LONDON (AP) — Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn apologized Sunday for this party’s crushing defeat in the British general election but defended his campaign, which failed to resonate with the party’s working-class base, as “one of hope rather than fear.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party won 365 of the 650 seats in the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump on Friday appeared to condone her husband’s criticism of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, saying through a spokeswoman that her 13-year-old son, Barron, is in a different category than the teenage climate activist “who travels the globe giving speeches.” “He is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy,” spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) – A pawn shop owner in Keyport, New Jersey has been arrested on weapons-related charges after his phone number was found on one of the suspects in the Jersey City shooting, NBC NY is reporting. Officials are now looking into whether any of the guns used in the shooting came from […]

BALTIMORE, MD. (VINnews) — In the wake of Tuesday’s shooting rampage in Jersey City which targeted the local Jewish community, other communities are asking for more safety precautions to be placed in overtly Jewish establishments.  Baltimore County Police have placed camera towers at two kosher markets in Pikesville at the instigation of County representative Izzy […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials from states with strong gun restrictions have called for stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers, but the fatal attack on a Jewish market in New Jersey shows how fruitless those efforts can be. Three civilians and a police officer were gunned down Tuesday by two […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republicans have been told that Democratic New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew is going to switch parties and become a Republican. That’s according to a GOP official familiar with the conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity on Saturday to describe confidential information. Van Drew is a freshman who has […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Video from cameras worn by New York City police officers involved in a fatal friendly fire shooting shows a chaotic nighttime scene as officers struggled with an armed man on the grounds of a Bronx housing project before shots rang out. The video footage released by the New York Police Department […]

LONDON (VINnews) — Former mayor of London and Labor Party member Ken Livingstone, said Friday that Boris Johnson’s predicted landslide victory spells “the end” for Jeremy Corbyn, but also blamed Corbyn’s  loss on the “Jewish vote”. Livingstone, who has claimed in the past that the evidence of anti-Semitism in the party is “lies and smears,” […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) – Detective Joseph Seals, the first victim in Jersey City’s mass shooting Tuesday, was meeting a confidential informant at Bayview Cemetery, right before he encountered a stolen U-Haul van. PIX-11 TV News, reports, that investigators have solved the mystery of why Seals, 39, was in the cemetery that day. They’ve learned […]

LONDON (VINnews) – A man has been arrested by police investigating a hate crime attack after a bus passenger was subjected to antisemitic abuse, The Guardian reports. The 36-year-old victim was reading a prayer book while travelling on the 254 bus towards Aldgate on 6 December when another man boarded near Stamford Hill in Hackney, […]