Orders and deliveries of Boeing’s 737 Max plunged in the first quarter as the plane was grounded around the world following a second deadly crash. Boeing disclosed Tuesday that it received no new orders for the Max in March. It took 29 net orders for 737s in the first three months of the year, but […]
A panel of Missouri lawmakers on Monday considered enacting a ban on discrimination against unvaccinated children, an effort that comes as other states look to increase immunization amid disease outbreaks.
More than half of Americans say President Donald Trump has made race relations worse during his time in the White House, and more than two-thirds believe it has become more
Federal authorities said Tuesday they’ve broken up a $1.2 billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centers. The Justice Department announced charges against 24 people across the U.S., including doctors accused of writing bogus prescriptions for unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces. Others charged […]
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday that his department intends to “follow the law” and is reviewing a request by a top House Democrat to provide President Donald Trump’s tax returns to lawmakers. Mnuchin also revealed that Treasury Department lawyers have talked to the White House counsel’s office about the question of releasing Trump’s returns, […]
The chareidi parties emerged the winners of the election for 21st Knesset with a total of 16 seats, representing a sizable voice in the next coalition government. While it appears
Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward a historic fifth term as Israel’s prime minister on Wednesday, with close-to-complete unofficial election results giving his right-wing Likud and other nationalist and religious parties a solid majority in Knesset. The tight race was seen as a referendum on the long-serving leader. It will give Netanyahu an important […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday mocked U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Kremlin interference in the 2016 presidential election, saying “a mountain gave birth to a mouse.” In
As YWN reported earlier Tuesday, health officials ordered nearly everyone in a heavily Orthodox Jewish New York City neighborhood to be vaccinated for measles or face $1000 fines, reviving a public-health strategy that experts say hasn’t been used in the U.S. in recent memory. “This is an unusual action,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
Airbnb is rescinding its plan to bar listings in Israeli settlements in the “West Bank”. The home-sharing company announced in November that it would remove approximately 200 listings in Israeli
The leader of Senate Democrats says “chaos” in the Trump administration on immigration and other policy is the president’s fault. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday that President Donald Trump “cannot keep changing personnel, changing strategy, tweeting your way through a problem as serious” as immigration. The New York Democrat […]
A recent study of more than 300 Jewish crowdfunding campaigns found that while individual funds for causes like hachnasas kallah often gain some traction, organization-run funds for the same causes
There were two-car-accidents at the same time on Highway 471 at the Sha-ariya interchange located near Petach Tikvah on tuesday afternoon. United Hatzalah volunteers responded to the first accident and
New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer visited the Chareidim Shmurah Matzah Bakery in Borough Park on Monday, April 8.
A congressional hearing on online hate turned into a vivid demonstration of the problem Tuesday when a YouTube livestream of the proceedings was bombarded with racist and anti-Semitic comments from internet users. YouTube disabled the live chat section of the streaming video about 30 minutes into the hearing because of what it called “hateful comments.” […]
A U.S. Marine killed this week in Afghanistan was honored five years ago for rescuing a woman from a burning high-rise while serving with the Fire Department of New York, the city’s mayor and fire commissioner said on Tuesday. Christopher Slutman, a 15-year FDNY member, was among three American service members killed by a roadside […]
New York State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein presides over the New York State Assembly on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 in the State Capitol in Albany, NY. “Procedure is a cornerstone of
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Leaders of a prominent liberal group are urging Democratic presidential contenders who are pitching massive policy changes to also focus on more fundamental “structural reforms” to American democracy. In a book set for publication this fall, Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg — who founded the activist group Indivisible in 2017 — plan to outline a […]
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