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Trump: We need Greenland for national security. “If you take a look at Greenland, you have Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.”

James Comer: You’re gonna see the Trump administration continue to freeze funds until Democrat governors do like what the Republican governors are doing, they’re complying with the federal government, with the Trump administration.

A new MTA fare of $3 takes effect on Sunday across New York City.

TEHILLIM: Please daven for HaRav Dovid Magid shlit”a, a Lakewood resident and former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedolah of Bayonne, who suffered a serious medical incident on Motzei Shabbos and needs Rachamei Shomayim. His name for Tehillim is Elchonon Dovid Aryeh Leib ben Ita Faiga.

After serving tens of thousands of Israeli travelers for two decades, the Chabad House in Kathmandu, Nepal, was suddenly ordered to vacate its building. Chabad shliach Chezki Lifshitz and his wife say the landlord recently demanded all Hebrew signs be removed, sharply raised the rent, and then ordered an immediate eviction, which he believe stemmed […]

Schumer: Rubio I just heard in your interview said they’re doing what’s good for the American people. If they want to do what’s good for the American people, it should not be some escapade in Venezuela.

Minister Says Hezbollah Sought Inside Control of Kiryat Shmona Through Property Buys Israel’s Negev and Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf told a Cabinet meeting that Hezbollah allegedly encouraged Arab citizens of Israel to purchase apartments in Kiryat Shmona during the war in an effort to “take over the city from within.” Security officials say the Shin […]

A federal appeals panel ruled that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in densely populated counties is unconstitutional, saying it violates the Second Amendment. The case began after a Siskiyou County resident sued to restore open carry.

Syrians started swapping old banknotes for new ones under a plan to replace Assad-era money and strengthen the currency’s value.

Mike Waltz: “Maduro was a state-backer of narcoterrorism. These operatives are some of the most vicious in the world… Enough was enough. Enough with our homeland security being threatened.”

Sec. Rubio: The “experts” are clowns. Venezuela looks nothing like Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Middle East — other than the Iranian agents running through there plotting against America. These are Western countries. People need to stop ascribing apples to oranges.

Shas is threatening to oppose the 2026 state budget unless the coalition first passes its draft law regulating Charedi conscription and exemptions. The budget must be approved by March 31 or the government will fall and early elections will be triggered. Shas spokesman Asher Medina said the law is essential to protect full-time Torah study. […]

Sec. Rubio: “In the Biden Administration, they had a $25 million reward for [Maduro’s] capture — so we have a reward for his capture but we’re not going to enforce it? That’s the difference between President Trump and everybody else… President Trump did something about it.”

Critics are sharply attacking the choice of schools chancellor made by Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that his appointee represents an aggressive ideological agenda focused on race and opposition to merit-based education, according to comments made to The New York Post.

At the center of the criticism is Kamar Samuels, a veteran educator who previously led school districts covering parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan and is known for dismantling Gifted & Talented programs. Mamdani selected Samuels to run the nation’s largest public school system after his tenure as a district superintendent.

Samuels previously oversaw District 13 in downtown Brooklyn and later District 3 on the Upper West Side. During that time, he promoted a series of policies framed around “equity” and “antiracism,” while regularly hosting town halls dedicated to those themes.

“I don’t like him, I’ve never liked him; he came in as an ideologue,” a Department of Education official told The Post, adding that he believes Samuels is an “idiot.”

Samuels, now 48, ran District 13 before being appointed in 2022 to lead District 3 by then-Mayor Eric Adams. In both districts, he organized and promoted repeated “Anti-Racist Town Hall” events that critics say pushed a woke agenda under the banner of equity. One such event in February 2022 featured far-left Brooklyn Councilwoman Crystal Hudson as a guest speaker.

“You are invited to join D3 town hall: A courageous conversation about equity,” Samuels wrote in a 2023 post.

“District 13 continues our conversation on serving all students in an Anti-Racist District tonight at 7pm when we hear from students at MS 266 and PS 133! Tuesday, June 7 @ 7:00 pm Anti-Racist Town Hall,” Samuels posted in June 2022.

