COLORADO (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Tuesday, during a blistering hot day, thousands of Colorado residents were shocked to discover they could not control their own thermostats. Their energy company locked them out of their climate-control devices, for the sake of the greater good. As temperatures soared into the 90s, Tony Talarico tried to […]

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have locked down Chengdu, a southwestern city of 21 million people, following a spike in COVID-19 cases. Residents have been ordered to stay home, and about 70% of the flights have been suspended to and from the city, which is a major transit hub in Sichuan province and a governmental […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In two separate tragedies which occurred Wednesday morning, two young chareidi children passed away after losing consciousness, apparently while they were asleep. A five-month-old baby from Tzfat passed away in his sleep. United Hatzalah volunteers summoned to his home attempted to resuscitate him and he was taken to the Sieff hospital nearby […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three months after being airlifted from Ukraine to Israel deep in a coma, Anna Kosma, a Ukrainian-Israeli teenager who had suffered a rare infection which caused her condition to deteriorate significantly, has now made a miraculous recovery. As the health system in Ukraine fell apart in the wake of the ongoing war […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF soldier Eitan Fichman (19) from Be’er Sheva died under unclear circumstances during a tank exercise in northern Israel on Tuesday night. According to the initial Israel Defense Forces probe of the incident, Fichman, from the 82nd Armored Corps Battalion, was found unconscious with a “severe head injury” inside a tank during the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Supreme Court justices Yitzchak Amit, Yosef Elron and Shaul Shochat rejected an appeal submitted by Amiram Ben-Uliel, who was found guilty of murdering the Dawabshe family in the Samarian town of Duma, after he allegedly set fire to their home. In the 2015 fire, the parents, Sa’ad and Riham and their child […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Tel Aviv District Rabbinical Court was asked to adjudicate in an acute dispute which broke out between divorced parents regarding the education of their daughter. The father, who had remained chareidi, demanded that his only daughter receive a chareidi education, while the mother, who had left religion and lived on a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shechem has recently been the scene of numerous violent altercations between the IDF and local terrorists. In the last month the IDF has arrested and eliminated a number of terrorists in the vicinity. In a firefight which took place Tuesday at a village near Shechem, two terrorists who had shot at an […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Tuesday, the Meron Commission sent warning letters to senior Israeli officials. In response, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai made it clear that he does not intend to resign his position. Here is an excerpt of the warning letter: “After analyzing all of the information that was provided to us, we concluded that […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A cup of tea just got a bit more relaxing. Tea can be part of a healthy diet and people who drink tea may even be a little more likely to live longer than those who don’t, according to a large study. Tea contains helpful substances known to reduce inflammation. Past […]