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The person murdered in the attack in Jerusalem: 15-year-old Aryeh Schupak from Mehr Nof. At least 19 were injured. The chargers were activated remotely Aryeh Schupak, a resident of the Har Nof neighborhood and a student of the Beit Meir yeshiva, was on his way to yeshiva with his friend who was mortally wounded. 14 people were injured in the two attacks that took place on the exit from Jerusalem and at Ramot Junction. Hezki Baruch, 29 in Heshvan 5783 November 23, 2022 A few hours after the double attack in Jerusalem this morning (Wednesday), in which 19 people...

Looking online at the MSM stories from the past several days regarding the gay night club shooting and the reporters haven't corrected the 'misprounning' of the allged perp, Anderson Lee Aldrich. Here's just one example from NBC News: "The 22-year-old suspect was arrested by police who arrived within minutes, authorities said Sunday. He was arrested on suspicion of five counts of first degree murder and five counts of bias motivated or hate crimes." Isn't this offensive to non-binary folks? Shouldn't the story be corrected to read, "They was/were arrested ...." ? Someone should call them out for not following their...

The corporate media in America has completely dropped the COVID pandemic narrative in the second half of 2022 — it’s almost as if our corrupt corporate and political elites want you to forget their two-year propaganda campaign to impose universal vaccinations, public masking, and lockdowns. What has happened? They’re all scrambling to obscure the next stage of the COVID pandemic: The Big Kill. Mortality statistics from the first half of 2022 have finally been released from a handful of countries— and what started as terrible anecdotal evidence a year ago has now hardened into a nightmarish data-storm. The Big Kill....

NATIONAL CASHEW DAY A favorite snacking and party nut is recognized each year on November 23rd during National Cashew Day. #NationalCashewDay The cashew nut is a seed harvested from the cashew tree. The tree originated in Northeastern Brazil. However, it is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew apples and nuts. With leathery leaves arranged spirally, the evergreen cashew tree grows as tall as 32 feet high and often has an irregularly shaped trunk. The flowers are small, starting out pale green then turning reddish, with each one having five slender, acute petals. The largest cashew tree in...

NATIONAL ESPRESSO DAY Get the pure coffee essence on National Espresso Day! Whether you sip one cup or keep buzzing all day long, November 23rd is the day. #NationalEspressoDay The word espresso (/ɛˈsprɛsoʊ/; Italian pronunciation: [eˈsprɛsso]) in Italian means ‘quick in time.’ Before the advent of the espresso machine, espresso was simply a coffee expressly made for the person ordering it. It was also made with recently roasted and freshly ground beans. The cup was brewed shortly before serving. In the late 1800s, this practice was commonplace in cafés and restaurants. While today’s espresso maintains the freshness quality, it has...

According to preliminary information, in the Kyiv region, Russian strikes hit a residential area and critical infrastructure objects, said Ukrainian authorities. Explosions were also heard in Lviv and Kremenchuk, in the Poltava oblast. Power outages have been reported across Ukraine. An air raid alert was issued across Ukraine and Ukrainian media carried reports of air defence systems in action in several parts of the country.

Alaska’s lengthy and convoluted election process is set to come to an end on Wednesday when Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) and Rep. Mary Peltola (D) are likely to finally emerge as the winners — largely thanks to the state’s new ranked-choice system. The Alaska Division of Elections will reveal the final unofficial results on Wednesday night. Murkowski leads Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka by less than 1,700 votes — 43.3 percent to 42.7 percent. In the House contest, Peltola holds a commanding lead, with 48.7 percent support over Republicans Sarah Palin at 25.8 percent and Nick Begich at 23.4 percent.

Amid the drumbeat of state propaganda, the mood is of low-level anxiety, according to independent polls On a snowy afternoon in Moscow this week, a trickle of people entered a vast hall under the Kremlin walls, past armed riot police, to see an exhibition on what Russia still describes as a “special military operation” in Ukraine after nine months of war. Between pictures of bombed-out Ukrainian cities and the bloodied corpses of civilians presented as heroic victims of the conflict, visitors are shown a triumphant video about Russia’s recent annexation of four Ukrainian regions. Except, since the show opened earlier...

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White supremacist banners were recently displayed on a pedestrian walkway in Walnut Creek, disturbing local residents and city officials. The banners reportedly displayed slogans such as "It's OK to be pro-white" and "White Lives Matter," NBC Bay Area reported. "White Lives Matter" as a slogan was first circulated by neo-Nazi groups in a backlash against the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. "It was like a gut punch to turn a corner and see that," resident Maya Borgueta told NBC. Walnut Creek is home to some of the Bay Area's active white nationalist hate groups....

