Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week with layoffs remaining low despite a weakening labor market. U.S. applications for jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 27 fell by 16,000 to 199,000 from the previous week’s 215,000, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet forecast 208,000 new applications. Unemployment […]
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams is leaving office with historically low approval ratings, according to a new poll released Tuesday that found widespread voter dissatisfaction with his four-year term. The survey, conducted by the Honan Strategy Group, found that 69% of likely voters disapprove of Adams’ job performance, while just 31% approve. An […]
The Jerusalem District Court sentenced two terrorists from Chevron to 28 years of imprisonment each for carrying out a ramming and an attempted shooting and stabbing attack near a shul on Techelet Mordechai Street in the Ganei Geula neighborhood on Erev Pesach, 2024. The two were convicted of four counts of attempted murder under circumstances […]
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has tapped longtime anti-Israel activist Ramzi Kassem as his chief counsel. The appointment, announced roughly a day before Mamdani’s inauguration, elevates Kassem—who served on the mayor-elect’s transition team—into one of the most powerful legal roles in City Hall. As chief counsel, Kassem will serve as the mayor’s top legal […]
Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence in his country’s eventual victory in the nearly four-year war against its neighbor. Four apartment buildings were damaged in […]
TRUMP: California and Colorado are two of the TOP OUTBOUND STATES IN 2025 ( United van lines!) – in other words, PEOPLE LEAVING!!! That’s what bad governors do to even places blessed with beautiful surrounds and climate. President DJT
Q: “Does President Trump want those Somalis to have their citizenship revoked if convicted of fraud?” Press Sec.: “Absolutely — and it’s something the Department of Homeland Security; the Department of State is currently looking at right now.”
WH Press Sec. on the rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota: “The Department of Justice, as we speak, is continuing to execute search warrants and subpoenas. People will be in handcuffs as a result of the fraud that Gov. Walz has allowed to occur for many, many years.”
The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit released footage of their forces conducting maritime interdiction operations training in the Caribbean Sea as part of Operation Spear.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that authorities carried out another large-scale operation early this morning targeting individuals suspected of links to ISIS, resulting in the detention of 125 people across 25 provinces.
TRUMP: Paul Perez and the border patrol have done a fantastic job, and so proud that more than half are of Hispanic heritage, which Los Angeles’ incompetent Mayer, Karen Bass ( who hasn’t even gotten the permits for people, rebuilding their homes after the record setting fire that took place), and other third rate politicians.
Protests in Iran entered a fourth consecutive day as demonstrations expanded to multiple cities, drawing in university students and additional labor unions. In the southern city of Fasa, early reports indicate that protesters took control of the governor’s building after security forces withdrew.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has appointed Ahmad Vahidi as deputy chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, replacing Ali Fadavi. Vahidi has been linked to the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires and is sanctioned by the United States for his role in the crackdown on protests following the 2022 death of […]
Justice Minister Yariv Levin sent a sharply worded letter on Wednesday morning to the Courts Administration, demanding the cancellation of a conference set to take place at the Supreme Court under the title “Education for Democracy.” His request followed reports that the event would feature former Supreme Court president Esther Hayut and Justice Yitzchak Amit, […]
Israel’s Supreme Court has issued an interim order stopping State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman from continuing his investigation into the failures surrounding the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre. The court barred him from summoning officials, demanding documents, or publishing any draft or final report that had already been prepared, noting that the order is based on […]
President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more room at the White House for entertaining, says the longest-serving top aide in the executive residence, offering some backup for the reason Trump has cited for his ballroom construction project. Gary Walters spent more than two decades as White House chief usher to presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, […]
For more than fifty years, Machon Yerushalayim has been doing something extraordinary: taking the world of classic Torah manuscripts, rare seforim, and complex texts, and making them come alive for the modern learner. Walk into almost any beis medrash today and you’ll find their influence on the shelves—editions that are clearer, texts restored from […]
Auckland was the first major city to ring in 2026 with a fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, followed by a defiant celebration in Australia in the aftermath of its worst mass shooting. South Pacific countries were the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks stuck midnight in Auckland 18 hours […]
A major milestone has been achieved in the Gaza border area two years after the October 7 massacre, with data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics showing that the Gaza border area is now home to roughly 65,000 residents—an increase of about 3,000 people from before the October 7 massacre. Most of the communities […]
In overnight acts of arson, Bedouin-Israelis set fire to five vehicles in the yishuv of Lehavim, located near the Bedouin town of Tirabin al-Sana in the Negev. Police determined that the incident was a Bedouin “price tag” act following the launch of a large-scale police operation that began this week in Tirabin. A senior police […]
