Moncef Slaoui, the chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, on Wednesday, submitted his resignation as part of a plan to hand the vaccination effort over to President-elect Biden’s coronavirus team.
Slaoui’s resignation, which will go into effect next month according to CNBC, comes as the president-elect has yet to name a new chief scientific adviser for the federal government’s vaccine deployment program, which has so far seen just over 9 million Americans receive the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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New York City will terminate its business relationship with President Trump, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this morning, the latest effort by the liberal left to hurt the president, whom they have hated since the day he entered the White House.
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De Blasio told MSNBC’s Morning Joe that the city is pulling all of its contracts with the Trump Organization, which is made up of hundreds of businesses owned by Trump, a Queens native. “New York City has severed all ties with the Trump organization due to criminal activity,” said de Blasio.
Recycling will resume in Baltimore City on a weekly basis, as planned, on January 19.
Recycling was suspended at the end of August to allow crews to focus solely on trash collection during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collection routes may take longer to complete the first week due to expected large amounts of material. Residents are asked to bring as much as they can themselves to recycling centers to help with the initial collection.
Currently, there are 220 curbside employees. DPW says it take 201 people to run the curbside operations.Read more at WBALTV
Hogan to undergo surgery for early stage basal and squamous cell carcinoma
Gov. Larry Hogan is undergoing surgery Friday to remove cancer cells from his face and shoulder, his communications director Mike Ricci announced in a tweet Wednesday.
Ricci said Hogan will have minor outpatient surgery for early stage basal and squamous cell carcinoma on his face and shoulder. This is a form of skin cancer that he has had before.
"The governor is a big believer in the importance of early detection," Ricci tweeted.
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The American Cancer Society describes basal and squa...
More Baltimore City School students are failing in virtual learning, according to Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises.
Santelises shared the new figures with the city school board commissioners during Tuesday night's meeting. She says they looked over the first quarter grades of 2019 and compared them to the first quarter of the new school year and found the numbers went up from 38% to 60% among students in grades six through 12. Ninth graders had the biggest percentage of students failing at least one class, according to Santelises.
"Unfortunately, student grades and our assessments in the first quarter demonstrate that the actual learning loss and its subsequent effects on students' academic achievement was even more dramatic an...
At least three Israeli restaurants in Portland, Ore.—Aviv and two locations of Shalom Y’all—were vandalized with the words “Free Palestine” on Saturday and Sunday, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Bias-crime investigators have been informed of the case, according to police spokesperson Derek Harmon.
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Spokespeople for the restaurants said they didn’t want to “get into the politics” behind the incident.
Shalom Y’all owners Kasey Mills, Jamal Hassan and Laura Amans labeled the graffiti as “anti-...
Jerusalem — Despite efforts by its detractors, Israel has seen a steady improvement in its diplomatic standing around the world with breakthroughs in relations with Arab states, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Nevertheless, the United Nations, with its decades of anti-Israel hostility, remains a source of concern for the Jewish state.
Indeed, recently the United States and Israel voted against the world body’s 2021 budget due to anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias, particularly with regard to a planned follow-up event to the 2001 Durban Conference in South Africa, which was replete with anti-Semitic undertones.
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Israel is currently in a stringent lockdown, and most government offices are closed to the public. The Interior Ministry remains open, but for urgent matters only.
Even prior to the lockdown, many foreigners in Israel have experienced difficulties in extending their visas, due to the Corona situation. As in the earlier waves, Chaim V’Chessed representatives have again urged Ministry officials to extend visas due to the extenuating circumstances.
We are pleased to share that the Ministry has indeed decided to extend visas, once again. Any visas which expired on or after January 10, have now been extended until March 30. The Interior Ministry press release on this topic can be viewed here. The extension relates to all A Class visas, as well as B1 and B4 visas...
Dear Friend,
Today begins the 442nd Legislative Session of the Maryland General Assembly, and my third session representing you in Annapolis. This session will be like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but I expect it to be just as busy and productive as ever.