Ukraine has recaptured almost the entire southern Mykolaiv region on an isolated peninsula off the Black Sea where fighting is ongoing, the local governor said. Kiev's troops have been pushing out Russian forces from the southern Mykolaiv and Kherson regions and recently recaptured Kherson city, which was the only regional capital Moscow's forces had taken since February. "We are restoring full control over the region. We have three settlements left on the Kinburn Split to officially no longer be a region at war," said Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaly Kim on social media.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is nonbinary, the suspect’s defense team says in court filings. In several standard motions filed on behalf of Anderson Lee Aldrich on Tuesday, public defenders refer to the suspect as “Mx. Aldrich,” noting in footnotes that Aldrich, 22, is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. The motions deal with issues like unsealing documents and evidence gathering, not Aldrich’s identity and there was no elaboration about it.

In the last few days, the mainland China daily Covid case count has climbed to around or more than 28,000 — near levels seen in April during a stringent lockdown in Shanghai, according to CNBC calculations of Wind Information data. “China might have already passed the point of no return, as it’s unlikely to achieve zero Covid again without another Shanghai-style hard lockdown,” Macquarie’s Chief China Economist Larry Hu said in a report Tuesday. In GDP terms, nearly 20% of China’s economy was negatively affected by Covid controls as of Monday, close to the high of 21.2% recorded in mid-April...

After forcing Russian troops to retreat from the city of Kherson two weeks ago, Ukrainian special forces are now battling the Russians on the islands and in marshes to the southwest, trying to push them out of a strategically vital peninsula at the mouth of the Dnipro River where it meets the Black Sea. The fighting is focused on the Kinburn Spit, on the east bank of the Dnipro River, the Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday. For tourists who have visited the sliver of land, the spit is a place of rare natural beauty, but it could also prove pivotal...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. FALMOUTH, Va., Saturday, Nov. 22 -- 12 M. The following is the reply of the Mayor of Fredericksburgh to the demands of Gen. BURNSIDE, which, owing to the late hour could not be had last night. FREDERICKSBURGH, Nov. 21, 1862. Brevet Major-Gen. E.V. Sumner, Comd'g U.S.A.: SIR I have received, at twenty minutes before five o'clock this afternoon, your communication of this date, in it you state that "under cover of the houses of this town, shots have been fired upon the troops of your command that our mills and manufactories are furnishing previsions and...

Ice Cube confirmed he missed out on a $9 million acting role after he refused to get the vaccination shot for COVID-19. The 53-year-old rapper-actor, appearing on the podcast Million Dollaz Worth of Game Monday, said, 'I turned down a movie because I didn’t want to get the motherf***ing jab.' He continued: 'I didn’t want get the jab - f*** that jab; f*** y'all for trying to make me get it. I don’t know how Hollywood feels about me right now.' The comments came more than a year after reports in October of 2021 that he had been passed over...

JACKSON, Miss. — The Jackson City Council voted Tuesday to investigate $1 million in missing COVID-19 funds. Ward 3 City Councilman Kenneth Stokes called for the investigation surrounding what he said was the termination of former constituent services manager Keyshia Sanders and allegations that the $1 million in COVID-19 funds are missing. "We need to find out what happened. If she didn't have anything to do with the money missing, then let her come back," Stokes said. Stokes said if they don't get to the bottom of what happened to the money, the council could be held liable. Before a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday met with his Cuban counterpart in Moscow, where the two unveiled a monument to Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and hailed the “traditional friendship” between their sanctions-hit nations. -snip- Putin in a speech underscored Castro’s history of defiance, praising him for “selflessly defending the sovereignty of (his) native country” and drawing parallels with Western sanctions imposed on Russia in connection with its military campaign in Ukraine. “The Soviet Union and Russia have always, and continue to this day, to support the Cuban people in their struggle for independence, sovereignty.

Hundreds of workers joined protests at Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China, with some men smashing surveillance cameras and windows, footage uploaded on social media showed. The rare scenes of open dissent in China mark an escalation of unrest at the massive factory in Zhengzhou city that has come to symbolize a dangerous build-up in frustration with the country's ultra-harsh COVID rules as well as inept handling of the situation by the world's largest contract manufacturer. The trigger for the protests, which began early on Wednesday, appeared to be a plan to delay bonus payments, many of the demonstrators said...

LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's top court ruled on Wednesday that the Scottish government cannot hold a second referendum on independence without approval from the British parliament, dealing a hammer blow to nationalists' hopes of holding a vote next year. In 2014, Scots rejected ending the more-than 300-year-old union with England by 55% to 45%, but independence campaigners have argued the vote two years later for Britain to leave the European Union, which the majority of Scottish voters opposed, has materially changed the circumstances.