Saturday, May 18, 2024

US

Netanyahu: ‘Peace Is Made With Those Who Wish For It’, Arab Party Opposes Abraham Agreement

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset's plenum ratified the Abraham peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Thursday by a majority of 80 to 13, with the Joint Arab ...

New Book Will Include Final Thoughts From Justice Ginsburg

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NEW YORK (AP) — Some final thoughts from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and some previously unreleased materials have been gathered by one of her former clerks and will ...

Dov Hikind Sends Letter to POTUS Asking for DOJ to Investigate Cuomo’s Actions Against Jewish Communities

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Dear Mr. President, As I have written to you in the past, alerting you to troubling developments for the Jewish communities in New York and around the count...

Opinion: The Coronavirus Experts Were Wrong, Now They Need Scapegoats

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NEW YORK (JNS/Daniel Greenfield) The problem isn’t just the “China Virus.” It’s that we adopted the China Model to fight it. Public health experts adopted China’s draconian lock...

C-SPAN Suspends Scully After He Admits To Lie About Hack

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NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter feed being hacked when he was confronted about...

Black Man Serving Life After Stealing Hedge Clippers Paroled

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Black man whose life sentence for making off with hedge clippers in a 1997 burglary drew scathing criticism from the chief justice of Louisiana’s Supreme Court...

Self Proclaimed Neo-Nazi Pleads Guilty In Plot To Bomb Colorado Synagogue

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PUEBLO (VINnews) — A man who expressed white supremacist ideologies online pleaded guilty on Thursday to plotting to poison and bomb a synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. After initi...

Harris Suspends Travel After Staffer Tests COVID-19 Positive

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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, will suspend in-person events until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested pos...

Dueling Town Halls For Trump, Biden After Debate Plan Nixed

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete for TV audiences in dueling town halls instead of meeting face-to-face for their second debate as ori...

Senate Judiciary Sets Vote On Barrett, Dems Decry ‘Sham’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee set Oct. 22 for its vote to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court on Thursday as Democrats threw pointed objections...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Apologizes For Company’s Attempt To Block Hunter Biden Report

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CALIFORNIA (VINnews) — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey issued an apology on Wednesday evening for what has turned into a PR disaster for his company, after taking heat from an already susp...

Al Gross, Jewish Doctor Who Killed A Bear, Has Raised $9M In Alaska’s Tight Senate Race

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ANCHORAGE (JTA) — Al Gross, the Jewish Alaska physician running to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, raised an eye-popping $9.1 million in the last quarter, funds fuel...

Trump’s Jewish Point Person Says President Has Fought Anti-Semitism ‘Everywhere And Anywhere’

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WASHINGTON (JNS) - Boris Epshteyn, a strategic advisor for U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, has been the campaign’s point person for Jewish outreach for a while now, th...

Video: Police Brutally Break Up Givat Ze’ev Private Wedding, 2 Injured

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GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — After MK Yitzchak Pindrus's attempt to establish a national enquiry into police brutality failed in the Knesset Wednesday and a previous attempt failed earli...

Supreme Court Halts Census In Latest Twist Of 2020 Count

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities are properly ...

Barrett Bats Away Tough Democratic Confirmation Probing

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats’ skeptical questions Tuesday on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight over tr...

The Man Behind The Faces Of COVID Twitter Account Wants To Help America Face Its Grief

NEW YORK (JTA) - When Alex Goldstein first set out to memorialize Americans who died of COVID-19, he was overwhelmed by the vastness of the task ahead. That was in March, when f...

Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccination Ads But Not Antivax Posts

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook says it will ban ads on its platform that discourage vaccinations — with an exception carved out for ads about government vaccine policies. The c...

Mark Zuckerberg Donates $100M More To Help Election Offices

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DENVER (AP) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, on Tuesday donated an additional $100 million to helping local election offices prepare for November ev...

Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Defends Anti-Semitic Pastor Jeremiah Wright

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GEORGIA (JNS) — The top Democratic candidate in the special Senate election in Georgia defended anti-Semitic pastor Jeremiah Wright back in 2008. Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of...