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Coronavirus

Australia Despite Low Infection & Deaths: Melbourne Goes Under Draconian Lock-Down:Police Drag people out of Cars for Questioning

Australia’s second-biggest city Melbourne began the first day of a six-week total lockdown on Thursday with the closure of most shops and businesses raising new fears of food shortages, as authorities battle a second wave of coronavirus infections, Reuters reported. Australia has some of the lowest amount of cases in the world, with a population […]

Local New York News

‘You Want To Buy Crack?’: NYC Homeless Staying In Luxury Hotels Urinating In Public, Harassing Residents

Jake Dime (DCNF) Homeless people housed in multiple hotels in an upscale part of Manhattan are reportedly urinating in public, catcalling women and trying to sell drugs to those passing by, locals said in a Thursday report. The group of homeless people, which reportedly includes mentally ill individuals and 10 sex offenders, have been housed […]

National News News

Trump Orders More Unemployment Pay, a Payroll Tax Deferral

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ZEKE MILLER (AP) — Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday moved to bypass the nation’s elected lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and extend an expired unemployment benefit after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed. […]

Jewish Features Torah

One of Judaism’s great commentators, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, dies at age 83

(JNS) Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, one of Judaism’s exceptional modern-day commentators, died in Jerusalem after suffering from acute pneumonia. He was 83 years old. Steinsaltz was born in Jerusalem on July 11, 1937. His scholarship was noted at an early age. He studied mathematics, chemistry and physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and after […]

Sports

Sen. Marsha Blackburn Demands Answers from NBA on Abusive Chinese Training Camps

WARNER TODD HUSTON( BREITBART) On Thursday, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) slammed the NBA for seeking to reopen its Chinese training camps despite knowing of major human rights abuses at those facilities. Blackburn was shocked by a recent ESPN report that found the league had continued its association with the abusive training camps even […]

National News News

Stimulus Talks Near Brink of Collapse After Rancorous Meeting

(AP) Washington talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money are teetering on the brink of collapse after a marathon meeting in the Capitol generated lots of recriminations but little progress on the top issues confronting negotiators. “There’s a handful of very big issues that we are still very far apart” on, said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. […]

International News News

Plane skids off runway in India; 16 killed, dozens hurt

(AP) — A special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 16 passengers and injuring 123 more, police said Abdul Karim, a senior […]

National News News

Portland Mayor: Violent Rioters ‘Attempting to Commit Murder’

HANNAH BLEAU Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) on Thursday condemned the violence that recently convulsed his city, stating demonstrators are “attempting to commit murder” following an attack on East Precinct, where violent left-wing agitators attempted to set it ablaze. “When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that […]

National News News

1.2 Million More Americans Seek Jobless Benefits

By Ken Bredemeier(VOA) Another 1.2 million unemployed U.S. workers filed for government jobless compensation last week, the government’s Labor Department reported Thursday, as the unabated coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the American economy. It was the 20th straight week that more than a million people sought government assistance as the virus unrelentingly attacks […]

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