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Two separate bus crashes hours apart in Pakistan on Sunday left at least 36 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said. The first happened when a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq through Iran fell from a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 32 others, police and officials said. The driver lost control on the Makran coastal highway when the brakes failed, while passing through Lasbela district in Baluchistan province, local police chief Qazi Sabir said. Authorities in Baluchistan said that arrangements were being made to send the bodies of the pilgrims to Punjab province for burial. Maryam Nawaz, the chief minister in Punjab, expressed her condolences after the crash. Hours later, 24 people were killed when a bus fell into a ravine in the Kahuta district of the eastern Punjab province, police and officials said, including two women and a child. Omar Farooq, a senior government official in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said there were no survivors. Initially, local police said that there were seven injured, but later doctors and government officials said that everyone onboard the bus died in the crash. Raja Moazzam, a rescue official, said most of the bodies had been identified. According to residents, the bus crash happened early Sunday and locals initially took part in the rescue work, and ambulances of emergency service crews arrived later. The bus was heading to the Pakistan-administrated disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir — claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan — when it fell from the Panna bridge in the Kahuta district, said Sardar Waheed, a senior government official, adding that heavy machinery was used to lift the wreckage to ensure no one was trapped underneath. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in separate statements, offered their condolences and expressed sorrow over the two crashes. They asked authorities to ensure the provision of the best medical treatment for the injured pilgrims. The crashes on Sunday occurred days after 28 Pakistani pilgrims were killed in a bus crash in neighboring Iran while heading to Iraq. A Pakistani military plane flew the bodies of the victims home on Saturday to be buried in the southern Sindh province. Thousands of Shiites travel to Iraq’s holy city of Karbala to commemorate Arbaeen — Arabic for the number 40 — to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, who became a symbol of resistance during the tumultuous first century of Islam’s history. Bus crashes are common in Pakistan, mostly because of negligence by drivers, who often violate traffic rules. (AP)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Sunday that he is withdrawing his name from ballots in critical battleground states in an effort to undermine Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances in the upcoming presidential election. This development follows his decision on Friday to suspend his independent White House bid and endorse former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s campaign, which had long been considered a longshot, has been marked by his criticisms of the Democratic Party, alleging that the primary process was rigged against him and voters. The announcement of his withdrawal from battleground states comes shortly after he petitioned to remove his name from the ballot in Pennsylvania, a key swing state. During an interview on Fox News Sunday with anchor Shannon Bream, Kennedy elaborated on his decision to back Trump and remove himself from ballots in crucial states where his presence could have hurt the former president’s chances. When asked if any negotiations took place regarding a potential position in a future Trump administration, Kennedy denied any formal commitments but acknowledged a meeting with Trump and his advisors. “There’s been no commitments,” Kennedy said. “But you know, I met with President Trump, with his family, with his close advisors, and we just made a general commitment that we were going to work together.” Bream further pressed Kennedy on the states where he intends to remove his name from the ballot, pointing out that these are critical swing states that Harris would need to secure the 270 electoral votes required for victory in November. Kennedy confirmed the strategy, saying, “They’re basically 10 swing states where my presence in the race would have helped Vice President Harris and would have harmed President Trump. So I’m going to get off the ballot in those states, and then we’re going to stay on the ballot in 30 states.” He emphasized that in states where his candidacy would not impact the election outcome, he will remain on the ballot and continue to encourage his supporters to vote for him. However, he reiterated that in states where he could act as a “spoiler” for Trump, he will step aside. Kennedy’s move could prove pivotal in a race where every vote counts, particularly in the swing states that often determine the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Rav Avrohom Zucker, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiv Gedola Ohr Yisroel in Flatbush is in dire need of Rachmei Shomayim, following an incident on Sunday afternoon. He is currently being taken into emergency surgery with a serious head injury. His name for Tehillim is Avrohom Nesanel ben Masha Leeba אברהם נתנאל בן מאשא לייבא.

