WH Press Sec.: “Existing home sales in December rose so their fastest pace in three years… mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest level in years. As of last Friday, rates for the average 30-year mortgage are down more than one full percentage point. Because of the significant declines, monthly housing payments are now at […]
WATCH: WH Press Sec. lays out some recent economic progress under President Trump: “The overwhelmingly positive economic data released this week underscores the significant progress the President has already delivered.”
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday it demolished overnight the Chevron home of Imran al-Atrash, the terrorist behind a deadly ramming-and-stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction last November. According to the military, troops from the Yehuda Regional Brigade carried out the operation in Chevron during overnight hours. Al-Atrash and another terrorist struck the busy West […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the outlines of a health care plan he wants Congress to take up as Republicans have faced increasing pressure to address rising health costs after lawmakers let subsidies expire. The cornerstone is his proposal to send money directly to Americans for health savings accounts so they can handle insurance and health costs as […]
According to The New York Times, Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked President Trump to postpone any U.S. attack on Iran, a senior U.S. official told the Times on Thursday. The report says Arab nations in the region are also urging Trump not to strike Iran, as the White House has been discussing possible military action […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already taken aggressive actions to break China’s grip on the market for these materials that are crucial to high-tech products, including cellphones, electric vehicles, jet fighters […]
by Rabbi Eliezer Sandler The concept of the Yissachar-Zevulun Torah Learning Pact goes back well over 3,500 years, to the time of Yaakov Avinu and his sons. It is named for the Torah pact between two of his sons – Yissachar the scholar and Zevulun the merchant. Not only was it an equal pact […]
A sweeping wireless outage that left Verizon customers across the United States unable to place calls, send texts or access mobile data is now being traced to a technical breakdown inside the company’s own network — not a cyberattack. The disruption began around midday Wednesday and lasted more than 10 hours, sending hundreds of thousands […]
The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday rejected the police’s appeal and ordered the release from house arrest of Fakhri Khatib, the Arab bus driver who killed Yosef Eisenthal, z’l, after plowing into a group of Chareidi teens during a protest against the Chareidi draft law last week. Ynet reported that a police representative argued during […]
Lindsey Graham on Iran: There are a lot of headlines out there that are, in my view, not accurate. President Trump’s resolve is not the question. The question is when we do an operation like this, should it be bigger or smaller? I’m in the camp of bigger…
The U.S is intensifying pressure on Mexico to allow American military forces, including Special Operations troops or CIA officers, to participate in joint raids targeting and dismantling fentanyl production labs.
Sec. Noem: “Every single action that our ICE officers take is according to the law and following protocols that we have used for years—that this administration has used, that the previous administration has used…and over and over again, in litigation in the courts, we’ve proven that they’ve done the right thing.”
Sec. Noem on Tim Walz: “He’s had the greatest fraud in American history happening right under his nose. He didn’t just allow it to happen, we believe, from all indications, that he was complicit in it — that he knew all about this Somalian fraud that was happening.”
New York City’s largest nursing strike in decades stretched into a fourth day Thursday, with little sign of a breakthrough as hospital systems and union leaders dug in for what both sides now appear to expect could be a long fight. Roughly 15,000 nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association walked off the […]
U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials have met face to face to discuss President Donald Trump’s ambitions to take control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. At the same time, Denmark and several European allies are sending troops to Greenland in a pointed signal of intent to boost the vast Arctic island’s security. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said after […]
