A 25-year-old heavily armed California man was arrested while traveling to Washington, DC, with plans to assassinate President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others. Kuachua Brillion Xiong was pulled over
With COVID-19 cases surging just as students are about to return from winter break, dozens of U.S. colleges are moving classes online again for at least the first week or so of the semester — and some warn it could stretch longer if the wave of infection doesn’t subside soon. Harvard is moving classes online […]
New York City’s Health Department will take into account a Covid-19 patient’s race when considering whether they should receive potentially lifesaving treatment. The Health Department’s official guidance says it wikk “consider race and ethnicity when assessing individual risk,” claiming that “longstanding systemic health and social inequities” can lead to higher rates of black and Hispanic […]
I’ll never forget the thrill of my first few years of marriage. I was learning Torah full time, and that infused our lives in every way. Our whole neighborhood was
Outspoken socialist and fierce defender of Covid-19 rules and regulations Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apparently had enough of New York City putting restrictions on her life. Ocasio-Cortez was seen dining
Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, taking office Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney. Now he’s weighing another: whether to make Donald Trump the first former president ever charged with a crime. As district attorney, Bragg inherited an investigation into Trump and his business practices from his predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., who […]
For air travelers, the new year picked up where the old one left off – with lots of frustration. By late morning Saturday on the East Coast, more than 2,400 U.S. flights and nearly 4,200 worldwide had been canceled, according to tracking service FlightAware. That is the highest single-day toll yet since just before Christmas, […]
After tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop buildup on the Ukraine border, both sides insist they are hopeful that a pathway to easing
Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. New Year’s Eve, which used to be celebrated globally with a free-spirited wildness, felt […]
? Soviet Union, 1946 – Over 25 years have passed since the Russian Communists seized power. Almost all of the synagogues have been shut down and most of the rabbis
An overnight dumping of snow and frigid temperatures compounded the misery of hundreds of Colorado residents who started off the new year trying to salvage what remains of their homes
The Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger, who became famous during Austria’s 2016 presidential campaign with a video message in which “Mrs. Gertrude” warned of hatred and exclusion triggered by the far right, has died at 94. Pressburger died Friday after a long illness, her family told the Austrian press agency APA on Saturday. Austrian President Alexander […]
The Ari HaKadosh revealed that the days of Shovavim the weeks from Parshas Sh’mos to Parshas Mishpatim are a period auspicious for Teshuva and Tikkun. Yeshivas Shaar Hashamayim in Jerusalem
Two people were shot and wounded Friday following an apparent altercation at the Mall of America, sending New Year’s Eve shoppers scrambling for safety and placing the Minneapolis mall on temporary lockdown, authorities said. One man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during the shooting that happened about 4:30 p.m. on the third floor […]
The IDF carried out retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza late Motzei Shabbos, after two rockets fired from Gaza landed in the sea off the Tel Aviv coast on Shabbos morning. It
The year of 2021 ended as one of the most violent on record in Chicago, as a rise in the number of shootings left more people dead than in any
One couple returned home Friday to find the mailbox about the only thing left standing. Charred cars and a burned trampoline lay outside smoldering houses. On some blocks, homes reduced
Marion County’s 911 center faced an hourlong outage early Saturday as hundreds of calls poured in from Indianapolis residents reporting gunshots being fired in celebration of the start of 2022. The 911 call center went down about five minutes past midnight after it had received more than 500 calls about gunshots being recklessly fired in […]
A New York City police officer who was shot Saturday while sleeping in his vehicle between shifts is expected to fully recover, authorities said as the new mayor and police
New York City’s new mayor, Eric Adams, pledged Saturday to steer the nation’s largest city out of the pandemic by drawing on the resiliency of its people and promising a government that works better, even if it’s not radically different. Hours after being sworn into office in Times Square as the city rang in the […]
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