Pro-Palestinian Influence At Center Of Congressional Bribery Allegations
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An alleged bid to get a freshman congresswoman to adopt pro-Palestinian stances is at the center of a bribery scandal dating back to 2018.
Rep. Marie Newman, ...
CNN Exec’s Ouster Rattles Prominent Staff At Pivotal Time
NEW YORK (AP) — The abrupt ouster of CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker because of a workplace relationship has left some prominent employees feeling angry and uncertain about the dir...
Canada PM: Military Response Not In Cards For COVID Protests
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday a military response to the ongoing Ottawa protest against COVID-19 measures is “not in the cards right n...
UN Panel Describes ‘Systematic’ Persecution Driving Jews Out Of Yemen; Says 7 Jews Remain
Systematic persecution of Jews in Yemen by Houthi rebels and a previous government has driven the ancient community almost entirely out of the country, with possibly just seven re...
Biden In NYC: Nation Must Come Together To End Gun Violence
NEW YORK (AP) — Running through a grim tally of recent gun deaths, President Joe Biden pledged to New Yorkers and the nation on Thursday that the federal government would step up i...
U.S. Says New Intel Shows Russia Plotting False Flag Attack
BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.S. has obtained intelligence indicating that the Russian government developed a plan to stage a false attack that would depict the Ukrainian military or its i...
Medicare Opens Up Access To Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration, seeking to fill a frustrating gap in coverage for COVID-19 tests, Thursday announced that people with Medicare will be able to get free ...
Israel, Bahrain Sign New Defense Memo In Signal Toward Iran
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Bahrain signed a defense agreement Thursday as part of a show of cooperation aimed at sending a message toward archenemy Iran.
Defense Minister Benny...
NYC Mayor Defends Dinner With Disgraced Ex-Governor Cuomo
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams pushed back Thursday against the suggestion there was anything wrong with his dinner this week with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
NATO Says Russian Buildup In Belarus Is Biggest In 30 Years
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg expressed concern Thursday that Russia is continuing its military buildup around Ukraine, and that it has now deployed more ...
Defense Minister Gantz Visits US 5th Fleet In Bahrain, ‘Our Ironclad Cooperation More Important Than Ever’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an historic first visit by the head of the Israeli defense establishment to the Persian Gulf, Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Bahrain Thursday, situat...
Biden: US Raid In Syria Killed Top Islamic State Leader
ATMEH, Syria (AP) — An elite U.S. military force killed one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, the leader of the Islamic State group, during an overnight raid in Syria’s northw...
On His Last Day, Attorney-General Approves Deal To Authorize New Samarian Settlement In Evyatar
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Reports in the Israeli media Wednesday reveal that on his last day in office, outgoing attorney general Avichai Mandelblit okayed a deal between the governmen...
EXCLUSIVE: ADL Changes Definition of Racism After Scathing Op-Ed on VIN News
NEW YORK (VINnews) — On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) changed its definition of racism. The change came just one day after columnist Moshe Hill wrote an op-ed on VIN ...
Immigrant IDs To Be Issued In Florida’s Miami-Dade County
MIAMI (AP) — Commissioners in Florida's Miami-Dade County have given a nonprofit the green light to issue IDs for immigrants who are in the country illegally and others who don’t h...
FBI Confirms It Bought Spyware From Israel’s NSO Group
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group's powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to surveil journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has ...
U.S. Army To Immediately Start Discharging Vaccine Refusers
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army said Wednesday it will immediately begin discharging soldiers who have refused to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, putting more than 3,300 service mem...
Biden Sending More Troops To Europe Amid Ukraine Tension
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 U.S.-based troops to Poland and Germany and shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania as demonstrations of Americ...
Senior Government Official to David Friedman: ‘Don’t Be So Jewish’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A shocking new exchange has surfaced, in which a senior staffer at the State Department told David Friedman in 2017, “Don’t be so Jewish.”
Mr. Friedman, for...
Biden Aims To Reduce Cancer Deaths By 50% Over Next 25 Years
President Joe Biden is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% — a new goal for the “moonshot” initiative against the disease that was announced in 2016 when he was vice ...