Critics also point to Samuels’ social media activity as evidence of what they describe as an obsessive focus on race. Following the altercation between comedian Chris Rock and actor Will Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards, Samuels weighed in publicly.

“Just wondering … If Chris Rock were white, would Will Smith had slapped him?” Samuels wrote on X after what became known as “the slap heard round the world.”

In June 2023, Samuels hosted an “equity” town hall alongside Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, an outspoken opponent of standardized testing who has claimed such exams originated in the eugenics movement and has faced accusations of antisemitism.

“Israel is a terrorist state,” she wrote in an Oct. 1 post on X.

During Samuels’ leadership of District 13, he eliminated Gifted & Talented programs and replaced them with International Baccalaureate offerings, a move that drew significant backlash.

“What a pleasant surprise! Removing G&T gives us an opportunity to recreate and reimagine,” Samuels said in October 2021.

“He has a progressive vision that is evil, asking individuals to solve all of society’s problems is not something that’s generally worked,” the DOE official told The Post.

Despite the criticism, Samuels aligns closely with Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s education platform. Ending the long-standing Gifted & Talented program for kindergarten students was a central pledge of Mamdani’s campaign.

The program itself has been politically contentious in recent years. Bill de Blasio began phasing it out in 2021, before his successor, Eric Adams, moved to revive it during his administration.

{Matzav.com}

OPEC+ has decided to keep oil output unchanged following a brief meeting, despite political crises affecting several member states. The decision comes after oil prices dropped more than 18% in 2025, the steepest yearly fall since 2020, amid growing concerns of oversupply. The move also comes as tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE sharply […]

Sec. Rubio: “The first steps are securing what’s in the national interest of the United States and also beneficial to the people of Venezuela… No more drug trafficking. No more Iran/Hezbollah presence there. No more using the oil industry to enrich all our adversaries.”

Sec. Kristi Noem: President Trump proved a couple of days ago that he is a man of action — that when someone is threatening the United States, he will defend it with every resource that we have.

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In a sharp escalation of rhetoric following the U.S. military action that targeted Venezuelan state infrastructure, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused Israel of playing a role in the operation that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Celia Flores.

Speaking during an address in which she convened the National Defense Council, Rodríguez charged that the strike bore ideological fingerprints she described as foreign and hostile. “The governments of the world are shocked that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the victim and target of an attack of this nature, which undoubtedly has Zionist undertones,” she said. “It’s truly shameful.”

Rodríguez rejected statements made by U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that she had been sworn in as Venezuela’s president or had expressed readiness to cooperate with Washington. She insisted that Maduro remains the nation’s sole legitimate leader and said security forces had already secured key government installations.

She also demanded the immediate release of both Maduro and Flores, arguing that their detention was carried out under false pretenses as part of a broader effort to impose regime change and gain control over Venezuela’s natural resources.

The vice president’s comments have raised concerns among members of Venezuela’s small Jewish community, both inside the country and among Venezuelans living abroad, amid fears that such rhetoric could inflame tensions or invite reprisals.

The latest accusations echo earlier remarks by Maduro himself during a period of heightened friction between Caracas and Washington late last year. At a November 15 Bolivarian Integral Base Committee event, he blamed Zionists for seeking Venezuela’s destruction. “There are those who want to hand this country over to the devils – you know who, right? The far Right Zionists want to hand this country over to the devils,” Maduro said. “Who will prevail? The people of [King] David, the people of God, the people of [Simón] Bolívar, or the imperialist demons?”

During that same period, Maduro repeatedly stressed that Venezuela is a Christian nation, questioning why the United States would seek to harm Christians as U.S. forces increased their presence in the Caribbean and carried out strikes on vessels accused of drug trafficking.

{Matzav.com}

Anti-Israel protest groups and far-left activist organizations that have dominated street demonstrations since the October 7 Hamas massacre have erupted in fury over the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, rapidly folding the episode into their broader anti-Israel, anti-U.S. protest ecosystem. Groups including Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, […]