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Video footage of the aitstrike that killed Hamas Commander Raad Saad in Gaza City. The United States was reportedly not notified in advance.

DRAMATIC FOOTAGE: Watch the NYPD Aviation Unit assist ground officers apprehend two suspects who stole an SUV in Brooklyn.

On a Thursday night flight from New York to Eretz Yisroel, HaRav Yosef Chevroni, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Chevron, Davens Maariv for the Amud. At his side were HaRav Meir Goldwicht, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva University, together with the Mir Yerushalyim mashgiach, HaRav Binyamin Finkel.

Trump on healthcare: “I think what most Republicans want to see is what I want to see… we want the money not to be paid at all to insurance companies… We want the money to go to the people.”

BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed an engine failure on United Flight 803 from Dulles to Japan shortly after takeoff, when a piece of the Boeing 777-200ER’s engine cover separated and ignited a brush fire along the runway. The flight was carrying 275 passengers and 15 crew members, and no injuries were reported.

Stephen Miller: The Somali community has been engaged in massive, systematic fraud against American taxpayers for years. The scope of this fraud eclipses anybody’s worst nightmare — and could very well end up being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history.

Former VP Kamala Harris blames President Trump for the current “economic disaster”.

Video from earlier today captures the moment a Russian drone struck the Turkish cargo ship CENK T at the port of Odesa in Ukraine.

A truck in Whatcom County dumped large amounts of sand to help divert rising floodwaters as an atmospheric river drenched western Washington, dumping up to 14 inches of rain in just 72 hours.

BREAKING: Two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter were killed in an attack in Syria, with three others wounded. The Department of War confirmed the fatalities and said an investigation into the incident is underway.

SYRIA: “We’ve just received word from the Pentagon that 2 American soldiers have been killed, one civilian American interpreter killed, and 3 others wounded.”

The Philippine Coast Guard reported that Chinese vessels used “high-pressure water cannons” in a disputed part of the South China Sea, injuring at least three fishermen and causing “significant damage” to two boats.

A car carrying a woman and a young child smashed through the glass wall of a municipal pool in La Ciotat, France, landing in the main pool while several swimmers were inside.

Flooding in Libby, Montana, became severe as sections of the Farm to Market Bridge collapsed twice, with soaked ground, fallen trees, power outages, and road closures worsening the damage across the area.

ELIMINATED: A senior Israeli official confirmed that top Hamas commander Raad Saad was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City this afternoon. He is Hamas’s considered only second to the terror group’s latest military chief, Izz al-Din Haddad. Saad was targeted while driving along the Rashid coastal road and was killed along with three others. […]

President Donald Trump issued a forceful warning Saturday following a deadly ISIS attack in Syria that claimed the lives of two US Army soldiers and an American civilian interpreter, making clear that the United States will respond decisively if its forces are attacked again. Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House for the […]

The US State Department has sent a formal request to more than 70 countries, asking for troops or financial support for a proposed international security force for Gaza, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the report, Washington approached major European powers including France and Italy, as well as smaller nations such as El Salvador […]

The IDF eliminated arch-terrorist Ra’ad Saad, one of the chief architects of the October 7 massacre and the second-highest-ranking figure in Hamas’s military leadership. Saad was traveling in a vehicle in western Gaza City on Shabbos when the Israeli Air Force dropped a bomb on the car, killing him instantly. Saad was among the founders […]

A sweeping redesign of America’s currency for the nation’s 250th anniversary has ignited fresh controversy, with a proposal now circulating that places President Donald Trump at the center of a commemorative $1 coin.

According to the online materials tied to the Mint’s semiquincentennial planning, new illustrations of Trump have been drafted for the obverse of a potential 2026 dollar coin. At the same time, concept art for earlier “America 250” quarters—once built around themes such as abolition, women’s suffrage, and civil rights—has reportedly been shelved in favor of a return to more traditional, founding-era motifs.

The Mint’s broader 2026 redesign calls for all coins to bear dual dates honoring both the birth of the nation and its 250-year milestone. As part of this shift, officials have previewed imagery steeped in Revolutionary-era symbolism, including iconic documents and scenes tied to America’s founding. These new directions come after the abandonment of concepts initiated during the Biden years that placed greater emphasis on later chapters of American social progress.

A series of five quarters is expected for 2026, each tied to a pivotal historical text or event: the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address.

Treasurer Brandon Beach has acknowledged that a Trump-themed dollar is being weighed, and several reports describe mock-ups portraying Trump’s profile on one side and, on the other, an image of him thrusting his fist upward following the 2024 assassination attempt, accompanied by the words “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.”

The idea, however, runs directly into federal restrictions prohibiting living presidents—current or past—from appearing on U.S. coinage. Advocates of the new coin insist that special semiquincentennial authorities could offer legal leeway, while opponents argue it would violate long-established practice and risk politicizing the nation’s money.

Within conservative circles, the controversy is framed as part of a larger cultural battle over how America’s 250th birthday should be told: whether through the nation’s founding ideals and foundational texts or through what they see as the left’s negative reinterpretations of American history.

Alongside these debates, the Mint is also preparing updates to long-standing circulating coins for 2026. Even the dime—whose appearance has been unchanged for eight decades—is scheduled for a refresh. And although the penny exited daily circulation in 2025, collectors will still be able to obtain it in annual Mint sets, complete with the commemorative “1776 ~ 2026” dual date.

{Matzav.com}