Iran escalated its diplomatic confrontation with Canada on Tuesday, formally designating the Royal Canadian Navy as a terrorist organization in what Tehran described as direct retaliation for Ottawa’s 2024 decision to blacklist Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In a statement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the move was a response to Canada’s designation of […]
Australian authorities said Tuesday that the father and son who carried out a mass shooting on Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach acted alone and were not part of a wider terrorist network, even though the attack was inspired by ISIS and deliberately targeted a Jewish event. The shooting – carried out with rifles and shotguns […]
The Pentagon announced that Boeing has been awarded an $8.6 billion contract to supply Israel with advanced F-15 fighter jets, a major expansion of Israel’s airpower that comes as Washington weighs a potentially contentious sale of F-35s to Turkey. The contract, disclosed shortly after Donald Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida, covers […]
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that one of his first priorities after leaving office will be an effort to use cryptocurrency and other technology-based tools to combat antisemitism, though he offered few details about how such an initiative would work. Speaking at what was among his final press conferences as mayor, […]
“I’m very grateful to President Trump for the support that he gives us.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his meeting with President Trump Monday at Mar-a-Lago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of US troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees. The White House had no comment on the issue of dispatching US troops to Ukraine.
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota after reports of fraud, ordered an audit of day care centers, activated the ‘defend the spend’ system requiring receipts and launched a fraud reporting hotline.
Sen. John Fetterman has endorsed new military action against Iran’s nuclear program, saying he fully supports past U.S. strikes and would back future attacks if Tehran continues pursuing nuclear weapons. “Iran can’t ever develop a nuclear weapon,” Fetterman wrote in a post on X, declaring his support for using force to prevent the Islamic Republic […]
Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. In the U.S., flu typically begins its winter march in December. On Tuesday, the […]
Facebook has been accused of serious failures in moderating extremist content after allegedly allowing posts celebrating the Bondi Beach massacre to remain online. The findings, based on analysis by the UK-based Community Security Trust (CST), allege that Facebook lagged in removing content praising the deadly attack on a Chanukah celebration in Sydney earlier this month, […]
Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues an aggressive push to amp up AI offerings across its platforms. The California tech giant declined to disclose financial details of the acquisition. But The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta closed the deal at more than $2 billion. Manus, […]
A freed Israeli hostage has revealed chilling new details about his captivity in Gaza, saying his Hamas captors filmed a staged propaganda video in which they made it appear that he and another hostage were attempting to kill themselves. “They drew blood from our hands and beat us so that we would be injured, to […]
Israeli President Yitzchak Herzog has publicly broken with Israel’s governing coalition over its plan to establish a politically appointed commission of inquiry into the failures that led to the October 7 massacre, warning that such a body would erode public trust and fail to deliver real accountability. “The terrible disaster of October 7, and the […]
Tourists celebrating the new year in Hawaii could become the first to be taxed for climate change. In Utah, people who party too heartily — and get caught driving drunk — could be among the first to have their driver’s licenses striped red with the label: “No Alcohol Sale.” And motorists in Georgia could become […]
Four people were injured and around 100 others evacuated by helicopter after a cable car collided with its upper and lower stations near Macugnaga on Tuesday. Three passengers and the operator on the ground were hurt, while others received medical attention. Ski slopes were closed, and the service was halted. Filippo Besozzi, managing director of […]
Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service in Belarus, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, as the U.S. efforts to broker a deal to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine have entered a pivotal stage. The ministry released a video showing combat vehicles that are part of the mobile intermediate range ballistic missile […]
Meta said it would acquire Chinese-founded artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the technology giant accelerates efforts to integrate advanced AI across its platforms.
