Blog Verité

Keepin’ News Real

WTA Says It Is Suspending Tournaments in China Over Lingering Concerns About Peng Shuai

The suspension of all WTA tournaments in China because of concerns about the safety of Peng Shuai, a Grand Slam doubles champion who accused a former government official there of sexual assault, could result in cancellations of those events beyond

Read More

Prominent national-religious rabbis call for protests against government

Statement signed by rabbis Chaim Druckman, Dov Lior claims government is pushing legislation on conversion, kashrut and Western Wall that will ‘endanger the essence of the state’

Read More

Here’s why the suspected Michigan school shooter has been charged with terrorism – CNN

Here’s why the suspected Michigan school shooter has been charged with terrorism  CNN Michigan school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley charged with terrorism, murder: ‘Not just an impulsive act’  Fox News School Shooter Suspect Posted Photo of Handgun Allegedly Used  Inside Edition Lions share

Read More

Remarks by President Biden on the Nation’s Supply Chains – The White House

Remarks by President Biden on the Nation’s Supply Chains  The White House

Read More

Impressed by ethics, US Second Couple lit menorah owned by ‘Mensch of Malden Mills’

US VP Harris and her husband tracked down family of Aaron Feuerstein, who famously paid his workers even after factory burned, and were loaned candelabra

Read More

Bennett family vacation said to elicit grumblings from allies as well as PM himself

Premier’s wife said to have refused requests to cancel trip; some of PM’s coalition partners reportedly unhappy at the optics as tourist industry hit again by restrictions

Read More

For many in costly capital Tel Aviv, White City living means going into the red

In the newly-crowned world’s most expensive city, some denizens say they still can’t imagine going anywhere else, even as prices for housing and other goods swiftly outstrip wages

Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris’ spokesperson Symone Sanders is leaving – Los Angeles Times

Vice President Kamala Harris’ spokesperson Symone Sanders is leaving  Los Angeles Times Symone Sanders, Harris’ chief spokesperson, to leave White House  CNN Symone Sanders, a top Kamala Harris adviser, resigning amid signs of VP office disarray  Fox News Top aide to Kamala Harris

Read More

Covid-19 Cases Nearly Double in South Africa as Omicron Reaches More Countries

There are signs the Omicron variant is more transmissible, as well as hints that vaccines help in subduing severe symptoms.

Read More

Russia Expels U.S. Diplomats in Latest Tit-for-Tat Action

Russia ordered U.S. Embassy staff who have been in Moscow for more than three years to leave the country by Jan. 31, in the latest round of tit-for-tat expulsions between Washington and Moscow.

Read More