FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faced new fraud charges Thursday, as prosecutors accused him of cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars while casting himself as a trustworthy savior of the cryptocurrency industry an image boosted by celebrity-studded Super Bowl advertising and big donations to political figures. Four new charges, including securities fraud […]
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate jumped this week to its highest level since November, more grim news for a housing market thats been in decline for a year. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate rose to 6.5% from 6.32% last week. The average rate a year […]
Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company said Wednesday is a test run of a potential response to a Canadian governments online news bill. Bill C-18, the Online News Act, would require digital giants such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook, to negotiate deals that would compensate […]
Nearly 30 million Americans who got extra government help with grocery bills during the pandemic will soon see that aid shrink and theres a big push to make sure theyre not surprised. Officials in 32 states and other jurisdictions have been using texts, voicemails, snail mail, flyers and social media posts all in […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich signed an agreement on Thursday on the transfer of authority of the Civil Administration and Coordinator for
South African university student Klaas Mokgomole had just landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv after a nine-hour flight from Johannesburg and desperately needed a bathroom. Approaching an airline official – hoping he understood English – Mokgomole asked him: Can you please show me to the blacks-only restroom? Shocked by his question, the official responded […]
Even as Democrats celebrated the 100th judicial confirmation of Joe Bidens presidency, they are clamoring for more and some are flirting with ending a century-long Senate practice to help make it happen. The rising friction over what in Washington parlance is known as the blue slip is creating tensions on the Senate panel that […]
A mother, 26, and three children, aged 2, 5, and 6, were lightly injured after Arabs threw rocks at their car while driving near the village of Huwara in the
Modernas fourth-quarter profit tumbled 70% as COVID-19 vaccine sales fell and the drugmaker caught up on a royalty payment. Moderna said Thursday that its cost of sales jumped nearly a billion dollars to $1.9 billion in the final quarter of 2022. That included a $400 million payment to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious […]
The special counsel overseeing a criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump has issued subpoenas to Trumps daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, according to a new report. The subpoenas by special counsel Jack Smith, which demand the couples testimony before a grand jury, are related to his probe of Trumps efforts to remain […]
A momentous gathering took place this past Sunday night in a home that is renowned for chesed. At the home of R Moshe Yosef Tessler in Williamsburg, the supporters and friends of the Avihem organization came together to share an uplifting and inspiring evening. In a moving moment, the partners of this distinguished organization that […]
Arizonas former attorney general suppressed findings by his investigators who concluded there was no basis for allegations that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud, according to documents released Wednesday by his successor. Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, who took office last month, said the records show the 2020 election was conducted fairly and […]
The Persian Gulf State of Oman announced on Thursday that Israeli airlines will be permitted to pass through its airspace. The announcement came after months of contact between the Israeli
A baby was named after the kedoshim Asher and Yaakov Paley, h’yd at a bris in the Rechavia neighborhood of Jerusalem this week, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The terrible tragedy touched
The number of Americans filing for jobless aid fell last week as the labor market remains resilient in the face of the Federal Reserves interest rate increases meant to cool the economy. Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. for the week ending Feb. 18 fell by 3,000 last week to 192,000, from 195,000 the […]
One year since the war started and still, children are forced to grow up too fast.One year since the war started and still, families are separated and torn apart by
Former President Donald Trumps lawyers in Georgia are criticizing the Fulton County investigation into potential illegal election meddling after the foreperson of the special grand jury seated to help the probe went public this week. Emily Kohrs first spoke out in an interview published Tuesday by The Associated Press, a story that was followed by […]
The number of U.S. mass killings linked to extremism over the past decade was at least three times higher than the total from any other 10-year period since the 1970s,
The IDF on Wednesday evening published head camera footage of the hours-long counterterrorism operation in Shechem on Wednesday morning, in which 10terrorists were killed and over 100 Arabs were wounded. The video shows Israeli security forces under heavy fire from terrorists while making their way through the alleys of the Old City of Shechem toward […]
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