BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant. Residents are required to remain home, with one family member permitted to venture out to buy food and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog’s historic visit to Turkey and the warming of relations between the countries, Turkey has agree to return to Israel an ancient inscription from Jerusalem, currently housed in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. The inscription, from the Shiloach tunnel, is considered one of the most important […]

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines will bring back employees who were placed on unpaid leave last year because they refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The airline told employees in a memo Thursday that workers who avoided vaccination by claiming a medical or religious exemption will be allowed back starting March 28. The company’s vice […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, signaling the crisis appears to be winding down. But how will it end? Past epidemics may provide clues. The ends of epidemics are not as thoroughly researched […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program to catapult the U.S. economy into a quick recovery from the coronavirus pandemic by helping small businesses stay open and their employees working. President Joe Biden tweaked it to try to direct more of the money to poorer communities and minority-owned companies. Now, […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a logistics operation which has been running 24 hours a day including on Shabbos from the beginning of the Russian invasion, 30,000 Jews have been evacuated from wartorn regions in Ukraine. Specially chartered trains, buses and hundreds of private cars have been used to transfer Jews out of war zones. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Mendy Cohen, the Chabad emissary to Mariupol who is currently on the border between Moldova and Rumania, described on Israeli radio the horrendous situation in the city due to the Russian attacks on it. Rabbi Cohen said that there has been a siege for two weeks and there is currently […]

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Collado settled in at a clean white table in a sunlit room, sang a few bars and injected himself with heroin. After years of shooting up on streets and rooftops, he was in one of the first two facilities in the country where local officials are allowing illegal drug use […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Among the harsh stories of darkness and destruction in Ukraine, a ray of light shone Tuesday, a story of hope and faith which symbolizes the continuity of Jewish life amid the displaced Jews of Ukraine. A Jewish mother was not part of the Jewish community in her town of Kharkiv and […]