A volunteer member of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was killed in a western province during widening demonstrations sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy, authorities said Thursday, marking the first fatality among security forces during the protests. The death Wednesday night of the 21-year-old volunteer in the Guard’s Basij force may mark the start of […]
A fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, with dozens of people feared dead and about 100 more injured, most seriously, police said. The Crans-Montana resort is best known as an international ski and golf venue and overnight its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed […]
Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year. Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdown over the issue. Moderate Republicans called for a solution to save their 2026 political aspirations. President Donald Trump floated […]
Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office at an historic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan. Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in as the first Muslim leader of America’s biggest city, placing his hand on a Quran as he took his oath. “This is truly the […]
Russian officials on Thursday said a Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson region, as tensions between the two nations continue to spike despite diplomats hailing productive peace talks. Three drones struck a cafe and hotel in […]
Supreme Court Justice Ofer Grosskopf issued a temporary injunction blocking the transfer of tens of millions of shekels from the GEFEN program budget to the Shas party’s educational network in response to a petition filed by the radical-left Hadash movement. The move follows the Court’s dramatic ruling on Wednesday evening blocking the transfer of about […]
Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say ” 6-7 ” is “cooked” and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year. Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual “Banished Words List,” released Thursday by Lake Superior State University. The tongue-in-cheek […]
Adv. Yitzchak Lax addressed the Supreme Court’s increasing invention of laws, warning that its decision to halt the State Comptroller’s probe of the failures surrounding the October 7 massacre risks the lives of Israelis and the Court will ultimately bear responsibility for bloodshed. “The Supreme Court’s decision to halt, in mid-course, the State Comptroller’s examinations […]
Shas MK Yaakov Margi on Wednesday visited the home of yeshiva bochur Yair Saadeh in Be’er Sheva, after he was brutally pulled from his sickbed by military police and thrown into prison while suffering from a high fever. The father, Moshe Saadeh, a disabled IDF veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and treats post-traumatic […]
Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits. Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia are the first of at least 18 states to enact waivers prohibiting the purchase of certain foods through the […]
The advice that legendary investor Warren Buffett offered on investing and life over the years helped earn him legions of followers who eagerly read his annual letters and filled an arena in Omaha every year to listen to him at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings. Buffett’s last day as CEO is Wednesday after six decades of […]
The Trump administration expects Israel to reopen the Rafah Crossing in the coming days to allow both the entry and exit of Gazans, following discussions between Donald Trump, his senior aides, and Benjamin Netanyahu during meetings in Washington earlier this week, a U.S. official told The Times of Israel. The Rafah Crossing, Gaza’s main gateway […]
Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi is planning to make an official visit to Israel in the near future, according to Israeli media reports, following Jerusalem’s recent recognition of the autonomous region. Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported that Abdullahi is expected to use the visit to formally join the Abraham Accords and sign a series of […]
The District Court hearing in the cases against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday revealed more shocking police improprieties and illegal actions confirmed in testimony by a police investigator. It was revealed during the hearing that Israel Police and the prosecution obtained wiretapping warrants in Case 1000 by misleading the court to believe that investigators […]
The Judicial Ombudsman’s Office (Commission for Public Complaints Against Judges) on Wednesday published a summary of the Ombudsman’s decision, Judge Asher Kula, regarding the complaints filed against Supreme Court Justice Yitzchak Amit. Kula ruled that the President of the Supreme Court, Yitzchak Amit, acted in a conflict of interest when he sat in judgment on […]
Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York City as the clock ticks over into 2026 — but the celebrations are set to last through New Year’s Day. The Democrat’s team is planning two separate swearing-in ceremonies Thursday — a small, private one with his family in an old subway station around midnight, followed by […]
ox’s Bret Baier reports a U.S. intelligence assessment today from CIA Director John Ratcliffe noting that Ukraine did NOT attack Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence as he falsely claimed to President Trump earlier this week
