Americans cut back on spending in December, the second consecutive month they�ve done so, underscoring how inflation and the rising cost of using credit cards slowed consumer activity over the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales fell worse-than-expected 1.1% in December, following a revised 1% drop in November, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. In October, […]
The New Jersey-bound tube of the Holland Tunnel will close six nights per week starting next month, the Port Authority announced Tuesday, in order to conduct critical repairs to infrastructure
The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes� abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is launching investigations this month into select nursing homes, aimed at verifying whether patients have been properly diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder. Evidence has mounted […]
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Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Shas chairman Aryeh Deri cannot legally serve as a minister in Israel’s government, a ruling that may lead to a major coalition crisis.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met Wednesday with her Chinese counterpart and pledged an effort to manage differences and �prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict� as the two nations try to thaw relations. Yellen�s first face-to-face meeting with Vice Premier Liu He in Zurich is the highest-ranking contact between the two countries since […]
A Washington Post columnist who got herself national attention by being one of the most outspoken Covid hawks in the country has admitted that the U.S. is overestimating the number
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday that House committees will investigate the classified documents cases of both President Biden and former President Trump. �The White House is calling out Republicans as hypocrites in terms of the reaction from famous classified documents to Trump. What�s your reaction to that statement? And also, do you […]
Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two high-profile South Carolina supporters � U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Gov. Henry McMaster � at his first public 2024 presidential campaign event in the early voting state later this month. Trump will be at the Statehouse in Columbia on Jan. 28 and will unveil his South […]
An adjunct art professor is suing the Minnesota university that dismissed her after a Muslim student objected when she included depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course. Erika L�pez Prater alleges that Hamline University � a small, private school in St. Paul � subjected her to religious discrimination and defamation, and damaged […]
A Telegram channel that claims to have insider information from the Kremlin claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin has become “withdrawn, silent and deeply preoccupied” as he undergoes a new
Dutch authorities arrested a Syrian man on Tuesday who is suspected of having been a security chief for the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra extremist groups during Syria�s grinding civil war, prosecutors said. �It is suspected that from his position at IS he also contributed to the war crimes that the organization committed in Syria,� […]
Ukraine�s interior minister died Wednesday in a helicopter crash near the capital that killed at least another 14 people, including other officials and three children, authorities said. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who oversaw Ukraine�s police and emergency services, is the most senior official to die since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago. His death, along […]
It was another disastrous White House press briefing on Tuesday, as Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre struggled mightily to answer reporters’ questions about what happened in Joe Biden’s growing classified documents scandal. Zeke Miller of the Associated Press asked the press secretary how there were more documents discovered�after�Jean-Pierre had claimed that the document search had been […]
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On the brink of hitting the nation�s legal borrowing limit on Thursday, the government is resorting to �extraordinary measures� to avoid a default. Sounds ominous, right? But — take a breath — the phrase technically refers to a bunch of accounting workarounds. Yes, accounting. Because the debt cap limits the issuance of government bonds � […]
A stunning and disturbing situation is unfolding at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where the family of a cognitively impaired Orthodox Jewish patient is being denied bedside access to provide
New Jersey�s gambling revenue matched its all-time high of $5.2 billion in 2022, but only half that amount was won by casinos from in-person gamblers. Figures released Tuesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the casinos, the horse tracks that take sports bets, and online partners of both types of gambling won […]
The Israeli left-wing Haaretz newspaper published a caricature on Tuesday morning in which Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich is pictured sitting together in a row with Supreme Leader of Iran Ali
Democrat Josh Shapiro took the oath of office Tuesday to become the 48th governor of Pennsylvania, placing his hand on a stack of three Jewish Bibles at an inaugural ceremony outside the state Capitol to cap his blowout win in November�s election. Shapiro, 49, takes over in the nation�s fifth-most populous state with more experience […]
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