‘NO ONE LIKE HIM’: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises President Trump as an “incredible friend” and ally of Israel, pushing back against critics. “I don’t decide a thing for President Trump.” “He is the most independent leader and amazing leader that I’ve seen in all my years.”
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday. But U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan deferred until future proceedings the question of whether Lindell — one of the country’s most prominent propagators of false claims that the 2020 election was a fraud — acted with the “actual malice” that Smartmatic still needs to prove to collect any damages. The judge said there are “genuine fact disputes” as to whether Lindell’s statements were made “with knowledge that they were false or made with reckless disregard to their falsity.” He noted that the defense says Lindell has an “unwavering belief” that his statements were truthful. The statements cited by the judge arose from Lindell’s criticism of the results of the 2020 election in California’s Los Angeles County, which Democratic candidate Joe Biden carried with 71% of the vote over President Donald Trump and helped Biden secure the state’s 55 electoral votes. The county used Smartmatic’s computerized touchscreen ballot-marking devices and was the company’s only customer for the 2020 election. Lindell alleged the machines were rigged to change Trump votes to Biden votes. The judge ruled there were 51 specific times when Lindell falsely claimed — in documentaries he produced and through various media and personal appearances — that Smartmatic interfered with the results. “The Court concludes that, based on the record presented, no reasonable trier of fact could find that any of the statements at issue are true,” Bryan wrote. Smartmatic attorney Erik Connolly said they will be seeking “nine-figure damages” from Lindell and MyPillow for “spreading lies” about the company. “Smartmatic did not and could not have rigged the 2020 election,” Connolly said in a statement. “It was impossible, and everything that Mr. Lindell said about Smartmatic was false.” Smartmatic has been on a winning streak, having reached settlements last year with two conservative news outlets, including Newsmax and One America News Network. The Florida-based company also still has an active case against Fox News. Lindell also has made similar claims against Dominion Voting Systems. He lost a case involving the Denver-based company in June when a jury ruled that he defamed a former Dominion employee by accusing him of treason. The jury awarded $2.3 million in damages. Lindell told The Associated Press shortly after the Smartmatic ruling was filed Friday that he hadn’t seen it, but that it was “the most bizarre thing I’ve ever heard.” Lindell went on to call Smartmatic “one of the most corrupt companies in the world,” and he vowed to keep fighting until its voting machines are “melted down and turned into prison bars.” He said he’ll take his crusade to eliminate voting machines in favor of paper ballots all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if he has to. Lindell, known as the “MyPillow” guy for his bedding company, also said he recently reestablished residence in Minnesota as a step toward a likely run for governor against incumbent Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. While MyPillow is based in the Minneapolis suburbs, Lindell had been living until recently in Texas. Lindell and MyPillow have faced a number of legal and financial setbacks in recent years, but he won a victory in July when a […]
A gunman was “down” after shooting multiple people at a Michigan church that was also engulfed in flames on Sunday, authorities said. The active shooter situation unfolded just before 11 a.m. local time at a church in Grand Blanc Township, the Grand Blanc Township Police Department said in a post on social media. Police sources said that six to eight people were struck. Their conditions are currently unknown. Video from the scene showed smoke billowing as emergency vehicles lined the street. Sources said the suspected shooter may have started the church on fire. Grand Blanc confirmed that as of 11:35 a.m., the church was on fire, and people should avoid the area. Police said the shooter is down, and there is no threat to the public at this time. “The shooter is down, we do have multiple victims, the entire church is on fire,” Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson said. United States Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X that agents from the FBI and ATF are headed to the scene. “Such violence at a place of worship is heartbreaking and chilling. Please join me in praying for the victims of this terrible tragedy,” she wrote.