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JV Editorial Opinion

Shame on Spain for Reneging on Citizenship Offer to Sephardic Jews

Our current Sephardic brothers and sisters, are all descendants of the approximately 50,000 Spanish and Portugese Jews, who, in 1492 and 1497 respectively, were given the choice by their nations’ monarchs: “Convert to Catholicism, leave our countries or die!” Those who were expelled, escaped and migrated to other countries in the Middle East; North Africa, […]

Local New York News

House Republicans Call For Investigation Into New York’s ‘Deadly’ Nursing Home Order

Andrew Kerr (DCNF) The Republican members of the New York, California, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania delegations called on the attorneys general of their states to investigate the origins of their governors’ “deadly” nursing home orders that they say led to unnecessary coronavirus deaths among elderly populations. “These governors are withholding information from the public […]

National News News

Bolton Critique of Trump could Define Tell-all book Battles

By DEB RIECHMANN (AP) The White House fight with former national security adviser John Bolton is the latest chapter in a lengthy history of Washington book battles, yet it will likely define future cases between the U.S. government and former employees determined to write tell-alls. The government asked a federal court for a temporary restraining […]

National News News

Trump Rips “The Mooch” on Twitter; Calls Former WH Communications Chief “Totally Incapable”

President Donald Trump has publicly ripped former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Twitter. By: Salvatore Enrigama ”Anthony Scaramucci, who was quickly terminated (11 days) from a position that he was totally incapable of handling, now seems to do nothing but television as the all time expert on ’President Trump,’” Trump Tweeted on Saturday. […]

News Politics

Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Lead DOJ Antitrust Division

SEAN MORAN Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland hopes to tap a former Facebook lawyer as the leader of the DOJ’s antitrust division, according to a report released Thursday. The Intercept reported Thursday that Garlands hopes to install Susan Davies, a former Facebook lawyer, to lead the antitrust division. Davies represented Facebook in a lawsuit brought […]

Education

Middle School Teacher: ‘Radicalized Curriculum’ Is ‘Creating Racial Hostility’

DR. SUSAN BERRY A Rhode Island white middle school teacher described how her school district’s “radicalized curriculum,” steeped in Critical Race Theory, has “created racial tensions among students and staff where none existed before.” Veteran teacher Ramona Bessinger, who teaches mostly nonwhite students, wrote at Legal Insurrection Tuesday of the drastic change that has come […]

Coronavirus

Pandemic Updates: From The US and Beyond

Complied by TJV News/ AP With the US on track to report another record, or near record, jump in new coronavirus cases reported Saturday (remember, those cases were reported with a 24-hour delay), Louisiana Gov John Bel Edwards announced that he would be closing bars in the state, following other southern states like Mississippi and […]

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National News News

Plan To Retrieve Titanic Radio Spurs Debate On Human Remains

(AP) — People have been diving to the Titanic’s wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights. But the company’s plan to retrieve the ship’s iconic radio equipment has sparked a debate: Could the world’s most famous shipwreck still hold remains of passengers and […]

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