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EXCLUSIVE: ADL Changes Definition of Racism After Scathing Op-Ed on VIN News

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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

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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

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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 ...

Facebook Parent Meta Posts Lower Q4 Profit, Shares Plunge

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge after-hours Wednesday after reporting a rare decline in its fourth quarter profit due to a sharp ...

U.S. Army To Immediately Start Discharging Vaccine Refusers

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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...

Cancer Patients Called Cured A Decade After Gene Therapy

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In 2010, doctors treated Doug Olson’s leukemia with an experimental gene therapy that transformed some of his blood cells into cancer killers. More than a decade later, there's no ...

Orlando Sheriff To Charge Neo-Nazis That Participated In Orlando Rally

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ORLANDO (VINnews) — Florida residents were outraged after a neo-Nazi rally took place in Orlando over the weekend. Video footage posted to social media showed a group of neo-Naz...

Surfside Condo’s Sister Building Gets Structural Supports

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Seven months after an oceanfront condominium collapsed and killed 98 people near Miami, temporary structural supports have been added to areas in the undergro...

Thousands Honor Fallen Baltimore Firefighters At Memorial

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Thousands gathered in Baltimore on Wednesday to mourn the loss of three firefighters who died after they were trapped in a burning vacant rowhome when it partially...

Biden Sending More Troops To Europe Amid Ukraine Tension

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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’

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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...

NYC Honors Officer At 2nd Funeral

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NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Officers massed by the thousands on Fifth Avenue for New York City's second police funeral in less than a week, saluting Officer Wilbert Mora hours ...

Biden Aims To Reduce Cancer Deaths By 50% Over Next 25 Years

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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 ...

CNN CEO Jeff Zucker Resigns Over Not Disclosing Relationship With Colleague

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CNN President Jeff Zucker resigned abruptly after 9 years at the media company after acknowledging a consensual relationship with a co-worker. The executive said he had failed t...

Punxsutawney Phil Predicts Six More Weeks Of Winter

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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow Wednesday to perform his Groundhog Day duties. Thousan...

Winter Storm Packing Snow, Freezing Rain Moves Across US

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the middle section of the United States on Wednesd...

BREAKING: Students May Enter Israel Even If Not Vaccinated or Recovered

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JERUSALEM (VINNews) — Israel has again loosened Covid restrictions for yeshiva and seminary students. In a newly released video, Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz of Eretz Hakodesh anno...

WATCH: Lakewood Men Press Charges After NJ Plow Driver Hit Them With Snow

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LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — As previously reported by VINnews, two jewish men were targeted in Lakewood this past Shabbos, when a snow plow driver passed by them and deliberately showered...

NYPD Arrests Brooklyn Man Who Punched Hasidic Man In The Face

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BROOKLYN (JTA) - The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force has arrested a man accused of punching a Hasidic man in the nose early on Saturday, Jan. 22 in Crown Height...

Whoopi Goldberg Suspended From ‘The View’ Following Holocaust Remarks

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NEW YORK (VINnews) - ABC News suspended "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks on Tuesday night, one day after she drew significant criticism for falsely declaring that the ...