Senator Lindsey Graham defended former President Donald Trump after CNN anchor Jake Tapper questioned whether Trump is intentionally undermining his own 2024 election campaign with attacks on prominent political figures, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Vice President Kamala Harris. Tapper highlighted Trump’s recent controversial remarks, which included calling Shapiro an “overrated Jewish Governor” following the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and criticizing Harris and Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp. The CNN anchor floated the notion that these distractions might suggest Trump is deliberately sabotaging his chances in the upcoming election. “Last week, former President Trump tried to respond to some of what was going on at the convention,” Tapper said. “He went after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as an ‘overrated Jewish Governor’ who should be supporting him because of Israel. He attacked Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp, and he called Vice President Harris lazy. What do you say to the analysis that this really is Donald Trump’s race to lose? But sometimes it looks like he’s trying to.” Graham, however, downplayed the impact of Trump’s rhetoric, instead steering the conversation toward policy issues and Trump’s work in repairing relationships with key Republican governors like Brian Kemp. “Well, I think the point is that he went to the border to talk about a broken border,” Graham said in defense of Trump. He also mentioned that the tensions between Trump and Kemp had been resolved, and that Kemp had come out strongly in support of Trump in Georgia. “If we don’t win Georgia, I don’t see how we get to 270. But I do believe, Georgia’s ours to lose.” Graham emphasized that focusing on policy is the key to winning the election, citing issues like inflation and rising costs under the current administration. “The truth of the matter is the policies of the last four years have been miserable failures,” Graham said, adding that the economic hardships faced by voters would drive them away from re-electing Democrats. When Tapper brought up Graham’s previous statement that Trump’s provocative behavior might hinder his chances in the election, Graham remained steadfast in his belief that policy would win the day. He also acknowledged Trump’s response to his critique, in which the former president said, “Look, I like Lindsey. I don’t care what he says.” Trump dismissed the criticism, asserting that his endorsement was key to Graham’s re-election in South Carolina. “Lindsey is my friend. But if I didn’t endorse him, he would have had no chance of getting elected,” Trump said. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Russian-born tech mogul Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of the popular platform Telegram, has been detained in France, French authorities confirmed Sunday. According to French media, his detention is related to alleged offenses regarding the social media app.

The Russian Embassy in Paris said early Sunday that it had requested consular access to Durov and demanded that French authorities “ensure the protection of his rights.”

“As of today, the French side has so far avoided cooperation on this issue,” the embassy said in a statement posted on Telegram, adding that officials are in touch with Durov’s lawyer.

Paris authorities said a statement regarding Durov’s detention will be issued Monday.

Durov was once viewed as a Russian Mark Zuckerberg. But he left the country in 2014 after he lost control of his social network because he refused to hand over Ukrainian opposition organizations’ data to security agencies.

French TV channel TF1 broke the news Saturday night, reporting that the billionaire was detained as he was traveling back from Azerbaijan aboard a private jet, which landed at the Bourget airport outside the capital.

Russia then sent a diplomatic note demanding access to Durov, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Sunday on Russian state TV, adding that the French government views his French citizenship as his primary nationality.

Durov lives in Dubai and is a dual citizen of the United Arab Emirates and France, according to Telegram. It’s not clear whether he renounced his Russian citizenship. The 39-year-old’s fortune is estimated by Forbes at about $15.5 billion.

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Moderation rules under investigation

The French newspaper Le Monde reported that authorities detained Durov as part of a preliminary investigation that focused on the lack of content moderation on Telegram and the platform’s role in allegedly enabling criminal activity. The probe is looking at Telegram’s failure to cooperate with law enforcement on issues ranging from child pornography to cyberscams to organized crime, the newspaper said.

The French Interior and Justice ministries did not respond to requests for comment. Telegram also did not reply to a message seeking the company’s response.

