Senator Salazar, Assemblyman Eichenstein Pass Legislation Allowing For Two SNAP Cards Per Family
NEW YORK (VINnews) - During the final days of the scheduled legislative session, the New York State Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Senator Julia Salazar and Assemblyman Sim...
Clashes Among New York Democrats After Redistricting Redo
NEW YORK (AP) — Two of New York's longest-serving members of Congress have turned from allies to rivals after a court redrew the state's congressional maps, scrambling the favorabl...
Group Of Democrats And Republicans Call On Palestinian Authority To Release Bullet That Killed Palestinian Journalist
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bipartisan slate of 25 Congress members, including a number who are close to the pro-Israel community, called on the Biden administration to pressure the Pales...
Some Cancer Patients Can Skip Treatments, 2 Studies Show
NEW YORK (AP) - After surgery, some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy, according to two studies exploring shorter, gentler cancer care.
Researchers are l...
Facing Huge Inventory, Target Cuts Vendor Orders, Prices
NEW YORK (AP) — Target is canceling orders from suppliers, particularly for home goods and clothing, and it's slashing prices further to clear out amassed inventory ahead of the cr...
Biden Orders Emergency Steps To Boost U.S. Solar Production
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar pane...
Musk Threatens To Walk Away From Twitter Deal
DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot and fake a...
NY Governor Signs Law Raising Age To Own Semiautomatic Rifle
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New Yorkers under age 21 will be prohibited from buying semiautomatic rifles under a new law signed Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, making the state among the firs...
Putin Warns West Against Sending Arms; Kyiv Hit By Missiles
NEW YORK (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin's new warning to the West against sending longer-range rocket systems to Ukraine came as his forces claimed to have destroyed Weste...
2 Lev Tahor Leaders, Mordechai And Matisyahu Malka, Convicted On Kidnapping Charges
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Two members of the Lev Tahor cult, Mordechai Malka and Matisyahu Malka, have been found guilty in a US federal court of plotting to kidnap a 14-year-old girl a...
Envoy Says US, Allies Preparing For N. Korean Nuclear Test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden’s special envoy for North Korea said Friday the United States is “preparing for all contingencies” in close coordination with its Sout...
Rabbi Uri Zohar: Makom Sh’baalei teshuvah Omdin, ain Tzaddikim Gemurim Omdin
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Imagine a top actor, a top film director, and a top comedian all in one. Imagine a Tom Cruise, a Steven Spielberg, and a Jimmy Kimmel - all w...
Walmart Adding 4 Fulfillment Centers, More Than 4,000 Jobs
Walmart is adding four new fulfillment centers to its existing capacity, a move that will bring more than 4,000 jobs and make next- or two-day shipping available to more Americans....
One by One – Rabbi Mendel and Esther Lifshitz & Family of Boise, Idaho
Our shlichus is not an assembly-line shlichus; it is handmade. Every neshama is hand-crafted. We wouldn’t trade it for the world. We had the incredible opportunity to build up our ...
US Has Over 750 Complaints That Teslas Brake For No Reason
DETROIT (AP) — More than 750 Tesla owners have complained to U.S. safety regulators that cars operating on the automaker's partially automated driving systems have suddenly stopped...
Yossi Gestetner Blasts Democrats’ Hypocrisy on Gun Control
NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Commentator Yossi Gestetner put out a series of tweets this week, demonstrating the Democrats’ hypocrisy on gun control. He called it a "farce" to s...
Pain Management: Tulsa Shooting Exposes Threats Doctors Face
The deadly mass shooting at an Oklahoma medical office by a man who blamed his surgeon for continuing pain following an operation on his back underscores the escalating threat of v...
Bill To Limit Cryptomining Passes New York Legislature
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A milestone measure that would tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining operations burning fossil fuels in New York has passed the state Legislatur...
Tropical Storm Warning For Parts Of Florida, Cuba, Bahamas
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Tropical storm warnings were issued early Friday for much of the Florida peninsula, Cuba and the Bahamas as a system that battered Mexico moves through...
Harini Logan Wins Spelling Bee In 1st-Ever Tiebreaker
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Harini Logan was eliminated from the Scripps National Spelling Bee once, then reinstated. She missed four words in a grueling standoff against Vikram Raju, in...