Rep. Henry Cuellar: I’m a conservative Democrat, I work across the lines, and I want to see President Trump succeed. It’s good for the country. We might have differences, but if I can work with him I will.
Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, Trump’s pick to lead NASA, touted plans to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon before China and worked to distance himself from Elon Musk during his second Senate confirmation hearing
Lebanon’s prime minister said Wednesday that his country was “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel, despite a move toward direct negotiations between the two countries aimed at defusing tensions. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s comments to a small group of journalists in Beirut came in contradiction to a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel […]
A punishing Arctic blast is barreling across the United States this week, threatening to plunge more than 200 million Americans into life-threatening cold and potentially rewrite the record books across 15 states. Meteorologists warn that over 40 record lows could fall between Thursday and Friday alone, as a destabilized polar vortex and an early-season La […]
NYC BUSINESS GIANT BLASTS MAYOR-ELECT: ROWAN CALLS MAMDANI “ENEMY OF JEWS,” WARNS OF “DARK TIMES” AHEAD Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan issued a searing public rebuke of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Monday night, accusing the incoming leader of “normalizing antisemitism” and declaring him an outright “enemy” of the Jewish people. The […]
A 75-year-old Long Island man who admitted waging a months-long campaign of terror against Jewish residents and businesses in Montauk walked out of jail with nothing more than probation, after a bureaucratic technicality erased the five-day sentence he was supposed to serve for his antisemitic crimes. Michael Nicholoulias, of Montauk, pleaded guilty in August to […]
The following observations are completely aside from the actual merits of the Draft Law. I simply wish to point out what I see as the unfortunate reality that plagues us, time and time again. There is a sad, insidious pattern, repeated so many times that it’s painful to watch. Gedolim. Daas Torah. Kavod HaTorah. Words […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he would not hesitate to travel to New York, even after the city’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, vowed to honor an International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued against him on alleged war-crimes charges. Speaking remotely from Israel at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Netanyahu dismissed the allegations tied […]
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation’s top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis. City Attorney David Chiu named 10 companies in the lawsuit, including the makers of such popular foods as Oreo […]
A 25-year-old University of Delaware student was arrested after police discovered a car packed with guns, ammunition, body armor, and a handwritten manifesto outlining plans to “kill all” in a mass shooting targeting the school’s police department. The suspect, Luqmaan Khan, was taken into custody on Nov. 24 after officers found him sitting nervously in […]
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday advanced the nomination of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun to serve as the Trump administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, moving the Chabad-affiliated businessman one step closer to confirmation after a contentious, highly polarized fight over his past political statements. Rabbi Kaploun cleared the panel in a bipartisan […]
A deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky stemmed from from corporate choices that favored profits over safety, according to a lawyer who filed two wrongful death lawsuits Wednesday, which allege the company kept flying older aircraft without increasing maintenance beyond what’s regularly scheduled. Last month’s fiery crash happened during takeoff after the plane’s left […]
The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants, two people familiar with the findings said Wednesday. Hegseth, however, has the ability to declassify material and the report did not find […]
It’s midnight in the holy city of Yerushalayim, and a group of exalted and illustrious mekubalim stream in, one by one, into the Beis Medrash overlooking the Makom HaMikdash—the site of our destroyed Beis HaMikdash—where they will spend the night immersed in holiness. Each and every one of these carefully selected Yidden has already spent years in the study of the Zohar and the writings of the Arizal and his talmidim. Their faces […]
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has advanced the nomination of Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, President Trump’s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.
BREAKING: Kaine, Paul, Schumer, & Schiff file War Powers Resolution “to block the use of the U.S. Armed Forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela unless authorized by Congress.”
New York City is handing Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani the safest streets the five boroughs have seen in modern history. Shootings are at an all-time low, subway crime has plunged, murders have fallen to levels not recorded in years, and retail theft is down dramatically. But as the data lands, political insiders and law-enforcement veterans are […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve’s regional bank presidents live in their districts for at least three years before taking office, a move that could give the White House more power over the independent agency. In comments at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Bessent […]
Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay died at his home in Bretteville-L’Orgueilleuse in France’s Normandy region, his longtime friend and carer Marie-Pascale Legrand said. Shay, of the Penobscot […]
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