The U.S. economy slowed to a modest growth rate of 1.9% in the summer as consumer spending downshifted and businesses continued to trim their investments in response to trade war uncertainty and a weakening global economy. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that the July-September performance for the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of […]
Facebook sued the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group on Tuesday in U.S. federal court for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp with highly sophisticated spyware.
Immediately after the meeting of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz on Sunday evening, Netanyahu and his associates went straight to the house of the
Following the rash of tragedies which befell the Chareidi community in Israel on Monday, including the deaths of a baby, yeshivah bochurim and young mothers, the Rosh Yeshivah of Ponevezh,
As the Lakewood community was preparing for Yom Kippur, one family had their world turned upside down, as a raging fire consumed their home. Just hours before Kol Nidrei, their
Lebanon’s prime minister resigned Tuesday, bowing to one of the central demands of anti-government demonstrators shortly after baton-wielding Hezbollah supporters rampaged through the main protest camp in Beirut, torching tents, smashing plastic chairs and chasing away protesters. The demonstrators later returned to the camp in time to hear the news that Prime Minister Saad Hariri […]
A State Department Foreign Service officer is telling House impeachment investigators that former national security adviser John Bolton cautioned him that Rudy Giuliani “was a key voice with the president on Ukraine” and could complicate U.S. goals in the Eastern European country. The testimony on Wednesday from Christopher Anderson makes clear that administration officials were […]
On Tuesday evening, the Tel Aviv Municipality Finance Committee approved a budget that makes room for the city to operate a public transportation system on Shabbos. The total sum for
House Democrats unveiled legislation Tuesday authorizing the next phase of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump as Democrats move to nullify complaints from Trump and his Republican allies that
MK Moshe Arbel from Shas brought up in the Knesset plenum the issues surrounding the smuggling of Khat, a stimulant drug, which, while not being illegal in Israel, it is
On Monday evening, an elderly man in his 80’s went missing from his own home in Kiryat Ata. Immediately upon receiving a report that the man was missing the police
Conservatives in states including Wyoming, Utah and Ohio vowed Monday to keep pushing for the repeal of state-level death penalty sentences, even as U.S. officials move toward resuming federal executions.
U.S. agriculture officials said Tuesday a rule that allows farmers to legally grow hemp will be finalized this week, a move that many states have awaited for months so they
Border police on Wednesday morning neutralized a Palestinian terrorist armed with a knife, as she attempted to stab security forces at the holy site. The female terrorist arrived and pulled
In order to mark the yahrzeit of HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel Council will convene a special yahrzeit session in the former Har Nof home of the Torah giant, on Kablan Street. The yahrzeit is on Friday, 3 Cheshvan. A special memorial session for Maran will be held by the […]
Two men claiming to be repairmen attempted to get into Yeshiva Darchei Torah of Toronto. The men were dressed in construction vests. Thanks to proper security measures in place at
A Hatzolah vehicle belonging to a Hatzolah volunteer in Boro Park had his car stolen, before it crashed a few blocks later, Tuesday night. Sources tell YWN that the vehicle
The Navy has denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury’s sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. A spokesman for naval operations, Cmdr. Nate Christensen, said Tuesday that Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after […]
Beit Shemesh Councilman (Ichud Leumi) Yisrael Mendelson turned to his friend Minister of Transportation Betzalel Smotrich, calling upon him to address the dire situation regarding public transportation in the Ramat
The IDF identified an unmanned aviation vehicle some 12,000 feet above the Gaza Strip. This height is incredibly high and very unusual. The IDF promptly dispatched a squadron of fighter
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