The rapid collapse of a Baltimore bridge that was struck by large cargo ship highlighted the importance that bridges play in the daily lives of many Americans. Six construction workers who were on the bridge are presumed dead. The drivers of more than 30,000 vehicles that crossed the bridge daily must find a new route […]
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is raising gobs of cash. And it has an election-year strategy that, in a nutshell, aims to spend more — and spend faster. Not only has Biden aimed to show himself off as a fundraising juggernaut this month, but his campaign is also making significant early investments both on the […]
Heads on a swivel raised to the sky in wonder. That’s a pose you can see on any random day on a Romema street corner. The neighborhood’s entirely new look shocks anyone who hasn’t visited the area in a few years. The dizzying pace of construction and development in recent years led to a thriving […]
Teams of engineers are working on the intricate and careful process of hauling away the twisted steel and shattered concrete of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland while also trying to recover the bodies of four workers still missing and presumed dead. The bridge was sent crashing into the Patapsco River on Tuesday after […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers on Saturday in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide Serhiy Shefir from his post of first assistant, where he had served since 2019. The Ukrainian president also let go three advisers, and two presidential representatives overseeing volunteer […]
A recent Fox News survey reveals a shift in public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with a majority still siding with Israel but by a smaller margin than in the past. Following the October 7 Hamas attack, 68% of voters supported Israel, compared to 59% in the latest poll. The decrease in support for Israel […]
U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that more than 540,000 Ford pickup trucks can abruptly downshift to a lower gear and increase the risk of a crash. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted on its website Friday that it opened the investigation this week after receiving 86 consumer complaints about […]
In an effort to address the surge in criminal activity in the city’s subway system, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday that body scanners will be installed in all stations. The scanners will detect weapons and aim to deter the sharp uptick in crime. “We are going to use technology to identify those bad people […]
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday reiterated a message he has sounded in recent weeks: While the Fed expects to cut interest rates this year, it won’t be ready to do so until it sees “more good inflation readings’’ and is more confident that annual price increases are falling toward its 2% target. Speaking […]
British counterterrorism police are investigating the stabbing of an Iranian television presenter outside his home in London as concern grows over threats to a Farsi-language satellite news channel long critical of Iran’s theocratic government. Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International, was stabbed in the leg Friday afternoon and is in stable condition at […]
As Donald Trump campaigns on promises of mass deportations and pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, his ideas are being met with little pushback and some enthusiasm by a new era of Republicans in Congress. It’s a shift from the first time around when the presumptive Republican presidential […]
After a yearlong closure, a bridge over the Puyallup River reopened in 2019 with a sturdy new span and a brand new name. It even won a national award. But today, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials raised concerns about a vintage section of the nearly century-old bridge that carried […]
A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slipped last month in a sign that price pressures continue to ease. The government reported Friday that prices rose 0.3% from January to February, decelerating from a 0.4% increase the previous month in a potentially encouraging trend for President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. […]
Five people who took a Japanese health supplement have died and more than 100 have been hospitalized as of Friday, a week after a pharmaceutical company issued a recall of the products, officials said. Osaka-based Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. came under fire for not going public quickly with problems known internally as early as January. The […]
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up to 1 billion […]
HaGaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka, spoke about the decision of the Supreme Court on Thursday evening to freeze the funds of some yeshivos beginning on Sunday. “Everyone knows what happened last week, that they completely revoked our right to to learn Torah in Eretz Yisrael for the time being. We’ll now need […]
Sadly, it seems as if some Israelis haven’t learned a lesson from the October 7th assault and six months later, are resuming divisive protests. Leftists held a protest on Motzei Shabbos in Tel Aviv and blocked the Ayalon Highway. Some protesters lit bonfires and torches opposite the Kiryah. The police issued a statement saying that […]
IDF and Shin Bet forces eliminated three senior Hamas terrorists in face-to-face battles at Shifa Hospital, the IDF spokesperson stated. IDF forces carried out a raid on a building in the hospital based on intelligence information and at the targeted location, armed terrorists emerged from the emergency room and fired at the soldiers. A gun […]
