New York - Vitaminwater Is Offering $100,000 If You Can Stay Off Smartphones For A Year
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New York - Do you think you could without your smartphone for a whole day? How about a whole year?
Vitamin Water is willing to bet you can’t do it. CNBC is reporting, that the company unveiled a challenge for 2019 with an award of $100,000 to a person who can go without their smartphone for...
Warsaw - Historian Aims To Help Create Key Holocaust Museum In Warsaw
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Warsaw - The Warsaw Ghetto Museum should be an ambitious state-of-the art facility —"the major Holocaust museum in Poland" — when it opens in 2023, its newly appointed chief historian said Friday.
The Polish government announced plans in March to create a museum dedicated to the Jews who...
Los Angeles - Reuters: J&J Knew For Decades That Asbestos Lurked In Its Baby PowderToday 12:27 PMLos Angeles - Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why. She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate...Read More » |
Jerusalem - A Soldier’s Death Brings Grief To Israeli Army’s Fervently Religious BattalionToday 12:00 PMJerusalem - “Yosef! Yosef!” wailed Rabbi Eliyahu Meirav, calling out the name of his stepson lying covered in a shroud on the marble slab before...Read More » | |||
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Washington - Congressional Gold Medal To Be Awarded Posthumously To Assassinated Egyptian PresidentToday 11:33 AMWashington - 40 years after Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begun signed the Camp David Accords, leading to an...Read More » |
Washington - 7-year-old Migrant Girl Held At US Border Dies In CustodyToday 11:15 AMWashington - A 7-year-old girl picked up with her father and dozens of other migrants along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border suffered...Read More » | |||
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West Bank - Palestinian Police End Hamas' West Bank ProtestToday 10:49 AMWest Bank - Palestinian police have cracked down on a Hamas protest in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, beating demonstrators with batons and...Read More » |
Nicosia - Cyprus Bills Jews $6,000 For Hanukkah Events’ Security CostsToday 10:45 AMNicosia - Government officials in Cyprus billed the local Jewish community more than $6,000 for security costs during Hanukkah celebrations. The...Read More » | |||
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Paris - French Jewish Cemetery Desecrated With SwastikasToday 10:05 AMParis - A ceremony has taken place at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France where 37 gravestones and a monument to Holocaust victims were sprayed with...Read More » |
Washington - Trump's Search For A New Chief Of Staff Has Reality TV FeelToday 09:41 AMWashington - Serious contenders are hiding from view. Celebrity hangers-on are applying via Twitter. Fresh names circulate practically on the hour...Read More » | |||
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Mays Al-jabal, Lebanon - Lebanese Wary As Israel Destroys Hezbollah Border TunnelsToday 09:21 AMMays Al-jabal, Lebanon - As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men...Read More » |
West Bank - Hamas Takes Credit For Murder Of Unborn ChildToday 09:17 AMWest Bank - Terror organization Hamas formally took responsibility Friday for two terror attacks in which a Jewish man, woman and unborn child were...Read More » | |||
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Jerusalem - Thousands Attend Funerals Of Israeli Soldiers Killed In West Bank Shooting AttackToday 08:22 AMJerusalem - The two Israeli soldiers killed in Thursday’s terror shooting in the central West Bank were buried on Friday, solemnly and fondly...Read More » |
Washington - Ex-lawyer Cohen Says Trump Knew Hush Payments Were WrongToday 07:56 AMWashington - U.S. President Donald Trump directed hush payments to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign and knew the actions were wrong...Read More » | |||
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West Bank - Israeli Troops Arrest Dozens In West Bank RaidToday 07:49 AMWest Bank - Israeli forces arrested dozens of Hamas activists in the West Bank overnight as the army intensified a crackdown in response to a pair of...Read More » |
Mojave, CA - Virgin Galactic Tourism Rocket Ship Reaches Space In TestYesterday 11:24 PMMojave, CA - Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first...Read More » | |||
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Mechanicsburg, PA - Man Gives Up 1st-class Plane Seat For Mother With Ill ChildYesterday 11:00 PMMechanicsburg, PA - A Pennsylvania man who has been praised for giving up his first-class seat for a mother with an 11-month-old sick baby said he...Read More » |
