WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican political operatives are recruiting “pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The plan was discussed in a May […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Tarhia Morton and her family were planning to party this year. She is retired after 40 years with the U.S. Postal Service. Her sister is turning 70. A birthday bash in Las Vegas was booked for August. That was before the coronavirus changed hers and so many other lives in the […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican congressman from Kansas who is also a doctor says he has been taking a malaria drug being touted by President Donald Trump as way to protect against the coronavirus, despite warnings that it could have potentially fatal side effects. U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, who is running for the […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As large parts of the U.S. ease their lockdowns against the coronavirus, public health officials in some states are being accused of bungling infection statistics or even deliberately using a little sleight of hand to make things look better than they are. The result is that politicians, business owners and ordinary […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (all of whom are religious Jews) and with other officials to discuss the opening of shuls in Israel. It was agreed that all shuls will be opened as of tomorrow morning subject to the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Making himself an example for using a malaria drug against the coronavirus, President Donald Trump sent the White House scrambling Tuesday to defend his decision amid medical concerns the unproven treatment could spark misuse of a medication with potentially fatal side effects. Trump’s announcement a day earlier that he was taking the […]

RISHON LETZION (VINnews) — A 41-year-old female resident of Bnei Brak who was arrested yesterday for allegedly digging up the grave of a soldier who was killed by a terrorist last week in Samaria has a torrid history herself, having survived a terror attack in the past. The woman’s lawyer claimed in the Rishon Letzion […]

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A company in Baltimore has created “bumper tables” designed to allow people to practice social distancing while eating and talking in outdoor settings amid the coronavirus pandemic. The inflated tube tables created by Revolution Event Design & Production were debuted at Fish Tales, a restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland, on […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chief Rabbi David Lau sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu requesting that he open the shuls in Israel immediately, according to a report by B’Chadrei Chareidim. Rav Lau mentioned the uncompromising support he had given to all of the professional elements working to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but […]

NEW YORK (AP) — More than three weeks after Brandon Bell stopped showing up at a New York office that serves people with schizophrenia, employees finally located him at a nearby homeless shelter. The office remains open, but patients aren’t stopping by as much during the pandemic. Group activities such as the weekly Caribbean lunch […]