The number of Americans seeking jobless benefits rose modestly last week, suggesting that employers are still retaining workers even as the economy has showed signs of slowing. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 30 rose by 8,000 to 237,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s more than the 231,000 new applications economists […]
District of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital have had their orders extended through December, a National Guard official said. The main purpose of the extension is to ensure that any D.C. Guard members out on the streets of Washington […]
The man accused of ramming his car into a parade of Liverpool soccer fans in May as the team was celebrating its Premier League triumph pleaded not guilty Thursday to
(By: Sandy Eller) He was a one-man chesed machine, a relentless individual whose passion for helping others drove him to spend full days and many sleepless nights easing the pain of those facing the most difficult moments of their lives. It’s been three years since Misaskim founder Yankie Meyer left this world, and even now, […]
Earlier today, Albany Supreme Court rejected the State Education Department’s latest attempt to control yeshiva education. SED had declared students at three Brooklyn yeshivas ineligible for special education, busing and other services, because it determined this past March that those schools did not provide a substantially equivalent education. The Court rejected SED’s attempt to penalize […]
The Haifa District Attorney’s Office on Thursday filed an indictment against a resident of Baqa al-Gharbiyye, an Arab town in northern Israel, for pledging allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS) and planning an attack on Israeli security forces. In a joint statement, the Israel Police and Shin Bet warned that the case highlights a “worrying rise […]
Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from houses destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan last week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday.
The man accused of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy employees outside a Washington museum earlier this year pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that prosecutors say stem from anti-Israel
Americans would save roughly $100 billion a year in interest costs if President Donald Trump’s campaign proposal to cap credit card interest rates at 10% were implemented, according to a paper published by Vanderbilt University on Thursday. Further, the banks and credit card companies would be able to withstand, and even still be profitable, if […]
The Turgeman Committee, which was appointed to investigate the quality of the IDF’s internal probes into the October 7th massacre during the tenure of former IDF Chief of Staff Herzi
Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is pressing the Trump intelligence community’s new leadership to investigate whether Iranian-linked operatives infiltrated the U.S. government, warning that sensitive national security information may have been compromised. In a letter sent Wednesday to FBI Director Kash Patel and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and obtained by The New York Post, Cotton […]
The Powerball jackpot has jumped to an eye-popping $1.7 billion, after yet another drawing passed without a big winner Wednesday. The numbers selected were: 3, 16, 29, 61 and 69,
“The husband and wife should sponsor the needs of a chabura (group), who awaken to learn at Chatzos, and in this zechus, they will be blessed with zera shel kayama (offspring), and so they should do so constantly.” These are the powerful words of the holy Ben Ish Chai in his Sefer Keser Malchus. This […]
The Jerusalem Magistrates Court on Thursday extended the arrest of Lt. Col. (res.) Amos Doron, 60, who was arrested for setting fire to garbage bins near the Prime Minister’s Residence
When Elizabeth Rivera’s phone would ring during the overnight shift, it was usually because the bus didn’t show up again and one of her three kids needed a ride to school. After leaving early from her job at a Houston-area Amazon warehouse several times, Rivera was devastated — but not surprised — when she was […]
The death toll in the crash of a Lisbon streetcar popular with tourists rose to 17 on Thursday after two people died from their injuries while receiving hospital care, an emergency services official said. The cause of the derailment remained unclear. The dead were all adults, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, told reporters. She didn’t […]
Israel’s State Comptroller demanded that officials from the National Security Ministry hand over the interim findings of the National Security Council’s internal investigation into the failures of October 7—but the staff refused, fearing they would be leaked, Kan Reshet Bet reported on Thursday morning. According to the report, senior NSC official Victor Weiss said that […]
The Trump administration took the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule quickly that the president has the power to impose sweeping import taxes under federal law. The government called on the court to reverse an appeals court ruling that found most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are […]
An IDF representative told the members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday in a closed-door meeting that it is uncertain that the conquest of Gaza City will
The Houthi terror group in Yemen launched a surface-to-surface missile at Israel on Thursday at 5:39 a.m., which, Baruch Hashem, landed in an open area outside Israel’s borders. Defense Minister
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