Wintry weather combined with the pandemic to frustrate air travelers whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year. By early afternoon Sunday, more than 2,300 U.S. flights and more than 3,900 worldwide had been canceled, according to tracking service FlightAware. That followed Saturday’s mass […]
Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company. The Georgia Republican’s account was permanently suspended under the “strike” system Twitter launched in March, which uses artificial intelligence to identify posts about the coronavirus that are misleading […]
They’ve interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents and traveled around the country to talk to election officials who were pressured by Donald Trump. Now, after six months of intense work, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is preparing to go public. In the coming months, members of the […]
The first stage of the kashrus reforms advanced by Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana went into effect on Sunday morning, allowing food establishments to be certified by any religious council
Barely three months after it’s grand opening, a Chabad house in San Jose, California was completely destroyed in a massive blaze. The fire, which was called into the fire department
It was nothing less than a miracle. As over two dozen bochurim ate lunch in the basement dining room of their yeshiva, a large piece of plaster dislodged and collapsed
As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus, the White House’s top medical adviser said Sunday. Dr. Anthony Fauci said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now […]
President Joe Biden is resuming his telephone diplomacy over the Russian troop buildup near its border with Ukraine, coordinating with Ukraine’s leader on strategy to de-escalate a crisis that Moscow says could rupture ties with Washington. Biden’s planned call Sunday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes as the United States has made little progress in efforts […]
Over 85,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus statewide on the last day of 2021, a more than 10 percent rise from the day before, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul
The Chotam organization, which works toward promoting Jewish values in the Jewish state, published a video educating the public about the ramifications of the giyur reform being advanced by Prime
The German government has dropped plans to give the country’s highest honor to an Israeli historian amid criticism of his work on the genocide in Bosnia. German news agency dpa reported Friday that the Foreign Ministry has withdrawn its nomination for Gideon Greif to receive Germany’s Order of Merit. Bosnian news portal klix.ba first reported […]
Officials say New Jersey’s first lady, Tammy Murphy, has tested positive for COVID-19 but Gov. Phil Murphy and other family members have tested negative. Officials said Sunday that Tammy Murphy tested positive on a rapid antigen test but is asymptomatic. The governor and the rest of the family will continue to test regularly in the […]
A resident of Ramapo narrowly escaped an attempted armed robbery when two perps in ski masks demanded money from him as he sat in his car just before 6 AM
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the escalation of conflict between Israel and Hamas at Sunday morning’s Cabinet meeting, rejecting the terror organization’s claims that the rockets fired toward Tel Aviv
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel is likely to almost completely open its skies this week even as Israel’s daily COVID cases continue to rise to the highest rate
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A schoolteacher says she voluntarily spent five hours in an airplane bathroom after she tested positive for Covid-19 during the flight, the BBC reports. Marisa Fotieo, a US schoolteacher, says
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 […]
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