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July 15, 2020 at 9:03 am
“I think it would be a great mistake for Hezbollah to try to carry out operations against Israel. I can’t see that having a good ending.”
CENTCOM head Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said it would be a great mistake for Hezbollah to try to carry out operations against Israel. “I can’t see that having a good ending,” he said at a briefing during a major trip to the Middle East this week. McKenzie has visited Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait. The US general also acknowledged continuing tensions in Syria and with Iran across the region.This is McKenzie’s first trip to the region since February. He visited Israel in November last year during the rising tensions between the US and Iran. Since February, US forces in Iraq have fa...
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July 15, 2020 at 9:00 am
Number of coronavirus hospitalizations stabilizes as percentage of positive tests falls.
One patient infected with the coronavirus died Wednesday morning, raising the total number of coronavirus-related fatalities in Israel to 375, the Israeli Health Ministry reported Wednesday morning.
A total of 1,573 new cases of the coronavirus were reported Tuesday, with a further 211 cases diagnosed Wednesday morning.
Since the pandemic began, 42,813 cases of the virus have been confirmed, with 19,734 patients recovering, and 22,704 cases still active.
The number of coronavirus patients in hospitals continued to rise, but at a slower rate, increasing from 524 hospitalizations as of Tuesday morning to 547 Wednesday morning.
Of those, 195 are in serious condition, up from 192 on Tuesday and 18...
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July 15, 2020 at 8:57 am
Today Moderna published the data on Phase 1 clinical safety trials on 45 adults. It looks like two doses per season will be the established dose approximately one month apart . The 100 microgram dose appears to have elicited very good neutralizing antibody response with minimal immediate side effects. Phase 2 studies looking at 600 adults will likely be reported on in the next 4-6 weeks. The company is initiating Phase 3 trials on 30,000 individuals after July 27, 2020. This will be the most critical phase in order to see how the vaccine protects in actual exposed populations during an outbreak. The post Phase 3 observation period is expected to go on for several months in order to ensure safety as discussed previously. At that point if the current progress continues , the FDA w...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:23 pm
Moderna shares jumped more than 15% in after-hours trading on Tuesday.
CHICAGO - Moderna Inc's experimental vaccine for COVID-19 showed it was safe and provoked immune responses in all 45 healthy volunteers in an ongoing early-stage study, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.No study volunteers experienced a serious side effect, but more than half reported mild or moderate reactions such as fatigue, headache, chills, muscle aches or pain at the injection site.
These were more likely to occur after the second dose and in people who got the highest dose, the team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.Moderna shares jumped more than 15% in after-hours trading on Tuesday.Moderna was the first to start human testing of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus&nbs...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:20 pm
There are currently 22,324 active coronavirus cases in Israel. Four people have died in the last 24 hours.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 42,360 people have been diagnosed with the virus in Israel, according to data released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday night.
To date, 371 people have died from the virus in Israel, four of them in the last day. 19,665 people have recovered from coronavirus to date while 22,324 people are defined as active cases as of 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Of the active patients, 529 people are hospitalized, while 21,795 patients are in home care or in isolation in one of the coronavirus hotels.
183 of the hospitalized patients are in serious condition, and 56 are on respirators. 114 additional patients are hospitalized in moderate conditio...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:17 pm
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Tuesday that the coronavirus crisis would continue at least until the end of next year, while infections continued to rise within the ranks of the IDF.
Israel Hayom reported that, in a Zoom meeting on Tuesday with the IDF commanders tasked with combating the coronavirus, as well as Defense Ministry officials, Gantz said that the military’s crisis-management measures would have to remain active until the end of 2021.
All activities during that year, he added, “will be around the crisis.”
“I regret to say I find it difficult to see how this ends earlier,” Gantz said.
“Therefore, your task is to continue to provide this operational-logistical service, and to create breathing space for yourself, the commanders an...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:15 pm
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing blistering criticism over an internal report that found no strong link between a controversial state directive that sent thousands of recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes and some of the nation’s deadliest nursing home outbreaks.
Scientists, health care professionals and elected officials assailed the report released last week for failing to address the actual impact of the March 25 order, which by the state’s own count ushered more than 6,300 recovering virus patients into nursing homes at the height of the pandemic.
And some accused the state of using the veneer of a scientific study to absolve the Democratic governor by reaching the same conclusion he had been floating for weeks — that unknowingly infected nursing ho...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:14 pm
Hillary Clinton warned that the US should be prepared for President Trump to blame a re-election loss in November on voter fraud and refuse to leave the White House.
“Well, I think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not, if he loses, he’s going to go quietly or not. And we have to be ready for that,” the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee told host Trevor Noah on Monday’s “The Daily Show.”
“I want a fair election. If people get to vote and they, for whatever reason, vote for Donald Trump — OK. We’ll accept it, not happily,” she said. “But I don’t think that’s what will happen, because I think the more people who can actually get to the polls, whether by mail or in-person, and get their votes counted...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:12 pm
NEW YORK (JNS/Laureen Lipsky) – Instead of working towards securing the safety of New York City’s residents after a wave of Black Lives Matter riots targeted businesses, instead of protecting inner-city areas of New York where shootings are at a rise not seen in decades, instead of safely opening up the city to invite back those who originally left for the coronavirus shutdown, Mayor Bill de Blasio chose to allow a giant Black Lives Matter banner be painted on Fifth Avenue. There might as well be a giant “Palestinian” terrorist flag splayed along a stretch of the upscale commercial heart of Manhattan.
Black lives matter, all black people matter—black cops included, black innocent Americans who are being gunned down in certain neighborhoods because of the cast...
