The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of
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California regulators opened a formal investigation Wednesday into preemptive power outages that blacked out large parts of the state in October, drawing strong rebukes from public officials and residents who
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of the Kretchnif Kiryat Gat Rebbe, HaRav Yisroel Nissan Rosenbaum ZATZAL. He was 70. The Rebbe had been hospitalized since Simchas Torah
A bit more than 24 hours have passed since Naftali Bennett was sworn in as the new Defense Minister of Israel. His first day was full of security meetings with
Two Chareidi men in their thirties were R”L killed in a motor vehicle accident on Wednesday afternoon on Highway 444 near the city of Elad. The accident involved a truck
Amnesty International blatantly lied on Tuesday when it accused Israel of violating international law for bombing the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights building in Gaza. Amnesty tweeted: “We strongly
Renewed clashes rocked Bolivia’s capital on Wednesday as the woman who claimed the presidency, a second-tier lawmaker thrust into the post because of a power vacuum, faced challenges to her leadership from supporters of ousted Evo Morales. A day after Jeanine Ańez took power, violent clashes broke out between rock-throwing Morales’ supporters and police in […]
What is the role of Hamas – the ruling terror group in the Gaza Strip – in the current flare-up between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and its military
The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rishon Lezion Hagaon Harav Yitzhak Yosef visited Yeshivas Be’er Hagolah together with the head of the vaad hachinuch of Be’er Hagolah Hagaon Harav Elya Brudny, Rosh Yeshivas Mir. Be’er Hagolah educates more than 430 Sephardic children from Brooklyn and Queens and it was a great Yom Tov for the […]
The U.S. House launched the first public hearing Wednesday of Donald Trump’s impeachment investigation, the extraordinary process to determine whether the 45th president of the United States should be removed from office. Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, immediately outlined the question at the core of the impeachment inquiry — […]
The race to fill a retiring Republican’s seat in Congress has begun as Democrats see opportunity in the shifting political dynamics of New York’s Long Island suburbs. At least two Democrats are lining up to replace U.S. Rep. Peter King, a centrist who announced Monday that he won’t seek reelection in New York’s 2nd Congressional […]
We have a crisis on our hands that has caused tens of thousands of people to be in danger of losing their jobs and business owners to fall into massive
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that a survivor and relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting can pursue their lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is threatening to revoke a utility’s certificate to offer natural gas service in downstate New York. Democrat Cuomo sent a letter to National Grid on Tuesday giving the company 14 days to respond. State utility regulators this fall took aim at National Grid for denying natural gas service to more than 1,100 […]
Mark Sanford dropped his challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, saying the focus on impeachment has made it difficult for his campaign to gain traction. “You’ve got to be a realist,” Sanford said outside the New Hampshire statehouse. “What I did not anticipate is an impeachment.” The former South […]
Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigrants to work in the U.S., free from the threat of deportation. That outcome would “destroy lives,” declared Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one the court’s liberals who repeatedly suggested the administration […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that America now has its eye on a new Islamic State leader, telling the Economic Club of New York that “we know where he is.” Trump didn’t mention the name of the new target, but he is likely referring to Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the man who has been named […]
The Justice Department’s watchdog is nearing the release of its report on the early stages of the FBI’s Russia investigation, a document likely to revive debate about a politically charged probe that shadowed President Donald Trump’s administration from the outset. The inspector general in recent days has invited witnesses and their lawyers who were interviewed […]
The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open. When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing Wednesday morning, America and the rest of the world will have the chance to see and hear for themselves for the first time about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and consider […]
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