New Treatment Could Reduce Kids’ Peanut Allergies
An experimental therapy that fed children with peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour has helped more than 80 percent of them safely eat a handful of the previously worrisome nuts.
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Lottery Prize Climbs to $636 Million
The Mega Millions jackpot soared to an estimated $636 million on Tuesday, making it the second largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
Rabbi Manis Friedman
Private Course to Coach Women on Marital Relationship
After the tremendous success of his course on relationships for Chasanim and married men, Rabbi Manis Friedman has relented to the overwhelming demand and announced a parallel course for Kallahs and married women. The registrations have been flooding in, and anticipation is growing for the revolutionary course, which is set to begin tomorrow, December 5, via teleconference.
The Guardian Angels, an anti-crime group, posted warnings in Brooklyn this week about the Knockout Game, in which teenagers try to knock a stranger out with one punch.
Cops Unsure if ‘Knockout’ Game is Real or Myth
Fear swept through Borough Park, Brooklyn, as soon as the news got out: A young man was randomly assaulted by strangers early Friday morning, and the attack was possibly part of the so-called Knockout Game.
NY Times
Committee: Be Cautious with Antibiotics for Kids
Pediatricians should carefully evaluate kids with ear infections, runny noses and sore throats before giving them antibiotics, doctors said today.
Reuters
Study: Spanking Tied to Later Aggression Among Kids
Think spanking will help teach an out of control child to stay in line? A new study suggests the opposite may be true.
Reuters
U.S. Now World’s Biggest Oil Producer
The United States has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest oil producer as the jump in output from shale plays has led to the second biggest oil boom in history, according to leading U.S. energy consultancy PIRA.
Reuters
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Temporary Food Stamps Increase to End Next Month
Millions of Americans will see a drop in their food stamps benefit next month as a temporary increase is set to expire.
New $100 Bill Enters Circulation
A revamped $100 bill entered circulation for the first time today, with additional design features that will make it more difficult to forge.
Video: Crown Heights Merchants Share Business Advice
Starting Thursday, October 31, Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs will offer a series of revolutionary classes helping aspiring entrepreneurs achieve their business dreams.
Toyota Sienna Recall Affects Nearly 700,000 Minivans
Toyota Motor Corp’s U.S. unit said on Thursday it is recalling about 694,000 Sienna minivans in North America due to a shift lever problem.
Members of the U.S. Park Service place barricades around the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. A partial shutdown of the federal government has led to the closing of national parks.
U.S. Government Goes into Partial Shutdown
With lawmakers in Washington at loggerheads over the same issues they’ve been arguing about for more than five years, the federal government has partially shut down.
NPR
12 Killed in Washington, D.C. Shooting Rampage
A former naval officer packing an assault rifle and two other guns sprayed an office building with bullets at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, killing 12 people in a rampage that paralyzed part of the nation’s capital, authorities said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.
NBC News
Levi Leviev speaks at a gathering of Shluchim in the former Soviet Union.
$136 Million in Diamonds Stolen from Leviev Exhibit
A lone man wearing gloves, a cap, and a scarf to mask his face sneaked into a diamond show in a luxury Cannes hotel and made off with some $136 million of loot, a French state prosecutor said Monday – more than twice the initial estimated take from the weekend hold-up.
George Zimmerman
Jury: George Zimmerman Not Guilty
A verdict has been reached in the murder trial of George Zimmerman: Not guilty on all charges.
New Cancer-Killing Drug to Be Tested on Humans
Stanford researchers are on track to begin human trials of a potentially potent new weapon against cancer, and would-be participants are flooding in following the NY Post’s initial report on the discovery.
NY Post
ULYOP Students Go Hands-On with Bees
Hashem’s intricacies and how exact the world works is mind boggling! Rabbi Harari’s 8th grade class at United Lubavatcher Yeshiva of Ocean parkway got to see that fact first hand.
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