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IRAN PROTESTS — DAY 15 * According to multiple reports, more than 500 people have been killed and around 10,000 detained. * After several hours of relative quiet, demonstrations are now resuming across cities nationwide, including Tehran, despite heavy security and internet disruptions. * The IRGC claims it has arrested two alleged Mossad agents in […]

According to reports in Gaza, Israel released 12 terrorists back into the Gaza Strip today.

Sec. Kennedy: 78% of SNAP recipients end up on Medicaid. 10% of the SNAP, prior to when we got in here, was going to soda drinks, which are poisoning people, and giving them diabetes. 38% of American teens are now diabetic or pre-diabetic… We can change that with diet.

Secretary Wright: “Venezuela has been a very dangerous, very destabilized place… And with United States influence now, by controlling the sale of their oil… We will see relatively rapid change, improvement on the ground in Venezuela.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump will be briefed Tuesday on options to respond to Iran’s violent crackdown on nationwide protests, including measures aimed at pressuring and potentially destabilizing the regime. * Options under review include military strikes, cyber operations, economic pressure, and boosting anti-regime online activity, according to U.S. officials. * One […]

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency. Dozens of people have been killed and thousands arrested as the daily protests have grown and the government seeks to contain them. While the initial focus had […]

A suspect has been arrested after a fire severely damaged Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi, early Saturday. The synagogue, which is Reform and the largest Jewish congregation in the state, sustained significant damage in the blaze. Authorities said the fire has been ruled an act of arson. No injuries were reported, but portions of […]

After issuing an evacuation warning earlier, the IDF struck a building in Kfar Hatta in southern Lebanon.

Unconfirmed reports from Iran say that IRGC Colonel Mehdi Rahimi was killed by anti-regime protesters after he allegedly ordered Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces to open fire on demonstrators in Ilam province.

Ukrainian forces recently attacked three oil platforms owned by the Russian oil company Lukoil in the Caspian Sea.

Mayor Jacob Frey: We have people that are not taking the bait of this Trump administration because we know they’re looking for any excuse to come in with greater force and occupy our city.

Tom Homan: “You have a vehicle that is pointed toward him and accelerates toward him… and I truly believe… that in his mind, he feared for his life, and he took appropriate action — and according to federal law, that’s a legitimate response… Minnesota state law even talks about a vehicle coming towards you and […]

Tom Homan: “The media is normalizing interference with ICE. It is a crime to impede ICE officers.”

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Netanyahu, has been made a member of the powerful Central Committee of the ruling Likud party in an unelected appointment, according to Hebrew media reports. His name was listed among the members of Likud’s Ma’ale Yosef regional branch near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Although Central Committee elections […]

Sec. Noem: “If you look at what Gov. Walz has said, if you look at what Mayor Frey has said… They’ve inflamed the public. They’ve encouraged the kind of destruction and violence that we’ve seen… I would encourage them to grow up.”

The IDF confirms carrying out dozens of airstrikes across southern Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah weapons-storage shafts and terror infrastructure.

The German government has sharply rejected accusations by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that it has been sidelining patient autonomy, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The statements made by the US Secretary of Health are completely unfounded, factually incorrect, and must be rejected,” German Health Minister Nina Warken said in a statement […]

A Shomrim member was assaulted and injured late Friday night while walking home with his wife and children in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The incident occurred at approximately 11:20 p.m. on Willoughby Avenue near Nostrand Avenue. According to police and YWN sources, a woman allegedly punched the man in the face, causing injuries to […]

Hessy Levinsons Taft, a Jewish woman whose infant photograph was held up by Nazi propagandists as the ideal “Aryan baby,” has died at her home in San Francisco. She was 91. The episode that followed Taft throughout her life began in 1934, when she was six months old. Her parents, Latvian Jewish opera singers living […]