WHO: Drug Trump Taking To Fight Covid-19 Best Left To Tests
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization, which has come under repeated fire from U.S. President Donald Trump, says the science is still unclear on an old malaria drug he's taki...
WHO Reports Record Number Of COVID-19 Cases In Single Day, Warns ‘We Still Have Long Way To Go’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The number of newly reported coronavirus cases worldwide hit a daily record this week with more than 100,000 new cases over the last 24 hours, according to a r...
Pomp And Masks: Graduations Draw Thousands Despite Pandemic
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — High schools nationwide have canceled or postponed traditional graduation ceremonies to avoid worsening the spread of the new coronavirus, but some plunged ahea...
Mayor Says Mexico City Will Begin Gradual Reopening June 1
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Even as Mexico saw its largest one-day death toll, Mexico City announced Wednesday it will begin a gradual reopening June 1.
The nationwide death toll rose by...
Reopening: It’s Back To Business, But Not Business As Usual
NEW YORK (AP) — This is what “normal” will look like for the foreseeable future.
In Connecticut, restaurants are reopening with outdoor-only dining and tables 6 feet (2 meters) ...
WATCH: Prominent Kiryas Joel Doctor Abruptly Resigns, Will Leave Community
KIRYAS JOEL (JTA) – His rise was meteoric and his fall just as sudden.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, an Orthodox Jewish doctor who rose to fame in March while promoting a cocktail of dr...
US Births Fall, And Virus Could Drive Them Down More
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births continued to fall last year, leading to the fewest number of newborns in 35 years.
The decline is the latest sign of a prolonged national “baby bust”...
Religious Woman Publicly Humiliated In Holon Supermarket: ‘You From Meah Shearim Will Kill Us All’
HOLON (VINnews) — Israeli singer Ilana Adani could never have imagined herself being the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in her own hometown of Holon. Adani, who performs in Franc...
New Jersey, Other States, Work To Fight Virus Misinformation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s top homeland security official received nearly nonstop calls in early March from grocery chains, trucking companies and other logistics firms want...
My ‘Decision To Make’: Trump Defends Criticized Use Of Drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump emphatically defended himself Tuesday against criticism from medical experts that his announced use of a malaria drug against the coronavir...
Bronx ‘City Within A City’ Shaken By Sickness, Fear
NEW YORK (AP) — Tarhia Morton and her family were planning to party this year.
She is retired after 40 years with the U.S. Postal Service. Her sister is turning 70. A birthday b...
Trump Allies Lining Up Doctors To Prescribe Rapid Reopening
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting “pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without wait...
Breaking: Israel To Open Shuls From Tomorrow
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (all of whom are re...
States Accused Of Fudging Or Bungling COVID-19 Testing Data
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As large parts of the U.S. ease their lockdowns against the coronavirus, public health officials in some states are being accused of bungling infection stat...
Dr., and Kansas GOP Congressman Using Malaria Drug To Ward Off Virus
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican congressman from Kansas who is also a doctor says he has been taking a malaria drug being touted by President Donald Trump as way to protect ag...
Woman Who Dug Up Soldier’s Grave Claimed That She “Hoped He Would Wake Up”
RISHON LETZION (VINnews) — A 41-year-old female resident of Bnei Brak who was arrested yesterday for allegedly digging up the grave of a soldier who was killed by a terrorist last ...
Pelosi Warns Against “Morbidly Obese” President Taking Hydroxychloroquine, Aides Scramble To Defend Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Making himself an example for using a malaria drug against the coronavirus, President Donald Trump sent the White House scrambling Tuesday to defend his decision ...
Pandemic Threatens To Deepen Crisis In Mental Health Care
NEW YORK (AP) — More than three weeks after Brandon Bell stopped showing up at a New York office that serves people with schizophrenia, employees finally located him at a nearby ho...
Chief Rabbi Lau Begs PM To Open Shuls: ‘ I Sense How Much This Hurts People’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chief Rabbi David Lau sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu requesting that he open the shuls in Israel immediately, according to a report by B'Ch...
Company Makes ‘Bumper Tables’ For Restaurants Amid Virus
OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A company in Baltimore has created “bumper tables” designed to allow people to practice social distancing while eating and talking in outdoor settings amid t...