Another member of a police force has admitted to stealing money during illegal traffic stops and shakedowns and then falsifying reports. Paterson Officer Frank Toledo faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to violate individuals’ civil rights, using unreasonable and excessive force, and filing a false police report. Toledo […]
Israel police have launched an investigation after seeing a video on social media of a driver on Jerusalem’s Begin Highway, as he backed up to exit while endangering many motorists by his actions. Police have learned the driver is an 83-year-old man, a Jerusalem resident, who they have summoned for questioning. (YWN Israel Desk – […]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is struggling to raise big money in a key election year after a blackface scandal nearly ended his political career. But he’s also managed to remain a major source of campaign cash for Democrats, including those who have previously called on him to resign. New campaign finance reports filed Monday show […]
Golan Telecom, one of the cellular providers in Israel, is seriously considering blocking the so-called ‘nayis’ new lines that have become so popular in the chareidi community in Israel. According
Following the Central Election Committee’s decision not to hold mixed courses for Election Day poll watchers, the women’s lobby sent a harshly worded letter to the committee demanding a cancelation
John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court’s leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99. During nearly 35 years on the court, Stevens stood for the freedom and dignity of individuals, be they students or immigrants or prisoners. He […]
A Jewish association says some private donors to Poland’s renowned Jewish history museum have suspended funding out of concerns about the government’s failure to renew the term of its director. A special commission in May approved Dariusz Stola for another five-year term, but Culture Minister Piotr Glinski hasn’t yet officially reappointed him. Glinski said recently […]
This past week has been a very difficult week for the Bauman family, the Norfolk community, and all of Klal Yisrael. Rabbi Reuven Bauman and his family moved
New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, scientists offered evidence that the disease may spread differently in the brains of women […]
A Kentucky man who went to the doctor with an irritated eye got the unsavory news that it contained a tick. WYMT-TV reports an optometrist used tweezers to remove the tick from Chris Prater’s eye. Prater works for an electric company and had left a job site where his crew had removed a tree from […]
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 has rattled parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. There are no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck Tuesday afternoon 9
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden joked that he would challenge President Donald Trump to do push-ups on stage if Trump mocked Biden’s age during a general election debate in a Tuesday interview. While many Democratic candidates have shied away from directly attacking the president, Biden — the current Democratic frontrunner — […]
Stocks ended a five-day winning streak on Tuesday as investors cautiously assessed the first big round of corporate earnings reports. Technology companies fared the worst, weighed down by a 1.3%
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) She is not a member of Hatzalah, but she saves lives. She considers it her full-time job, yet she does not get paid. She wishes to remain anonymous, but we will call her, “Hadassah.” Hadassah, in her early forties, spends her days driving cancer patients and their family members […]
A driver exiting a car wash in New Jersey accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and careened into a nearby waterway Tuesday. It happened in Hackensack and involved
An Egged bus driver was attacked on Monday evening by two passengers after he refused to permit them to get off in between bus stops. The incident occurred on a
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer opened the door on Tuesday to ending the procedural rule that requires 60 votes to steer most bills through the chamber if Democrats take the Senate and White House in 2020 — a boon to presidential candidates and activists in his party who have called for that change. Schumer told […]
New York will raise its smoking age from 18 to 21 under legislation signed into law Tuesday by the state’s governor. The change, which takes effect in 120 days, will apply to the sales of traditional tobacco products as well as electronic cigarettes and vaporizers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said too many children and […]
A federal appeals court in New York says the city can ban advertisements in vehicles driven for companies like Uber and Lyft. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
A federal judge has restricted Roger Stone’s use of social media after finding that the longtime friend of President Donald Trump violated her gag order. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Stone on Tuesday that he could not use Instagram or other social media platforms while the case against him moves forward. She said […]
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