The head of nation’s top public health agency on Wednesday announced a shake-up of the organization, intended to make it more nimble. The planned changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — CDC leaders call it a “reset”— come amid ongoing criticism of the agency’s response to COVID-19, monkeypox and other public health […]
NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers. It took nearly 10 hours for the rocket to make the four-mile trip to the pad, […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday implored fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of Donald Trump’s Florida home and denounced calls by some of the former president’s allies to defund the FBI, saying that was “just as wrong” as a push by Democratic activists to shift money from […]
Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations and dispatch ambassadors for the first time in years, the latest step in months of reconciliation between the two countries, the Israeli prime minister’s office said Wednesday. The two countries, once friendly, had a more than decadelong falling out, but earlier this year Israel and Turkey began […]
An 18-year-old yeshiva bochur tragically passed away after being pulled unconscious from the Kineret and rushed to a nearby hospital with CPR in progress. Doctors valiantly fought to save his
Antisemitic graffiti was found scrawled on Congregation Beth Shalom in Flatbush Wednesday morning, in the latest of increasing antisemitic incidents in the Big Apple. The NYPD and Flatbush Shomrim, as
Cops usually have a prime suspect. In this case it’s a primate suspect. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office believes it was a little Capuchin monkey that called 911 from a zoo last Saturday night. The call disconnected and dispatchers tried to call and text back but there was no response, so deputies were […]
Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia’s heyday, involving illegal gambling parlors in New York City and Long Island and a police detective accused of helping to protect the lucrative schemes. Two indictments unsealed Tuesday charged nine people, including the detective, with crimes such as racketeering, illegal gambling, […]
YWN regrest to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Shlomo Braunstein Z”L, the Menahel at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin. He was the husband of Mrs Tzurtie (Bloom) Braunstein. The Levayah
Close to 650 cyclists are gearing up for the 13th annual and largest ever summer of Bike4Chai. The two-day premier cycling event, August 17-18, is the highest per capita experiential fundraiser in the world, with proceeds benefiting Chai Lifeline, the international children’s health support network. To date, more than $8 million has already been raised […]
Attorneys for a mother charged with conspiring to kill her children in Idaho and to steal their social security benefits asked a judge on Tuesday to send the case back
Amazon is raising charges on third-party sellers again — this time adding a holiday fee for merchants who use the company’s fulfillment services to pack and ship items to customers. From Oct. 15 to Jan. 14, sellers will be hit with an average fee of $0.35 per item sold using Amazon’s fulfillment services in the […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed no regret Tuesday for the deadly attack by Palestinian terrorists on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics a half century ago, countering that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians over the years. Eleven Israeli athletes and a German police officer died after members of the Palestinian militant group Black […]
A judge in Colorado on Tuesday ordered a legal adviser for former President Donald Trump’s campaign to travel to Georgia to testify before a special grand jury that’s looking into whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. Judge Gregory Lammons in Fort Collins, Colorado, made the decision after holding […]
A man armed with an AR-15 dies in a shootout after trying to breach FBI offices in Cincinnati. A Pennsylvania man is arrested after he posts death threats against agents
President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections. The legislation includes the most substantial federal investment […]
In his weekly shiur, HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein addressed the terrible tragedies that have befallen the Chareidi sector in Eretz Yisrael during Bein HaZemanim. “There were several tragedies, rachmana litzlan after Tisha B’Av, during Bein Hazemanim,” HaRav Edelstein began. ”[The tragedies] were in a strange way, not usual tragedies. It’s incomprehensible. Many people lost their lives.” […]
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a memoir coming out this fall. “Bibi: My Story” will be published Nov. 22, three weeks after parliamentary elections are to be held in Israel. “Born a year after the founding of the Jewish state, I have dedicated my life to combat the forces that seek its destruction […]
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, was defeated in a GOP primary Tuesday, falling to a rival backed by the former president in a rout that reinforced his grip on the party’s base. The third-term congresswoman and her allies entered the day downbeat about her prospects, aware that Trump’s backing […]
One of the seriously wounded victims of the shooting attack near the Kosel on Motzei Shabbos was Liba Ahuva Schreiber, 37, a mother of eight children, who was shot in
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