Las Vegas Shooting Victims Closer To Getting $800M Payout
LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than 4,400 relatives and victims of the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history could receive a total of $800 million in payouts from MGM Resorts Inter...
4 Houston Officers Fired After Fatally Shooting Man In April (video)
HOUSTON (AP) — Four Houston police officers have been terminated after an internal investigation determined they did not use reasonable force when they fired their weapons 21 times...
Dem Report: Medicare Chief Used Fed Money To Bolster Image
WASHINGTON (AP) — Private consultants to the federal official who oversees Medicare billed taxpayers almost $6 million in less than two years to bolster her personal image, includi...
Portland Mayor Bans Cops From Using Tear Gas During Protests
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland on Thursday ordered police in Oregon's largest city to stop using tear gas for crowd control during the frequently violent protests that...
Russian Hackers Targeting U.S. Campaigns, Microsoft Says
BOSTON (AP) — The same Russian military intelligence outfit that hacked the Democrats in 2016 has attempted similar intrusions into the computer systems of more than 200 organizati...
Black Democrat Urges Governor To Drop Black Court Nominee
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Black Democratic state lawmaker who is challenging the appointment of a Black woman to the Florida Supreme Court contended Thursday that Republican Go...
Democrats Reject Scaled-Back $500B Virus Relief Bill in Senate Vote as Prospects Dim for More Aid Before Election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats scuttled a scaled-back GOP coronavirus rescue package on Thursday, saying the measure shortchanged too many pressing needs as the pandemic contin...
Ukrainian Rabbi: Its ‘Madly Dangerous’ To Go To Uman, Hospitals Are Collapsing
ODESSA (VINnews) — A month after a man wielding an ax attacked his Ukrainian shul and after falling gravely ill with coronavirus, Rabbi Mendi Cohen, 39, the Rabbi of Mariopol, warn...
Jane Fraser To Become Citi CEO; 1st Woman To Lead Major Bank
NEW YORK (AP) — Citigroup's Jane Fraser will become the first woman to ever lead a Wall Street bank when she succeeds CEO Michael Corbat in February.
The New York bank announced...
Prominent Attorney Killed by Son in Florida Triple Shooting
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A prominent South Florida attorney was fatally shot Wednesday by his son, who also shot and wounded the attorney’s longtime girlfriend before turning the gun...
Jared Kushner: ‘We’ll Do What We Can’ to Preserve Israel’s Military Superiority While Selling Combat Jets to UAE
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner pledged to “do what we can” to preserve Israel’s qualitative military edge if the administration works out a deal to sel...
In A Year Of Social Distancing, Virus Alters Sept. 11, Too
NEW YORK (AP) — In a year when the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped countless American rituals, even the commemoration of 9/11 could not escape unchanged.
The 19th anniversary ...
Justice Dept. Push Into Trump Case Could Prompt Dismissal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday defended the Justice Department's move to intervene in a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, even as exp...
Palestinian Hijacker Scheduled To Speak At San Francisco State U Virtual Event
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) - A Palestinian hijacker is scheduled to speak at a virtual roundtable discussion organized by San Francisco State University.
Leila Khaled was part of a tea...
Trump Raises A Robust $210 Million
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and his Republican Party jointly raised $210 million in August, a robust sum but one dwarfed by the record $364.5 million raised by Democrats...
Dem Report: Postal Service Changes Delay Prescription Drugs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Delivery of mail-order prescription drugs was delayed significantly this summer after the new postmaster general ordered major changes in U.S. Postal Service oper...
Chizuk for Those in Chinuch
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
During the period of COVID-19 – everyone needs chizuk. It is appropriate, however, in the new zman, in the new semester of school – for the m...
Book: Trump Said Of Virus, ‘I Wanted To Always Play It Down’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump seemed to understand the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than the seasonal...
Trump Releases List Of 20 New Possible Supreme Court Picks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to replicate a strategy that has long been seen as key to his appeal among conservative voters, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he is adding ...
UPS Says It Plans To Hire More Than 100,000 Holiday Workers
ATLANTA (AP) — United Parcel Service said Wednesday it plans to hire more than 100,000 extra workers to help handle an increase in packages during the holiday season.
UPS said W...