House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) is calling on the U.S. intelligence community to retract a controversial 2023 assessment that concluded Havana Syndrome was not caused by hostile foreign action, escalating pressure to revisit one of the most contentious national security mysteries of the past decade. In a post on X, Crawford said the […]
President Donald Trump said Monday he is increasing tariffs on South Korean goods because the country’s national assembly has yet to approve the trade framework announced last year. Trump said on social media that import taxes would be raised on autos, lumber and pharmaceutical drugs from South Korea with the rate on other goods going […]
Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 30 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold. Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a […]
Venezuela’s leading prisoner rights organization said Monday that dozens of prisoners were released over the weekend, as the United States continues to pressure the acting government to free hundreds of dissidents jailed during the administration of ousted leader Nicolás Maduro. Alfredo Romero, president of Foro Penal, said in a post on X Monday that 266 […]
US President Donald Trump said the situation with Iran is “in flux,” revealing that while the United States has deployed major military assets to the region, he believes Tehran is genuinely seeking a diplomatic deal with Washington. In an interview with Axios, Trump said he recently ordered a significant US military buildup near Iran, including […]
Just days after the biggest snowfall NYC has seen in five years, forecasters are already tracking another potential winter storm that could impact the East Coast this coming weekend. Both the European and American long-range forecast models are signaling the development of a coastal low-pressure system off the Carolinas on Saturday, with the storm possibly […]
The Knesset’s Education Committee held an emergency joint discussion with the Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Labor and Welfare Committees on Monday, following last week’s tragedy at a daycare in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem. The discussion, chaired by MK Tzvi Sukkot, focused on alarming data revealed by the Knesset Research […]
Israel has completed preparations for a potential evacuation of tens of thousands of tourists in the event of a major security escalation with Iran, Tourism Ministry Director General Michael Itzhakov said Monday. According to Itzhakov, Israel is ready to evacuate approximately 42,000 tourists currently in the country if an Iranian attack leads to airspace closures […]
A group of Nigerian military officers will stand trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the West African nation’s government, the Nigeria Defense Headquarters said Monday, citing findings from an investigative panel. At least 16 officers were arrested in October over what military authorities described as “acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations.” The arrests, […]
Tuesday is The GOLDEN Opportunity… to Improve Your Parnassah (livelihood) in only a few minutes – and it’s free. In appreciation from Yad L’Achim. Tomorrow, Tuesday of Parshas Beshalach is the special day of Segulah for Parnassah! Taught to us by Reb Menachem Mendel of Rimanov zt”l to recite Parshas Hamon – Tuesday Parshas […]
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli slammed Belgium on Sunday after Brussels moved to block the transit of military equipment bound for Israel. In a post on X, Chikli accused Belgium of aligning itself with Israel’s adversaries, using unusually blunt language to condemn the decision. “The Islamic Republic of Belgium strikes again,” Chikli wrote about […]
Massive crowds gathered on Wednesday night to celebrate the Chasunah of the daughter of the Ashlag Rebbe, author of the sefer Bnei Heichala on the Zohar. Admorim, rabbonim, mekubalim, and hundreds of chassidim filled the Heichlei Malchus halls in Bnei Brak to take part in the simcha, which drew participants from across the chassidic and […]
The British government said Sunday that it will unveil plans this week to create a new national police force, dubbed the “British FBI,” to take charge on complex investigations such as counterterrorism, fraud, online child abuse and criminal gangs. The National Police Service will bring under the same umbrella the work of existing agencies dealing […]
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, The Atlantic reports. Bovino will return to his previous post in El Centro, near the U.S.–Mexico border, where he is expected to retire in the near future, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.
The Tri-State area has been below freezing since Friday night and may remain below freezing through next Monday, if not longer. That is over 9 days of below freezing temperatures! For context, the longest stretch of freezing temperatures at Central Park was 16 days in 1961.
Guinness World Records has reversed a controversial decision and is once again accepting submissions from Israel, Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog announced. The move follows months of criticism after the organization refused to recognize Israeli entries, citing regional tensions. Herzog made the announcement at a Jerusalem event hosted by Matnat Chaim, an Israeli nonprofit that facilitates […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed an arrest detainer Monday asking New Jersey authorities to hold a man accused of throwing a baseball-sized rock into a school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike, an attack that fractured the skull of an 8-year-old Jewish girl. The suspect, Hernando Garcia-Morales, is being held on multiple state […]
German authorities have arrested a fourth suspect in a Hamas-linked terror cell accused of plotting attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The suspect, identified only as Mohammad S., 36, was taken into custody Friday at Berlin Brandenburg Airport after returning from Lebanon, according to federal prosecutors. Investigators allege that […]
No more fawning praise. No more polite workarounds and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump “daddy” now. European leaders who scrambled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened American president in his second term edged closer to saying “no,” or something diplomatically like it, to his disregard for international law and his demands […]
International political leaders, diplomats and public figures convened in Jerusalem on Monday for the second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism — a two-day summit framed by Israeli officials as a global response to a sharp rise in antisemitism and Holocaust denial since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. The conference, titled Generation of […]