The online app’s unmoderated messaging services have provided a platform for groups posting content that might be banned on other major social media networks, from right-wing groups to organized crime figures and militant groups.

Telegram is also popular with criminal syndicates and terrorist groups because of its encrypted messaging, which makes it hard for law enforcement authorities to monitor any illegal activities.

Hamas, for example, has posted grisly first-person videos of the conflict in Gaza to help build a narrative that its militants are freedom fighters justified in their killing and abduction of Israeli civilians. Visceral footage from body-worn GoPro cameras flooded its Telegram channels during the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. (The app also hosts groups that claim the attacks were a “false flag” operation staged by Israel.)

Russia attempted to ban Telegram in 2018 over Durov’s refusal to share encryption keys and give access to users’ messages to the country’s security services under laws passed by the Russian government to curb internet freedoms. But Russia has also used Telegram’s online messaging services to post regular battleground updates – at times graphic and misleading – since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, have countered with their own version of the conflict.

Other governments have considered banning Telegram, also citing content-moderation concerns. The German government, for example, weighed that option during a 2022 debate over coronavirus vaccines, citing Telegram’s role in spreading anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

In previous interviews with The Washington Post, Western officials have said Telegram has also been a useful tool for Russian military intelligence agency GRU to recruit for sabotage campaigns across Europe, including attempted disruptions and surveillance of transport lines used by NATO to supply Ukraine. In addition, Telegram had become a primary platform for Russia to disseminate disinformation in Europe and Ukraine, a senior European security official told The Post.

For his part, Durov has countered those allegations by arguing that his app, which passed 900 million monthly active users in 2024, should remain neutral and abstain from geopolitics.

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Homegrown encryption

Durov has alienated many potential allies by attacking the security of other encrypted services and rejecting criticism of Telegram’s homegrown encryption, John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, told The Post on Saturday. “At the same time, it is a really scary precedent to see a CEO arrested over content,” he said.

Russian officials and state media pundits quickly jumped on Durov’s detention to attack the West, slamming the “double standards” when it comes to matters of free speech.

“The French continue their fight for ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘European values,’” Russian lawmaker Andrei Klishas wrote on Telegram.

Russia’s ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that Durov’s detention was an example of the “very alarming totalitarian trends in countries which used to call themselves democratic.”

“Some naive persons still don’t understand that if they play more or less visible role in international information space it is not safe for them to visit countries which move toward much more totalitarian societies,” Ulyanov wrote on X.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who welcomed Zuckerberg to Russia in 2012, said that Durov’s detention should serve as a cautionary tale to all Russian entrepreneurs who flee Russia because of pressure from the Kremlin.

“[Durov] thought that his biggest problems were in Russia, so he left and got citizenship and residence permits in other countries,” Medvedev, who has emerged as one of the strongest anti-Western voices in Russia, wrote in a Telegram post. “He wanted to be a brilliant ‘man of the world’ living well without a homeland.”

The outrage of the Russian political elite was echoed by some voices on the American right.

X owner Elon Musk called Durov’s detention an “ad for the First Amendment,” adding: “POV: It’s 2030 in Europe and you’re being executed for liking a meme.”

“Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram,” right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson, who recently interviewed Durov for his X-based show, wrote Saturday on X. “But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away.”

Durov recounted to Carlson in that interview that he fled Russia and resigned from his successful social media tech company, VKontakte – which served as the Russian answer to Facebook – because of the Kremlin pressure to share personal data of Ukrainian pro-democracy protesters during the 2014 Maidan revolution. But he also said he felt pressured by the U.S. government to give its law enforcement a back door into Telegram.

“We get too much attention … whenever we came to the U.S.,” Durov told Carlson.

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Gen. Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived Saturday on an unannounced visit to the Middle East in a bid to prevent a regional war between Israel and Iran.

The U.S. Air Force general landed in Jordan ahead of visits to Egypt and Israel in the coming days.

He is expected to meet with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.

