Stocks surged in the final hour of trading Monday after a report said former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is projected to be President-elect Joe Biden's choice for Treasury Secretary. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 330 points, or 1.13%, led by gains in Boeing, Chevron and Goldman Sachs. Cruise operators and airlines were among the top performers in the S&P 500, which finished higher by 0.57%, after AstraZeneca became the third drugmaker to release positive news regarding a COVID-19 vaccine. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.22%, but underperformed as mega-cap tech stocks such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google lagged their peers. YELLEN TO HEAD TREASURY Biden is expected to name Yellen, who served as Federal Reserve chair...
Michigan’s state Board of Canvassers certified the vote with three yes votes and one abstention, a bipartisan decision affirming Biden’s victory over Trump by more than 155,000 votes. The typically routine exercise took on new significance this year after Trump and his allies pressured the board’s two Republicans to reject certification and seek a delay in order to investigate “irregularities” in Detroit’s vote counting — allegations that are not supported by any evidence of wrongdoing. Republicans have also pushed officials in other states to delay certification and have challenged the election results in court, mostly resulting in a string of legal losses. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, bir...
Rashida Tlaib was accused of anti-Semitism again based on remarks about Biden’s Jewish secretary of state appointee. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib responded to president-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of Antony Blinken as his secretary of state with a non sequitur referencing Israel that immediately led to accusations of anti-Semitism. Blinken is set to be the first Jewish secretary of state in decades. “So long as [Blinken] doesn’t suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane policies,” she said in response to a tweet from a Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager. “The Palestinian people deserve equality and justice.” Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join...
Jerusalem's agreement with Pfizer may advance earlier if FDA approves vaccine by next month Israel is expected to receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical firm Pfizer in December, outlet N12 reported on Monday. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens In the first stage, some 200,000 to 500,000 vaccines are likely to arrive, and will first be given to medical staff. Israel’s agreement with Pfizer designated January for the first arrival of vaccines, but due to the company’s emergency request for distribution, subject to approval by the US Fo...
Baltimore County, MD - Nov. 23, 2020 - Baltimore County is launching “Safe Exchange Zones” to keep you safe during an online purchase that involves an in-person interaction. As the number of online purchases continues to increase, so do the number of risks associated with these transactions when they involve meeting a stranger.  The Baltimore County Police Department encourages anyone who makes an online purchase that involves an in-person interaction to use the County’s police facilities. These transactions are recommended to be completed during daylight hours. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will not allow transactions to take place inside of the precinct lobbies but offer the public parking lot or street parking in front of the police station. Join BJL on Whats...
Seventeen Maryland jurisdictions will split $19.3 million in eviction prevention grants, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday. The grants will help more than 3,600 renters statewide. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens “Maryland has continued to be a national leader in our COVID-19 response, which is why we have responded aggressively with targeted rental relief funding,” Hogan said in a statement. “These grants will help ensure our citizens can remain safe and secure in their homes as we continue to respond to this global pandemic.” The funding is in addition to $2.2 mill...
President-elect Joe Biden announced several picks for top jobs in national security and foreign relations, and he’s also expected to name Janet Yellen as treasury secretary, according to three people in close communication with aides to the president-elect. The nominations announced today are: Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security, the first immigrant in that position; Avril D. Haines as director of national intelligence, the first woman in that position; and John F. Kerry as special presidential envoy for climate. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens ...
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — As coronavirus infections in the Chareidi community and the general public in Israel continue to decrease, there have been increasing calls to reopen the educational system, closed since the middle of September. In the meantime only the 1st-4th grades returned to their studies two weeks ago, with 5th-6th grades slated to begin from Tuesday. Talmud Torahs also returned to their studies a few weeks ago despite government opposition, but the Chinuch Atzmai schools which are largely funded by the government were told by Rabbi Gershon Edelstein to wait for government approval. However Rabbi Edelstein and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky have now ruled that the schools should open to all grades -both for boys and girls – up to 8th grade, while maintaining all the precau...
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Jake Sullivan as his national security adviser and Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, multiple sources familiar with the plans told NBC News. Sullivan served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to then-Vice President Biden before serving as director of policy planning at the State Department and as deputy chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Sullivan later served as a senior policy adviser to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens Th...
Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr tells “The New York Times” that the Palestinian Authority is changing its “pay for slay” policy, after conveying the opposite message in Arabic. A Palestinian Authority official told The New York Times on Nov. 21 that the P.A. would be changing its policy of rewarding terrorists with salaries based on the length of their prison sentence, and instead provide money on the basis of the needs of each individual terrorist’s family. However, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Sunday that the same official—director of Palestinian [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr—had expressed the opposite sentiment two days earlier in Arabic in the U.K.-based pu...
CAIRO (VINnews) — How much can a picture accomplish? In the case of a Cairo woman who was photographed selling lupines in teeming rain, the picture was not just worth a thousand words but rather tens of thousands of dollars. An Emirati woman saw the viral picture of Nemaat, a 63-year-old Cairo vendor huddling to protect herself from the cold and the rain while she sold stewed lupines, a popular local dish. The woman decided to donate to the vendor, dubbed “the woman in the rain” by viewers, an apartment as well as a regular stipend in order that she should not have to continue her grueling trade in all weathers. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here ...
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. is making General Motors recall and repair nearly 6 million big pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators. The decision announced Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will cost the automaker an estimated $1.2 billion, about one third of its net income this year. GM says it will not fight the recall, and it will repair another 1 million vehicles worldwide. The Detroit automaker had petitioned the agency four times starting in 2016 to avoid a recall, contending the air bag inflator canisters have been safe on the road and in testing. But owners say the company has placed a priority on profits, not safety. Exploding Takata inflators caused the largest series of auto recalls in U.S. history, wit...
President Donald Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet. “To protect American workers, I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris climate accord, a very unfair act for the United States,” Trump said in a video statement from the White House to the Group of 20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia. His comments came during a discussion among the world’s largest economies on safeguarding the Earth. President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office in January, has said he will rejoin the global pact that the U.S. helped forge five years ago. Trump contended the international accord was “not designed to save the environm...
Millions of Americans are still planning to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday – despite warnings from the CDC and government officials to stay home as coronavirus cases continue to surge. Covid-19 cases in the US on Saturday passed 12million, with more than 255,000 deaths. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens According to travel agency AAA, although less people are expected to be leaving home for the holiday compared to last year, it was estimated that up to 50.6million people will still travel for Thanksgiving. That number will likely be lower amid a crackdown on coronav...
The U.S. military is developing Navy destroyers to take out hypersonic missiles and a ship off the coast of Hawaii has successfully tested the potential innovation, according to Warren Maven editor Kris Osborn on Fox News. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens An “engage on remote” intercept of an ICBM test Nov. 16 was successful from ship-fired SM-3 IIAs, Osborn reported. “In this developmental test, the destroyer used engage-on-remote capabilities through the Command and Control Battle Management Communications network as part of a defense of Hawaii scenario,” a Mis...
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert criticized former agent Jonathan  Pollard on Sunday, saying he should not be welcomed in Israel. Interviewed by Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz at the Maariv newspaper’s business conference on Sunday, Olmert cautioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against holding a festive ceremony for Pollard when he moves to Israel soon. Join BJL on WhatsApp Status: Click here to Join BJL status for engagements, births, deals, levayos, events & more Join BJL on WhatsApp Groups: Click here to Join an official BJL WhatsApp group for breaking news as it happens “With all due respect, I would prefer that he not move to Israel,” Olmert said. “We don’t owe him anything. He was a spy who worked for a lo...
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