Older Americans Get Chance To Join Virus Vaccine Study
NEW YORK (AP) - A U.S. study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine is being expanded to include older adults, the age group most at risk from the new coronavirus.
The shot, made by th...
Trump, Aides Float Outlier Theory On Origins Of Coronavirus
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and some of his officials are flirting with an outlier theory that the new coronavirus was set loose on the world by a Chinese lab that let...
Amid Talk Of Restarting Economy, Virus Keeps Killing In NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Hopeful talk about getting people out of their homes and back to work in some parts of the country seems a far cry from the harsh reality in New York and its suburb...
Trump Gives Governors 3-phase Plan To Reopen Economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate a...
Cops Caught Cursing Over Loudspeaker, Drawing NYPD Probe
NEW YORK (AP) — Two police officers assigned to patrol New York City’s desolate streets were put under department investigation Thursday after a video showed them purportedly makin...
New York To Require Face Coverings In Busy Public Places
NEW YORK (AP) — New York residents will be required to wear face coverings anytime they come into close contact with other people outside their homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednes...
Ivanka Trump Traveled To New Jersey For Passover, Despite Stay-at-home Orders
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey with her family to spend Passover at a Trump family residence, despite federal guidelines against discretionary travel.
Tr...
Cuomo Extends Shutdown To May 15 Even As State’s Coronavirus Toll Drops Sharply To 606
NEW YORK (AP) - New York state will extend its stay-at-home restrictions at least through May 15 amid signs the initial wave of the coronavirus outbreak has stopped getting worse.
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Watch: Chasidic- Style Celebration of Mimouna Festival After Pesach
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — The Mimouna festival is a North African tradition on the night after Pesach. It celebrates the continued faith (Emuna-Mimouna) that despite the fact that Pesa...
Pink Is Not Just For Girls: Taiwanese Officials Wear Pink Face Masks To Encourage Males To Don Them
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — In response to complaints by boys that they had been bullied in school for bringing pink face masks, Taiwanese health officials donned pink face masks at a regular...
US Sources ‘Increasingly Confident’ That COVID-19 Emanated From Wuhan Lab Trying To Compete With US
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Fox news report claims that there is now increasing evidence accumulating that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as pa...
To Love And To Cherish: Nurse Couple Unites To Fight Virus
(AP) — Between surgeries one stressful morning, Ben Cayer and Mindy Brock — husband and wife, and fellow nurse anesthetists — peered through layers of protective gear, and locked e...
Forbes Publishes Study Ranking Israel As Safest Country Regarding Coronavirus Pandemic
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A new study published by Forbes Monday ranked Israel as the safest country in the world with regard to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, although Forbes s...
WWII Veteran, Age 99, Raises Millions For UK Health Service
LONDON (AP) — A 99-year-old British army veteran who started walking laps in his garden as part of a humble fundraiser for the National Health Service has surprised himself by gene...
Trump’s Halting Of funds To WHO Sparks Worldwide Rebuke
GENEVA (AP) — Nations and health experts worldwide reacted with alarm Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the ...
Search For A COVID-19 Vaccine Heats Up In China, US
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three potential COVID-19 vaccines are making fast progress in early-stage testing in volunteers in China and the U.S., but it’s still a long road to prove if they...
Detained Immigrants Plead For Masks, Protection From Virus
HOUSTON (AP) — Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign.
The asylum-seeker from El Salvador and others ha...
Outrage As Police Break Into Roli And Yoeli Dickman’s Apartment to Stop Prayers
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — In an outrageous display of insensitivity, police Tuesday broke into an apartment in Bnei Brak where singers Roli and Yoeli Dickman were holding live prayers ...
Fauci: ‘We’re Not There Yet’ On Key Steps To Reopen Economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to b...
Rabbi Avrohom Pinter Of London Dies Of Coronavirus
LONDON (JTA) — Avrohom Pinter, a prominent rabbi in the United Kingdom and the first British rabbi to serve as a town council member, has died of the coronavirus.
Pinter, who wa...
