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The FBI is looking into whether "foreign actors" funded some of the rioters that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, NBC News reported Sunday, quoting an FBI official as saying. As…
Vice President Mike Pence reached out to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday, sources familiar with the situation said, marking the first contact at that level between the outgoing and…
Scattered shortages of COVID-19 vaccines persisted on Saturday under pressure from growing demand, as previously inoculated Americans returned for their required second shots and millions of newly eligible people scrambled…
China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected…
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was seen boarding a Pobeda airlines plane in Germany to fly back to Russia, where he is heading for first time since being poisoned, Reuters witnesses…
Coronavirus Commissioner Nachman Ash said on Sunday that there would be no requirement to quarantine for Israelis who were at least one week after having received their second coronavirus vaccine.…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took advantage of his opening remarks of the Cabinet meeting Sunday morning to bid farewell to outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “Today we are…
The Health Ministry said Sunday that over Shabbos 5,000 new confirmed cases of the virus were reported. 69,500 tests were done, yielding a positivity rate of 7.2%. The ministry also said…
More in Israel »Rebbetzin Gita Malka Cohn, a”h, the widow of Rabbi Avraham Cohn, passed away Sunday at the age of 93. Rebbetzin Cohn was married to Rabbi Avraham “Romi” Cohn, z”l, renowned…
A Jewish family’s home in Williamsburg was shot at by an unknown attacker Thursday night. A 13-year-old boy returning from yeshiva at 9:30 p.m. was walking into his home at…
President Donald Trump has awarded a top U.S. honor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, citing his decision to begin normalization of relations with Israel. The Legion of Merit is…
The National Rifle Association announced Friday it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will seek to incorporate the nation’s most politically influential gun-rights group in Texas instead of New York,…
More in National »Indonesian rescuers on Sunday retrieved more bodies from the rubble of homes and buildings toppled by a strong earthquake, raising the death toll to 73, while military engineers managed to…
Britain’s government hopes it can meet its target for rolling out COVID-19 vaccines and be able to consider easing lockdown restrictions by March, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday.…
More in World »New York state’s COVID-19 positivity rate and deaths fell slightly Friday as officials continue to wrestle with a “limited supply” of vaccine and a more contagious variant of the virus,…
The driver of a New York City bus that plunged off a bridge blamed the dramatic crash on mechanical failure, saying Saturday that the tandem vehicle “just took off” as…
More in Regional »President-elect Joe Biden will cap a busy day of inauguration pageantry by using the powers of his new office to push policy changes on housing, student loans, climate change and…
Washington, D.C., was locked down and U.S. law enforcement officials geared up for pro-Trump marches in all 50 state capitals this weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard…
More in Politics »The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and evidence that the resurgent virus has caused a spike in layoffs. The…
The IRS said that after initial problems, it is getting more of the second round of relief payments to taxpayers. The government began distributing the payments, worth $600 per eligible…
More in Business »WhatsApp is delaying an update aimed at increasing business transactions on the platform after a storm of concern from users who feared that the messaging platform was watering down its…
WhatsApp is battling mistrust globally after it updated its privacy policy to let it share some user data with parent Facebook and other group firms, and the backlash risks thwarting…
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