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed in an interview with Fox News that Israel is currently collaborating with the Trump administration to advance the American 21-point plan for ending the war in Gaza. Speaking from New York a day before his scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Netanyahu said, “We’re working on it. It’s not been finalized yet, but we’re working with President Trump’s team, actually, as we speak.” He emphasized the importance of the plan, stating, “I hope we can make it a go, because we want to free our hostages, we want to get rid of Hamas rule, and have them disarmed, Gaza demilitarized, and a new future set up for Gazans and Israelis alike, and for the whole region.” Addressing the terms related to Hamas, Netanyahu explained that Israel would allow Hamas members safe passage if they end the war and release all hostages. “Ahead of his planned meeting with US President Donald Trump tomorrow, Netanyahu stresses that ‘the details of this have to be worked out,’ while telling the network that ‘if Hamas leaders finish the war, release all the hostages, we let them out.’” He added, “That is something that I’ve said in the past, but it has to be worked out. All of that, I think, is part of the plan. I’m not going to preempt it, because we’re having these discussions exactly right now.” Regarding the Palestinian Authority’s role post-war, Netanyahu reaffirmed his long-standing opposition to PA governance in Gaza. “I haven’t changed my positions, and I think that the credibility or the likelihood of the things — a reformed Palestinian Authority that changes completely its stripes… Some people will believe it happens. I don’t think it’s going to happen,” he said. The Prime Minister also addressed concerns about Israel’s recent military actions in Doha and Gaza, and their impact on the Abraham Accords. He stated, “I think there are many possibilities for peace, which I’m discussing with President Trump and his team, and we plan to seize them. I think you’ll see that not only are the Abraham Accords not endangered, they’ll be expanded to other countries.” Despite some Gulf leaders, including the UAE, expressing concern over Israel’s strike in Qatar, Netanyahu defended the action, saying, “I think that the United States and any self-respecting country doesn’t give a pass to terrorists. Of course, we weren’t attacking Qatar any more than [the US was] attacking Pakistan when [it] took out [former Al-Qaeda leader Osama] Bin Laden.” He also addressed a clause within the 21-point plan that would bar Israel from future strikes in Qatar. “These things, again, will be worked out because our goal was that. Our goal was Hamas, not anything beyond it. I think we can work out an understanding on this,” Netanyahu concluded.
Since the start of the year, Israeli police have seized hundreds of illegal weapons in operations targeting violent crime, including shootings in Israeli-Arab communities. The latest haul, found in the northern town of I‘ilot, included four handguns, an M16 rifle, a grenade, M16 parts, magazines, and large amounts of ammunition, leading to the arrest of a local man in his 40s.
Sara Jane Moore, who was imprisoned for more than 30 years after she made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died. She was 95. Moore died Wednesday at a nursing home in Franklin, Tennessee, according to Demetria Kalodimos, a longtime acquaintance who said she was informed by the executor of Moore’s estate. Kalodimos is an executive producer at the Nashville Banner newspaper, which was first to report the death. Moore seemed an unlikely candidate to gain national notoriety as a violent political radical who nearly killed a president. When she shot at Ford in San Francisco, she was a middle-aged woman who had begun dabbling in leftist groups and sometimes served as an FBI informant. Sentenced to life, Moore was serving her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, when she was unexpectedly paroled Dec. 31, 2007. Federal officials gave no details on why she was set free. She lived largely anonymously in an undisclosed location after that, but in broadcast interviews she expressed regret for what she had done. She said she had been caught up in the radical political movements that were common in California in the mid-1970s. “I had put blinders on, I really had, and I was listening to only … what I thought I believed,”” she told San Francisco television station KGO in April 2009. “We thought that doing that would actually trigger a new revolution.” Two would-be assassins Moore was often confused with Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a disciple of cult murderer Charles Manson who aimed a semiautomatic pistol at Ford in Sacramento, California, on Sept. 5, 1975. A Secret Service agent grabbed the gun before any shots could be fired, and the president was unharmed. Just 17 days later, on Sept. 22, Moore shot at Ford as he waved to a crowd outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco’s Union Square. Oliver Sipple, a 33-year-old former Marine, knocked the .38-caliber pistol out of her hand as she fired, causing the shot to go astray and hit a building. “I’m sorry I missed,” Moore said during an interview with the San Jose Mercury News seven years later. “Yes, I’m sorry I missed. I don’t like to be a failure.” But in later interviews, before and after her release, she repeatedly said that she regretted her actions, saying she was convinced that the government had declared war on the left. Asked by KGO in 2009 what