Washington - Flurry Of Democrats Expected To Enter 2020 White House Race In Coming WeeksYesterday 10:30 PMWashington - A rush of Democrats will likely announce U.S. presidential bids in January in an unusually early start to the 2020 election cycle...Read More » | |||
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Phoenix - CNN: Anchor Promptly Made On-air Correction About ArpaioYesterday 10:00 PMPhoenix - Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleges in a defamation lawsuit that CNN made no effort to correct anchor Chris Cuomo's erroneous statement that the lawman was a convicted felon. But CNN says in a statement Thursday that Cuomo corrected his error within minutes...Read More » |
Jerusalem - Noah Klieger, Holocaust Survivor And Storied Journalist, Is Dead At 92Yesterday 09:30 PMJerusalem - Noah Klieger, who survived Auschwitz by pretending to be a boxer and went on to a storied career in journalism, died Thursday in Israel...Read More » | |||
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New York - Record $46 Billion Pulled From U.S.-based Stock Funds In Latest Week: LipperYesterday 09:15 PMNew York - Record cash streamed out of U.S.-based stock funds and billions more fled bonds in a week of apparently escalated caution, Lipper data...Read More » |
New York - Natalie Portman Says Israel’s Nation-state Law Is ‘racist’Yesterday 09:03 PMNew York - Natalie Portman isn’t a fan of Israel’s controversial nation-state law, which defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish...Read More » | |||
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Washington - Federal Prosecutors Probing Trump Inauguration Spending: WSJYesterday 08:25 PMWashington - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump's inaugural committee misspent some of the funds it raised...Read More » |
Portland, OR - Holocaust Survivor Killed By Car While Crossing StreetYesterday 08:00 PMPortland, OR - A 92-year-old man who survived Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street...Read More » | |||
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Washington - US Traces Lettuce Outbreak To At Least 1 California FarmYesterday 07:30 PMWashington - U.S. health officials have traced a dangerous bacterial outbreak in romaine lettuce to at least one farm in central California. Food...Read More » |
Springfield, IL - Investment Board Says Airbnb West Bank Action Is IllegalYesterday 07:01 PMSpringfield, IL - Illinois officials say that Airbnb’s ban on lodging listings in the disputed West Bank violates state law. The Investment...Read More » | |||
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Washington - Watchdog: No Evidence FBI Tried To Destroy Text MessagesYesterday 06:34 PMWashington - The Justice Department's watchdog found no evidence the FBI intentionally destroyed text messages of two former FBI officials involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Instead, the inspector general faulted an FBI-wide software failure that...Read More » |
Jerusalem - Father Of Murdered Soldier Speaks About StepsonYesterday 06:04 PMJerusalem - Rabbi Eliyahu Merav, the stepfather of Yossi Cohen, one of the soldiers who fell in the shooting attack at the Givat Asaf junction...Read More » | |||
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Washington - Report: Jared Kushner Under Consideration For White House Chief Of StaffYesterday 05:56 PMWashington - Jared Kushner is being considered for White House chief of staff, according to a CBS News report. Kushner, who is married to...Read More » |
New York - New York Sues Target, Walmart For Sale Of Lead-contaminated ToysYesterday 05:31 PMNew York - New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said on Thursday that she had filed a lawsuit against Target Corp, Walmart Inc and toy...Read More » | |||
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New York - Bad Bet: 70 Finches Seized At JFK Airport May Have Been Bound For GamblingYesterday 05:02 PMNew York - Customs agents at a New York airport have arrested a bird smuggler who had hidden 70 live finches inside multi-colored hair rollers he had...Read More » |
Washington - Defying Trump, Senate Rebukes Saudi Arabia Over Yemen WarYesterday 04:25 PMWashington - Senators voted Thursday to recommend that the U.S. end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and put the blame for the...Read More » | |||
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Paris - Main Suspect In Strasbourg Attack Has Been KilledYesterday 03:53 PMParis - The suspected gunman, who killed three people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, has been killed, two police sources said on Thursday...Read More » |
Mexico City - Mexico Will Pay For Wall With Trade, Trump Says After Call With Mexican PresidentYesterday 03:30 PMMexico City - U.S. Democratic leaders rebuked President Donald Trump on Thursday for saying Mexico will pay for a border wall through a new trade...Read More » | |||
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