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Washington, DC – After a recent analysis revealed that companies that do business with Iran’s energy sector defied U.S. sanctions law by raking in...

As President Donald Trump and Congress bicker over Trump's call for $5 billion to build a border wall with Mexico, government agencies are preparing...

Amazon is making its first foray into providing health care services, announcing Wednesday that it will be offering its Amazon Care telemedicine program to...

The Sherman Oaks office of Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss was vandalized today with swastikas. Glued to the front door were three sheets...

At a Tuesday night city council meeting, Berkeley (California) became the first city in America to eliminate the gendered connotations of words like "manhole"...

Palestinians in the "West Bank" are finally getting high-speed mobile data services, after a yearslong Israeli ban. Palestinian cell phone providers Wataniya and Jawwal are...

Jerusalem Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky was escorted out of the Jerusalem City Council meeting on Monday night by his security personnel after the local...

Nearly a year after the health care law was passed, most voters still favor repealing the overhaul -- by a double-digit margin, according to...

A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the...

Boeing said Sunday that it discovered after airlines had been flying its 737 Max plane for several months that a safety alert in the...

When Syria’s Kurdish fighters, America’s longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up...

Top White House aides, including Ivanka Trump, will be lobbying in the U.S. for a tax overhaul while President Donald Trump is traveling in...

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is leading a Congressional delegation to the Middle East, meeting on Wednesday with Saudi King Salman in the first...

The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the end of pandemic-era spending, fast economic growth and higher tax revenues have caused the federal debt...

New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D-Brooklyn) is preparing to introduce legislation to create an online portal system designed to ensure that City government...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone call between the diplomats since the Ukraine war, to immediately...

Stocks marched broadly higher on Wall Street in early trading Monday after President Donald Trump claimed China was willing to reopen talks on the...

Incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made some eye-popping comments on MSNBC in a recent interview appearance, attempting to defend her record on crime...

They came together to bump elbows, then retreated by six feet — and stood there in awkward silence. The visual, dictated by the threat of...

Just 48 hours ago, it was a picturesque fishing town where tourists flocked to enjoy the coastal air and natural hot springs. But this...

Five people were injured when a garage exploded at a home in Queens. It happened just before 7 p.m. on 27th Avenue near Murray Street...

Leah Ashkenazi's family was catapulted into a state of chaos when her husband was diagnosed with cancer last year. The family's insurance policy reportedly...

The attached photos were submitted to YWN by the person this happened to. The family member tell YWN that he woke up on Yom Kippur...

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) In light of the significant uptick in COVID-19 cases, four of Lakewoods Poskim issued a Kol Koreh as to...

Starbucks, trying to tamp down a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s second-degree murder conviction in the killing of George Floyd, and...

The heirs of a Jewish collector say a painting from a Texas museum on loan in Germany was stolen from their family by the...

Mississippi authorities were searching for two prisoners believed to have escaped Saturday from one of several prisons rocked by violence that has left at...

Israel's Airports Authority reports that 2.4 million passengers will pass through Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tishrei. The report adds that Tishrei marks the end...

A former human resources manager at Agriprocessors Inc. pleaded guilty today to a charge that she helped harbor illegal immigrant workers at the kosher...

A top political adviser to Glenn Youngkin insisted on Monday that there’s room for the Virginia governor to enter the Republican presidential primary a...

An eye-catching photo of a group of Jews burying a niftar amid a snowstorm in the Russian city of Kaliningrad has a moving story...

A tornado that barreled through parts of Kansas destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes and buildings, injured several people and left more than 15,000...

1. Life insurance is important because it provides financial security for your family in the event of your death. If you have dependents, life...

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has appointed former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt as new Treasury chief, replacing sacked Kwasi Kwarteng. Hunt is a government veteran...