Brown said Saturday that Washington was closely monitoring Iranian military deployments and he would discuss with his counterparts “the things we can do to deter any type of broader escalation.

“We brought in additional capability to send a strong message to deter a broader conflict … but also to protect our forces should they be attacked,” Brown said.

Safeguarding American forces stationed in the region is “paramount,” added the general.

The visit comes as the Biden administration is mediating talks for a ceasefire-and-terrorists-release-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas, which Brown said would “help bring down the temperature” in the region.

Last week, Iranian officials signaled that a direct attack on Israel may not be imminent, nearly a month after the targeted killing in Tehran of Hamas terrorist chief Ismail Haniyeh.

Despite Yerushalayim not claiming responsibility, the Islamic Republic vowed to avenge the assassination on in its soil with a strong response against Israel.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has also suggested that an attack might not be coming in the near future. “Time is at our disposal,” Brig. Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini, the IRGC spokesman, said on Tuesday.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations suggested that an Iranian attack could take place in a different manner than what is expected.

In April, Iran launched some 300 missiles and drones in the first-ever direct attack against the Jewish state.

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Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu warned that the IDF’s coordinated preemptive strikes against Hezbollah terror assets on Sunday was not the final blow.

“What happened today is not the end of the story. Early this morning, Hezbollah tried to attack the State of Israel with rockets and drones. We directed the IDF to carry out an intense preemptive attack to remove the threat,” Netanyahu said at the start of the Cabinet meeting, which this week was held at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

“The IDF destroyed thousands of short-range rockets, all of which were designed to attack our citizens and our forces in the Galilee. Also, the IDF intercepted all of the drones that Hezbollah launched at a strategic target in the center of the country,” continued the premier.

“We are striking Hezbollah with surprising crushing blows. Three weeks ago, we eliminated its chief of staff [Fuad Shukr], and today we thwarted its attack plan.

“[Hezbollah terrorist chief Hassan] Nasrallah in Beirut and [Iranian Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei in Tehran need to know that this is an additional step in changing the situation in the north and returning our residents securely to their homes,” Netanyahu said.

Early on Sunday morning, approximately 100 Israeli Air Force fighter jets, directed by IDF intelligence, destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in Southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah subsequently fired more than 200 projectiles into Israel.

The Iranian proxy released a statement according to which the launches were “stage one” of its retaliation for Israel’s targeted killing of Shukr on July 31.

The main target of the attack was likely the Glilot base near Herzliya, the site of Mossad headquarters and various military intelligence units.

The IDF has lifted crowd restrictions issued for Tel Aviv and Haifa as well as many cities and towns in northern Israel that were put in place early Sunday morning.

(JNS)

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In the most recent Rasmussen Reports survey, Republican candidate Donald Trump holds a narrow 3-point edge over Democrat Kamala Harris in a direct national contest. This lead, currently at 49% for Trump and 46% for Harris, reflects a boost from independent voters.

Although Trump’s margin has decreased from a 4-point advantage a week earlier, he has gained ground among independents. According to the latest figures, Trump received 51% support from unaffiliated voters, compared to Harris’s 40%. A week prior, Trump had a 9-point lead among this group.

Rasmussen’s post on X raised the question: “Is Trump getting a DNC Convention bounce?”

Harris has managed to close the gap with Trump due to a 4-point improvement among female voters. Previously, Trump had led Harris 49% to 47% among women. However, the latest survey shows Harris leading Trump 48% to 46% in this demographic.

In a broader six-way race, Trump is ahead of Harris with 47% to 45%. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who garners 4% of the vote, is reportedly considering ending his campaign and endorsing Trump.

In this six-way scenario, Trump leads among independents by 9 points, 48% to 39%, while Kennedy captures 7%. The poll also includes Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, and independent candidate Cornel West.

The Rasmussen Reports poll was conducted with 1,893 likely voters between August 15 and August 21. The margin of error for this survey is +/- 2 percentage points, with a confidence level of 95%.

