Washington – After a long trend toward greater safety in air travel, there has been an uptick in airline accidents and deaths in 2018 and 2019. Many aviation experts regard that recent increase as a statistical blip, however. They note that accidents and deaths remain a fraction of the numbers from as recently as the [...]

San Francisco – When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran. At the time, Amazon had been selling its Echo smart speaker, powered by its Alexa voice assistant, for more than a year . Apple’s Siri was already five years old and familiar to [...]

Pennsylvania – A Philadelphia city commission said Monday it’s investigating an event last month at which Muslim children were captured on video speaking in Arabic about beheadings and the liberation of Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations launched a probe into the April 17 gathering at the Muslim American Society’s [...]

Borough Park, NY – Twelve days after a 13 year old Jewish girl was groped in the heart of Borough Park on Chol Hamoed Pesach, the NYPD has released video footage, hoping that someone will be able to identify the suspect. Police said that the incident took place just before 6 PM on April 24th [...]

Cairo – Qatar pledged 480 million dollars in support of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. Qatar allocated 300 million dollars in grants and loans to support the Palestinian Authority’s budget for the health and education sectors. The other 180 million dollars will go to [...]

Miami Beach, FL – Detectives are investigating after a Miami Beach cafe received a disturbing phone call on Monday. Detectives gathered evidence, including phone records and recordings, from Bagel Time Café on Alton Road after the owner, Yehoshua Nodel, said his wife got the call from a man who began asking strange questions. “(He) wanted [...]

Washington – Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker is proposing that all gun owners be licensed by the federal government, a process that would include an interview and safety training. National licensing is one of more than a dozen specific proposals in a sweeping gun control agenda the U.S. senator from New Jersey released on Monday. [...]

Washington – Special counsel Robert Mueller was expected to step down days after concluding his investigation in March. Yet he remains a Justice Department employee — and the department won’t say why. Whatever role Mueller now has, keeping him on the Justice Department payroll offers one clear advantage to President Donald Trump’s administration: It makes [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump has awarded golfer Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Trump described Woods on Monday as a “true legend, an extraordinary athlete who has transformed golf and achieved new levels of dominance.” Trump described the litany of victories that Woods has obtained during his remarkable [...]

Pittsburgh, PA – Like many other parents and parents-to-be, Chaya and Judah Cowen had a list of names prepared for when their little bundle of joy arrived.They took a detour, however, when they choose to name their fifth child, a baby girl, born May 3, Noa Lea. She’s named after Lori Gilbert-Kaye, whose Hebrew name [...]