Ashes On The Kotel: Analysis Of A Tense Situation
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The month of Ramadan varies annually as the Muslim lunar calendar does not have a leap year to keep up with the solar calendar. This year the month coincided ...
Long-Serving Utah Pro-Israel US Senator Orrin Hatch Dies At Age 88
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin G. Hatch, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history as he represented Utah for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88.
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Florida Senate Passes Bill To End Disney Self-Government
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to repeal a law allowing Walt Disney World to operate a private government over its properties in the state, ...
DOJ to Appeal Ruling to End Mask Mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes, trains and travel hubs, officials s...
YAAKOV M: Biden’s Mask Policy on Airplanes Not Based on Science
President Biden’s DOJ is refusing to end mask mandates on airplanes.
On Monday a judge struck down the unpopular mandate. In response, airline passengers and crew members were ...
Video Of Sobbing Child And Officers ‘Wrenching,’ Says NY Gov
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A widely seen video of an 8-year-old Black child sobbing as he's being led into a Syracuse police car over a bag of chips was called “heart wrenching” Wednesd...
Israeli PM Bennett Prevents Right-Wingers Including MK Ben-Gvir From Reaching Damascus Gate
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett caved in to pressure from Arab countries and Arab members of his coalition and closed Temple Mount to Jews, right...
DOJ: 21 People Charged Nationwide With $150M In COVID Fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-one people have been charged in the past nine days as part of a nationwide enforcement push to root out those who exploit the pandemic through health care ...
NYC Wants To Help Those Hit By ‘War On Drugs’ Sell Legal Pot
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he wants the city to promote its impending legal cannabis industry and assist people from minority communities most affected by ...
Israeli Actor Says He ‘Prays For Western Wall And Temple Mount To Be Reduced To Rubble’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Israeli satirist and actor caused outraged reactions when he published a post on his Facebook page Tuesday calling to "reduce to rubble" the Western Wall an...
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Meets With Pakistani Leaders
ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar met Wednesday with Pakistani leaders in the first visit by a member of Congress since a new coalition government came into power in Islamabad ...
US Pentagon Chief Speaks For 1st Time To Chinese Counterpart
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday spoke with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since becoming Pentagon chief more than a year ago, breaking a c...
Feds Will Appeal Mask Ruling Only If Mandate Still Needed
The Justice Department said Tuesday it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disea...
Bennett Closes Har Habayis to Jews for Remainder of Ramadan
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government will close Har Habayis to Jewish visitors starting Friday, and it will remain closed throughout the end of Ramadan and the Eid holiday....
Florida Gov DeSantis Pushes To End Disney Self-Government
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday asked the Legislature to repeal a law allowing Walt Disney World to operate a private government over its properties i...
CDC Launches New Forecasting Center For Infectious Diseases
A new U.S. government center aims to become the National Weather Service for infectious diseases — an early warning system to help guide the response to COVID-19 and future pandemi...
Thousands March in West Bank in Protest of Bennett Government
CHOMESH (VINnews) — Several thousand Israelis marched to the dismantled Chomesh settlement in the northern West Bank on Tuesday.
Protesters demanded that the government leave th...
Florida Judge Voids US Mask Mandate For Planes, Other Travel
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. he...
Congress Seeks Compromise To Boost Computer Chip Industry
WASHINGTON (AP) — A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities, so Congress is looking to...