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Most Israelis rejoiced over the massive Hezbollah attack that was thwarted by IDF preemptive strikes early Sunday. However, the residents of Akko, which was targeted by Hezbollah in the limited strike it carried out shortly after the Israeli attack, had less reasons to rejoice. Many rockets scored direct hits in Akko, including on private homes, buildings, and a kindergarten, causing extensive property damage. One resident was lightly injured by shrapnel. The cities of Tzfas, Katzrin and Ma’alot were also targeted but the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome. The Saade family in Akko experienced an incredible neis. Although their house is currently uninhabitable, with shattered windows and collapsed ceilings, the mother’s intuition saved her life and the lives of her four daughters. The family home does not have a safe room so when Red Alert sirens sound, they climb into a shoe closet in a concert shaft in the basement. The closet is only a meter wide so the the first neis was the fact that five people climbed into the closet and managed to close the door. Ami Saade told Radio 104.5FM about the neis: “My wife was in the bedroom upstairs with our four daughters. My wife had a premonition and woke them up a minute before the Red Alert siren sounded and took them downstairs to our protected space which is a shoe closet in a concrete shaft. While they were sitting inside, they heard a boom and the entire house shook. I had just left for work and my wife called me and told me to hurry back.” “I have no house to live in. The girls’ rooms – everything is damaged, glass everywhere, on their beds, holes in the walls, the ceilings fell.” Akko Mayor Amichai Ben-Shlush said: “What happened this morning was a huge neis. It was a difficult morning. Shrapnel from interceptor rockets – an entire building destroyed, stressed residents. People were miraculously saved because they heeded instructions.”   The video below shows the kindergarten hit by a rocket. Also, Gershon, a resident of Akko, tells how he and his family were miraculously saved from harm but his house sustained heavy damage and his computers and and equipment for his photography business were destroyed.   (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Hezbollah’s long-awaited rocket strike against Israel on Sunday was met with scorn and ridicule throughout the Arab world, with many mocking Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist organization, as the mastermind behind what has been dubbed the “chicken massacre.”

On Sunday, Hezbollah fired 320 Katyusha rockets at Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Senior Commander Fuad Shukr last month. However, Israel largely neutralized the attack. Although Hezbollah claimed it had targeted 11 military sites, reports emerged indicating that the group had instead inflicted damage on chicken farms in northern Israel.

One Arabic-language social media post, with over 44,000 followers, mocked the incident, stating, “The chicken massacre was not a coincidence, but a strategic plan! The goal? To prevent the opponents and enemies of the ‘resistance’ from gloating after every bombing and saying they didn’t even hurt a chicken.”

Another post on X, with 83,000 followers, sarcastically lamented, “A chicken coop was destroyed, killing a number of chickens and chicks and breaking thousands of eggs. Damn you scoundrels, you and the Iranian Houthis, you laugh at the Arab peoples, you and the Zionists are two sides of the same coin, implementing one project and one goal.”

Israel responded to the Hezbollah attack by deploying 100 fighter jets, which struck more than 40 launch sites in southern Lebanon, successfully neutralizing thousands of rocket launchers. According to Israel, this action prevented what could have been a much larger offensive by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah’s promise that Sunday’s strikes were just the beginning of their retaliation for Shukr failed to impress many. One social media user sarcastically posted, “Allahu Akbar! Hassan Nasrallah’s response! Hezbollah’s response! The number of chicken injuries rose to 27 chickens, 5 of them are critically injured, with first-degree burns to the wings and beak, after the chicken pen was targeted in response to the assassination of Fuad Shukr.”

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An Iranian hacker group calling itself “Promised Revenge” claims that it had breached the infrastructure of the Knesset website.

According to the hackers, who posted the information on their Telegram channel, they stole sensitive data and sent SMS messages to millions of Israeli citizens.

A spokesperson for the Israeli parliament denied that data was acquired by hackers.

