An American man and his teenage son died last month after they were swarmed by wasps while ziplining at an adventure camp in Laos and stung many dozens of times, a hospital official said Thursday. Dan Owen, the director of an international school in neighboring Vietnam, and his son Cooper were attacked by the insects […]
A massive car explosion tore through a Bronx street Wednesday night, hurling a fireball into the sky and injuring seven New York City firefighters in one of the most harrowing incidents the department has faced this year. The explosion erupted just after 7 p.m. on Westchester Avenue between Intervale Avenue and Kelly Street in Longwood, […]
Newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who stormed City Hall on a promise to make New York “affordable for everyone,” is already facing his first — and potentially defining — political confrontation: Albany. Mamdani’s sweeping campaign agenda — city-run grocery stores, universal childcare, and free public buses — hinges on steep new […]
The nation’s airways are on a collision course with chaos. As the federal government shutdown enters its 37th day — the longest in U.S. history — the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an extraordinary order to cut air traffic by 10% at 40 of the country’s busiest airports, citing a worsening crisis of overworked, […]
Attackers firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades boarded a tanker carrying gasoline off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, authorities said, likely the latest assault by resurgent Somali pirates operating in the region. A series of recent attacks attributed to Somali pirates had put shippers on edge even before Thursday’s seizure of the Malta-flagged Hellas […]
Elections this week that energized Democrats and angered President Donald Trump have cast a chill over efforts to end the record-breaking government shutdown, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough despite the punishing toll of federal closures on the country. Trump has increased pressure on Senate Republicans to end the shutdown — now at 37 days, the […]
Defense Minister Yisrael Katz ordered the IDF on Thursday to declare the Israeli-Egyptian border area a closed military zone and tighten the open-fire rules to confront the increasing drone threat, a statement from his office said on Thursday “We are declaring war,” Katz said. “Any person who breaches the closed zone will be shot.” Katz […]
The remains returned to Israel by the Hamas terror group on Wednesday night were identified as belonging to Joshua Mollel, a 21-year-old Tanzanian student who was murdered by Hamas on Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 massacre. His body was abducted to Gaza. Joshua had traveled to Israel, his first trip out of Tanzania, […]
A report submitted to a joint hearing of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Constitution Committees on Wednesday morning regarding the conflicts of interest in the probe of the disgraced Military Advocate General revealed the severe international incitement caused by her leak of the doctored Sde Teiman video. The report revealed alarming data about the scope […]
Senior IDF and Mossad officials are warning about an emerging threat to Israel’s home front from Iraq, Walla News reported. Sources in the IDF’s Northern Command report that Iran is intensifying its investment in pro-Iranian militias and terror infrastructure in Iraq. The IDF and Mossad are preparing for long-range missile and drone launches—and even a […]
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said Wednesday she believes she has a mandate to fulfill campaign promises of making the state more affordable, and the Democrat is dialing back on her criticism of Republican President Donald Trump for now. Her comments came as she sets up her administration and as Democrats celebrated victories in Virginia, […]
This afternoon in front of the Brooklyn offices of Senator Sutton, blocks from the sites of overnight antisemitic vandalism at Magen David Yeshiva, Governor Kathy Hochul joined a press conference and announced that the executive budget will include $90 million for Non Public Safety Equipment Program. The funding announcement is a major achievement for securing […]
Dear Friends, It’s the day after. The day after an election that brought forth passion, emotion, heart…and worry. It also spawned tefillah, achdus, and achrayus. And as Yidden, we know exactly how to behave on a day after. Three words, in this week’s parshah, tell us: V’Avraham shav limkomo, And Avraham went back to his […]
Segev Kalfon, who, B’Chasdei Hashem, was released from captivity in Gaza on Hoshanah Rabbah, recently spoke about his harrowing story of survival in the hell of Gaza in a lengthy interview published in Yediot Achronot. Kalfon, who was abducted from the Nova music festival, recounted that at first, he ran for several minutes through fields […]
In a ruling issued on Tuesday by the Supreme Court, Justice Dafna Barak-Erez voted against the demolition of the home of the terrorist who tried to commit a mass-casualty bus bombing attack in central Israel last February. The terrorist had assembled five powerful explosive devices in his home, packed with nails and screws to cause […]
Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, who represents one of the most competitive U.S. House districts in the country, said Wednesday he will not seek reelection. Golden was first elected to Congress in 2018 and has carved out a space as a Democrat who is willing to work with President Donald Trump’s administration. He announced his […]
The BBC is facing one of the gravest crises in its modern history after an explosive internal memo accused its Arabic news division of systematically downplaying Israeli suffering, amplifying Hamas propaganda, and repeatedly giving airtime to contributors who have publicly called for Jews to be “burned as Hitler did.” The 19-page memo, written by former […]
A police representative said in court on Wednesday that top officials in the military prosecution are maintaining a “bond of silence” about the leak of the Sde Teiman video. Speaking at the hearing on Wednesday regarding the extension of the arrest of disgraced Military Advocate General (MAG) Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the representative told the judge. “There […]
Trump on Zohran Mamdani: “For a thousand years, Communism has not worked… I tend to doubt it’s going to work this time.” BRET: Did you see his speech? TRUMP: “Yeah, I thought it was a very angry speech… he’s off to a bad start.
California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block a new U.S. House map that California voters decisively approved at the ballot. Proposition 50, backed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, is designed to help Democrats flip as many as five congressional House seats in the midterm elections next year. The lawsuit claims the map-makers improperly […]
