In the wake of last weekend’s U.S. military action in Venezuela, the news media got something it has seldom heard from the Trump administration: a “thank you.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio credited news organizations that had learned in advance about Saturday’s strike that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with not putting the […]
The stunning fall of Venezuela’s longtime strongman has triggered an unexpected diplomatic subplot: an exiled opposition leader publicly crediting President Donald Trump with a moral victory she says reshapes the meaning of her own Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking Monday night on Fox News, Venezuela opposition figure María Corina Machado hailed the Trump administration’s capture of […]
Several European leaders pushed back Tuesday on U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments seeking an American takeover of Greenland. The leaders issued a statement reaffirming the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island “belongs to its people.” The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in defending Greenland’s sovereignty […]
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday unveiled a sweeping legislative proposal aimed squarely at Israel’s most volatile political and societal fault line: military service and the government’s push to advance a draft-exemption law for chareidim. Bennett announced what he termed the “servicemembers’ law,” a comprehensive benefits package for soldiers and reservists that he […]
Fire safety inspections hadn’t been carried out since 2019 at the Swiss bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead and over 100 injured, local authorities said Tuesday. Investigators have said they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fire at Le Constellation in the resort town of Crans-Montana […]
Dr. Dan Diker, a Middle East, counterterrorism, and national security analyst and the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, spoke to Arutz Sheva about Venezuela’s contribution to anti-Israel terror. “The world paid attention to Venezuela’s significant involvement in global terrorism and global drug trafficking, and now, it is all coming out,” he said. […]
Jerusalem Police are preparing for a protest against the Chareidi draft law at the Bar Ilan area in Jerusalem scheduled at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. The protest is being held by the Eidah HaChareidis and some of the smaller Chassidish courts. At least one of the Sephardi Gedolim, HaGaon HaRav Ben Tzion Mutzafi, has also […]
HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau delivered a shiur at Wolfson Yeshiva in Jerusalem on Monday evening and addressed the judicial system’s distorted and evil motivations for persecuting lomdei Torah. “There are misguided Jews who followed various ideological forms of idolatry,” the Rosh Yeshiva said. “Many placed their faith in the authorities of the state with all […]
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The federal government has picked two companies to replace 612 radar systems nationwide that date back to the 1980s as part of a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that contractors RTX and Spanish firm Indra will replace the radar systems […]
Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people and do things that people do. “For the first time ever in public, please welcome Atlas to the stage,” said […]
Firefighters responded to a blaze Monday afternoon at an apartment complex under construction on Cedarview Avenue in Lakewood. The fire occurred at one of the new residential buildings being developed for BMG’s talmidim. BMG told Lakewood Alerts the fire occurred at approximately 3:00 p.m. and was related to ongoing construction. The damage was limited to […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Hilton Hotels on Monday of refusing service to federal law enforcement officers, alleging that the hotel chain abruptly canceled room reservations made by DHS personnel using official government email addresses. In a statement posted to its official X account, DHS said Hilton had launched what it described as […]
On Motzei Shabbos, I flew to Israel from Newark on an 11:35 p.m. one-way flight. After being expelled from my graduate program in Florida for speaking out against the administration’s lackadaisical response to antisemitism on campus, I made the decision to return to yeshiva. I spent Shabbos with friends in Washington Heights and left around […]
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) voted to dissolve after 58 years, following Congress’ decision last year to eliminate federal funding previously allocated to NPR and PBS. CPB leaders said the loss of funding left them unable to continue operations. The organization said it will distribute its remaining funds before officially closing. The move comes […]
Cuban officials on Monday lowered flags before dawn to mourn 32 security officers they say were killed in the U.S. weekend strike in Venezuela, the island nation’s closest ally, as residents here wonder what the capture of President Nicolás Maduro means for their future. The two governments are so close that Cuban soldiers and security […]
A mystery trader made nearly $410,000 betting on Nicolás Maduro’s fall, placing a final wager on Polymarket at 9:58 p.m. ET on Friday, shortly before President Trump ordered the U.S. military operation. Using a brand-new account, the trader bought about $34,000 worth of contracts that would pay out if Maduro lost power by January 31, […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company will begin shipping its new “Vera Rubin” AI chip later this year, saying it can perform more computing with less power and at a lower cost than previous models. The Rubin chip, already being manufactured for customers including Microsoft and Amazon, is designed to handle AI tasks […]
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration cannot move forward with steep cuts to federal research funding provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to universities. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction won by 22 Democratic state attorneys general, medical groups, and universities, finding that NIH’s February […]
