CROWN HEIGHTS, NY (VINnews) – A teenage girl from Brooklyn was awarded $43.5 million by a jury after suffering serious injuries after being struck by a school bus in 2017 when she was 11 years old. The NY Post reports, that the jury returned the verdict against the Crown Heights-based United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, which owned […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted on Thursday that before she will send the Republican Senate the articles of impeachment her Democratic chamber approved against President Donald Trump, GOP leaders must provide more detail about how they will handle the expected trial. “We’d like to see a fair process, but we’ll see what […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — New York state has awarded $10 million for the protection of “religious-based institutions and non-public schools from hate crimes,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday. The money, which marks the second round of funding under New York’s Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes Grant Program, will fund more than 200 projects, the Governor’s […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has signaled it will file an appeal against its four-year Olympic ban due to World Anti-Doping Agency sanctions which President Vladimir Putin on Thursday branded “unfair.” The Russian anti-doping agency’s supervisory board voted Thursday to file an arbitration case with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland. WADA last […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a New Jersey Democrat who broke with his party to vote against Trump’s impeachment, is becoming a Republican. “Jeff will be joining the Republican Party,” Trump announced during an Oval Office appearance with Van Drew, who told his staff over the weekend […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jona Rechnitz, the man known for being a city hall donor before he turned into a government witness against his close friend and others, has been sentenced to 10 months for his role in a widely publicized NYPD corruption scandal. Rechnitz will serve five months in prison and five months of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — One day after impeaching President Donald Trump, the Democratic-led House looks poised to overwhelmingly pass one of his signature priorities, a rewrite of the 25-year-old free trade agreement he blames for shipping U.S. manufacturing jobs to Mexico. The House began debate Thursday on a bill putting in place terms of the United […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Moscow court upheld the verdict against an American-Israeli woman jailed on charges of drug smuggling on Thursday after a hearing in which she asserted that she had been tricked into signing a confession. Naama Issachar, 25, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in October following her conviction for smuggling […]

WASHINGTON (Israel Hayom) — Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday calling on the administration to dramatically reduce its sanctions against Iran, which Omar characterized as “economic warfare.” The letter focuses on the impact […]