she would say to Ford if that had been possible, she replied that she would tell him, “I’m very sorry that it happened. … I’m very happy that I did not succeed.” Ford died in 2006, about a year before her release. Her family did not publicly comment on her death. Geri Spieler, who wrote a biography of Moore titled “Housewife Assassin,” said she had abandoned her children and was estranged from all her living relatives. Multiples marriages, name changes, unclear motives Moore was born Sara Jane Kahn on Feb. 15, 1930, in Charleston, West Virginia. Her confusing background, which included multiple failed marriages, name changes and involvement with both leftist political groups and the FBI, baffled the public and even her own defense attorney during her trial. “I never got a satisfactory answer from her as to why she did it,” retired […]
Israeli troops in Gaza City killed a Hamas terrorist attempting to plant a bomb near an armored personnel carrier earlier today, the IDF says, and later targeted an additional cell of Hamas terrorists in the area with a drone strike.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 21-point peace plan for ending the Gaza war ahead of his meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday.
BREAKING: Video captures a church ablaze as officials respond to an active shooter incident with multiple victims at a church in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Per reports, the suspect lit the church on fire before being taken down.
Iranian President Pezeshkian to Fox News: If Trump’s goal was for us not to have any nuclear weapons, that was easily attainable. They used that as an excuse to carry out an attack that they should not have.
Having your mouth taped shut is the stuff of nightmares — but some people are doing just that to themselves. And in an attempt to sleep better, no less. Doctors say don’t do it. Some on social media say it’s a hack for getting more and better sleep and to reduce snoring. The claims — which are not backed by science — are taking off on places like TikTok, sometimes pushed by people working for companies selling related products. “The studies behind mouth tape are small, the benefits are modest and the potential risks are there,” said Dr. Kimberly Hutchison, a neurologist and sleep medicine expert at Oregon Health & Science University. Some of those risks include making sleep disorders like sleep apnea worse, or even causing suffocation. It is better to breathe through your nose most of the time Mouth breathing in adults is not a major health problem, but it is better to breath through your nose, experts say. Your nose is a natural filtering system, trapping dust and other allergens before they can get to your lungs. If you’re breathing with your mouth open at night, you could wake up with a dry mouth and irritated throat, which can contribute to bad breath and oral health problems. Mouth breathing is also associated with more snoring. Don’t rush to use mouth tape But even though breathing through your nose is better than breathing through your mouth, taping your mouth shut isn’t the best way to fix the issue. There’s no strong evidence it helps improve sleep. A few studies have been conducted, most of which showed little or no impact, but they were so small experts say conclusions should not be drawn from them. And meanwhile, there are the potential dangers to be avoided. Dr. David Schulman, a sleep doctor at Emory University, said there are other things to try, like prescription mouth pieces that can open up your airway, or a CPAP machine. If you’re a smoker or are overweight, for example, quitting smoking and losing weight can help. Mouth breathing could be a sign of something serious — so find out The safest approach is to figure out why exactly you are breathing with your mouth, because there could be something else going on. You may be breathing through your mouth because you have obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder where breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep because of a blocked airway. The disorder is linked to both open mouth breathing and snoring, and is typically treated with a CPAP machine. “The reason sleep apnea can be bad is that any decrease in the quality of sleep can affect you day to day or over the course of your life,” said Dr. Brian Chen, a sleep doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. “Depending on how bad the sleep is, you may just feel sleep deprived or require more sleep.” The best thing to do, Emory’s Shulman says, is get a sleep test, some of which can be done at home. “It’s always better to know than not know,” he said. “And if you know that something’s going on and you choose not to pursue therapy, at least you know you’re making an educated decision.” (AP)
A large atzeres tefillah is set to take place tomorrow, Monday, in the heart of Lakewood, as Gedolei Yisroel call for a united outcry of tefillah against the draft of chareidim into the IDF. The event will be held on Lexington Avenue between 9th Street and 10th Street, beginning with Mincha at 5:45 p.m. followed by Tehillim at 6:00 p.m. Read the full story on Lakewood Alerts.
