Thursday, April 25, 2024

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70% Of Jews Plan To Vote Biden, Pew Study Finds

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Jewish vote in the upcoming presidential election should be very close to the way it has been split since 2012, a new study by the Pew Research Center found....

Barrett Won’t Commit To Recusing From Election Disputes

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is vowing to bring no "agenda” to the court, batting back senators' questions Tuesday on abortion, gun rights and the Nove...

FBI Agent: Groups Discussed Kidnapping Virginia Governor

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday dur...

Rav Asher Weiss: ‘We Cannot Say That Our Hands Didn’t Spill This Blood’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic Rabbi Asher Weiss, the head if the Darkei Horaah Beis Din and one of the most prominent poskim in Israel, has ...

Opinion: Harris at the Debate; the Iran Deal and More. She’s Wrong and Dangerous on Everything

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Written by Julie Strauss Levin The media wanted us to watch the vice president debate through some gender - race lens. Cliché and surface-level, but predictable given that they ...

Trump Holds 1st Rally Since Contracting Coronavirus

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SANFORD, Florida (AP) — Just a week after his release from the hospital, President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Monday for the first time since contracting the coron...

Court: U.S. Can’t Target Reporters At Portland Protests

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In a split opinion, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has restored a court injunction that bans federal law enforcement from using force, threats or dispe...

Roberta Mccain, John McCain’s Mother, Dies At 108

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PHOENIX (AP) — Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help convince voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, has died. She was 108...

Barrett Vows To Interpret Laws ‘As They Are Written’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declared Monday that Americans “deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are...

Trump Vs. Biden: Where They Stand On Health, Economy, More

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the tumult of the 2020 presidential campaign, one dynamic has remained constant: The Nov. 3 election offers voters a choice between substantially different p...

Clandestine Chareidi Organization Treats Coronavirus Patients From Home- With Great Success

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A hidden cellar in the Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem has become the headquarters for a clandestine battle taking place with COVID-19, according to a ...

Microsoft Attempts Takedown Of Global Criminal Botnet

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REDMOND, WA (AP) — Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank account...

Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial, Distortion Posts

CALIFORNIA (AP) — Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Naz...

WATCH: Barrett Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Opens

WASHINGTON (AP) - Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing has begun. The hearing room was largely empty Monday and some senators tuned in virtually, citing the co...

Religious Gathering Limit Upheld As NY Hospitalizations Rise

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NEW YORK (AP) — The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with the coronavirus continues to rise, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, as authorities heightened their focus on banning mas...

Pelosi Unveils 25th Amendment Bid, Questions Trump’s Fitness

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled legislation Friday that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the president...

McConnell Says No COVID-19 Bill Likely Before Election Day

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's most powerful GOP ally in the Senate said Friday that Congress is unlikely to deliver another big COVID-19 relief bill before the electio...

Catholic League President Slams Deblasio For Targeting Orthodox Jews and Catholic Institutions

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue has slammed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his unfair targeting of orthodox Jews in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus Donohue w...

Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To Jewish-American Poet

STOCKHOLM (VINnews) — After Jewish scientists and physicians attained shares of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physics respectively, the Nobel committee announced that the 20...

Nurse To Rabbi Asher Weiss: ‘I May Have Killed A Patient By Mistake , How Can I Atone?’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Asher Weiss received a letter from a New York nurse bemoaning the fact that in her haste and tiredness she may have inadvertently caused the death of a ...