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...
Stark Disparities In New York City’s Virus Toll
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus has cut an unequal path of grief through New York City, hitting hardest in a ring of predominantly poorer, nonwhite neighborhoods a long subway and ...
Rav Chaim Kanievski: We Were Banished From Shuls Because Our Phones Were On
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — In a letter written Monday regarding the expected reopening of Shuls in Israel this week, Rav Chaim Kanievski wrote that we need "to establish a permanent rul...
Fox’s Cavuto Urges Viewers Not To Take Drug Like Trump
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel anchor Neil Cavuto strongly urged viewers on Monday not to follow the example of President Donald Trump, who revealed that he is taking a malaria d...
California Gov. Newsom Clears Way For Pro Sports To Return
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has given the go ahead for professional sports teams in the state to play without spectators soon.
The Democratic governor said d...
Moderna: Early Coronavirus Vaccine Results Are Encouraging
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — An experimental vaccine against the coronavirus showed encouraging results in very early testing, triggering hoped-for immune responses in eight healthy, mi...
Camp Infirmary Nurse Voices Concerns Over Camps Opening This Summer
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The following letter was submitted to VINnews by a an experienced nurse who works in a camp infirmary:
I dont usually write letters to the editor, but after...
Italian Synagogues And Churches Reopen, But With Fewer Worshippers Allowed
MILAN (JTA) – Synagogues and churches have reopened in northern Italy, where they had been shut down since that area went into lockdown following the first major outbreak of COVID-...
Private Jet From NY Leads To Large Jerusalem Funeral And Violation Of Quarantine Regulations
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Seven members of a wealthy Bukharan Jewish family arrived in Israel from NY on a private jet to bury their mother who had passed away from COVID-19 next to th...
Trump Reveals He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine To Prevent COVID-19 Symptoms
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking a malaria drug to lessen symptoms should he get the new coronavirus, even though the drug is unproven for fig...
Western NY, Including Buffalo, To Start Phased Reopening
NEW YORK (AP) — Western New York, including the city of Buffalo, met the state's coronavirus containment goals and can begin to reopen its economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
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