Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott Tests Positive For COVID Despite Being Fully Vaccinated
TEXAS (VINnews) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID-19; office says the Republican is vaccinated and has no symptoms.
Here's the full statement from his office:
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US Probing Deaths At Plane Takeoff In Kabul
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force says its Office of Special Investigations is reviewing an incident at the Kabul airport Monday in which multiple people were killed when hundreds of...
Fed’s Powell: There’s No Returning To Pre-Pandemic Economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the U.S. economy has been permanently changed by the COVID pandemic and it is important that the central ...
IN VIDEO: The Taliban Revel and Enjoy Weapons Caches Left Over by Biden’s Incompetent and Hasty Exit
(AP/VINnews) The collapse of the Afghan government is the biggest foreign policy crisis of Biden’s young presidency, recalling setbacks for past presidents such as the withdrawal f...
California Drought Takes Toll On World’s Top Almond Producer
FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joa...
Senior Chabad Rabbi In Israel: Those Who Oppose Vaccinations Should Not Enter Shuls
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yaruslavski, the senior Chabad rabbi in Israel who also serves as rabbi of the Chabad community in Kiryat Malachi, has issued a sharp le...
Prosecutors Push Biden To Prioritize Criminal Justice Reform
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A group of more than 100 former and current prosecutors and law enforcement officials is calling on President Joe Biden to prioritize criminal justice reform an...
Sources: US To Recommend COVID Vaccine Boosters At 8 Months
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose o...
Pentagon: US Military Airlift From Kabul To Accelerate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is coordinating with the Taliban while accelerating the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies from the Kabul airport, and also bringing in addi...
Home Depot Sales Climb Again, But DIY Frenzy May Be Cooling
NEW YORK (AP) - Home Depot's sales continue to surge, though same-store sales appeared to come back to earth after a year in which the home improvement chain outperformed expectati...
Amid New Virus Surge, Florida Skeptics Reconsider Vaccines
CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) — In a rural stretch of northeastern Florida where barely half the people have gotten a coronavirus shot, Roger West had no problem telling others he was “adama...
Americans Spent Less In July As COVID-19 Cases Surged
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on their spending last month as a surge in COVID-19 cases kept people away from stores.
Retail sales fell a seasonal adjusted 1.1% in July fro...
MK Rothman Slams EU For Funding Construction Of Convicted Terrorist’s Home On Israeli Territory
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the last few weeks the EU has been assisting in the construction of a house for murderous terrorist Rizaq Abu Salah, who murdered Israeli soldier Guy F...
Watch: Chareidi Runner Beatie Deutsch Is Face Of Adidas’s ‘Impossible Is Nothing’ Campaign
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chareidi marathon runner Beatie Deutsch just missed the cutoff for the Olympic 2020 marathon race, but even getting close to an Olympic time is pretty amazing...
Analysis: Defiant Biden Is Face Of Chaotic Afghan Evacuation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Four presidents share responsibility for the missteps in Afghanistan that accumulated over two decades. But only President Joe Biden will be the face of the war's...
Newsom Using Stark Language As He Seeks To Stay In Office
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is using increasingly stark language as he campaigns in the final month of a tight recall election, calling it “a matter of l...
Report Shows Big Spike In Mail Ballots During 2020 Election
ATLANTA (AP) — Fewer than one-third of voters casting ballots in last year's U.S. presidential election did so at a polling place on Election Day as the coronavirus pandemic led st...
T-Mobile Confirms Data Breach, Says It’s Investigating Scope
NEW YORK (AP) - T-Mobile says it is investigating a leak of its data after someone took to an online forum offering to sell the personal information of cellphone users.
The comp...
Video Replay: Biden Says ‘I Stand Squarely Behind’ Decision To Withdraw US Forces, Says Afghan Collapse Was Quicker Than Anticipated
WASHINGTON (AP) — Striking a defiant tone, President Joe Biden said Monday that he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and that the Afgha...
Israeli Government To Discuss Lowering Military Exemption Age From 24 To 21
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government is set to discuss the framework which would allow the exemption age from military service to be lowered from 24 to 21. The goal of this...