Only two years ago, electronic cigarettes were viewed as a small industry with big potential to improve public health by offering a path to steer millions of smokers away from deadly cigarettes. Read more on Yeshiva World News
The perpetrator of a deadly knife attack at a Paris police headquarters was likely in contact with members of an ultra-conservative Islamic movement, the Paris prosecutor said Saturday.
In a press conference, Jean-Francois Ricard said the civilian employee, who killed four of his colleagues Thursday, “had likely contacts with members of the Salafist movement.”
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is leaving Las Vegas and returning home to Vermont after being treated for a heart attack.
The 78-year-old boarded a plane Saturday, just one day after he was released from a hospital. Read more on Yeshiva World News
An Alabama hospital system that quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack said Saturday it had gotten a key to unlock its computer systems.
A statement from DCH Health Systems didn’t say how the three-hospital system got the information needed to unlock its data. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Most Republican leaders were silent or supportive of President Donald Trump’s public call for another foreign government, China, to investigate his political foe, while a handful voiced concern that the president was trying to enlist a rival power in his reelection effort.
Extra layers of security, intense on-screen action and a frightening incident inside a New York theater combined to create an unsettling experience for some moviegoers who went to see “Joker” on its opening weekend. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A homeless man wielding a long metal bar rampaged through New York City’s Chinatown early Saturday attacking other homeless people who were sleeping, killing four and leaving a fifth with serious injuries, police said. Read more on Yeshiva World News
Two rockets were fired by terrorists in Gaza at Israel on Friday night. The rockets caused red alert sirens to wail in Israeli towns in the Gaza periphery. However, the rockets fell inside the Gaza Strip itself. Read more on Yeshiva World News
A major Swedish political party has voted to change its official stance in favor of banning Bris Milah.
The Swedish Center Party tally at its annual meeting was 314-166, overturning the 18-member party board’s unanimous rejection of the proposal.
The number of vaping-related illnesses has surpassed 1,000, and there’s no sign the outbreak is fading, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
Doctors say the illnesses, which first appeared in March, resemble an inhalation injury. Read more on Yeshiva World News
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