The Knesset website was unavailable for a short period and displayed a maintenance message. It was not the first time the site has been down in recent weeks, displaying the same message and preventing access.

As part of the supposed evidence of the breach, the group released several screenshots it claims were taken from the Knesset’s internal network. However, it did not provide additional information to verify its claims.

The hackers also claim that they sent around four million SMS messages to Israelis, purportedly on behalf of the Knesset.

In response, the Knesset’s spokesperson stated: “The Knesset website contains public information available as part of the Transparent Knesset project, which aims to make information accessible to citizens. The Knesset’s Cyber Department identified a suspected hacking attempt and successfully blocked it in real-time.

“It should be emphasized that the Knesset website is isolated from other Knesset networks, and at this stage, there is no concern about the leak of sensitive or current information that could be used. For added security, the Knesset’s cyber teams, in collaboration with the National Cyber Directorate, continue to conduct checks.” JNS

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Hatzolah of Central Jersey thanked Mr. Moshe Dahari, the owner of Everkleen, who has given selflessly to assist Hatzolah’s emergency responses. For several years, Mr. Dahari has been graciously allowing Hatzolah to park one of our ambulances in Everkleen’s gravel lot free of charge, providing us with a key strategic location that enabled ambulances to rapidly respond to patients in Toms River and the southern Lakewood area. Recently, when Mr. Dahari learned that parking on gravel could damage the tires and underside of the ambulance, he took the extraordinary measure of paving and striping the parking lot—all at his own expense. This remarkable gesture ensures that Hatzolah can continue to use this important location without worrying about wear and tear on our emergency vehicles, keeping our operations running smoothly and efficiently. “Hatzolah is deeply grateful to Mr. Dahari for his incredible support,” said Meilech Esterzohn, CEO of Hatzolah of Central Jersey. “His willingness to go above and beyond—first by offering us a prime location and now by upgrading the parking lot—ensures that we can continue to provide the best possible care to those in need.” We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to dedicated Hatzolah volunteer Moshe Kupferstein, who was instrumental in making this happen. His commitment and efforts exemplify the spirit of teamwork and community service that Hatzolah stands for. With more than 150 square miles of coverage, Hatzolah of Central Jersey continues to strategically position ambulances to serve our growing community effectively. Thanks to supporters like Mr. Dahari and the dedication of our volunteers, we are able to expand and improve our operations and will be introducing additional ambulances in new locations in the near future.

Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance emphasized on Sunday that addressing the issue of illegal immigration must start with curbing the influx of unauthorized border crossings. He argued that this requires reversing the policies implemented by Kamala Harris since the Biden-Harris administration began.

Senator Vance, a Republican from Ohio, made these remarks during an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press.”

“If you want to get control of the illegal immigration problem, you need to stop the bleeding,” Vance told host Kristen Welker.

Vance strongly criticized Vice President Harris’s handling of border policies. Harris, who was appointed as the border czar in March 2021, has overseen a period during which approximately 12 million people have entered the country illegally over the past three and a half years. Vance argued that many of these individuals “should have been deported but weren’t.”

“You have to stop so many people from coming here illegally in the first place, and that means undoing everything that Kamala Harris did practically on day one of the administration,” Vance stated. “You have to reimpose deportations; you have to stop catch-and-release; stop granting asylum to every person who comes in here … and stop granting mass parole.

“Before we even fix the problem, we’ve got to stop the problem from getting worse.”

Vance also challenged Welker’s assertion that illegal crossings are currently down under Harris’s leadership.

“Border crossings at the southern border are lower because the Harris administration is sending more immigrants through the ports of entry,” Vance explained. “The number of illegal crossings are not any lower, they’re just shuffling how the people are coming into the border in the first place.”

Welker suggested that the border is now functioning more effectively under Harris’s oversight.

“I don’t want a border czar who makes it more efficient for illegal immigrants to come into this country,” Vance retorted.

