Pfizer Pill Becomes 1st US-Authorized Home COVID Treatment
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst ef...
McConnell Openly Courts Manchin To Leave Democrats, Join GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell is done with subtleties. The Senate Republican leader is putting his party's courtship of Joe Manchin on full public display after the West Virgin...
NYC Adds Testing; No Decision On Times Square New Year’s Eve
NEW YORK (AP) — With COVID-19 cases spiking in New York City, city officials said Wednesday they’re opening more testing sites, restricting visiting at city-run hospitals and jails...
Turkey: US Diplomat Arrested, Allegedly Sold Fake Passport
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities have arrested an American diplomat working for the U.S. Consulate in Lebanon for allegedly providing a fake passport to a Syrian national,...
Secret Service: Nearly $100B Stolen In Pandemic Relief Funds
Nearly $100 billion at minimum has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the U.S. Secret Service s...
US Probes Potential Of Drivers Playing Video Games In Teslas
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into the potential for Tesla drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while the vehicle is in motion.
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White House Adviser Seeks Common Iran Strategy With Israel
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
The two ...
PM Bennett Denies Israeli News Reports That President Biden Refused To Talk With Him For Past Three Weeks
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli news sources claimed Tuesday that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had requested three weeks ago to hold a telephone call with US president Joe Biden bu...
Eric Adams Blasts Council Members for Pushing to Ban Solitary Confinement: ‘Do a Week on Rikers’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Eric Adams is already talking tough and pledging to crack down on violent inmates, even before taking over the city.
The Mayor-elect on Tuesday blasted 29 l...
Fauci Says Fox’s Watters Should Be Fired For Comments On Him
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News defended Jesse Watters on Tuesday after he used the phrase “kill shot” in a speech urging young conservatives to confront Dr. Anthony Fauci in public with ...
New York Councilwoman Inna Vernikov Saves The Day During Hatzalah Visit [VIDEO]
BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) - A visit by City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov to central Hatzalah headquarters in Borough Park took an unexpected turn when the newly elected councilm...
Fighting Anti-Vaxxers Among Some Brooklyn Orthodox Jews, Nurses Write A 140-Page Rebuttal
NEW YORK (JTA) - Before most New Yorkers had ever heard the word “coronavirus,” another public health scare dominated local news: the measles outbreak of 2019, which shared key par...
Caught on Video: Brawl Breaks Out Inside Miami Airport; 2 Charged
MIAMI (AP) — Two travelers are facing charges following a brawl with police at Miami International Airport, authorities said.
Mayfrer Serranopaca, 30, of Kissimmee, Florida, and...
Intel Tells Unvaccinated Employees They Face Unpaid Leave
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Intel has told workers that unvaccinated people who don't get an exemption for religious or medical reasons will be on unpaid leave beginning in April.
The...
Antisemitic Leaflets Distributed in Boise, Blaming Jews for Covid
BOISE (VINnews) — This past Sunday, residents of Boise, Idaho discovered flyers on their porches filled with viciously anti-Semitic comments. The flyers were placed in Ziploc bags ...
US Population Growth At Lowest Rate In Pandemic’s 1st Year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Already declining U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That’s because t...
De Blasio Says ‘No More Shutdowns’ As NYC Faces Virus Spike
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's committed to keeping the city open as it grapples with yet another spike in coronavirus cases.
The Democratic mayor ...
Omicron Sweeps Across Nation, Now 73% Of New US COVID Cases
NEW YORK (AP) — Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal he...
Yossi Gestetner Sends Letter to Adams in Support of Yeshiva Curriculums
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Chassidishe activist Yossi Gestetner, Executive Director of the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC), has written a letter to incoming Mayor Eric Ada...
National Guard Called In To Help Hospitals
BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday he will activate up to 500 members of the National Guard to support understaffed hospitals across the state facing ...