AIRMONT (VINnews) — The FBI paid a visit to Airmont, NY Tuesday morning. Speculation ran wild that the operation was in connection with the Monsey stabbing attack. It has now been revealed this was completely unrelated to the stabbing, but rather shockingly it was in connection to a series of recent bank robberies perpetrated by […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Bolton’s attorney is suggesting that a court order directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify to Congress has no bearing on whether his client and another ex-national security official will appear. Charles Cooper issued a statement Tuesday, a day after a federal judge ruled that McGahn must comply with […]

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police Tuesday managed to tow a sunken submarine believed to be carrying tons of cocaine into a northwestern port and began preparations to extract its cargo. Police were hoping to crane-lift the 20-meter (65-foot) submarine onto the dock at Port of Aldán so that they could get inside more easily, an […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein’s legislation exempting the income of the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) from a family’s household income as it relates to public assistance. This legislation, now law, will eliminate the difficulties for young adults from low-income households that were unable to participate […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Capitol and its office buildings were briefly evacuated Tuesday over a report of a possible aircraft in restricted airspace. The evacuations were ordered as a precaution and lasted about 45 minutes. The U.S. Secret Service said personnel at the White House were told to remain in place during that time. […]

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) — Whenever Mohammed al-Shenbari sees a new object, he quickly tries to find its “balancing point” and make it stand in a way that appears to defy the law of gravity. The 24-year-old self-taught Palestinian artist says he can balance almost any object, using what he calls a mix of […]

(VINnews Editorial) – Walk into any given hospital, and you can ask that the doctor or Physician’s Assistant that would be seeing you – be of the same gender as you are.  A man can request a man.  A woman can request a woman.  It is a basic right. And it is a right that […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Legislation with bipartisan support that would restore the rights of Holocaust-era insurance beneficiaries to recover billions in unclaimed payments left behind after World War II has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Due to federal court rulings and a failure by insurance companies to adequately publish the names of recipients […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is donating his third-quarter salary to help tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic. A White House official says Trump has given the $100,000 he would be paid in the quarter to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, which oversees federal public health offices and programs, including the surgeon […]

LONDON (AP) — The archbishop of Canterbury has said an unusual electoral intervention by Britain’s chief rabbi should alert the country to the unease felt by many Jews. Justin Welby tweeted Tuesday after Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wrote in The Times of London that Britain’s Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been deeply […]