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U.S. Embassy in Lebanon Evacuates Dozens of Staff Amid Rising Regional Tensions

Lee Goldberg with the latest on the blizzard still raging across the Tri-State Area.

The forecasts called for major snow — and they were right on target. More than a foot of snow has already fallen in parts of New York City, with even higher totals on Long Island and along the Jersey Shore. Snowfall rates peaked at up to 3–4 inches per hour, with wind gusts topping 50 […]

In an escalation in the struggle against Israel’s corrupt judicial system, Prof. Moshe Cohen-Eliya, one of Israel’s leading critics of what he calls the “judicial system’s tyranny,” has launched an initiative to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to impose personal sanctions on Supreme Court Justice Yitzchak Amit and the dismissed Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara. Cohen-Eliya […]

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps military commanders have been holding meetings in hospitals in recent days, a medical staff member in a hospital in Tehran told Iran International. “The presence of these individuals, along with their protection units, has alarmed staff because the meetings had nothing to do with medical matters,” a hospital employee said. Similar […]

Yediot Achronot journalist Ben-Dror Yemini wrote an article excoriating Keir Starmer, the leftist prime minister of the UK, for citing “international law” as an excuse to “embolden the axis of evil.” “You can never know where help for a repressive regime of terror will come from,” he wrote. “But it always comes. Even when the […]

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier was spotted entering the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar after being ordered to the region as part of the U.S. military buildup for possible military action against Iran.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would deploy a hospital ship to Greenland, alleging that many people there are sick and not receiving care, even though both of the U.S. Navy’s hospital ships are currently docked at a shipyard in Alabama. Trump’s announcement prompted a defense on Sunday of Denmark and Greenland’s health care system […]

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✈️❄️ 14,000+ FLIGHTS DISRUPTED AS HISTORIC BLIZZARD PARALYZES NORTHEAST Air travel across the U.S. is grinding to a near standstill as the powerful “bomb cyclone” slams the Northeast. As of now: •⁠ ⁠14,000+ U.S. flights disrupted through Tuesday •⁠ ⁠8,858+ flights canceled •⁠ ⁠Thousands more delayed Major hubs — including JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, and Boston […]

The Department of Homeland Security said Sunday that the Global Entry program would be shut down as long as the partial government shutdown remains in effect. The announcement comes after the department said Saturday night that it planned to shut down both Global Entry and the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program as well, but DHS […]

Over and over, the Republicans and former Republicans who gathered just outside Washington this weekend warned that President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are tearing at the very fabric of American democracy. A former congressman described the president’s party as an “authoritarian-embracing cult.” A prominent conservative writer said Trumpism is an “existential threat.” […]

France will summon U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner to protest comments by the Trump administration over the beating death of a far-right activist, the foreign affairs minister said. Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to a statement by the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, which posted on X that “reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior, that […]

A Mexican Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk was seen firing its mounted minigun at CJNG cartel gunmen near a prison in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

❄️ UPDATE: While much of the region is still waiting for the first real flakes to stick, the signature of this monster nor’easter is already being spotted along the coast. Huge, silver-dollar-sized snowflakes have been reported falling along the Ocean City, New Jersey Boardwalk, signaling a rapid transition as cold air begins to wrap into […]

CJNG cartel members set a gas station on fire in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Former Israeli Air Force chief Eitan Ben Eliyahu says he believes the Iranian regime is approaching collapse, even as he cautions against assuming that war is imminent. “The regime in Iran has finished its career,” he said in an interview. “It will happen soon — in two, three, or four years — it’s finished.” According […]

127 NYSDOT workers from across the state are deploying to the Hudson Valley and Long Island ahead of the approaching blizzard. Video shows crews from Broome County heading out to begin storm preparations, as 1 to 2 feet of snow could make travel nearly impossible.

Iran’s leadership is quietly preparing for a scenario they once considered unthinkable: the possible assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. According to a report by The New York Times, Khamenei has instructed senior associates on how to act if he is killed in potential U.S. or Israeli strikes, laying out detailed contingency plans that include […]