GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Monday that it has received no evidence from the U.S. government to back up allegations by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the coronavirus could have originated at a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “From our perspective, this remains […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The following was submitted to VINnews by a reader: To Whom it May Concern After seeing the letter from a Chosson here’s a letter from a Father of a Kallah. Sitting in Quarantine under very trying circumstances, I have been made aware of this new Simcha Initiative that you are bringing […]

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The world’s largest hornet, a 2-inch killer dubbed the “Murder Hornet” with an appetite for honey bees, has been found in Washington state, where entomologists were making plans to wipe it out. The giant Asian insect, with a sting that could be fatal to some people, is just now starting to […]

MONTREAL (AP) — Canada’s largest airline on Monday announced a billion-dollar loss and announced mandatory temperature checks for customers amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re now living through the darkest period ever in the history of commercial aviation, significantly worse than 9/11, SARS and the 2008 financial crisis,” CEO Calin Rovinescu said on a conference call […]

NES TZIYONA (VINnews) — Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett visited the Nes Tziyona Institute for Biological Research Monday where he was presented with a breakthrough finding by the institute of a coronavirus antibody. The monoclonal antibody can attack the virus and neutralize it inside the bodies of those sick with the virus. Researchers at the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Sirens. Birds. The ice cream truck. Sirens. Sirens. Sirens. The stall of a delivery vehicle. The downstairs neighbor telling her dog to do his business. The muffled talk of a masked couple walking down the block. People ask me what it’s like to live in New York City, the U.S. epicenter […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Mayor Bill de Blasio called Saturday’s confrontation in Manhattan’s East Village “very troubling” and “absolutely unacceptable” but contended it was an outlier among “tens of thousands of interactions between police officers and civilians over the last weeks that went very well.” The officer was stripped of his gun and badge and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a press conference convened Monday night, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu mapped out Israel’s strategy for returning to economic and social life during the present period.  Netanyahu mentioned that nobody can determine what the future will hold and whether there will be another outbreak of COVID-19 before a vaccine is discovered […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is mischaracterizing Joe Biden’s position on the U.S. pandemic response, stretching the facts on his own policies in the crisis and playing down the risk to meatpacking employees who are being called to work as infections run high. Trump capped the weekend by taking questions from Fox News anchors […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of people are rolling up their sleeves in countries across the world to be injected with experimental vaccines that might stop COVID-19, spurring hope — maybe unrealistic — that an end to the pandemic may arrive sooner than anticipated. About 100 research groups are pursuing vaccines with nearly a dozen in […]