Ways & Means Appointment
I have been appointed by Madam Speaker Jones to the highly regarded Ways & Means Committee, and I thank Madam Speaker for this significant appointment. The Ways & Means Committee focuses on Education, Revenues, Election Law and Racing & Gaming. As a representative of District 41, home of the Preakness, this position is truly apropos. I look forward to focusing on these very important issues that affect every Marylander this session. ...
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million, according to a New York Times report.
If he can figure out the password, it will enable him to unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet holding 7,002 Bitcoin. While the price of Bitcoin dropped sharply on Monday, it is still up more than 50 percent from just a month ago when it passed its previous all-time high around $20,000.
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NEW YORK (VINnews) — Gab, a social network platform that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online, has succeeded in backing up President Trump’s entire Twitter account before it was deleted and recreating it on its own site, according to a report by 100%FedUp.
The site is currently experiencing a huge influx in traffic due to numerous people transferring their social media accounts from Twitter and Facebook to the more accomodating Gab, but it still managed to back up the president’s site. With traffic up 700% and 600,000 new users in just one day, Gab said that it is upgrading its servers in order to speed up surfing and alleviate congestion for its growing number of users.
President Trump’s new account is at https://gab.c...
Baltimore, MD - Jan. 13, 2021 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Meth on the birth of a daughter.
Mazel Tov grandparents Mr and Mrs Reuven Meth.
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בתם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
Baltimore, MD, Jan. 13, 2021 — The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of public policy, called today for a renewal of civility on both sides of the political aisle following the riot at Capitol Hill and escalating political tensions over the past week. The rabbis noted the importance of curbing increasing political extremism, working together to negotiate bipartisan support for legislation, and making decisions in light of what is truly best for the country. “The current polarized state of politics is unsustainable for a civilized country, and both sides need to step back from the brink,” said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Regional Vice President of the CJV. “Whether or not President Trump intended that marc...
Much of our discontent derives from our struggle with the temporary nature of our existence. The world is indeed “a narrow bridge”. We sojourn here but for the blink of an eye. This is the fundamental nature of our condition; we are visitors, we are strangers.
We struggle to conduct our lives as if we “belong”. We tell ourselves that everything “will be all right.” That we are not really “strangers.” That this is our home.
But we are strangers and we Jews, of all people, should appreciate how transient and vulnerable our existence can be.
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Official say Israel carried out airstrike using American intel on Iranian warehouses in Syria used to import material for nuclear program.
A senior US official informed sources that today's air strike against weapons warehouses in Syria was carried out by Israel, using American intelligence reports.
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The official said that the attack targeted weapons stockpiles imported from Iran, according to a report by The Associated Press.
The official added that the warehouses hit also served as part of a pipeline for importing components used in Iran for the...
All travelers flying to the United States will soon be required to provide a negative Covid-19 test before boarding their flight.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a Department of the US Health and Human Services (HHS), issued an order on January 12, 2021 requiring proof of a negative COVID-19 test or documentation of having recovered from COVID-19 for all air passengers arriving from a foreign country to the US. This order will take effect on January 26, 2021 and will apply to all travelers, including US citizens. Read the order ...
Baltimore, MD – Jan 2021 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:• Weekly halachic dilemma creating li...
Preparation for the construction of the wall along the southern border has actually made it easier in some places to cross into the U.S., Business Insider is reporting.
The Insider attributed its information to sources based along the border in Arizona.
Contractors have blasted new ravines through mountains to make way for still unbuilt portions of the wall. In addition, they have built access roads for heavy machinery.
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The sources said the work has created easy paths, where there once was none.
Laiken Jordahl, described as an environmental campai...
YouTube said on Tuesday night it was barring new content from being posted on President Trump's channel for at least a week over a violation of its policies, the latest move by a social media giant to crack down on the president following last week's Capitol Hill riots.
"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies. It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days," YouTube said in a statement on Twitter.
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