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July 14, 2020 at 10:12 pm
WASHINGTON (JNS) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for re-election in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, announced Omar’s campaign on Monday.
In touting endorsements from Pelosi and Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Melissa Hortman, Omar’s campaign said in a statement that the congresswoman “now has the support of the Democratic leaders of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Minnesota legislature, representing the support of the state and national Democratic party at the highest levels.”
Omar has perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes on Twitter and introduced a resolution in Congress that promotes boycotts of Israel, likening them to boycotts of Nazi Germany.
In February 2019, a mont...
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July 14, 2020 at 9:15 pm
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Public Security minister Amir Ohana promised Monday to keep a close tab on police brutality against Chareidim and to take steps to curb it. On the same night a policeman shoved a Chareidi cameraman to the ground while he was taking photographs of the demonstration against the closure of Chareidi neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Footage of the violent attack was taken by another person standing at the scene and the minister saw it and decided to act.
The cameraman, Meir Kakon, was treated at the scene but said the next day that he was still suffering from a headache.
Just minutes after journalist Ariel Elharar posted the clip, the minister tweeted him back:
“Hi Ariel, thanks for bringing to our attention. The policeman has been located. The matter wil...
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July 14, 2020 at 9:14 pm
Former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Alabama’s Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday, setting up a November match against current Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in the state since 1992 when he defeated Roy Moore, who has been accused of child molestation, in a 2017 special election.
In a state Donald Trump won handily in 2016, Tuberville is favored to win in November.
Tuberville has never served in elected office (and moved to Alabama only two years ago), and his campaign against Sessions was largely based on his support for the president. Trump endorsed Tuberville in March, tweeting, “Tommy was a terrific head footba...
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July 14, 2020 at 7:03 pm
French judges on Monday ordered the two men accused of robbing and killing a Holocaust survivor at her Paris home in 2018 to stand trial on a charge of murder aggravated by antisemitism.
Yacine Mihoub, 30, and his associate Alex Carrimbacus, 25, are alleged to have brutally murdered 85-year-old Mireille Knoll, H'yd — a survivor of the mass deportation of the Jews of Paris in July 1942 — in her apartment on the Avenue Philippe-Auguste on March 23, 2018.
The pair were understood to have targeted Knoll after Mihoub, a neighbor of Knoll’s since the age of eight, told Carrimbacus that she would have plenty of money as she was Jewish.
Firefighters who arrived at Knoll’s building later that night to answer an emergency call discovered her partially-burned body with...
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July 14, 2020 at 7:01 pm
Damage related to looting cost Walgreens Boots Alliance at least $75 million, offering a look at the cost of U.S. unrest for one of the nation’s largest retailers.
Walgreens said the estimate includes store damage and lost inventory through May, when the company’s fiscal third quarter ended, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Store closures during protests also hurt sales, the company said.
Demonstrations, most of which were peaceful, surged across the U.S. in May following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Some were accompanied by looting. With about 9,300 locations in the U.S., Walgreens is one of the largest U.S. retailers by store count.
The company “continues to monitor developments and assess the degree of the d...
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July 14, 2020 at 6:38 pm
Travelers must be patient before visiting paradise, as Hawaii has delayed reopening tourism for out-of-state visitors until Sept. 1, while coronavirus cases rise in both the mainland and the Aloha State.
During a Monday news conference, Gov. David Ige announced that he’s waiting another month to waive a 14-day quarantine requirement for out-of-state visitors who test negative for COVID-19. Ige cited an increasing number of local cases, “uncontrolled” outbreaks in several US mainland states and a shortage of testing supplies, the Associated Press reports.
Officials also anticipate case numbers to surge when Hawaiian public schools reopen in early August.
Read more at The Hill.
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July 14, 2020 at 6:26 pm
President Trump said Tuesday that he has signed legislation that would impose mandatory sanctions on businesses and individuals that assist China in restricting Hong Kong’s autonomy.
Trump also said that he signed an executive order declaring the United States would treat Hong Kong the same as mainland China.
Trump said he took the actions to “hold China accountable for its oppressive actions against the people of Hong Kong.” Read more at The Hill
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July 14, 2020 at 6:00 pm
BALTIMORE — Everyone wants to know when there will be a vaccine for the coronavirus, and Maryland researchers are among those racing to find a vaccine.
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The New England Journal of Medicine released Tuesday evening some promising news about a vaccine by Moderna. The report said the Moderna vaccine produced an immune response in all trial participants with no safety concerns, which means it will take the next step toward approval.
Medical centers and pharmaceutical companies across the world are racing to find a vaccine that works to prevent the coronavirus. The University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore will participate in the next phase of the trial f...
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July 14, 2020 at 5:54 pm
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to a hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday “for treatment of a possible infection,” the court said in a statement.
“She underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins this afternoon to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August," the statement said. "The justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment.”
The statement said Ginsburg was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. on Monday night after experiencing fever and chills.
It's the latest hospitalization for Ginsburg, 87, who has faced a slew of health conditions in the past. Read more at FOX News
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July 14, 2020 at 5:50 pm
U.S. equity markets turned in a broad rally on Tuesday as money poured into some of the more economically-sensitive sectors, such as energy and materials, despite evidence the banks are prepared for the harshest economic downturn since the Great Depression to worsen.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 557 points, or 2.14 percent, while the S&P 500 rose 1.34 percent, wiping out earlier losses. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.94 percent.
Looking at stocks, Caterpillar and ExxonMobil were among the names that powered the Dow.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s second-quarter profit was cut in half from a year ago, but the lender reported better-than-expected earnings amid double-digit growth in stock and bond trading...
