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President-elect Joe Biden declared it was "time to heal" a deeply divided America in his first speech after winning in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to…
An unnamed senior official in the office of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was quoted by Yisrael Hayom on Sunday as saying that the PA will demand that President-elect Joe…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday congratulated President-elect Joe Biden after his election win saying he looked forward to working together with the new administration and strengthening the two countries'…
The next U.S. administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trump's mistakes, Iranian state media quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Sunday after Democrat Joe Biden…
The Subcommittee for Examining the Implications of Illegal Immigration for the Israeli Economy, chaired by MK May Golan, held its first meeting last Tuesday. The meeting focused on the effects…
207 new cases of the coronavirus were reported in Israel on Shabbos, with 2.6% of tests returning positive, according to a Sunday morning update by the Health Ministry. Out of…
After receiving official approval from the United Arab Emirates authorities last month to export fresh agricultural produce from Israel, the first shipment of agricultural produce from Israel departed for the…
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Former U.K. Chief Rabbi Jonathan (Yaakov Zvi) Sacks, z”l, British Orthodox Rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author passed away on Shabbos at the age of 72. He served as the Chief…
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced late Friday afternoon that COVID-19 micro-cluster areas in New York State have been updated with a decrease in the zones and restrictions in the decreased…
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A strengthened Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Cuba early Sunday, and has its sights set on the southern tip of Florida, after leaving dozens dead and over 100 missing…
The State Department gave Congress notification it plans to sell 18 sophisticated armed MQ-9B aerial drones to the United Arab Emirates in a deal worth as much as $2.9 billion,…
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Azeris celebrated on the streets of Baku after President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday his country’s forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, but Armenian officials…
Lebanon’s leader on Saturday asked the United States to offer evidence to back up new sanctions against the former Lebanese foreign minister, who is an important political ally of the…
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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the New York State Education Department has canceled the Regents exam that was scheduled for January 2021, and students will not have to make them…
Nearly 3,000 people tested positive for COVID-19 in New York in one day, a milestone that illustrates the steady erosion of the progress the state made to get the virus…
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Control of the Senate likely won’t be decided until a January runoff in Georgia, even after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House on Saturday. That post-election cliff-hanger will determine…
U.S. law maps out clear instructions for an orderly transfer of power from one president to the next, but Joe Biden’s path is expected to be rockier than most of…
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The dollar sank to its lowest level in over two months against against a basket of peer currencies on Friday, as vote counting for the contentious U.S. election dragged on…
The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low near zero Thursday and signaled its readiness to do more if needed to support an economy under threat…
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Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. health care system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient…
AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers. The deal announced Tuesday puts AMD in a place it…
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