WASHINGTON (AP) – A new condition related to the coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the United States: Fauci fever. After decades of renown in American medicine, Dr. Anthony Fauci has become an unlikely celebrity in his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he has led the medical response to […]

NEW YORK (AP) – New York state will extend its stay-at-home restrictions at least through May 15 amid signs the initial wave of the coronavirus outbreak has stopped getting worse. Cuomo said Thursday that virus transmission rates still need to be tamed as he prolonged rules that have left many New Yorkers working from home, […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey with her family to spend Passover at a Trump family residence, despite federal guidelines against discretionary travel. Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and their three young children traveled from Washington D.C. to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, where they celebrated the first […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York residents will be required to wear face coverings anytime they come into close contact with other people outside their homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The mandate will require a mask or face covering, like a bandanna, on busy streets, public transit, or any situation where people cannot maintain […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two police officers assigned to patrol New York City’s desolate streets were put under department investigation Thursday after a video showed them purportedly making profane comments to a man over their police vehicle’s loudspeaker. Video posted on social media showed officers in a police department SUV on Wednesday night telling the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. “We’re starting our life again,” Trump said during […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Hopeful talk about getting people out of their homes and back to work in some parts of the country seems a far cry from the harsh reality in New York and its suburbs: Thousands of people infected with the coronavirus are still streaming into hospitals every day. Hundreds are still dying. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and some of his officials are flirting with an outlier theory that the new coronavirus was set loose on the world by a Chinese lab that let it escape. Without the weight of evidence, they’re trying to blame China for sickness and death from COVID-19 in the United States. […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — The Mimouna festival is a North African tradition on the night after Pesach. It celebrates the continued faith (Emuna-Mimouna) that despite the fact that Pesach is over, Mashiach will indeed come and redeem us soon. The festival has gained wide popularity in Israel in recent years, and even Ashkenazim occasionally dress […]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — In response to complaints by boys that they had been bullied in school for bringing pink face masks, Taiwanese health officials donned pink face masks at a regular press conference on Monday, according to a Hong Kong Free Press report. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, who led the Central Epidemic […]