NEVADA (JTA) — It has now become a doubly historic Major League Baseball draft. The Washington Nationals selected Elie Kligman with their final and 20th round pick on Tuesday, making him the second observant Orthodox Jewish player ever drafted into the league — and the second in two days. The Arizona Diamondbacks picked 17-year-old Long […]

HAVANA (AP) — Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on the island Sunday to protest food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis, in one of biggest anti-government demonstrations in memory. Many young people took part in the afternoon protest in the capital, which disrupted traffic until police moved in […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) — Two police officers and one civilian were injured Thursday evening after the driver of an SUV slammed into a NYPD patrol car. The SUV was equipped with unauthorized lights and sirens, and did not have license plates, police say. The accident occurred at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Foster Avenue […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 6-year-old Kentucky girl who was snatched from her bicycle by a stranger was found quickly, returned to her family and a suspect was charged with kidnapping thanks to the quick actions of neighbors and police, authorities said. Those who witnessed the girl being taken from her Louisville neighborhood July 2 […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — These days, we are repeatedly told that Nazism didn’t start with the gas chambers, it started with “words.” In reality, Nazism started with an agenda that later became mainstream, all while Europeans and the West remained silent. Today, we have the “free Palestine” terror movement, which includes groups like CAIR, Students for […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Adams, the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, vowed Wednesday to guide the city to a new era of safety and prosperity. “New York is going to show America how to run cities,” Adams said on “CBS This Morning.” “Because I know how to run […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is filing suits against three of the country’s biggest tech companies: Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their CEOs. Trump said he was serving as lead plaintiff in the class-action suits, claiming he has been wrongfully censored by the companies. “We’re demanding an end […]

ARIZONA (VINnews) — In a stunning revelation today, Attorney Matt DePerno announced on the Bannon War Room that his investigation brought forth evidence that there was a security breach on the voter registration servers in Arizona on November 3, 2020. But not only that, says DePerno, Arizona Sec. of State Katie Hobbs and Maricopa County […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Once upon a time, antisemitism was considered taboo like other forms of racism, but we are now in 2021. America has “returned to normalcy” as Joe Biden would put it, and anti-semitism is not only on the rise, it is skyrocketing. To make matters worse, it is becoming very normalized thanks […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A pedestrian bridge collapsed over a highway in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, sending five people to the hospital. Traffic was expected to be snarled for hours. The collapse happened just before noon along Interstate 295 in Northeast Washington. Investigators believe a truck struck the bridge, causing it to come loose and […]