MIAMI — Conspiracy theorists took to social media in a flurry of excitement Wednesday after a mysterious flying object resembling an orange fireball streaked across the Florida sky. The American Meteor Society reported two dozen sightings from Jacksonville to Key West after midnight and tweeted there’s “no real explanation yet.” Even the Palm Beach County […]
Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has pulled ahead of public defender Tiffany Cabán by 20 votes in the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney, city Board of Election officials said Wednesday night. The lead is narrow enough to prompt a recount – another dramatic turn in a local race that has garnered national attention. Cabán’s […]
Washington, D.C., officials are pushing back against an unsubstantiated claim by President Donald Trump that he orchestrated a purge of homeless people to shield visiting foreign dignitaries from having to
A North Carolina man charged with anonymously threatening to lynch a Muslim-American political candidate in Virginia also is accused of posting an anti-Semitic threat on a Florida synagogue’s Facebook page.
The Bayit Yehudi party has launched an achdus campaign, seeking to bring back Naftali Bennet and Ayelet Shaked, but the party is no longer including Moshe Feiglin who heads the
President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that he is not dropping efforts to include a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census, even as the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without it. “News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census […]
An Indian man who had been declared dead woke up just before he was set to be buried during a funeral ceremony, according to reports. Mourners at Mohammad Furqan, 20,
The U.S. trade deficit rose to a five-month high in May as the politically sensitive imbalances with China and Mexico widened. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that the gap between
MK (Blue and White) Ofer Shelach of the Yesh Atid faction of the party tweeted that Ehud Barak stole his election slogan of “Integration Program – Barak – The Courage to Win” from him. “Even the slogan was not created by him” tweeted Shelach, who uses his book showing the title “The Courage to Win”, […]
A former police detective who fought for the extension of health benefits for Sept. 11 responders was hailed as a hero Wednesday at his funeral. “These heroes responded to calls for help. They did not hesitate; that’s who they were and still are,” Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at the funeral for Detective Luis Alvarez, […]
Boeing says it’s providing $100 million over several years to help families and communities affected by two crashes of its 737 Max plane that killed 346 people. The company said Wednesday that some of the money will go toward living expenses and to cover hardship suffered by the families of dead passengers. Boeing faces dozens […]
A large number of police officers gathered on Tuesday night in Beit Shemesh to ensure the safety of workers sent to tear down an illegally built Shul. Dozens of local
On Tuesday, July 2nd, the Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Laszlo Szabo, along with Hungarian Consul General Istvan Paasztor and Consul Viktor Janzso, met with a delegation of
President Donald Trump is accusing China and Europe of playing a “big currency manipulation game.” He says the United States should match that effort, a move that directly contradicts official U.S. policy not to manipulate the dollar’s value to gain trade advantages. In a tweet, the president says if America doesn’t act, the country will […]
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 365,000 tourist entries were recorded in June 2019, 17.7% more than June 2018 and 20.5% more than June 2017. In the period January – June 2019, 2.265 million tourist entries were recorded, as opposed to 2.063 million in the same period last year, an increase of 9.8%. […]
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris picked up another endorsement Wednesday from a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, where she is competing for support with former Vice President Joe
Investors extended a rally through a holiday-shortened day and pushed the S&P 500 index to its third straight record high close on Wednesday. Other major indexes also closed at record
Dozens of rabbonim from the dati leumi community on Wednesday penned a letter expressing tenacious opposition to a secular woman, in this case Ayelet Shaked, leading the Bayit Yehudi party,
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