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Honda is recalling nearly 725,000 SUVs and pickup trucks because the hoods can open while the vehicles are moving. The recall covers certain 2019 Passports, 2016 through 2019 Pilots and 2017…
The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus - possibly…
Kuwait has issued a ban on Israeli shipping, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday, quoting the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Anba. Kuwaiti Public Works Minister Dr. Rana Abdullah Al-Fares ordered the exclusion…
Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of…
Israel
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak criticized the Bennett-Lapid government for openly differing with Washington over its attempt to revive the Iran nuclear deal and its repeated warnings that it…
Tamano-Shata Accuses Bennett of Racism in Omicron PolicyImmigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata has accused Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of racism in his application of a ban on travelers from southern African countries due to concerns about…
The Israeli government gave its kindergarteners and first to sixth graders an assignment to be completed by the end of the Chanukah vacation: To return to school on Tuesday with…
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Hamodia is saddened to report the petirah of Reb Nosson Nota Yitzchak (Sandy) Hofstedter, z”l, who was niftar on Shabbos Chanukah in the late afternoon. Mr. Hofstedter, a well-known philanthropist, arrived as…
NYPD Chief of Community Affairs Chief Jeffrey Maddrey lit the menorah in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, one of the highest in the world, on Motzoei Shabbos, with over 200…
National
The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand…
The phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked with spyware from Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.…
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German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle said Sunday it is suspending cooperation with a Jordanian partner, Roya, because of concerns about anti-Israeli and antisemitic content and caricatures on its social media.…
Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak in a video call Tuesday, the White House and Kremlin said, as tensions between the United States and Russia escalate over a…
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