Vance also responded to Harris’s claims during her recent convention speech, where she argued that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s immigration policy would result in the separation of migrant families. Vance countered that this is already occurring under Harris’s watch, and he proposed that the best way to keep families together is to prevent them from crossing the border illegally in the first place.

“I think that families are currently being separated,” Vance noted.

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog issued a warning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children under the Biden-Harris administration.

“Kamala Harris’ policies have led to thousands upon thousands of migrant children living with sex traffickers and drug cartels,” Vance asserted. “That is the consequence of her policies.”

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French police have apprehended and detained a suspect in a terror attack on a synagogue in a southwestern Mediterranean town that injured a police officer, the country’s acting interior minister said Sunday. Two cars parked at the Beth Yaacov synagogue complex in the seaside resort town of La Grande Motte, near Montpellier, were set ablaze just after 8 a.m. Saturday. Firefighters discovered additional fires at two entrances to the synagogue. A police officer who walked up to the site was injured after a propane gas tank placed near the burning vehicles exploded. Five people, including the rabbi, who were present in the synagogue complex at the time of the attack were unharmed, it added. BFM TV said the suspect was a 33-year-old Algerian. Local police did not provide details. The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office said on Sunday morning that the suspect was arrested shortly before midnight on Saturday:  “Before the police could intervene, (the suspect) opened fire on the (police), which returned fire. The man was wounded in the face,” the office said in a statement, adding that two other suspects were arrested. “The alleged perpetrator of the arson attack on the synagogue has been arrested,” Gerald Darmanin, the acting interior minister, said in a post on X. He visited the site on Saturday afternoon along with acting Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, whose father is Jewish, and met with local officials and the synagogue staff. Darmanin also hailed the “professional conduct” of police forces and its elite intervention unit “despite the gunfire” during the operation. Prosecutors were investigating the attack as an attempted assassination linked to a terrorist group and destruction of property with dangerous means, and a crime planned by a terrorist group with an intent to cause harm, the statement said. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem & AP)

Footage from the refueling of F-35i Adir jets in Lebanese skies overnight.

Footage From The Interception Of UAV By An IDF Combat Helicopter

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. – A serious accident on Interstate 95 in Prince George County early Sunday morning left three people, including an infant, with significant injuries. The crash occurred around 9:15 a.m. near the Route 623 exit when an SUV veered off the highway and overturned, according to Sgt. Jessica Shehan of the Virginia State Police. First responders arrived to find three victims at the scene, including an infant who had been ejected from the vehicle. Due to the severity of the injuries, a medical helicopter was summoned to airlift the infant to a hospital. The driver and another passenger were also transported to a local medical center. Authorities report that all three individuals sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Local Askonim immediately sprang into action to ensure they are in good hands; including Chaim Feldman from Columbia Hospital, Yedidya Blau from Chaveirem of Rockland, and Aron Slone from the Norfolk Virginia community – that took a 2 hour drive with food and other important items. They expect to make a full recovery. Names for Tehillim are: – Avraham Mordechai ben Rochel Tzeporah – Chasya Bracha bas Rivka Shira Miriam – Chava Basya bas Chasya Bracha (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Attached is radio communications from the strikes in Lebanon early Sunday morning.

On Sunday evening, Hamas once again turned down a proposed deal for the release of hostages that was put forward to them.

Osama Hamdan, a senior figure within Hamas, spoke to the Al-Aqsa Channel, stating, “Israel has set new conditions for accepting the agreement and reverted from what it had previously agreed to. Today the delegation informed the mediators of our position. We will not accept any withdrawals from what we agreed to on July 2 or any new demands.”

He further commented that “the US administration is sowing false hopes by talking about an agreement that is close, while this is only for election purposes.”

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, a Qatari news outlet, reported this evening that mediators have attempted to negotiate a temporary humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, lasting between four and seven days.

{Matzav.com Israel}