NEW YORK (VINnews) — Footage of a mountain biker being chased and nearly caught by a black bear in Montana has emerged this week, more than a year after it was shot from a ski lift above the scene. The mountain biker can be seen pedalling furiously down the mountain with the bear in hot […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is trying to overcome diminishing demand for COVID-19 shots by offering businesses a tax incentive to give employees paid leave to get vaccinated. The move comes as the United States is set to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of administering 200 million coronavirus doses in his first 100 days […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel locked down new deals to purchase more Pfizer vaccines and added Moderna doses to its arsenal on Monday, just two weeks after Pfizer had cut off the nation’s vaccine supply over its failure to pay. The country has the highest vaccination rate in the world at over 50% of civilians, but […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Television host Rachel Maddow demonstrated effectively during her MSNBC show that if there had not been actual witnesses and footage of George Floyd’s death, a court would not have succeeded in convicting policemen Derek Chauvin, since the original police report mentioned no part of the events which were filmed by bystanders […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – When Hebrew University of Jerusalem medical student Hadar Israeli studied a family with multiple members suffering from severe obesity and plagued with constant hunger, she found that they all shared a common mutation affecting a specific receptor in the brain: Melanocortin Receptor 4, or MC4. Though scientists have long known that the […]

LONDON (AP) — Experts at the agency that regulates drugs for the European Union said Tuesday that they found a “possible link” between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots after a small number of cases were reported in the United States. The European Medicines Agency said a warning about very […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The forlorn figure of Miki Zohar, the Likud whip who chairs the key Arrangements Committee in the Knesset, demonstrated Monday the precarious position of the ruling party and its leader Binyamin Netanyahu. The Likud suffered defeat in the vote on forming the committee, with the anti-Netanyahu bloc gaining a majority which will […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota dropped to their knees and set off on a protest march over a fatal police shooting — only to change direction when they learned it was a white carjacker who had fired at police, according to reports. Dozens of people were filmed by Fox 9 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A shocking attack on two leaders of the Hesder Yeshiva in Yaffo, Rabbi Eliyahu Mali and Rabbi Moshe Shandowitz occurred Sunday in Jaffa. The attack is the latest in a worrying string of anti-Semitic attacks by Arabs against Jews which have increased during the month of Ramadan which began last Tuesday. The […]

ROME (AP) — The images show the intimacy of husbands and wives saying goodbye for the last time, or reuniting after months apart. They honor the courage of nurses, funeral workers and clerics who risked their own health to do their jobs. They witness life slipping away, and being snatched back from death. To mark […]