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Footage from Taiwan’s Coast Guard shows a tense standoff with Chinese coast guard vessels during the ongoing “Justice Mission 2025” drills.

China’s PLA Eastern Theater Command announced and released footage of a long-range live-fire drill conducted this morning, showing PCL-191 multiple-launch rocket systems firing into international waters north of Taiwan.

Amazon has launched drone deliveries in the Dallas area. The drones deliver packages up to 5 pounds within about 8 miles in roughly 30 minutes for $4.99 per Prime delivery.

The High Court of Justice has ordered the state to respond immediately (by tomorrow at 8:00) to the petition of Yair Lapid and the Knesset members of Yesh Atid and to explain why there is urgency in transferring more than 1,090,000,000 NIS to the Charedi educational institutions that were transferred in the Finance Committee

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Monday against Virginia, aiming to block a policy that allows undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition at the University of Virginia, court records show.

A hay-laden truck overturned onto a Bolero SUV on the Delhi–Nainital Highway in Rampur, killing the 54-year-old driver. The crash, caught on CCTV, disrupted traffic for nearly three hours as the truck driver fled and police launched a search.

Smoke billows from Yemen’s southern port city of Mukalla after Saudi-led coalition strikes targeted an Emirati weapons shipment bound for separatist forces.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Iran does not need anyone’s permission to defend itself, warning that the Iranian people’s response to any major aggression would be unapologetic and potentially unexpected.

CHASDEI HASHEM: 20-year-old Leibel Lazaroff, an American bochur who was critically injured after being shot in the stomach and thigh during the Chanukah massacre at Bondi Beach, has taken his first steps since the attack.

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed Emirati actions as “extremely dangerous.” The bombing followed tensions over the advance of Emirates-backed separatist forces known as the Southern Transitional Council. The council and […]

New Yorkers will ring in the new year with another minimum wage hike, as hourly pay rises to $17 in New York City, Westchester and Long Island, and $16 across the rest of the state beginning Jan. 1. The increase marks the third minimum-wage hike in three years, part of a deal struck by Gov. […]

Why let New York City have all the fun with its Times Square ball drop on New Year’s Eve? Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and balls of all shapes and sizes. Many have a hometown flair. There’s the giant cheese wedge in Plymouth, Wisconsin, […]

South Korea said it will formally end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry this week, though about 200 bears are still kept in pens and raised for their gallbladders. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced Tuesday it will ban breeding and possession of bears and extraction of their bile beginning Jan. 1. The […]

A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader issued a defiant warning Tuesday after President Donald Trump said he would greenlight an Israeli strike on Iran if Tehran moves to rebuild its nuclear or missile programs. Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Ali Khamenei, responded on social media hours after Trump’s remarks, declaring that Iran’s military […]

Israel’s President Yitzchak Herzog denied a claim by U.S. President Donald Trump that a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “on its way,” pushing back against suggestions of behind-the-scenes coordination between the two leaders. Trump made the assertion publicly, saying Herzog had recently told him that a pardon for Netanyahu was forthcoming. Within hours, […]

Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that he remains undecided about attending the swearing-in of his successor, Zohran Mamdani, suggesting that the mayor-elect’s base of supporters is giving him pause. Speaking to reporters at an unrelated City Hall event, Adams said he does not want to distract from Mamdani’s inauguration on Jan. […]

A wild winter storm was expected to bring strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after a bomb cyclone barreled across the northern U.S. and left tens of thousands of customers without power. The storm that hit parts of the Plains and Great Lakes on […]

Opposition leader Yair Lapid and Yesh Atid MKs filed an urgent petition to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, seeking to block the transfer of NIS 1.09 billion to Chareidi educational institutions. The petition claims that the allocation, approved by the Knesset Finance Committee, is illegal because it funds schools that “do not prepare Chareidi children […]

Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich delivered a frightening warning at a meeting of his Religious Zionist party on Monday about Israel’s enemy within. “After remarkable successes on external war fronts, the biggest threat today comes from within,” he declared. “The images and incidents from the Negev in recent days must trigger every alarm bell, reminding us […]

A stormy discussion took place on Sunday in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee regarding the emerging draft law Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth lashed out at representatives of Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara after being forced to grant them speaking time, saying, “I’m giving you 15 minutes. This committee will not serve as a platform for […]