Friday, April 26, 2024

US

Trump Says Whitmer Should ‘Give A Little’ To Restart Economy

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should “give a little” and “put out the fire” a day after hundreds of conservative d...

White House To Israel: Support Trump Peace Plan, Annexation To Be Approved

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WASHINGTON (JNS) — The White House has told Israel that it will support the annexation of parts of the West Bank if the Jewish state agrees to the Trump administration’s Mideast pe...

New White House Press Secretary McEnany Holds 1St Briefing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, vowed on Friday not to lie to reporters as she made her debut at the first White House briefing by a p...

House Panel Wants Bezos To Testify In Antitrust Probe

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers investigating the market dominance of Big Tech are asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to testify to address possible misleading statements by the compan...

Biden On Assault Allegation: ‘Never, Never Happened’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 19...

Dem Lawmakers Say Trump’s Freeze For WHO To Hurt Venezuelans

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MIAMI (AP) — As much as $110 million in U.S. funding for disease prevention in Latin America as well as U.S. support for Venezuelan migrants has been thrown into doubt as part of P...

Pandemic Brings Fortunes To Amazon – And Headaches Too

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world. Now it has a captive audience. ...

Economic Figures Show Grim Toll In Europe And US From Virus

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NEW YORK (AP) — Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has climbe...

Pelosi: States, Cities Seek $1T To Avoid Layoffs From Virus

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that state and local governments are seeking up to $1 trillion for coronavirus costs, a stunning benchmark for the next a...

Watch: Doctors Gave 5% Chance Of Recovery, Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg Miraculously Came Home

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg, rabbi of the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center of Cedarhurst and the founding rabbi of Ohr Moshe Torah Institute in Hillcrest, Queens, retur...

‘Everyone’s Watching’: Biden’s VP Audition Process Begins

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wore a T-shirt on television emblazoned with the words “that woman from Michigan,” a cheeky reference to President Donald Trump's dismissal ...

Watchdog Group Says US Not Releasing Data On Taliban Attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. mission in Afghanistan has for the first time refused to publicly release its data on insurgent attacks amid the implementation of a peace agreem...

Poll: Many Americans Feel Lonely And Anxious During Pandemic

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OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — Americans are feeling isolated and anxious. They fear they or their loved ones will get sick. They worry about their jobs. As the coronavirus pandemic upen...

Major US Airlines To Require Passengers To Wear Face Masks

DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines said Thursday they will soon require passengers to cover their faces during flights, following the lead of JetB...

Trump Harshly Blames China For Pandemic; A Lab ‘Mistake’?

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelli...

Baltimore Turns To Aerial Surveillance As Homicides Continue

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Starting Friday, the roughly 600,000 people living in Baltimore will be constantly recorded whenever they step out under the open sky. Marvin L. Cheatham Sr., f...

Trump Predicts ‘Spectacular’ Rebound As Economy Plunges

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to dispel economic gloom, President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s anticipating a major rebound in the coming months and a “spectacular” 2021. While ec...

Seal’s Tried To Locate US Citizen Taken By Afghan Militants

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the days following the January capture of an American contractor in Afghanistan, Navy SEAL commandos raided a village and detained suspected members of a Talib...

Pence’s Wife Says He Was Unaware Of Mask Policy During Visit

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, is defending his decision to not wear a mask during a recent visit to the Mayo Clinic, saying he was unaware o...

NY pays Silicon Valley Engineer 69 Million Dollars For Ventilators Which Were Never Delivered

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NEW YORK (VINnews) On March 27th, as the desperate shortage of ventilators for coronavirus patients became more widely known, President Donald Trump posted on Twitter to urge Ford ...