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An attack on an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire killed two crew members off Oman in the Arabian Sea, authorities said Friday, marking the first fatalities after years…
Forecasters Confirm 1 Tornado in New Jersey, Checking OthersThe National Weather Service on Friday confirmed at least one small tornado touched down in New Jersey, as forecasters examined whether there were others that followed a line of thunderstorms…
A Hong Kong court sentenced the first person convicted under a Beijing-drafted national-security law to nine years in prison, a ruling that illustrates the high stakes facing dozens of pro-democracy…
An Illinois jury found that Johnson & Johnson isn't responsible for the cancer that killed a woman whose family blamed the illness on the company's talc-based powders. Jurors in St. Clair…
President Donald Trump pressed senior Justice Department officials in late 2020 to declare the election corrupt, even as those officials pushed back, warning the president that many of the claims…
Israel
Bat Yam mayor Tzvika Brot on Thursday instructed the city’s education authorities to prepare to administer COVID vaccinations for high school students at city schools when the 2021/22 school year…
There were 2,140 new coronavirus cases in Israel over the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry announced on Friday morning. The ministry announced that 91,202 tests were conducted and that…
The Bennett-Lapid coalition was confronted with another threat to its plans for an economy- and coalition-stabilizing 2022 state budget on Thursday. This time the refractory note came from within Yair…
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The levayah for the three bachurim killed in the tragic plane crash on Wednesday in Prykarpattia, western Ukraine, was held Thursday in Kolomaya, Ukraine. The bachurim were identified as Amram…
Police recorded around four times as many antisemitic incidents in London during May’s Gaza crisis than at any time in the last three years, the city’s force said Thursday. They…
One perpetrator has been arrested and police are searching for another in the July 16 beating and robbery of a Jewish man in Midwood, according to Flatbush Shomrim and the…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus to be as contagious as chickenpox and could cause severe illness, The New York…
Two Tornadoes Touch Down in Pennsylvania, Several HurtTwo tornadoes touched down in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, collapsing the roof of a car dealership and injuring several people, a county spokesman said. One of the twisters hit…
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Britain will build a new national Holocaust memorial center in Westminster, outside the Parliament building, the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Thursday. Planning permission has been granted…
The U.S. military is warning about what analysts have described as a major expansion of China’s nuclear missile silo fields at a time of heightened tension between Beijing and Washington.…
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