public funds on a police security detail during his failed presidential bid. The hefty fine is the largest ever handed out by New York’s Conflicts of Interest Board, capping off a yearslong […]
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to President Joe Biden slamming him for his plans to “reward Iran’s bad behavior” in exchange for “false promises.” “I am disturbed by recent revelations that the Administration has re-engaged in ‘proximity talks’ with the Iranian regime, and that the results […]
A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. The producer, Alex McCaskill, confirmed his exit in an Instagram post. Fox News did not comment […]
In Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of “מפעל הש״ס” Heartfelt Cry to Raise the Desire for Gadlus Hatorah (Torah Greatness) Drasha from the Great and Holy Sanz
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yoseph, a Baal Teshuvah who was studying in Kollel, had a somewhat strained relationship with his non-observant father. At a bris for Yoseph’s son, the Mashgiach of the Yeshiva approached his father and said, “I just wanted to let you know that your son has a brilliant mind, and […]
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation In this week’s Parsha, Shlach, Moshe Rabbeinu agrees to send spies into Eretz Yisrael (Israel) to scout out the land. These spies were the greatest men among the nation, as Rashi points out. And yet, despite being the righteous people that they were, they still returned […]
A truck driver who spewed hatred of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die. The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ own lawyers conceded at the […]
Bayer, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, has agreed to pay $6.9 million to settle allegations by New York’s attorney general that its Monsanto unit made false and misleading claims about the safety of the weedkiller Roundup. The sum comes on top of the billions of dollars Bayer has already paid to settle lawsuits claiming Roundup, […]
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