A teenage boy in Sydney has been arrested and charged for allegedly attacking a Jewish man at knifepoint on a train, the latest flashpoint in a nationwide surge of antisemitic incidents that has rattled Australia’s Jewish community. New South Wales Police confirmed that a 16-year-old was taken into custody over the assault, in which two assailants targeted a 66-year-old Jewish man. According to police reports, the suspects shouted antisemitic abuse before attempting to stab the victim as he approached the train doors. The man was treated on-site for minor injuries and later filed a formal complaint. Authorities arrested the teenager in Padstow, a suburb in Sydney’s southwest, and charged him with intent to commit an indictable offense, common assault, making public threats based on religion, and intimidation to cause fear of physical harm. He was denied bail and arraigned in a children’s court. Police say the search for a second suspect is ongoing. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry reported more than 2,000 antisemitic incidents between October 2023 and September 2024, up from fewer than 500 the year before. Physical assaults jumped nearly six-fold, from 11 to 65. Jewish institutions across the country have faced waves of vandalism, including repeated attacks on shuls and cases of suspected arson. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
UPDATE ON TERROR ATTACK: A preliminary investigation reveals that a Palestinian truck accelerated and collided with an Israeli vehicle near Kedumim in the Shomron. As a result, security forces in the area opened fire, and it is possible that the victim was hit by friendly fire. According to MDA, he is suffering from a head injury. The IDF is investigating the incident.
Thousands of people on Saturday celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historic British train journey that laid the foundations for much of the modern age. On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 — made its 26-mile (42-kilometer) journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway between Shildon and Stockton in the northeast of England. It was a small but significant milestone, which augured rapid changes in the way Britain, and subsequently the world, lived, traded, traveled and communicated. Though the Stockton & Darlington was not the first railway, it was the first to incorporate the standard-gauge, steam-hauled features that would become the foundation of railways around the world. Railway enthusiasts have been marking the milestone at events across the U.K. over the year, and this weekend thousands flocked to the place where it all started to see a newly restored replica of Locomotion No. 1 recreate its original journey. The steam engine, with three coal wagons and a passenger carriage, set off from the Locomotion Museum in Shildon on Friday and will travel along sections of the original line, arriving in Stockton on Friday. Prince Edward, King Charles III’s youngest brother, was among the passengers on board a carriage Friday being pulled by the replica engine on its short journey to Shildon. Doug Haynes, 81, a retired aircraft engineer, traveled around 100 miles (160 kilometers) to Shildon to witness the re-enactment on Friday. “It was tremendous,” he said. “The work that they have put in to make this happen has been well worthwhile. It was well worth the trip over for me.” There were equally joyous scenes 200 years ago when people including newspaper reporters traveled from all over the country to line the track. A holiday was even declared for Darlington. Those enthusing then could not have possibly imagined what the ripple effects would be as they cheered the passing Locomotion No. 1 — how it would transform their lives, their communities and the future. Rail soon enabled the rapid transportation of industrial goods and raw materials, like coal and iron ore. It sped up urbanization and transformed social lives, by freeing up time for leisure activities and opening up the country to tourism and the middle classes. Overall, it played a pivotal role in Britain becoming the global industrial and economic powerhouse of the 19th century and helped fuel the rapid expansion of the British Empire. “It was amazing to see it moving,” said Louise Jones, 39, who watched the replica train begin its journey. “My dad used to work on the railways. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see what it would have looked like 200 years ago.” (AP)
