Negotiators from Congress and the White House scrambled Monday to complete work on the remaining government funding bills for the fiscal year and avoid a partial shutdown for key departments that would begin this weekend without legislative action. Six months into the fiscal year, Congress is about halfway home in passing spending measures expected to […]
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation as each side is looking to make “clear to the other its perspective,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. The agreement to hold talks about Rafah […]
House Republicans on Monday demanded answers on what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor approval before speaking publicly about the heavily backlogged courts. Rep., Jim Jordan, Judiciary Committee chair, and Rep. Tom McClintock, who leads an immigration subcommittee, seek records related to “a reported gag order that […]
לך כנוס את כל היהודים! In light of the situation in Eretz Yisrael, with over 100 hostages still being held in Gaza, the ongoing war and thousands of Israelis still displaced from their homes, Gedolei Yisrael have instructed that special tefillos for the release of the hostages and the security situation in Eretz Yisrael be held […]
Popular Israeli comedian Guy Hochman stated on Motzei Shabbos that he plans on keeping Shabbos for the first time, davka beginning this Shabbos when Parshas Zachor is read, and invited his hundreds of thousands of followers on social media to join him, saying that he wants at least 100,000 people to keep Shabbos for the […]
The IDF on Monday announced that it eliminated Faiq Mabhouh, a senior commander in Hamas’s internal security forces, in the raid of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City overnight Sunday. The IDF said that Mabhouh refused to surrender to troops and instead continued firing at Israeli security forces until he was killed. Mabhouh had been appointed […]
The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely extended its block on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. The one-page order signed by Justice Samuel Alito did not set a deadline, instead extending the […]
Former Knesset member Azmi Bishara (Balad) who fled Israel in 2007 played a key role in the hostage negotiations in Paris and had a major influence on drafting the ceasefire/hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported on Sunday. According to the report, Bishara, who fled to Qatar after being accused […]
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police, according to court records unsealed on Monday. Isabella Maria DeLuca was arrested last Friday in Irvine, California, on misdemeanor charges, including […]
Following the miraculous birth of his first son at age 88, HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Kushelevsky, who had received a bracha nine months early for a ben zachar from HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch, went to visit the Gadol straight from the hospital. HaRav Kushelevsky requested that HaRav Shternbuch serve as the sandak at the bris but […]
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, took part in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights, including the first rendezvous of two U.S. […]
In March 1992, in a speech at that year’s AIPAC conference, then-Senator Joe Biden slammed then-President George H.W. Bush for pressuring Israel. Biden opposed steps by the Bush administration to condition loan guarantees to Israel on halting settlement construction in Yehudah and Shomron and holding peace talks with the Palestinians, even co-sponsoring a bill to […]
Dozens of Charedim from Peleg blocked the tracks of the Jerusalem light rail on Jaffa Street and scuffled with police on Monday to protest efforts to end Charedi military draft exemptions. Chanting “If you go to the army, you and dogs are equal,” a riff on enlistment advocates’ call for “equality of the burden” between […]
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. The final rule marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled regulations […]
Police have launched an investigation into a suspicious fire that destroyed a shul in Kfar Saba overnight. According to a police statement, officers are examining whether the Beit Knesset Ohev Tzedek was broken into before the blaze, which broke out at around 3:30 a.m. Investigators are checking whether metal bars meant to secure the shul […]
In an ongoing operation that began early this morning, Israeli troops have killed 20 Hamas gunmen at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, according to the IDF and Shin Bet security agency. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the hospital was turned into a “death trap” for the terrorists. In addition to the fatalities, dozens of suspects […]
The Supreme Court will hear from the National Rifle Association on Monday in a lawsuit against a former New York state official who the NRA says pressured banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA says former New York State Department of Financial Services superintendent […]
An array of advanced tests found no brain injuries or degeneration among U.S. diplomats and other government employees who suffer mysterious health problems once dubbed “Havana syndrome, ” researchers reported Monday. The National Institutes of Health’s nearly five-year study offers no explanation for symptoms including headaches, balance problems and difficulties with thinking and sleep that […]
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday, their first interaction in more than a month, as the divide has grown between allies over food crisis in Gaza, conduct of war, according to the White House. The call comes after Republicans in Washington and Israeli officials expressed outrage after Senate Majority […]