WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday began their promised aggressive oversight of the Biden administration, focusing on what watchdogs described as “indications of widespread fraud” in federal coronavirus aid programs initiated under President Donald Trump. GOP lawmakers complained that too little attention was paid to the problems when Democrats controlled Congress. Democrats blamed the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve extended its fight against high inflation Wednesday by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point, its eighth hike since March. And the Fed signaled that even though inflation is easing, it remains high enough to require further rate hikes. Join our WhatsApp group Though smaller than its previous
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Sunday, HaRav Hagaon Sholom Reuven Feinstein visited the New excavations of the Western Wall Tunnels. Rav Feinstein reacted to his visit, saying “Basically what we saw was the history of Yerushalayim, going back, but showing that it was the Yidden who were involved with Yerushalayim from the beginning until now. They […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed man shot three people, killing one, in a Wednesday morning rampage in the nation’s capital that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him. Authorities were still piecing together the chaotic series of events that left two people with gunshot wounds […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hindenburg Research, the financial research firm with an explosive name and a track record of sending the stock prices of its targets tumbling, is taking on one of the world’s richest men. Hindenburg is back in the headlines after last week accusing Indian conglomerate Adani Group of “a brazen stock manipulation […]
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed Wednesday that Turkey won’t allow Sweden to join the NATO military alliance as long as it permits protests desecrating Islam’s holy book to take place. Turkey, which has been holding off approving Sweden and Finland’s membership in the Western military alliance, has been infuriated by […]
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On a frosty night in 1948, 35 fighters set out from Hartuv, a small village near what would later become Beit Shemesh, on their way to help the beleaguered Gush Etzion communities. The heavily armed men hoped to reach the Gush, a distance of some 30 kilometers away, by daybreak. However as […]
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The planned judicial reforms in Israel are making waves in Israel’s burgeoning hi-tech industry. On Tuesday, Tom Livne, founder of one of Israel’s most successful tech unicorns, declared that he was leaving the country and ceasing to pay taxes in protest over the proposed reforms. Livne’s hybrid AI-based and human transcription and […]