New York City police turned to familiar tactics ahead of Thursday’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, deploying bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. But the department’s playbook included an unusual mandate this year: preventing crowds of any size from gathering in Times Square. Citing concerns over the spread of COVID-19, police […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday encouraged schools to resume in-person education next year, starting with the youngest students, and promised $2 billion in state aid to promote coronavirus testing,
Wall Street closed out a tumultuous year for stocks with more record highs Thursday, a fitting coda to the market’s stunning comeback from its historic plunge in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. The benchmark S&P 500 index finished with a gain of 16.3% for the year, or a total return of about 18%, […]
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits last week fell by 19,000 to 787,000, still a historically high level as a resurgent coronavirus maintains its grip on the U.S. economy.
Former Finance Ministry accountant-general Prof. Yaron Zelekha announced on Wednesday night that he is forming a new political party focused on economic issues called “The Economic Party” and is joining
The US State Department approved the potential sale of 3,000 precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, according to a Pentagon statement on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The $290-million deal includes 3,000 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb I (SDB I) munitions, containers, support equipment, spares and technical support, the Pentagon stated. “The proposed sale will improve Saudi Arabia’s capability […]
Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 5,253 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours on Thursday morning, the third day in a row that over 5,000 new daily virus cases were
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Police in Minneapolis on Thursday released body-camera video from a traffic stop one night earlier that ended with a man shot dead, an extraordinarily quick move aimed at stemming public anger over the city’s first police-involved death since George Floyd died while being restrained by officers in May. The confrontation happened about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday […]
Former Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang appears to be nearing an announcement to run for mayor of New York City. A video posted to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon appeared to show Yang shooting footage for an announcement to run for the top spot of the big Apple. In the video, Yang – who turns 46 […]
Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, and now closes with a rare rebuff by Republicans of President Donald Trump. In the few days remaining, GOP senators are ignoring Trump’s demand to increase COVID-19 […]
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Walmart apologized Wednesday for a tweet that called Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley a sore loser for contesting President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. The now deleted tweet, “Go ahead. Get your 2 hour debate. #soreloser,” was mistakenly sent by a member of Walmart’s social media team who meant to publish it […]
Minimum wage is getting a bump in the new year for workers in New York State and New Jersey. New York’s minimum hourly wage goes up to $12.50 statewide Thursday. It rises to $14 an hour on Long Island and in Westchester County. There’s no increase in New York City, where it’s already at $15 […]
Britain’s Parliament voted resoundingly on Wednesday to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U.K.’s long and divisive Brexit journey. With just a day to spare, lawmakers in the House of Commons voted 521-73 in favor of the agreement […]
A 15-year-old is facing charges following a shocking bike attack that was caught on camera Tuesday in Midtown. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was arrested Wednesday on
NYPD officers were involved in two shootings Wednesday night in Brooklyn and the Bronx – the third and fourth police-involved shootings in as many days – but no one was
By Yehudit GarmaiseBoro Park Center (BPC) residents and staff members are buzzing with excitement today because Vaccination Day has arrived. At 7:30am, 15 pharmacists and staff members from Walgreens, with
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in
Iran’s cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran last January, the president announced Wednesday. Iran will pay $150,000 for each victim, state TV reported, without specifying a timeline for the awards. The announcement comes […]
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