All but acknowledging defeat, President Joe Biden said Thursday he’s “not sure” the Democrats’ major elections and voting rights legislation can pass Congress this year. He spoke at the Capitol after a key fellow Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, dramatically announced her refusal to go along with changing Senate rules to muscle the bill […]
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, and 10 other members or associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the violent attack on
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation’s largest school district to return to some form of virtual instruction as the city weathers a wave of coronavirus cases, a reversal from his pledge a week ago to keep children in schools. Adams said at a news conference Thursday that he still believes […]
The air conditioners hum constantly in the lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, countering the heat thrown off by rows of high-tech sequencing machines that work seven days a week
HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky on Thursday sent a shliach to deliver handwritten divrei tanchumim from himself to HaRav Shmuel Kamenetzky, who is sitting shiva following the petirah of his wife,
Russia on Thursday sharply raised the stakes in its dispute with the West over Ukraine, with a top diplomat refusing to rule out a Russian military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the United States mount. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led the Russian delegation in Monday’s talks with the U.S. in […]
The Lakewood Police Department is investigating an attempted luring that occurred at approximately 8 am Thursday morning. According to a report from The Lakewood Scoop, a nine-year-old boy was walking
Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight
With varying degrees of enthusiasm, senior British government ministers on Thursday expressed support for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and rejected demands he resign for attending a garden party during the country’s first coronavirus lockdown. Many other Conservatives held their tongues, waiting to see whether the crisis threatening Johnson’s premiership will fade or intensify. Johnson […]
HaGaon HaRav Yosef Efrati, who heads the Beis Medrash L’Halacha B’Hisyashvus, paskened on Tuesday that it’s forbidden to plant trees in the Negev during Shemita despite fears of the Bedouin
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana on Wednesday revealed the details of his giyur reform plan, which will be brought for a vote in the Knesset in three weeks. Although Kahana
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com You followed that crucial advice that your grandparents gave you to maintain three separate bank accounts – a checking account, a savings account, and a “stash” account. The stash account was only to be used for real estate. You listened to their wise, five-step advice and: You put 5 […]
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It was a crazy and highly experimental surgery conducted last week and first revealed this past Monday. 57-year-old David Bennet was ineligible for a human heart transplant. Instead, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine transplanted within him, a heart from a genetically modified pig. Six human […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom solicited donations totaling nearly $227 million from Facebook, Google, Blue Shield and other private California companies and organizations to combat the coronavirus pandemic and help run parts of his administration, according to a report Thursday by the state’s political watchdog agency. “Behested payments” are contributions solicited by an elected official to be […]
The Republican National Committee said Thursday it is planning a rules change that would force presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination to sign a pledge saying they will not participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. If ultimately enacted and enforced, it would fundamentally change the way that presidential elections have […]
Lael Brainard, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 spot, said Thursday that combating high inflation is the central bank’s top priority and said she believed the Fed could reduce it without sacrificing economic growth. Testifying at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Brainard noted that inflation is “too high, […]
A new Quinnipiac poll found that President Joe Biden’s approval rating among Americans continues to drop and now stands at a dismal 33%. Quinnipiac polls released over the past several
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the government will double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free to Americans, along with the most protective N95 masks, as he highlighted his efforts to “surge” resources to help the country weather the spike in coronavirus cases. Biden also announced that starting next […]
At first, it didn’t even register as a threat. Then it seemed like a temporary annoyance. Now, inflation is flashing red for the Federal Reserve’s policymakers — and delivering sticker shock to Americans at the used car lot, the supermarket, the gas station, the rental office. On Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that consumer prices […]
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