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A short while ago, IDF announced that a fighter jets struck a tunnel shaft in the southern Gaza Strip belonging to the Hamas terror organization, which contained servers and military…
Drivers encountering fuel shortages in parts of the East and South may find it takes weeks before supply levels return to normal. Now that Colonial Pipeline Co. has resumed deliveries that…
The U.S. government's fight to choke off ransom payments collected by hackers hit a major snag Thursday, following news that Colonial Pipeline Co. paid a hefty sum to hackers who…
River traffic has reopened on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, three days after it was closed when a crack was discovered in the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Tennessee…
43 people were arrested in Lod on Friday morning, after Thursday's 120 arrests across the country during Jewish and Arab riots in mixed communities. So far, more than 750 rioters have…
President Joe Biden on Saturday held his first phone call with Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas since taking office, amid heavy fighting from Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip. Biden…
Austria amended its symbolic law forbidding the use of symbols belonging to terrorist organizations and determined that Hezbollah in its entirety is a terrorist organization. Before the amendment, only the…
Israeli troops fired warning shots at rioters who breached the northern border with Lebanon on Friday. Dozens of protesters on the Lebanon side of the border rioted and set fire…
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The Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island (COJO-SI) dedicated a Day of Chessed in memory of the 45 victims of the Meron Lag BaOmer tragedy and as a merit…
Germany’s leading Jewish group on Thursday sharply condemned protests in front of a synagogue in the western city of Gelsenkirchen as “pure anti-Semitism.” Several other German cities including Berlin, Hamburg…
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The trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting in the death of George Floyd will be pushed back to March 2022, in part to allow…
The president of the American Federation of Teachers called Thursday for a full return to in-person learning in the fall, saying the union is “all in” on bringing students back…
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India’s tally of coronavirus infections climbed past 24 million on Friday, amid reports that the highly transmissible variant first detected in the South Asian nation was spreading across the globe.…
“Fluctuations” at Iran’s Natanz plant pushed the purity to which it enriched uranium to 63%, higher than the announced 60% that complicated talks to revive its nuclear deal with world…
More in World »A series of subway slashings injured three men and another was punched, all within 12 minutes on the same train early Friday, police said. Officers believe two suspects were involved…
New York City Democratic mayoral candidates clashed over crime and policing, small businesses, and experience, at the first official debate less than six weeks before the primary. Brooklyn Borough President…
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The Democratic chairman and ranking Republican of the House Homeland Security Committee reached an agreement Friday on the creation of an independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack…
Stefanik Replaces Cheney in House Republican LeadershipHamodiaRepublicans in the House of Representatives elected Donald Trump’s candidate Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to their leadership, succeeding Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), whom they ousted earlier this week for criticizing…
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U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated unexpectedly in early May as Americans grew increasingly concerned about rising prices. The University of Michigan’s preliminary sentiment index fell to a three-month low of 82.8…
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 473,000, a new pandemic low and the latest evidence that fewer employers are cutting jobs as consumers ramp up…
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The dark web page belonging to DarkSide, the group accused of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Co., has gone down, and the group has told other hackers that it…
A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington, D.C., police department says negotiations over payment have broken down, with it rejecting a $100,000 payment, and it will release…
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