U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an Associated Press interview Saturday she expects Congress will ultimately vote to raise America�s debt limit, but demands by House Republicans for spending cuts in return for backing an increase are �a very irresponsible thing to do� and risk creating a �self-imposed calamity� for the global economy. The […]
A suspect was awaiting arraignment Saturday in the death of a man who was pushed onto a subway track and suffered a head injury, authorities said. Andre Boyce, 28, was arrested on a manslaughter charge. It�s not immediately clear whether he has an attorney who can speak to the charges, and a call to a […]
Sinai Academy’s goal is to give every Jewish child the opportunity to live a life of Torah and experience our rich Jewish heritage. Many of Sinai’s students come from Public
A former U.S. Navy SEAL who went AWOL in 2019 was killed this week in Ukraine, American officials said Friday. They said he was not fighting in an official capacity.
Russia claimed Friday to have captured a village in eastern Ukraine as part of its intense, monthslong push toward the city of Bakhmut, while Ukraine�s allies failed to resolve a dispute about whether to send advanced battle tanks that the country avidly desires. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the village of Klishchiivka, which […]
Remarkable as Damar Hamlin�s recovery has been, the Buffalo Bills safety still faces a lengthy rehabilitation some three weeks after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, his marketing representative told The Associated Press on Thursday night. �Damar still requires oxygen and is having his […]
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil�s army chief Saturday just days after the leftist leader openly said that some military members allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters. The official website of the Brazilian armed forces said Gen. Julio Cesar de Arruda had been removed as head of the […]
Elon Musk took the witness stand Friday to defend a 2018 tweet claiming he had lined up the financing to take Tesla private in a deal that never came close
Journalists covering the White House are sick and tired of Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conferences, and are “exasperated” with her as they try in vain to get her to answer basic questions. �She is arguably the least effective White House press secretary of the television era,� an unnamed journalist told CNN’s Oliver Darcy. �You […]
A Queens house fire that killed one person and injured 10 others was sparked by a lithium-ion battery, the fire department said Saturday. It adds to a series of battery
Seven-year-old Hadar Sema was lightly injured on Shabbos by shards of glass that shattered in her home in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood of Jerusalem after being hit by a stray
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu�s new government to overhaul the judicial system, measures that opponents say imperil the country�s democratic fundamentals. Israeli media, citing police, said some 100,000 people were out protesting. The protest followed another demonstration last week that […]
White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who has spent more than two years as President Joe Biden�s top aide, is preparing to leave his job in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with Klain�s plans. Klain�s expected departure comes not long after the White House and Democrats had a better-than-expected showing in […]
A Palestinian terrorist on Shabbos attempted to stab an Israeli farmer in Sde Efraim in Binyamin. Fortunately, the Israeli was armed and managed to shoot and kill the terrorist. The
U.S. home sales tumbled to the slowest pace in nearly a decade as soaring mortgage rates and sky high prices in 2022 pushed homeownership out of reach for many Americans.
Rio de Janeiro on Thursday opened the doors to a Holocaust Memorial that honors not only Jewish victims, but also lesser-known groups likewise persecuted by the Nazi regime. Curators hope that the memorial, perched atop one of Rio�s shapely hills with a view of Sugarloaf Mountain and the Guanabara Bay, becomes a pilgrimage site for […]
As the week-long Lunar New Year holidays in China draw near with promises of feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash, children have another thing to look forward to �- one extra hour of online games each day. Only one hour. For years, Chinese authorities have sought to control how much time kids can spend […]
Harav Mattisyahu Salomon shlit�a, the longtime mashgiach of Beth Medrash Govoha, was airlifted to a hospital in Pennsylvania, Friday afternoon. Over the past few days, the Mashgiach suffered numerous medical incidents, including seizures and aspirating. Hatzolah transported him to the hospital earlier in the week and he was released the following day. Hatzolah was back […]
A galactic photo shoot has captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever. A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky. The National Science Foundation�s NOIRLab released the survey results this week. Shown in remarkable […]
Charges against a New York City police officer accused of spying on behalf of China were formally dropped Thursday after U.S. prosecutors said they uncovered new information that warranted the
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