WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused […]

QUEENS (VINnews) — Two NYPD officers were injured on Tuesday after shots rang out in a Queens home. According to initial reports, the two injured officers are believed to have been shot. A suspect has been wounded, and according to some sources is not expected to survive. The injured officers have been transported by fellow […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet. “To protect American workers, I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris climate accord, a very unfair […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gov. Cuomo issued threats to a Satmar synagogue after a “secret” wedding was allegedly held with thousands in attendance. “It was a blatant disregard of the law. It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York,” Cuomo said during a Sunday press briefing. “The law protects everybody. It […]

WARSAW (JTA) — Dozens of people from 49 countries delivered filmed greetings to a Polish rescuer of Jews on his 101st birthday. Jozef Walaszczyk watched the 25-minute video of greetings at his Warsaw home on Friday on a tablet provided by From the Depths, a non-profit Holocaust commemoration group. One of the greetings was from […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump may have been projected by the media to have lost the 2020 election, but that hasn’t stopped Senate Republicans from pressing forward with their probe of the FBI’s Russia investigation. The latest burst of activity came Tuesday when the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee grilled former FBI Deputy Director Andrew […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters with a grin on Tuesday that the “transition” to a second Trump term would be “smooth,” but later said the State Department would be prepared no matter who is president on Inauguration Day. Pompeo, one of Trump’s most loyal Cabinet members, also dismissed as “ridiculous” […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — In an interview with CNN on Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci welcomed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough, calling it a “big deal.” Fauci says that provided the vaccine is able to get through the proper regulatory process, we can very likely see the vaccine administered before the end of the year. Dr. Fauci: “We […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — While many in the U.S. are celebrating the news released by drug company pfizer on Monday, that initial results from human trials are proving effective, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is singing a different tune. Cuomo appeared on “Good Morning America” on Monday morning, where he made his comments. The governor acknowledged that […]